Where's this quote from?

Danny McG

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I'm reading Beyond the Ranges, a SF book by John Ringo.
It's set in a future where Earth has been destroyed and humanity is starting to colonise a far distant planet, the discussion is between a portable AI called Jewel and an explorer/hunter called Jason :-

Jewel, got a minute?” Jason said as he was tasting.
“I am always . . . here . . . ” Jewel said.
“Was that a cultural reference?” Jason asked. “I sort of recognize it.”
“From a British TV show,” Jewel said.
 
“Was that a cultural reference?” Jason asked. “I sort of recognize it.”
“From a British TV show,” Jewel said.
What an infuriatingly nonspecific response that would be.

Is the next line of dialogue "BUT WHICH ONE, YOU EFFING MACHINE???"
 
A bit of Web-fu and I get something like it [without the pauses] from My Hero, a show from the early 00s
 
A bit of Web-fu and I get something like it [without the pauses] from My Hero, a show from the early 00s
Oh wow, I don't think I watched more than half an episode - it was dire. Thanks for sourcing it.
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It was pretty much Father Dougal as Superman. And no it wasn't great but it did run to 6 series
 
Interesting side note.
There is a song by the name "I'm always here"
This was used as a theme song for some of the Baywatch-Baywatch Hawaii tv shows.
Written around 1993
The writer said that, though the song could be interpreted as being from the point of view of the lifeguard or hero, the real one he was thinking about when he wrote it was the one who was there for the hero (GOD).
 
Is it John Ringo who's obsessed with referencing some goth band or other in his works?
The Cruxshadows and the lyrics from their song Winterborn often get a mention.
In his earlier books he occasionally quoted from Mary Poppins!
 

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