After having dug to a depth of 10 feet last year, French scientists found traces of copper wire dating back 200 years and came to the conclusion that their ancestors already had a telephone network more than 150 years ago.
Not to be outdone by the French: in the weeks that followed, American archaeologists dug to a depth of 20 feet before finding traces of copper wire. Shortly afterwards, they published an article in the New York Times saying :
"American archaeologists, having found traces of 250-year-old copper wire, have concluded that their ancestors already had an advanced high-tech communications network 50 years earlier than the French."
A few weeks later, ‘The British Archaeological Society of Northern England’ reported the following: "After digging down to a depth of 33 feet in the Skipton area of North Yorkshire in 2011, Charlie Hardcastle, a self-taught amateur archaeologist, reported that he had found absolutely sod all. Charlie has therefore concluded that 250 years ago Britain had already gone wireless."
Just makes you proud to be British, don't it?
Good one Chad !
Cheers - Phil
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What's missing from the report is that Charlie failed to disclose that the reason he found sod all was that the pikeys had been there two weeks previously and beat him to the copper wire...
Brilliant Chad! :D ;D =D>
I ventured in with the dread of another 'funny' racist joke about Scottish people...
I love this one! :D
Quote from: Luddite on 25 May 2012, 02:01:00 PM
I ventured in with the dread of another 'funny' racist joke about Scottish people...
Is that the one about how was copper wire invented :-[ :d =)
;D ;D ;D ;D a wonderful example of the blitz spirit - or do I mean "blitzed"?