Chip Fryer
24-02-2010, 09:56 PM
PROUD TO BE A WEST AUSTRALIAN:
After having dug to a depth of 10 feet last year, Melbourne 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 Victorians, in the weeks that followed, a Sydney archaeologist dug to a depth of 20 feet, and shortly after, a story published in the Sydney Morning Herald read:
"New South Wales archaeologists, finding traces of 130-year-old copper wire, have concluded that their ancestors already had an advanced high-tech communications network 30 years earlier than the Victorians".
One week later, the West Australian , Perth , reported the following:
"After digging as deep as 30 feet in his backyard in Leeming , Perth , Blair Smith, a self-taught archaeologist, reported that he found absolutely nothing at all. Blair has therefore concluded that 150 years ago, WA had already gone wireless."
Just makes you bloody proud to be a West Aussie!
Chip Fryer
After having dug to a depth of 10 feet last year, Melbourne 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 Victorians, in the weeks that followed, a Sydney archaeologist dug to a depth of 20 feet, and shortly after, a story published in the Sydney Morning Herald read:
"New South Wales archaeologists, finding traces of 130-year-old copper wire, have concluded that their ancestors already had an advanced high-tech communications network 30 years earlier than the Victorians".
One week later, the West Australian , Perth , reported the following:
"After digging as deep as 30 feet in his backyard in Leeming , Perth , Blair Smith, a self-taught archaeologist, reported that he found absolutely nothing at all. Blair has therefore concluded that 150 years ago, WA had already gone wireless."
Just makes you bloody proud to be a West Aussie!
Chip Fryer