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displacement

Funny shop floor observation about where tools mysteriously vanish

The spontaneous migration of an important object to a location so improbable that its discovery is later described as an archaeological find.

I didn't lose my passport. It merely underwent displacement and was eventually recovered from a cookbook.

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