Tuesday, January 16, 2007

Wireless

LIVING PROOF THAT THE SCOTS ARE THE MASTER RACE

Article from New Scientist:

After having dug to a depth of 1000 metres last year in a field in County Cork, Irish scientists found traces of copper wire dating back 1000 years and came to the conclusion that their ancestors already had a telephone network more than 1000 years ago.

Not to be outdone by the Irish, in the weeks that followed, English scientists dug to a depth of 2000 metres in Essex, and shortly thereafter headlines in the English newspapers read, "English archaeologists have found traces of 2000 year old fibre-optic cable and have concluded that their ancestors already had an advanced high-tech digital communications network a thousand years earlier than the Irish".

One week later, Scottish newspapers reported the following: "After digging as deep as 5000 metres in a peat bog on Rannoch Moor, Scottish scientists have found absolutely nothing. They, therefore, have concluded that 5000 years ago, Scotland's inhabitants were already using wireless technology."

4 comments:

Anonymous said...

Great, great joke, Minge! You Scots are masters indeed! (Lol!)
Thank you for such a piece of science!

Minge said...

My lovely friend Johnny sent me that joke in an email this morning.

Anonymous said...

I think you'll find, Mr Minge, that this is the way thereal story. should read.

Minge said...

I think you might be right.

;)