Oh, yeah... I had completely forgotten that I'd referenced "The $64,000 Question". I was thinking of the other pop-culture reference - the one that only fans of the old "Royal Canadian Air Farce" radio show would pick up on.
(I'll let this sit for a few hours, to give any Canadian old fogeys out there a chance to spot it...)
Edit: I suppose I should explain it now, just in case I don't go ahead with the story and someone else wants to use the snippet. It's a recurring bit from Dave Broadfoot's stories of his character "Sgt. Renfrew of the RCMP", as told irregularly on the "Royal Canadian Air Farce" radio show.
Mr. Broadfoot told the Renfrew stories as first-person-viewpoint stories. At least once per story, Renfrew would recount doing something unbelievably stupid and completely avoidable (like jumping out a window in order to land on his horse without checking that the horse was still there, or reading a waitress' nametag and asking what the other one's called.) The very next line always began "When I regained consciousness,..."
-Rob Kelk
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Rob Kelk
"Governments have no right to question the loyalty of those who oppose
them. Adversaries remain citizens of the same state, common subjects of
the same sovereign, servants of the same law."
- Michael Ignatieff, addressing Stanford University in 2012
(I'll let this sit for a few hours, to give any Canadian old fogeys out there a chance to spot it...)
Edit: I suppose I should explain it now, just in case I don't go ahead with the story and someone else wants to use the snippet. It's a recurring bit from Dave Broadfoot's stories of his character "Sgt. Renfrew of the RCMP", as told irregularly on the "Royal Canadian Air Farce" radio show.
Mr. Broadfoot told the Renfrew stories as first-person-viewpoint stories. At least once per story, Renfrew would recount doing something unbelievably stupid and completely avoidable (like jumping out a window in order to land on his horse without checking that the horse was still there, or reading a waitress' nametag and asking what the other one's called.) The very next line always began "When I regained consciousness,..."
-Rob Kelk
--
Rob Kelk
"Governments have no right to question the loyalty of those who oppose
them. Adversaries remain citizens of the same state, common subjects of
the same sovereign, servants of the same law."
- Michael Ignatieff, addressing Stanford University in 2012