[nochiel]

"The African says: what's electricity?"

That should read "The Africa says, 'What electricity?'"

We certainly know what electricity is; we've heard of it and understand its usefulness; we even use it almost daily. However, as you aptly noted, its availability is sufficiently irregular and inconsistent that we expect it to be off as much as it is on.

[tkahn6]

Um, that hyperbole is part of the joke. Americans know that electricity goes off and Arabs have opinions.