Be sure to check out the fiber cutting Gopher backhoe shirt at www.bizarroland.com George Broadfoot Laser Link Communications 610.566.2993 "The box said 'Requires Windows 95, NT, or better,' so I installed Linux." Be sure to check out the fiber cutting Gopher backhoe shirt at www.bizarroland.com -----Original Message----- From: owner-nanog@merit.edu [mailto:owner-nanog@merit.edu]On Behalf Of Roeland M.J. Meyer Sent: Friday, October 09, 1998 12:36 PM To: Dan Foster Cc: Jeff Weisberg; Dan Foster; nanog@merit.edu Subject: Re: Internet 1, Backhoe 0 At 09:55 AM 10/9/98 -0400, Dan Foster wrote:

Hot Diggety! On a bright and sunny day, Jeff Weisberg allegedly said...

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[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. ___________________________________________________ Roeland M.J. Meyer, ISOC (InterNIC RM993) e-mail: <mailto:rmeyer@mhsc.com>rmeyer@mhsc.com Internet phone: hawk.mhsc.com Personal web pages: <http://www.mhsc.com/~rmeyer>www.mhsc.com/~rmeyer Company web-site: <http://www.mhsc.com/>www.mhsc.com/ ___________________________________________ I bet the human brain is a kludge. -- Marvin Minsky