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 RADU
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After having dug to a depth of 10 feet last year, British 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 the Brit's, in the weeks that followed, an American archaeologist dug to a depth of 20 feet, and shortly after, a story 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 British".

One week later, the state’s Dept of Minerals and Energy in Western Australia , reported the following:

"After digging as deep as 30 feet in Western Australia ’s Pilbara region, Jack Lucknow, a self-taught archaeologist, reported that he found absolutely firk all. Jack has therefore concluded that 250 years ago, Australia had already gone wireless."

Just makes you bloody proud to be Australian!

 
Posted : December 14, 2010 4:23 pm
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Perhaps, one of these days, you will learn to communicate in English instead of that cryptographically-challenging Aborigine language.

 
Posted : December 14, 2010 4:30 pm
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Hole

Hell, this is one of the most intelligible posts he has ever made, except for firk all, which I take for f$&k all and I can only assume in Australian that means "nothing" using context clues. But other than that, he copied and pasted a great email. I don't think he could have typed that well for that long.

 
Posted : December 14, 2010 4:39 pm
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yall take it easy on RADU. he is good people and after all he is upside down in the wrong hemisphere.

 
Posted : December 14, 2010 6:04 pm
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And the commode flushes backward. 🙂

 
Posted : December 14, 2010 6:24 pm
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heh made me laugh - good one 😀

 
Posted : December 14, 2010 7:53 pm
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Google firk all. It doesn't even appear in Australian to English Dictionaries.

Firk does exist, with three different meanings, of which none are closely connected to our favorite four-letter word starting with f and ending in k.

 
Posted : December 14, 2010 8:04 pm
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FOLK?

 
Posted : December 14, 2010 8:11 pm
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Hole

Fink?

 
Posted : December 14, 2010 10:01 pm
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Hole

Funk?? 😛

 
Posted : December 15, 2010 12:29 am
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Angel-

Maybe it is spelled starting with a "PH" ?

YOS

TNAI

 
Posted : December 15, 2010 6:20 am
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Amen to that snoop!

 
Posted : December 15, 2010 7:22 am
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It is a good joke and very adaptable. This is the first time I've seen it with the Australian twist. I've seen it State-specific and hillbilly/redneck-specific.

 
Posted : December 15, 2010 7:29 am
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eh?

 
Posted : December 15, 2010 7:42 am
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Yaa''l go easy on radu.

In addition to the other backwards issues they face down under, Radu uses a leica, and the gnomes that design that stuff persuade you that they have it BEST.

 
Posted : December 15, 2010 8:08 am
 RADU
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LOL NATE!

RADU

 
Posted : December 15, 2010 2:39 pm