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First time Bruce willis uses that term in Die hard series is when he speaks to Hans in walkie talkie. When Hans was asking him if he was another american cowboy inspired by John wayne and then Bruce willis says he is partial to Roy Rogers and ends his conversation with Yippie Kay Yay and swears after it.
The actual meaning of the phrase from the references ...
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I suspect the fire hose would survive, but our poor action hero would not.
From this article:
So in the Die Hard fall its unlikely to stretch very much. Lets say in
Bruce's jump a 10m fire hose stretches 1% i.e. 0.1m. Our force formula
now becomes F = 7900 / 0.1 = 79000 N ... equivalent to the weight of
about 100 Bruce Willis!
So what would ...
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