Gene Sequencer at rummage shop in Seattle.

From: CLASSICCMP_at_trailing-edge.com <(CLASSICCMP_at_trailing-edge.com)>
Date: Fri Apr 28 16:53:20 2000

>The most truly amazing surplus story I've ever heard was that of a fellow that
>acquired a surplus Plutonium processing plant from INEL, up in Idaho. The
>government managed to stop him from shipping it to India, but it was a close
>thing.

A close second was when the Air Force was auctioning off their never-used
Vandenberg space shuttle launch pad and auxilluary equipment. Sure, it
doesn't do you any good until you've got a shuttle to launch, but who here
wouldn't want to say "We already got one" to this?

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