We just thought we should share this joke that has been sent to us. It made us smile on this cold, damp spring morning.<\/p>\n
After having dug to a depth of 10 feet last year, Australian 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.<\/p>\n
Not to be outdone by the Aussies, in the weeks that followed, an American archaeologist dug to a depth of 20 feet and, shortly after, a story was published in the New York Times: “American archaeologists, finding 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 Australians”.<\/p>\n
One week later a Council in Essex, reported the following: “After digging as deep as 30 feet in Colchester, Jack Lucknow, a self-taught archaeologist, reported that he found absolutely nothing at \u00a0all. Jack has therefore concluded that 250 years ago, Britain had already gone wireless..”<\/p>\n
Just makes you proud to be British, doesn’t it?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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