The great thing about writing a Stainless Steel Rat homage is you get to do things like this (in which our protagonists, having returned from a *very* long trip, have found and are preparing to rob a museum exhibit dedicated to ... themselves): #amwriting

@cstross

"When it came to Parton's turn, she smiled and sashayed across the stage. And lost. To a man. Not only that, Dolly Parton got the least applause. She said she was dying of laughter inside. Little did the contest know they had the real thing in their midst"

https://www.cbc.ca/radio/undertheinfluence/dolly-parton-entered-a-dolly-parton-look-alike-contest-and-lost-1.6848403

Dolly Parton entered a Dolly Parton look-alike contest. And lost. | CBC Radio

Dolly Parton – there's no one like her. Well, almost no one.

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