Dead Bee Line From "To Have and Have Not": Fact or Fiction?

[Jimmy Snyder]

This story caught my attention because it reminded me of the line from the movie "To Have and Have Not", "Was you ever stung by a dead bee?"

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/20212558/

I'm going to the book store tonight to verify whether the line is from the book or not. Does anyone happen to know?

 

[zoobyshoe]

This story caught my attention because it reminded me of the line from the movie "To Have and Have Not", "Was you ever stung by a dead bee?"

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/20212558/

I'm going to the book store tonight to verify whether the line is from the book or not. Does anyone happen to know?

In the film Walter Brennan always asked "Say, was you ever bit by a dead bee?"


This dead rattlesnake story is interesting. The ability to strike after having been beheaded probably is related to their ability to hibernate.

 

[hypatia]

"It still gives me the creeps to think that son-of-a-gun could do that,” he said.

{faints}