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I don’t know why they’d drop a bomb on this place, be a heck of a waste of a bomb.
— October Sky · 1999
Behind the line
What it means
Our interpretation.
The speaker dismisses the place as an unworthy target, joking that bombing it would waste the bomb. That calculation makes destruction sound like a question of value for money. The humour comes from using the imagined attack to express a very low opinion of the location.
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