This story is older then I am, but I upvote it every time cuz I think its just hilarious :-)
https://www.ibiblio.org/harris/500milemail.html
"We can't send mail more than 500 miles," the chairman explained...
Maybe we should bring out the BOFH files too...
The world could probably use a good chuckle right now :-D
edit: submitted the BOFH archives:
http://www.catb.org/jargon/html/story-of-mel.html
- "Not just any wire but a 230 KV, many-hundred-amp, 10 mile long coax cable"
https://archive.org/stream/engineering-pornography-this-is-o...
Thank you!