Tubes

[squirmelia]

Every time I pass this sign, I wonder what kind of tubes they stock. Jubilee line tubes? Fallopian tubes? Test tubes? etc.

Comments

[strawberryfrog.livejournal.com]

Intertubes?

[mrben.livejournal.com]

Internet tubes? They're aligned in series you know.

[squirmelia.livejournal.com]

I actually just looked up where that whole internet tubes thing came from, as I have to admit I never paid enough attention to actually know. Maybe I didn't have internet in 2006 and was just using the wrong kind of tube.

[squirmelia.livejournal.com]

They might stock those! The shop is called "Orbit Electronics".

[strawberryfrog.livejournal.com]

The internet is a series of tubes (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Series_of_tubes). Though it was ridiculed, it's a fairly robust metaphor - fat pipes, via a straw, etc...

[vyvyan.livejournal.com]

Fluorescent tubes?

[solitarywalker.livejournal.com]

Tube socks.

[abigailb.livejournal.com]

But he was using it in contrast to 'trucks', which better fits the idea of a packet-switched network, though?

[abigailb.livejournal.com]

Inner tubes? Cathode ray tubes?

[squirmelia.livejournal.com]

Chupa-chups!

[vardebedian.livejournal.com]

I don't think there's any implucation that they stock all types of tube. Only that, should a tube of any type present itself, it would be within their remit to stock it.

[strawberryfrog.livejournal.com]

If the packets are the trucks, the internet is the road system, and you get similar metaphors from the width of the roads, speed limits, etc.

[squirmelia.livejournal.com]

Well, they have those in the window, so yes, they definitely stock those!

[turnedoffneon.livejournal.com]

yes -
to me it all sounds like a public request for tubes to stock.
perhaps you can give them this list!

[mansunite.livejournal.com]

Apart from fluorecent tubes, which'd be my first guess,
they could also stock 'tubes' as in electronic valves?