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I was up in the garage attic looking for a two-wire plug and cord longer than 10 feet. (I often snip the cord from devices about to be trashed, so it wasn't an entirely impossible quest.) I ran across a box containing the remains of a swag lamp. Naturally, what immediately went through my head was "Once a jolly swag lamp..." to the tune of Waltzing Matilda.

I ended up driving to OSH, buying a cheap extension cord, and chopping its sockets off. We now have a very nice fluorescent grow lamp in the back bathroom, for the flower_cat's orchids. The swag lamp, or possibly its ghost, is still in the box.