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All Bets Off

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NODE 5bdc9580All Bets Off
Just so this isn't hanging in cyberspace forever, my $5,000 bet for 
anyone to prove the TWA 800 flight was downed by a U.S. missile is now 
*off the table*.  


It's been two-plus weeks since I tossed out the bet and no one took me up 
on it, so it's now being formally withdrawn.

--Brock
NODE d6825863Re: All Bets Off
A bit worried, now, Brock?
Not like we'd have access.

I smell a new era / area 51.

Smells like lemons.
(ie -- it sucks)

-Millie,
who is not even premenstrual. :)


On Mon, 16 Sep 1996, Brock N. Meeks wrote:

> 
> Just so this isn't hanging in cyberspace forever, my $5,000 bet for 
> anyone to prove the TWA 800 flight was downed by a U.S. missile is now 
> *off the table*.  
> 
> 
> It's been two-plus weeks since I tossed out the bet and no one took me up 
> on it, so it's now being formally withdrawn.
> 
> --Brock
> 
>
NODE c0df480bRe: All Bets Off
> Just so this isn't hanging in cyberspace forever, my $5,000 bet for 
> anyone to prove the TWA 800 flight was downed by a U.S. missile is now 
> *off the table*.  

I heard through  the family grapevine that they have pictures of a Stinger
taking out the plane they're analyzing in the Pentagon.  There are 220+
Stingers *missing* in the US, so its not like they have to smuggle them
in...  (That's not proof by any means, but *my* family grapevine has always
been very reliable.  The cousin who told me this has a Dad who flew as
the intelligence officer observer on Bronco flights out of Quang Tri for
18 months, rotating out just before the base was over run in May of '72.) 
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NODE d7e5d26eRe: All Bets Off
On Tue, 17 Sep 1996, Jeff Davis wrote:

> > Just so this isn't hanging in cyberspace forever, my $5,000 bet for 
> > anyone to prove the TWA 800 flight was downed by a U.S. missile is now 
> > *off the table*.  
> 
> I heard through  the family grapevine that they have pictures of a Stinger
> taking out the plane they're analyzing in the Pentagon.  There are 220+
> Stingers *missing* in the US, so its not like they have to smuggle them
> in...  (That's not proof by any means, but *my* family grapevine has always
> been very reliable.  The cousin who told me this has a Dad who flew as
> the intelligence officer observer on Bronco flights out of Quang Tri for
> 18 months, rotating out just before the base was over run in May of '72.) 

Does this cousin also have an aunt who lived next door to Joe Montana's 
babysitter? I might know his father ...

Ask your family grapevine about the stinger's op altitude, and the 
altitute of the TWA when it broke up - I don't have Jane's lying around, 
but it seems that the TWA plane was a tad bit high for a stinger.

- r.w.