773 - Phone joke

My sister came up with a good one. I glad she still works at the phone company (and not me).

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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.

Not to be outdone by the New Yorkers, in the weeks that followed, a California archaeologist dug to a depth of 20 feet, and shortly after, a story in the LA Times read:

'California archaeologists, finding traces of 200 year old
copper wire, 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 Argus Leader, a local newspaper in Sioux Falls, South Dakota, reported the following:

After digging as deep as 30 feet in his pasture near Nunda, South Dakota, Ole Olson, a self-taught archaeologist, reported that he found absolutely nothing. Ole has therefore concluded that 300 years ago, South Dakota had already gone wireless.

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