Robert Feinman <robert.feinman@gmail.com> found these unused words:

>I know I have seen some some tricks for selecting telephone and
>electric power lines in order to remove them from the photo, but
>I seem to have forgotten them.
>Currently I use the magic wand tool which is slow and somewhat
>inaccurate especially when the wires are out of focus. After I
>have the wire selected I expand it by a pixel or two and then use
>the patch tool followed by some extra touch up, if needed. This
>is all slower than I'd like.
>
>So, does anyone have some good tricks for selecting wires?

Clone tool or healing brush as you can maintain the tonality adjacent to
their 'path' across the image.