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A-Team Shard

David Silberstein davids at kithrup.com
Fri Feb 20 11:44:45 PST 2004

On Fri, 20 Feb 2004, skzb wrote:

>> So, I think I found another Shard... Issola, hardcover, pg 216 -
>> "I love it when a plan comes together."
>>
>> As I recall, this line made an appearance in virtually every A-Team
>> episode ever filmed... don't ask me how I know this.  Please.
>>

>Feh.  It goes back a lot further than that.  I have yet to see a
>single episode of A-team. 

Noble sir, I nearly think you will have to expand and elucidate.
Alas, we poor uneducated and simple peons, long-suckled at the glass
teat, [1] the boob tube, the phosphor-coated flask of emptiness [2]
that receives the radio-frequency encoded pap sent from out of that
place called Holly Wood, only know of the quotation under discussion
>from its use on the television show which the previous poster had the
honor (or is it the shame?) to refer to.  So, I beg, I plead, I
entreat and request for you to educate us:  What is the true, original
source of the abovementioned quote?  Or at least, an earlier one than
that show?


[1] Which may have been used before Harlan Ellison used it, but that's
where *I* got it from.

[2] Projection TV screens were very rare, back in the day.  My family
certainly couldn't afford one.