Got this one in an email
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> Archaeology Find ...
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> 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.
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> Not to be out-done by the New Yorkers, in the weeks that followed, in
> California an archaeologist dug to a depth of 20 feet, 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.'
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> One week later, a local newspaper in Louisiana, reported the
following:
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> After digging as deep as 30 feet in his pasture near Carencro,
> Lafayette Parish, Louisiana, T-Boy Boudreaux, a self-taught
> archaeologist, reported that he found absolutely nothing. T-Boy has
> therefore concluded that 300 years ago, Cajuns had already gone
wireless.
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lol