Weekend Update: Interruption of Service
My good friend LXIV sent me the following very definitely not laugh-out-loud-funny joke:
Dear World:Â
We, the United States of America, your top quality supplier of the ideals of liberty and democracy, would like to apologize for our 2001-2008 interruption of service. The technical fault that led to this eight-year service outage has been located, and the software responsible was replaced November 4. Early tests of the newly installed program indicate that we are now operating correctly, and we expect it to be fully functional on January 20. We apologize for any inconvenience caused by the outage. We look forward to resuming full service and hope to improve in years to come. We thank you for your patience and understanding,Â
Sincerely,Â
THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICAÂ
It was all I could do to smile. Eight years is nearly an entire decade of one’s life.
What makes it all the more satisfying, if also the less tee-hee making, is that the end of Shrubbery coincides with the end of Irrational Exuberance. I honestly can’t determine which was worse.