An Ol’ Broad’s Ramblings

Copper Wire

18 June 2008, 8:43 pm. . Filed under Chuckles.

After having dug to a depth of 10 feet last year, New York scientists found traces of a copper-wire system dating back 100 years, and they came to the conclusion that their ancestors already had a telephone network more than 100 years ago.

Not to be outdone by New Yorkers, in the weeks that followed, California scientists dug to a depth of 20 feet, and shortly after, headlines in the LA Times newspaper read: ‘California archaeologists have found traces of 200 year old copper-wire system and have concluded that their ancestors already had an advanced high-tech communications network a hundred years earlier than the New Yorkers.’

One week later, ‘The Redneck Rebel Gazette’ in Pontotoc, Mississippi, reported the following: After
digging as deep as 30 feet in a corn field near Black Zion, Bubba Ray Johnson, a self-taught archaeologist, reported that he found absolutely nothing.

Bubba has therefore concluded that 300 years ago, Mississippi had already gone wireless.

Courtesy of Bob, via Mr Ol’ Broad.

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  1. Jeni. 18 June 2008, 9:27 pm

    ROFL!  :)

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