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justaprogressive

(7,172 posts)
Tue Jul 22, 2025, 12:35 PM Jul 2025

What I Learned From "Cool Hand Luke" 🚔

Remember the Cool Hand Luke sand-shoveling scene on that hot country road?

When Paul Newman inspires his chain-gang homies to cover the tar with sand
as fast as they can, and they all get into it and shovel so quickly that the tar truck
runs out and drives off, and the prisoners have nothing to do but relax for a couple
of hours?



My takeaway:

If you get the hard stuff done first...the rest is easy. Life lesson learned.

YMMV

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What I Learned From "Cool Hand Luke" 🚔 (Original Post) justaprogressive Jul 2025 OP
As an added benefit, you can stick it to the man at the same time. Harker Jul 2025 #1
I learned a man can eat 50 hard boiled eggs. rsdsharp Jul 2025 #2
Nobody can eat fifty eggs. Harker Jul 2025 #3
If my man says he can eat fifty eggs, he can eat fifty eggs!🥚 rsdsharp Jul 2025 #4
what we have here ....... rampartd Jul 2025 #5

rampartd

(5,056 posts)
5. what we have here .......
Tue Jul 22, 2025, 04:51 PM
Jul 2025


a problem for strother martin and the world at large since genesis chapter 11.

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