Subject: Humor: Early Communications...

Copper Wire

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 West Virginia reported the
following: After digging as deep as 30 feet in a corn field, Bubba Ray
Johnson, a self-taught archaeologist, reported that he found absolutely
nothing. Bubba has therefore concluded that 300 years ago, West Virginia had
already gone wireless.

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