>>>>>Hey! Watch it! My dad was a WAG.
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>>>>What's that - a Women's Army general?
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>>>No Sir. He was a Wireless Air Gunner.
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>>I've looked around, and the air in our street is also wireless (the cables are underground, which is a rarity in this part of the world), but no gunners around. Could it be a Canadian thing?
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>It's a world war two thing. I'll be you didn't know that the Canadians had wireless connections in the dark ages?

Americans dig and find wires at a certain geological depth. Conclusion: they had telephones 200 years ago.
Russians dig and find wires even deeper. They estimated the age of their telephone system at 350 years.
The Montenegrins dig even deeper and find nothing. Conclusion: they had cell phones 500 years ago.