Amid the rejoicing, the unlikely allies who had secured victory for the no campaign would soon be back at each other's throats, after Cameron seized the moment of triumph to play the English card – providing the SNP a quick route back from defeat.
One nuclear lobbyist admitted it spread messages "via third-party opinion because the public would be suspicious if we started ramming pro-nuclear messages down their throats".
Thousands of throats carry us, like the wind.
Once we got back to the camp, they tied the legs and the hands of the captives and slit the throats of four of them as they shouted 'Allahu Akbar'.
"Some of the bodies were shot while others had their throats slit, which made me sick.
Isn't it a waste that two nations who only 30 years ago were like brothers go after each other's throats like this?" A few steps up the street from the carpet shop, Hossein, who organises Basij militia activities at a mosque in the area, argued that Iran is in no need of a mediator.
The robbers seized pedestrians and motorists and beat them senseless, telling them they would be shot, have their throats slit, eyes gouged out or be burned alive if they did not comply with their assailants' demands.
Fifty years on from their last real war, it seems that France and Algeria are still quite capable of tearing each other's throats out.
Journalists must now contend with both the threat of being shot, or detained, or attacked by enterprising members of the general public who have it rammed down their throats – by local media – that al-Jazeera and foreign journalists are out to spread chaos in Egypt.
I didn't even break off for the glass of water I became increasingly desperate to drink while reading how the aviators tried to to gather dew drops on the cloth of their parachutes, how they felt "something rasping" in their throats, and were reduced to drinking ether even though it felt like "swallowing knives".
If Kimberly-Clark screws up tomorrow, we'll be right back at their throats.
