First off, that's not a pun; though it may qualify as some sort of base humor. I'm not nitpicking, I just think the comparison doesn't make any sense unless on

First off, that's not a pun; though it may qualify as some sort of base humor. I'm not nitpicking, I just think the comparison doesn't make any sense unless one is trying to make Comcast out to be some sort of villain spewing sewage through everyone's taps. An internet outage is rightfully characterized as similar to a power outage or drought. The latter two are caused by poor planning and capital investments by power utilities, and the former is caused by similar behavior by the ISP. Both are fairly common.