[joke] Makes you proud to be British

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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.

 

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".

 

One week later, the 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 bugger

all. Jack has therefore concluded that 250 years ago, Britain had

already gone wireless."