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Copper Wire
After having dug to a depth of 10 feet last year, French scientists found traces of copper wire dating back 200 years and came to the conclusion that their ancestors already had a telephone network more than 150 years ago.
Not to be outdone by the French: in the weeks that followed, American archaeologists dug to a depth of 20 feet before finding traces of copper wire. Shortly afterwards, they published an article in the New York Times saying : "American archaeologists, having found traces of 250-year-old copper wire, have concluded that their ancestors already had an advanced high-tech communications network 50 years earlier than the French."
A few weeks later, ‘The British Archaeological Society of Northern England’ reported the following: "After digging down to a depth of 33 feet in the Skipton area of North Yorkshire in 2011, Charlie Hardcastle, a self-taught amateur archaeologist, reported that he had found absolutely bugger all. Charlie has therefore concluded that 250 years ago, Britain had already gone wireless."
Just makes you bloody proud to be British, don't it?
Not to be outdone by the French: in the weeks that followed, American archaeologists dug to a depth of 20 feet before finding traces of copper wire. Shortly afterwards, they published an article in the New York Times saying : "American archaeologists, having found traces of 250-year-old copper wire, have concluded that their ancestors already had an advanced high-tech communications network 50 years earlier than the French."
A few weeks later, ‘The British Archaeological Society of Northern England’ reported the following: "After digging down to a depth of 33 feet in the Skipton area of North Yorkshire in 2011, Charlie Hardcastle, a self-taught amateur archaeologist, reported that he had found absolutely bugger all. Charlie has therefore concluded that 250 years ago, Britain had already gone wireless."
Just makes you bloody proud to be British, don't it?
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That reminds me of a tale from my youth, so many years ago.
An official Guide was taking an American tourist around London one day. Everywhere they went the tourist found some faults…
“Oh we’ve got much bigger than that in America, you look at your London Eye, we’ve got bicycle wheels bigger…..Look at your cars, our children play with toys like those….You call those sky scrapers well let me tell you our houses would dwarf them” and so on.
You can imagine the guide was getting a bit cheesed off after an hour or so. They arrived at the docks and the American was just about to make another comparison when the guide saw his opportunity. Glancing across the water he noticed the QE2 manoeuvring to dock.
Cupping his hands to his mouth he shouted across to the ship…….>
“Come in number 2, your time is up”
(Well it was funny all those years ago !)
An official Guide was taking an American tourist around London one day. Everywhere they went the tourist found some faults…
“Oh we’ve got much bigger than that in America, you look at your London Eye, we’ve got bicycle wheels bigger…..Look at your cars, our children play with toys like those….You call those sky scrapers well let me tell you our houses would dwarf them” and so on.
You can imagine the guide was getting a bit cheesed off after an hour or so. They arrived at the docks and the American was just about to make another comparison when the guide saw his opportunity. Glancing across the water he noticed the QE2 manoeuvring to dock.
Cupping his hands to his mouth he shouted across to the ship…….>
“Come in number 2, your time is up”
(Well it was funny all those years ago !)
Some years ago when they were pedestrianising Church Street in L'pool a Texan tourist approached the 5 flaggers who were tamping one of the slabs into place and said, "Back in Texas we got us a machine that would lay that slab in 5 seconds and to within 10.000ths of an inch" The reply was " that's OK for you yanks but here in Liverpool we like to do the job properly!" The Texan, not to be outdone pointed at the JCB the lads were using and said, " Back home we got teaspoons bigger than that digger you're using!" The Irish foreman of the gang replied, "Well Sor, you'll need them to fit the size of your gob." 2 nil to us I feel.
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