After having dug to a depth of 10 feet last year, Canadian scientists found traces of copper wire dating back 200 years and came to the conclusion that their ancestors already had a telephone network more than 150 years ago.

Not to be outdone by their neighbours, in the weeks that followed, an American archaeologist dug to a depth of 20 feet, and shortly after, a story was published in the New York Times:

"American archaeologists, finding traces of 250 year-old copper wire, have concluded that their ancestors already had an advanced high-tech communications network 50 years earlier than the Canadians".

One week later, the British authorities reported the following:

"After digging as deep as 30 feet in North Yorkshire, Jack Arkwright, a self-taught archaeologist, reported that he found absolutely naff all. Jack has therefore concluded that 250 years ago, Britain had already gone wireless."

Just makes you bloody proud to be British.

I first heard that joke well over 30 years ago, and then it was the U.S., the U.K., and Thailand that were the countries involved as country #1, #2, and #3.

Edited June 25, 201115 yr by IMA_FARANG

I first heard that joke well over 50 years ago, and then it was the Romans, Greeks and Abyssinians.

It must have been Scotland that was the proud nation in the original version, after all, the Scots invented dam_n near every useful thing on the planet !!!! :lol: