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