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Originally Posted by Steven Lyle Jordan
But again, use of a phrase by a popular or famous person can result in a new popular idiom; take, for example, the congressman who publicly referred to the internet as "a bunch of tubes," which has resulted in the web being referred to as "tubes" or "pipes." New idioms could end up being developed from the pipe metaphor.
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The pipe analogy has been around long before him, as it is used to describe bandwidth limitations.
Or basic electrical theory.