I didn't know this...

But according to the people who run this country the internet is a series of pneumatic tubes through which information is sent. Also, the whole internet can be sent at one time.

This would be a lot funnier if the people who actually think this way weren't trying to pass laws to regulate how we connect to the internet. Yeah, just google "net neutrality" if you don't know what I'm talking about. You know, if the internet you send can squeeze through the tubes...

From Boing Boing:

Sen. Stevens' hilariously awful explanation of the Internet
Senator Ted Stevens, a neutricidal maniac who wants to allow the phone companies to charge Google and others for delivering their packets to you, gave this incredible description of his understanding of how the internet works. This man is so far away from having a coherent picture of the Internet's functionality, it's like hearing a caveman expound on the future of silver-birds-from-sky and why we need to keep them from flying so high they anger the gods.

I just the other day got, an internet was sent by my staff at 10 o'clock in the morning on Friday and I just got it yesterday. Why?

Because it got tangled up with all these things going on the internet commercially...

They want to deliver vast amounts of information over the internet. And again, the internet is not something you just dump something on. It's not a truck.

It's a series of tubes.

And if you don't understand those tubes can be filled and if they are filled, when you put your message in, it gets in line and its going to be delayed by anyone that puts into that tube enormous amounts of material, enormous amounts of material.

Link (Thanks, Trips and everyone else who sent this link!)

(also, Sen. Stevens, In answer to your question: You might want to try hitting that "Send/Recieve" button in outlook. I think that may explain why you didn't get your email on Friday).