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Lessons Learned from 'No Country for Old Men'


You can enter the US with no clothes on IF your story makes sense. And don't jack with the guy!

"Now" is not a time.

Wearing a rifle is not a deterrent to women in El Paso.

You don't often see a Mexican in a suit.

Digging a grave in caliche = not recommended.

Beer leads to more beer, and slower reflexes.

If someone wants you to call it, just call it.

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You forgot.

Don't return to the site of a drug deal gone bad where you find a million dollars.

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Just be prepared for a wisdom filled bon mot from larks about how you are wrong and totally misinterpreted everything.

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Just be prepared for a wisdom filled bon mot from larks about how you are wrong and totally misinterpreted everything.
There's usually someone on these threads who doesn't get tongue-in-cheek humor, but thankfully that hasn't happened. :)

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I guess it depends on whose tongue is in whose cheek.

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Which is probably why this has been one of the more easygoing and fun threads in this forum!

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Red sox suck.

White sox rawk.

This is the deeper meaning the Coens planted in the film.

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If you find a satchel of money, for God's sake check for a transponder.

Tent poles – they're not just for camping anymore.

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If you want to get screwed keep mouthing off.

Bring water when you go hunting.

If you know there is an intruder in your house go back outside. Don't go looking for him.

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If you want to get screwed keep mouthing off.

Dmaria follows that logic every day. Just not in the sense that he means it.

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Larks has quit discussing the movie she now uses the forum to make personal attacks on me. How pathetic.

I thought of another one. Listen to your mother when she tells you that your future husband is a disaster waiting to happen.

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They don't kill beeves with a hammer and a gun anymore.

Parking a truck with a dead body in it at a border crossing and shuffling across the border to the nearest Mexican hospital, leaving a blood trail literally every step of the way and making a spectacle of yourself in front of at least 8 people constitutes a clean getaway.

Never. That's when you stop looking for your two million dollars. Never.

When you stop, you stop in shade.

There's airstrips and there's airports, but depending on where you're going, you might be just as well off to drive to Dallas (I actually knew that one a long time before NCFOM).

If Llewellyn Moss ain't in his trailer I s'pect he's at work.

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The last man standing applies to a man lying dead under a tree.

The proper phrase for it's available is It ain't took.

Don't be driving through town in your pickup when there is a gunfight going on.

Don't let someone put you in a jackpot.

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A seriously wounded, physically drained man can still break all the Olympic records ( not to mention laws of physics )for the shot put and hammer throw by hurling a bag weighing roughly 50lbs. over a fence several feet high and also several feet out, to land near a riverbank.

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It's possible to stuff a rag into the opening of a car's gas tank to create a perfectly timed bomb and diversion, enabling the perpetrator to ransack a pharmacy.

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Good job on both counts hammer.

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And by the way, regarding the Last Man Standing, there has to be one.

Honorable mention from the book only: Nothing wounded goes uphill. It just don't happen.

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Recently drinking milk is not enough of a description for the police to ID a suspect.

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If you are walking in the woods and happen to see where a massacre has taken place don't look for the last man standing or the money. Instead go home and screw your partner.

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If you are going to a drug buy with your gang bring a few bottles of water in case you get shot.

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Age can flatten a swinging dick.

"They done lit a shuck" = Texan for moved out quickly.

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I didn't know what a shuck is. It turns out it is west for corn stalk. When a cowboy was going from a burning camp fire to start a new one he would light a corn shuck to show him the way. Thing was it only burned for a few minutes so he had to leave quickly.

It's interesting in bell's dream he talks about his father carrying fire in a cone. I wonder if they are related?

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A Texas citizen would be completely submissive to someone hefting an odd tank, urging him to " hold still, " while said someone, appearing nothing like law enforcement, places a metal cylinder against the citizen's forehead and then.....

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