After digging to a depth of 10 feet last year, New York scientists found traces of copper wire dating back 100 years. They came to the conclusion that their ancestors already had a telephone network more than 100 years ago.

Not to be outdone by the New Yorkers, a California archaeologist the next week dug to a depth of 20 feet, and shortly thereafter headlines in the LA Times read, 'California archaeologist has found traces of 200-year-old copper wire and has concluded that their ancestors already had an advanced high-tech communications network a hundred years earlier than did the New Yorkers.'

One week later, The Tennessean, a local newspaper in Nashville, Tennessee reported the following: 'After digging to a depth of 30 feet in his pasture near Nashville, a Dickson County resident, Bubba Mitchell, a self-taught archaeologist, reported that he found absolutely nothing. Bubba has therefore concluded that 300 years ago Tennessee had already gone wireless.'