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Or that it's a secret weapon used on US diplomats by [insert foreign power].

Or that it's a result of radiation given off by some cryptogear that's classified.

Or that it's a result of a global phenomenon and is only being detected in Vienna because they were alert to it after noticing it in Havana.

Or that it's a contagious but slow acting disease spreading through the US diplomatic corps from some Typhoid Mary as they get redeployed.



Or sunspots. Always one of my favorited from the tech-problem excuse handbook.

That, and directing annoying questions about Lotus Notes to the cafeteria staff so they could resolve issues with their lettuce nodes.




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