Thursday, April 9, 2009

Telephones and Wisconsin

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

Not to be outdone by the New Yorkers, in the weeks that followed, a California archaeologist dug to a depth of 20 feet, and shortly after, a story in the LA Times read: 'California archaeologists, finding traces of a 200 year old copper wire, 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 Courier Hub, a local newspaper in Wisconsin, reported the following: "After digging as deep as 30 feet in his pasture near Stoughton, Wisconsin, Ole Olson, a self-taught archaeologist reported that he found absolutely nothing. Ole has therefore concluded that 300 years ago, Wisconsin had already gone wireless."

6 comments:

kkdither said...

Go Ole, what a forward thinker! lol

Beejay said...

Finally reading my jokes, huh, SER!!!!! Tee-hee...don't you love it. I'm still mad at Barbie and Ken with the ....or lack of....

AvengingAngel said...

Ok, when did this take the weird turn?

Unknown said...

...I was in texas a few years ago and this cowboy really had the nerve to ask me if I had a cow.I said yup everyone in Wisconsin owns a cow.I have mine tied up like a dog in the back yard. We all still pee in out houses and travel by horse and buggy.

Good to know we had the first wireless connections!

hale-bopp said...

I will have to file that one away..good joke about using perfectly good data to come to a perfectly ridiculous conclusion!

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