across my desk today: 


Dear World:

The United States of America, your quality supplier of ideals of liberty and democracy, would like to apologize for its 2001-2008 service outage.

The technical fault that led to this eight-year service interruption has been located, and the parts responsible for it were replaced Tuesday night, November 4. Early tests of the newly-installed equipment indicate that it is functioning correctly, and we expect it to be fully functional by mid-January.

We apologize for any inconvenience caused by the outage, and we look forward to resuming full service --- and hopefully even to improving it in years to come.

Thank you for your patience and understanding,

The USA


Louis Agre
International Union of
Operating Engineers, Local 542
1375 Virginia Dr., Ste. 100
Ft. Washington, PA 19034
(215) 542-7500
Mobile (215) 852 6548
FAX (215) 542 7557

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Hm. Wonder if we can make refund claims as well?

From betnoir via wcg, with profusive thanks to both, we bring you the rockin'est campaign sign in North America in betnoir's own neighborhood:





It took me a moment to parse that, but once I figured it out I've been laughing ever since. :)

Huzzah.