[WVDXA] Copper Wire

[Philip M. Roberts]

I always thought that Cousin Bubba was a deep thinker!

Phil W8UV





At 01:28 PM 3/27/2008, you wrote:
>I hope our distinguished Buckeye members can enjoy and appreciate 
>this one too.  I'm still laughing...
>73 es DX de Hal W8HC
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>    After having dug to a depth of 10 yards 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 yards, 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, The ?Beckley Daily Independent?, a local newspaper in West
>Virginia reported the following: After digging as deep as 30 yards in dirt
>fields near Beckley in Raleigh County, Bubba Johnson, a self-taught
>archaeologist, reported that he found absolutely nothing.  Bubba has
>therefore concluded that 300 years ago,  West Virginia had already gone
>wireless.
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