I got this in a e-mail



> **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 outdone by the New Yorkers, in the weeks that followed,California scientists 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, 'The Thibodaux Gazette', a local newspaper in Thibodaux,LA, reported the following: 'After digging as deep as 30 feet in a cane field near Houma, Boudreaux, a self-taught archaeologist, reported that he found absolutely nothing. Boudreaux has therefore concluded that 300 years ago, Louisiana had already gone wireless.'
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