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From: Peregrine Mendoza <101653.2205@compuserve.com>
Date: Sun, 20 Jul 1997 00:33:41 -0400
Fwd Date: Sun, 20 Jul 1997 03:26:34 -0400
Subject: The Unmentionable Dr...


The Duke of Mendoza presents his compliments.

About a year ago a post by Yrs Trly to UpDates contained the
following (one name has been censored):

"I will wager with Doc B----, payable via our esteemed Keeper of
the List, my ONE THOUSAND DOLLARS IN US CURRENCY (US$1000) to his
ONE DOLLAR IN US CURRENCY (US$1.00) that no national government on
Earth or agency thereof publicly and officially discloses, on the
record, "UFO reality" before midnight GMT on 23 April 1997. This
wager and payment of this sum by either party is conditional

        "(a) on Dr B---- defining, by midnight GMT on 30 July 1996,
under no more than 10 heads and in no more than 1000 words what he
means by "UFO reality" and "public disclosure" in terms acceptable
to Errol Bruce Knapp (who shall be sole judge of the winner of this
wager)

        "(b) on the understanding that the terms "UFO reality" and
"public disclosure" refer to specific, proven and provable facts,
data, information and/or artefacts, and exclude: opinions, by
whomsoever made; vague generalizations and speculations (e.g.
"Something is going on but we don't know what it is", "It is a
mathematical certainty that we are not alone in the Universe", &c);
comment or opinion from officials made in a personal capacity;
announcements of programmes by governments or their agents to
investigate UFOs; interpretations by others of official statements
in terms of conspiracy theory, untestable hypotheses or any form of
double think, unreasonable inference or multiplication of hypotheses."

Now I know that Doc B----'s name is not supposed to be mentioned
in our polite and delicate [sic] company, and Errol will probably
give me a detention for even hinting at it; and I also know that
the (here's a CLUE) King of the Hot Tubbers somehow overlooked the
matter of putting up his dollar; but I'm curious to know if any more
of this revelation of "UFO reality" has been heard of from He-Whose-
Name-We-Dare-Not-Speak. If you can escape Errol's eagle eye, I'll
be behind the bike sheds at break having a Senior Service [1] and
giving out tips for the runners at Aintree [2] tomorrow, and you
can tell me then.

Yours &c
(squiggle)
pp Mendoza Turf Accountants Ltd [3]
"Honest Peat Always Pays"--US Customs
_____________________________________

[1] a British cigarette

[2] a horse-track, near Liverpool

[3] bookmaking company - formerly owned
    by Prince Monolulu

    - ebk