Can't Outdo the Cajuns

Can't Outdo the Cajuns

After having dug to a depth of 10 meters last year, Scottish 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 Scots, in the weeks that followed, British
scientists dug to a depth of 20 meters, and shortly after headlines in
the UK newspapers read:  "British 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 Scots."
 
One week later, "The Advertiser", a Lafayette , Louisiana newspaper,
reported the following:  "After digging as deep as 30 meters in cane
fields near New Iberia , Gaston Boudreaux, a self taught archeologist,
reported that he found absolutely nothing.  Gaston has, therefore,
concluded that 300 years ago Cajuns were already using wireless.

 

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