On Fri, Aug 7, 2009 at 10:09 AM, Dewald Pretorius <dpr...@gmail.com> wrote:
> > New York, August 7th, 2009: Convenience stores from around the world > have reported a massive jump in Kit Kat sales during the shutdown of > the Twitter API, after Twitter experienced the denial-of-service > attack on Thursday, August 6th, 2009. > > Anxious developers, who are running independent services that rely on > the Twitter API, have been taking frequent breaks from chewing their > nails, tearing their hair out, and watching their services come to a > grinding halt, and have been relying solely on the calming break- > taking magic of Kit Kat to soothe their frayed nerves. > > One developer, who preferred to remain anonymous due to the sudden > increase in the size of his bank overdraft, told our reporter that he > had commandeered the neighborhood kids to form a human chain between > his study and the convenience store, so that the Kit Kats he required > for his frequent breaks could be supplied without interruption. > > Even though some conspiracy theorists immediately alluded to a > collusion between Twitter and the makers of Kit Kat, our > investigations could not uncover any truth to that rumor. > > Normal patrons of convenience stores are cautioned to send to the > front of the line any raggedy looking person that mumbles in PHP or > Perl, and whose fingernails are chewed into the raw flesh. > > PS. This is an obligatory satire warning. > Lame and offtopic. Save this for your friends.
