The internet is not a truck, it's a series of tubes.

Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share
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Just saw this on the daily show. The chairman of some board, explaining why he made some decision, tells us about the internet.

There is a transcript here
Quote:
“I just the other day got, an internet was sent by my staff at 10 o’clock in the morning on Friday and I just got it yesterday. Why?”
So, what the hell is going on? How can this guy be making laws?

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And there is already a Wikipedia article about it! http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Series_of_tubes

3

Well, internet connections are essentially tubes. The higher the bandwidth, the larger the tube and the more it can contain at any given time.

4

It’s not the chairman of some board; it’s our very own Senator Ted Stevens, who has been going senile for some time now.

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Better news! He’s just 3 heartbeats away from the presidency. After Cheney and Speaker Hastert, this is the man we would have running the country.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_presidential_line_of_succession

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Iliad of User Friendly fame has been amusing himself greatly at this bozo’s expense.