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andygates ([personal profile] andygates) wrote2008-02-06 08:44 am

These net outages in the Middle East

Four, or maybe five undersea communications cables have ceased working - been cut or shut down due to a power barf.  Nobody's sure who did what.  Early theories about anchor-dragging boats are now being denied, Iran is in a little net black hole, and the USS Jimmy Carter (the cable "maintenance" ship) is in the area.  Sober speculators and paranoid nuts alike are fizzing with ideas as to who, what and why.  Tinfoil beanies are go!

I know who dunnit.  It's obvious really: deep undersea action, a sense of paranoia, building yet unplaceable dread?

Ia! Ia! Cthulhu fhtagn!  Ph'nglui mglw'nafh Cthulhu R'lyeh wgah'nagl fhtagn. Ia!

[identity profile] jonnycowbells.livejournal.com 2008-02-06 01:41 pm (UTC)(link)
You sure it's not those fishy dudes from Stingray?

Wanders off singing "Marina, Aquamarina..."

[identity profile] andygates.livejournal.com 2008-02-06 03:45 pm (UTC)(link)
"...What is that strange, enchanting, smell of fish in the air?
Marina, AquamarinaaaAAAaaaa..."

How did those words go?

[identity profile] ravenbait.livejournal.com 2008-02-06 04:13 pm (UTC)(link)
Marina, Aqua Marina,
What are these strange enchantments that start whenever you're near?

Marina, Aqua Marina,
Why can't you whisper the words my heart is longing to hear?

Your magic to me, a beautiful mystery.
I'm certain to fall I know, because you enthrall me so.

Marina, Aqua Marina,
Why don't you say, that you'll always stay, close to my heart.



Apparently.