Posted: 5/3/2012 4:30:42 AM EDT
| It's on HBO now...always liked that movie. Maybe because the local news in Detroit got its theme from the road tar scene. Or maybe because I like eggs.... |
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That movie caused "chain gangs" to be eliminated here in the South. Typically, judges would ask the convict whether they wanted to work for say six months, or serve double the time (twelve months) sitting in jail.
For some of those convicts, it was their first lesson that they should get up and work, and follow some rules. I think about that movie just about every time I see garbage on the road, or state employees out picking up trash. |
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That movie caused "chain gangs" to be eliminated here in the South. Typically, judges would ask the convict whether they wanted to work for say six months, or serve double the time (twelve months) sitting in jail. For some of those convicts, it was their first lesson that they should get up and work, and follow some rules. I think about that movie just about every time I see garbage on the road, or state employees out picking up trash. I have always understood that this book (and the ensuing motion picture) was responsible for the decline of chain gangs. "You run one time, you got yourself a set of chains. You run twice you got yourself two sets. You ain't gonna need no third set, 'cause you gonna get your mind right." |
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I can still eat 50 eggs.
http://www.ar15.com/forums/t_1_5/1317069_How_many_eggs_can_you_eat_.html |
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Any man not in his bunk at eight
will spend a night in the box. There is no smoking in prone position in bed. To smoke you must have both legs over the side of your bunk. Anyone caught smoking in prone position will spend a night in the box. You get two sheets. Every Saturday you put the clean sheet on the top, the top sheet on the bottom and the bottom sheet you turn in to the Laundry Boy. Any man who turns in the wrong sheet spends a night in the box. No one will sit on the bunks with dirty pants on. Any man sitting on a bunk with dirty pants will spend a night in the box. Any man who don't bring back his empty pop bottles spends a night in the box. |
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Quoted: Easily in my top 5 movies of all time. When I was in 3rd or 4th grade my teacher asked us what our favorite musical was. My answer was Cool Hand Luke....because of when Luke sings Plastic Jesus. At the time that was musical enough for me. God I hate actual musicals.  I wonder what the average age of the guys posting in this thread. I'm 34 and this is also in my top five favorite movies. |
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That movie caused "chain gangs" to be eliminated here in the South. Typically, judges would ask the convict whether they wanted to work for say six months, or serve double the time (twelve months) sitting in jail. For some of those convicts, it was their first lesson that they should get up and work, and follow some rules. I think about that movie just about every time I see garbage on the road, or state employees out picking up trash. I have always understood that this book (and the ensuing motion picture) was responsible for the decline of chain gangs. "You run one time, you got yourself a set of chains. You run twice you got yourself two sets. You ain't gonna need no third set, 'cause you gonna get your mind right." That movie was in the ~1930's –– chain gangs were still plentiful in Georgia and Alabama forty years later. Ten years after Cool Hand Luke came out, they were practically gone. Say... what kind of car was that? I can't tell from this photo. 
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That movie caused "chain gangs" to be eliminated here in the South. Typically, judges would ask the convict whether they wanted to work for say six months, or serve double the time (twelve months) sitting in jail. For some of those convicts, it was their first lesson that they should get up and work, and follow some rules. I think about that movie just about every time I see garbage on the road, or state employees out picking up trash. I have always understood that this book (and the ensuing motion picture) was responsible for the decline of chain gangs. "You run one time, you got yourself a set of chains. You run twice you got yourself two sets. You ain't gonna need no third set, 'cause you gonna get your mind right." That movie was in the ~1930's –– chain gangs were still plentiful in Georgia and Alabama forty years later. Ten years after Cool Hand Luke came out, they were practically gone. Say... what kind of car was that? I can't tell from this photo. http://web.mac.com/macxo/public/JoyHarmon006.jpg What's a car? 
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That movie caused "chain gangs" to be eliminated here in the South. Typically, judges would ask the convict whether they wanted to work for say six months, or serve double the time (twelve months) sitting in jail. For some of those convicts, it was their first lesson that they should get up and work, and follow some rules. I think about that movie just about every time I see garbage on the road, or state employees out picking up trash. I have always understood that this book (and the ensuing motion picture) was responsible for the decline of chain gangs. "You run one time, you got yourself a set of chains. You run twice you got yourself two sets. You ain't gonna need no third set, 'cause you gonna get your mind right." That movie was in the ~1930's –– chain gangs were still plentiful in Georgia and Alabama forty years later. Ten years after Cool Hand Luke came out, they were practically gone. Say... what kind of car was that? I can't tell from this photo. http://web.mac.com/macxo/public/JoyHarmon006.jpg I think that's a '36 or a '38....not sure what make but it looks American to me.....
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