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Re: Internet 1, Backhoe 0

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (alex@nac.net)
Thu Oct 15 23:18:02 1998

From: alex@nac.net
Date: Thu, 15 Oct 1998 23:07:44 -0400 (EDT)
To: "Roeland M.J. Meyer" <rmeyer@mhsc.com>
cc: Dan Foster <dsf@frontiernet.net>, Jeff Weisberg <jaw@Op.Net>,
        nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <199810091636.JAA06174@condor.lvrmr.mhsc.com>

We'd definately take a few dozen.


On Fri, 9 Oct 1998, Roeland M.J. Meyer wrote:

> At 09:55 AM 10/9/98 -0400, Dan Foster wrote:
> >Hot Diggety! On a bright and sunny day, Jeff Weisberg allegedly said...
> >> 
> >> [Atlantic County, NJ] While attempting to wreck 
> >> havoc on the world's telecommunications infrastructure, 
> >> a backhoe mistook a gas main as a fiber optic cable. 
> >> The evil yellow beast was destroyed in the resulting 
> >> fireball.
> >
> >Now *that*'s poetic justice! Too bad we don't have video of this
> >happy event :-)
> >
> >Now just if we could get those t-shirts with backhoes-targeted-in-gun-sights,
> >then that'd be 20-30 orders right there, easily.
> 
> Add five more orders, for MHSC.
> ___________________________________________________ 
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> ___________________________________________ 
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