The ORIGINAL 1000+ Posts Club

[Kelda]

Igot to 8K today!!

[oilgun]

Never?  Here's the original reference:

In May of 1983 they spent a few cold days at a series of little icebound, no-name high lakes, then worked across into the Hail Strew River drainage.

Going up, the day was fine but the trail deep-drifted and slopping wet at the margins. They left it to wind through a slashy cut, leading the horses through brittle branchwood, Jack, the same eagle feather in his old hat, lifting his head in the heated noon to take the air scented with resinous lodgepole, the dry needle duff and hot rock, bitter juniper crushed beneath the horses' hooves. Ennis, weather-eyed, looked west for the heated cumulus that might come up on such a day but the boneless blue was so deep, said Jack, that he might drown looking up. {story}

Of course!  It had Annie Proulx written all over it!  Thanks!  Still don't know what it really means though, lol!

[Kelda]

I have de-ja-vu!

Did we not have the same conversation on this thread a few weeks ago?

(PS  The first time I hadn't clicked it was from BBM either!!)

[Jeff Wrangler]

De rien!

miss you too

   

[Jeff Wrangler]

I have de-ja-vu!

Did we not have the same conversation on this thread a few weeks ago?

(PS  The first time I hadn't clicked it was from BBM either!!)

Yes, we did. It's getting kind of depressing, Brokies who don't recognize a Brokeback reference when they see it. 

Where's that old thread on use of Brokieisms? Perhaps it should be bumped--and made into required reading. ... 

[southendmd]

Here's Jeff's explanation from a few weeks ago:

I don't have The Text in front of me, but surely you recognize "boneless blue" as Annie Proulx's phrasing? In this context I've always taken "boneless" to mean "cloudless," though I can't exactly say where I picked up that notion and it may predate my reading of Annie Proulx.

I know, for example, that a ship moving fast enough to create a white wave at the bow is said to have "a bone in her teeth," so I may be projecting from "bone" = "white wave" to "boneless blue (sky)" = cloudless, clear blue sky.

If I remember correctly, Annie's use occurs in her narration of the last horsepacking trip in May 1983.

[Kelda]

Yes, we did. It's getting kind of depressing, Brokies who don't recognize a Brokeback reference when they see it. 

Where's that old thread on use of Brokieisms? Perhaps it should be bumped--and made into required reading. ... 

Jeff! You have a job - bump that thread!!!

[CellarDweller]

wasn't that a disco move?  "The Bump?"

[oilgun]

wasn't that a disco move?  "The Bump?"

I'm ashamed to admit that I still have that former-pornstar-disco-queen-who's-name-I-forget's vinyl album that includes the song LADY BUMP!  And yes it was the only "good" song on it, lol!

[southendmd]

I'm ashamed to admit that I still have that former-pornstar-disco-queen-who's-name-I-forget's vinyl album that includes the song LADY BUMP!  And yes it was the only "good" song on it, lol!

This was the "good" song??

[youtube=425,350]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rkrdmf7GzKg[/youtube]