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David Penfold :verified:
@davep@infosec.exchange

TIL the origin of Lieutenant Columbo's "just one more thing" catchphrase.

Columbo's signature catchphrase, "just one more thing", originated when Levinson and Link were writing a scene in which Columbo interrogated a criminal before leaving his apartment. The scene was too short, however, and they could not add conversation into the middle of the scene as they were using a typewriter, and that would require rewriting the scene from the beginning. They decided to fix this by having Columbo stick his head back through the door and say "just one more thing" as if he had forgotten something.

George Dinwiddie
@gdinwiddie@mastodon.social

@davep@infosec.exchange
As an English major in college, I would write my rough draft of papers with pen on paper. I would type my final version from that, editing on the fly. There were many times when I was halfway through typing a sentence and realized that the end of the sentence didn't fit with the beginning. Even though the ending was generally a better thought, the beginning was already typed, so I had to modify the ending, instead.

David Penfold :verified:
@davep@infosec.exchange

@gdinwiddie@mastodon.social What's cool here though is the limitations of the typewriter accidentally spawned an iconic catchphrase.

George Dinwiddie
@gdinwiddie@mastodon.social

@davep@infosec.exchange It's more than a catch-phrase. It's a plot device.

David Penfold :verified:
@davep@infosec.exchange

@gdinwiddie@mastodon.social Indeed! Stumbled on by accident.