“Just the facts ma’am“, I can still hear that monotone, deadpan voice of Sgt Joe Friday, aka Jack Webb, from the TV series Dragnet echo those words. Well, actually, apparently that memory is a culturally induced auditory illusion, a memory implant. Although I never back checked this assertion there are those who say that quote is one of those misquotes propagated over the years ala the child’s game telephone with the altered quote becoming ingrained in our collective memory, similar to Rick Blaine/Humphrey Bogart in Casablanca saying “Play it again Sam“.
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