[BITList] Fwd: British Pride
Michael Feltham
ismay at mjfeltham.plus.com
Sun Dec 13 11:41:11 GMT 2015
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>>>>>>> After having dug to a depth of 10 feet last year, Canadian 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.
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>>>>>>> Not to be outdone by their neighbours, in the weeks that followed, an American
>>>>>>> Archaeologist dug to a depth of 20 feet, and shortly after, a story 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 Canadians".
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>>>>>>> One week later, the British authorities reported the following:
>>>>>>> "After digging as deep as 30 feet in North Yorkshire, Jack Arkwright, a self-taught archaeologist, reported that he found absolutely f*** all.
>>>>>>> Jack has therefore concluded that 250 years ago, Britain had already gone wireless."
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Just makes you bloody proud to be British, don't it!
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