CO is Colorado; Connecticut is CT
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> From: m donner[SMTP:maxivan82@...]
> Reply To: BoundaryPoint@yahoogroups.com
> Sent: Tuesday, June 10, 2003 5:46 PM
> To: trehala@...
> Cc: BoundaryPoint@yahoogroups.com
> Subject: [BoundaryPoint] Re: Slicing up CO justalilbit
>
> >From: Craig <trehala@...>
> >To: m donner <maxivan82@...>
> >Subject: Slicing up CO justalilbit
> >Date: Mon, 9 Jun 2003 16:52:37 -0700 (PDT)
> >
> >Hi m
> >
> >What is this about Connecticut being intersected just
> >a weeeee bit? I would like some more information
> >please. I love the maps and comments, and would like
> >to know how you won these bets! I want to get in on
> >the money-making action too.
> >
> >c
>
> well it was just that some people so doubted my assertions of what i knew
> to
> be a secret fact that when they challenged me to a wager over it they were
>
> practically giving me their beer money etc outright
>
> all i had to do was accept their proffered handshake & show them a map
>
> but this westernmost tip of connecticut has lost its anonymity since the
> welcome signs were added there around 1990
> so you wont be able to get in on the action there any more
>
> however
> all you need to do is find any outrageous secret fact for yourself
> & claim it provocatively enough for someone to offer
> in effect
> to pay you to prove it
>
> or you can even be quite innocent about it
>
> for example
> in anchorage during the 60s an acquaintance once presented me with his
> heavy
> gauge shotgun just exactly this way
> after challenging my assertion that we were closer to tokyo than to
> chicago
> i think it was
> a fact which i had just been amazed to discover for myself that week
> & was really only telling him about it in order to boast that i had just
> hitchhiked more than halfway to tokyo in under 5 days
>
> in fact it occurs to me
> you may even have the makings for such a secret fact in your own
> possession
> right now in the form of that extremely detailed st pierre area map you
> were
> telling us about at bp
> which might conceivably prove a far more amazing secret fact than either
> of
> the above
> namely
> that there is a freakin maritime boundary somewhere on the planet that
> actually crosses dry land
>
> & if your map wont prove it
> i still believe one could find a map that will
>
> but thats just for starters
>
> the world is full of stuff nobody would believe
>
> regards
> m
>
> ps
> i trust you wont mind if i share this out loud
>
> your questions deserve a wider audience anyway
>
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