From news.spc.edu!news.new-york.net!newspeer1.nac.net!newspeer.monmouth.com!newsfeed.direct.ca!news.netfunny.com!funny-request Wed Sep 1 08:10:16 1999 Xref: news.spc.edu rec.humor.funny:8236 Newsgroups: rec.humor.funny From: f_jensen@mail.tele.dk (Finn Jensen) Subject: UPS Keywords: smirk, true Approved: funny-request@netfunny.com Path: news.spc.edu!news.new-york.net!newspeer1.nac.net!newspeer.monmouth.com!newsfeed.direct.ca!news.netfunny.com!funny-request Followup-To: rec.humor.d Message-ID: Date: Tue, 31 Aug 1999 19:30:00 PDT Lines: 24 To good to be true, but it is. From the Tele Danmark (ISP) homepage, translated from Danish. >This morning, Tele Denmark Internet was out of order, because the power >supply failed. It meant that customer couldn't connect to the Internet. > >The problem occured at 7:45, when a truck drove into the cabinet that >supplies Tele Denmark Internet with power. The truck was delivering a new >uninterruptible power supply, and therefore the old UPS had been disconnected. >At 9:00 the power returned and the different system began to reestablish, and >everything is expected to return to normal again by 10:30. Tele Denmark >Internet regrets the disturbance to its customers. [http://www.opasia.dk/online/tele_danmark/index.html, English here cleaned up a bit for humor's sake - ed.] -- Selected by Jim Griffith. MAIL your joke to funny@netfunny.com. Attribute the joke's source if at all possible. A Daemon will auto-reply. Remember: Only ONE joke per submission. Extra jokes may be rejected. For the full submission guidelines, see http://www.netfunny.com/rhf/ This joke's link: http://www.netfunny.com/rhf/jokes/99/Aug/denmark.html