One for our Canadians

[FxrAndy]

> After having dug to a depth of 10 meters 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,

> California scientists dug to a depth of 20 meters, and shortly

> after, headlines in

> the LA Times newspaper read: "California archaeologists have found

> traces of

> 200 year old copper wire and have concluded that their ancestors

> already had an

> advanced high-tech communications network a hundred years earlier

> than the New

> Yorkers."

>

> One week later, "Moose Jaw Times Herald", a local newspaper in

> Saskatchewan reported the following:

>

> "After digging as deep as 30 meters in sagebrush fields near Moose

> Jaw,

> Ole Johnson, a self-taught archaeologist, reported that he found

> absolutely

> nothing. Ole has therefore concluded that 300 years ago, Saskatchewan

> had already gone wireless."