[BITList] Proud to be a Queenslander

[John Feltham]

Proud to be a Queenslander


After having dug to a depth of 10 feet last year, Melbourne 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 Victorians, in the weeks that followed, a  
Sydney archaeologist dug to a depth of 20 feet, and shortly after, a  
story published in the Sydney Morning Herald read:

"New South Wales archaeologists, finding traces of  130-year-old  
copper wire, have concluded that their ancestors already had an  
advanced high-tech communications network 30 years earlier than the  
Victorians".

One week later, the Courier Mail in Brisbane, Queensland, reported the  
following:

"After digging as deep as 30 feet in his pasture near Beenleigh,  
Queensland, John Brown, a self-taught archaeologist, reported that he  
found absolutely nothing.  John has therefore concluded that 130 years  
ago, Queensland had already gone wireless."

Just makes you proud to be a Queenslander!

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