I came, I saw, I conked out

Today it came back to me that my father once chuckled at this pun. I also remembered that it came from one of the Carry On films. A bit of searching showed that it came from Carry On Cleo which is explicated at perhaps far greater than readable length in this blog post.

The Carry On franchise is evidence of 1960s British culture and sexual stereotypes. However for me the memory revealed a few things. The film was from 1964 and it almost certain that I viewed it in a KL cinema in tow by my father. He knew the original the pun was referring to, so he must have encountered it in school, probably Victoria Institution.

My father was a smart man. He passed on to me his love of tinkering.