Portales News-Tribune Managing Editor Karl Terry passes along this joke:
New York scientists recently found traces of 100-year-old copper wire buried 10 yards beneath the Earth’s surface. They came to the conclusion that their New York ancestors had a telephone network more than 100 years ago.
Not to be outdone, California scientists dug to a depth of 20 yards. Soon, the media reported, “California archaeologists have found traces of 200-year-old copper wire and concluded their ancestors had an advanced high-tech communications network 100 years before the New Yorkers.”
Now for the latest news:
After digging 30 yards in a cow pasture near Dora, Lorenzo the Cable Guy — a self-taught archaeologist and huge Eastern New Mexico University Greyhound fan — reported he found absolutely nothing.
Lorenzo has therefore concluded that 300 years ago … New Mexico had already gone wireless.
