Forwarded to me from my Mom

[yesthattom]

Dear World:

We, the United States of America, your top quality supplier of ideals of democracy, would like to apologize for our 2001-2008 interruption in 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,

Sincerely,
THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Comments

[knell.livejournal.com]

I'd like to request a post-mortem for this outage.

[yesthattom.livejournal.com]

I was in a CY for the last 8 years.

[cuddlebunni3.livejournal.com]

That's awesome!

[ckd]

US Democracy Server Patch Day, version 44.0: "Leadership: Will now scale properly to national crises. Intelligence was not being properly applied."

[tactisle.livejournal.com]

This made Randy Cassingham's Jumbo Joke page a couple weeks ago, and I R'd OFL. (I enjoy Cassingham's stuff, especially his "This Is True" news-of-the-weird digest.)

[seasings.livejournal.com]

Awesome. I howled!