Re: our legislators at work
On Jul 14, 2006, at 4:50 PM, ravi wrote:
I have seen a few people forward this around, and I agree its good for laughs, but I am curious: what do you think is essentially wrong about his description?
He is wrong about why his email message (which he mistakenly
referred to as his Internet) may have got delayed. And he is a bit wrong about
some of the other stuff, but I don’t get what is being ridiculed. Is it his metaphors? Or delivery?
The general ignorance and illiteracy of his remarks. And the “tubes”
bit makes it sound like he thinks the Internet is some subterranean
pneumatic arrangement, like they had in the 19C.
Doug