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To: Ciaphas Cain

In the movie A Long Hot Summer, Ben Quick played by Paul Newman is accused of being a barn burner. That’s where the phrase comes from. Next question.

Why is New York called the Empire state? Answer: Because they’ve won so many world series because the Umpires gave them all the close calls. Next question.

Why do they call it Guerrilla warfare?
Answer:Because they fight like gorilla’s where they’ll attack hard and fast, then run away. Next question, cause I am on a roll here.


33 posted on 07/30/2026 10:46:52 AM PDT by nikos1121
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To: nikos1121

Barnstorming?


38 posted on 07/30/2026 12:29:16 PM PDT by HandyDandy (“Borders, language and culture.” Michael Savage)
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To: nikos1121
”In the movie A Long Hot Summer, Ben Quick played by Paul Newman is accused of being a barn burner.

Great movie! Lee Remick in her prime. And Joanne Woodward. Jody (played by Tony Fransciosa) locks his own father in the barn and sets on fire. The whole town comes running after Ben Quick! They corner him, but by then Jody feels bad and sets his father free! (The barn is consumed.) But the father (Burl Ives) forgives Jody with those famous lines, “when I think of the hate that locked me in there, …….and then of the love that let me out………….”

48 posted on 07/30/2026 1:13:40 PM PDT by HandyDandy (“Borders, language and culture.” Michael Savage)
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