Got this in my email.
Dear World:
We, the United States of America, your top quality supplier of the ideals
of liberty and democracy, would like to apologize for our 2001-2008
interruption in service. The technical fault that led to this eight-year
service outage has been located, and the software responsible was replaced
November 4. Early tests of the newly installed program indicate that we are
now operating correctly, and we expect it to be fully functional on January
20, 2009. We apologize for any inconvenience caused by the outage. We look
forward to resuming full service and hope to improve in years to come. We
thank you for your patience and understanding,

Sincerely,
THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA