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"Alright, at that point, Mandy will stage a smash and grab at the corporate office. She doesn't need to actually steal anything, just leave some DNA."

"Some DNA I've tinkered with."

"Right. Kleenex has inserted a computer virus into the DNA. They'll use the isolated corporate security system to read the DNA, and in addition to finding our patsy, they'll also let us into their system."

"After that..."

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Today is the 55th Anniversary of the first lunar landing, Apollo 11.

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55th :)

45th would mean I could have seen / remembered it ...

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Apparently the Hoover Dam is full with dead people. What if they decided to burrow out?

http://www.northofreality.com/tales/...knows-no-sound

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I made that mistake a lot Saturday.

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I just had my 50th birthday. As an Oregonian, I vaguely remember Mt. St. Helens erupting, but I do not remember the moon landing.

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I've got almost 5 years on you. I remember the last moon landing (was lucky enough that my local TV stations carried it).
While an Alaskan at the time of it, the St Helens eruption is firm in my memories. Shut down air travel in much of Alaska, too... And stranded a buddy from Adak in Anchorage; he couldn't fly home, couldn't fly to USAF Basic, and couldn't hop a ferry, either...

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"like finding a Ferrari in a junkyard": The Przewalski's horse is a short, stocky equine with a stiff black mane. It's possible for the non-expert to confuse it with a mule - which seems to be exactly what happened with a livestock auction, where one of the rare and endangered Mongolian wild horses was up for sale, and eventually bought for just $1375 by a rehabilitation ranch. Another was surrendered to a Utah sanctuary.

If this was a resaleable object, it gives a plausible way a character with an expert skill could suddenly come in to money - or a place to launder or hide loot. That weird painting hanging on Grandma's wall? Oh, that handsome painter gave it to her after their fling in Spain that one summer. Or that rich boy with the bad vibes left it here before she broke it off and the young man disappeared. Mamá, that's an original Dalí...

https://www.washingtonpost.com/clima...a-shrek-fiona/

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Loot hiding in plain sight. https://www.yahoo.com/news/rock-used...062801329.html

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The Reed Gold Mine in NC was discovered after a jeweler recognized Conrad Reed's doorstop as a 17 pound gold nugget.