Friday Funny

[Kip Powick]

Sent to me from a fellow pilot over in the "sandbox".

After having dug to a depth of 10 meters last year, Ontario 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 Ontario, in the weeks that followed, Québec

scientists dug to a depth of 20 meters, and shortly after, headlines in

the Quebec newspapers read: "Quebec 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 Ontario."

One week later, "The Telegram" a St. John's, Newfoundland

newspaper, reported the following: "After digging as deep as 30 meters

in tatey fields near Twillingate, Jarge Krump, a self-taught

archaeologist, reported that he found absolutely nothing. Jarge has

therefore concluded that 300 years ago Newfoundlanders were already

using wireless