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What is the meaning of the "Tall Trees" joke in Groundhog Day?
It is a joke about the amount of rainfall in the Pacific Northwest, which can be significant. Rain makes the trees grow taller, but it's certainly not useful (in his mind) for anything else.
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What is the meaning of the "Tall Trees" joke in Groundhog Day?
It's a joke where he is just stating the obvious as a "prediction"
In California, they’re gonna have some warm weather tomorrow, gang wars and some very overpriced real estate.
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What is the meaning of "life of the collar"?
The line preceding this statement is
"Why Jericho? What does it mean? Biblically speaking?"
The implication is that by giving the child such an ostentatiously Christian name, they're ...
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What does "if they're a pound" mean?
This is an idiom. The “if they’re a pound” phrase is an ironic way of stating “if they weigh anything at all (and I know they do).” The meaning of the entire sentence is thus “if these slabs of ...
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A question on a quote from "Richard Deacon - In Between"
The video you posted is unavailable, but it seems the trailer contains the quote you're talking about (at timestamp 0:15):
I'm pretty sure what Deacon says is
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What is the meaning of "West Helsinki fire sale"?
The phrase itself is an example of an Operation Blank trope where a plan is given a code name so that it can be succinctly stated and acted upon. In this case, it's fairly descriptive. A Fire Sale is &...
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What was Suzie implying on the witness stand?
No. At least, not necessarily (and not obviously).
Suzie just means that one of the ways in which Kelly dealt or seemed to deal with the death of her father, was to concentrate more on (her love for) ...
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Why did the fisherman call Forrest a fool?
Why would he call Forrest crazy of just plain stupid?
With no experience and many experienced competitors, Forrest has very limited (to no) success, especially in what seems to be a business crisis ...
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