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justaprogressive

(5,215 posts) Tue Jul 22, 2025, 12:35 PM Jul 22

What I Learned From "Cool Hand Luke" 🚔 [View all]

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" 🚔 [View all] justaprogressive Jul 22 OP

As an added benefit, you can stick it to the man at the same time. Harker Jul 22 #1

I learned a man can eat 50 hard boiled eggs. rsdsharp Jul 22 #2

Nobody can eat fifty eggs. Harker Jul 22 #3

If my man says he can eat fifty eggs, he can eat fifty eggs!🥚 rsdsharp Jul 22 #4

what we have here ....... rampartd Jul 22 #5