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                  Gives a whole new meaning to “bit bucket”

> Today it's a chilly 11 degrees outside and, coincidentally, our office
> Internet connection has been going up and down. The woman walks by me and
> leans over and tells me that “our Internet connection is bad today because
> the tubes probably have ice in them.”
>

“It's a Series of Tubes [1]”

Nothing much else to add, except for “read the whole thing.”

[1] http://tevis.net/home/story/its-a-series-of-tubes/

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