I just realised why Cowboys don't dance with their wives!

[Ray]

I was just mopping the floor in preparation for my house guest and it occurred to me that Lureen, (the thoughts I have at the end of a cleaning utensil!), could have been saying that line, ("Ever notice how Cowboys never dance with blahblahblah...why do you think that is?") because she was on to the flirting going on at the table which didn't involve the women.  Is it possible that Jack immediately wisked LaTalk onto the dance floor to avoid further speculation that could pique the curiosity of the polite company? 

Thinking back further, when Lureen asks with such a sing-songy teasing voice about why Ennis never comes to Texas and Jack always has to drive seventeen hours blahblahblah. 

Fast forward now, (dizzy yet?), to the post "Deceased" phone call from Ennis when Lureen was so ice cold and seemingly rehersed in her response.  She only releases when she truly understands who Ennis is.  Do you think Lureen knew all along and she used that knowledge as an unspoken control mechanism.

Am I late to the party and this has been discussed before?

[Sheyne]

You mopped??

That is so cute.... 

[Kelda]

You mopped??

That is so cute.... 

ROFLMAO!!! heh.. good one Sheyne! *ducks from the rotten tomato being thrown at Sheyen by Ray*

Lureen was far more wordly aware than Alma Sr.. I mean she was in some alpha beta deta blah blah thing (sorry americans.. I don't get the whole sorority thing I'm afriad!) that in itself is evidence that she is more wordly wise..

I'd say she at least had an inciling.

[Sheyne]

Well, I agree Kelda.... not about the tomato thing... Ray would never throw tomatoes... not when he'd just mopped - I know him too well.. he'd be more likely to take me out into the hall of his apartment building and toss a cream pie onto my face... 

But yeah, something in me says Lureen HAD to know but I'm kinda thinking if she DID she certainly didn't seem upset about it?!?!?  She always seemed to have this teasing voice which suggested she seemed more amused than anything else.  And then I wonder if she DID know cause when Ennis revealed himself to her on the phone at the end, she seemed quite distraught and upset..  Hmm....

Still think the mopping is SO gay and cute, Ray...  I'll be spot-checking with my gloves on Friday night, btw.. 

[j.U.d.E.]

I was just mopping the floor in preparation for my house guest and it occurred to me that Lureen, (the thoughts I have at the end of a cleaning utensil!), could have been saying that line, ("Ever notice how Cowboys never dance with blahblahblah...why do you think that is?") because she was on to the flirting going on at the table which didn't involve the women.  Is it possible that Jack immediately wisked LaTalk onto the dance floor to avoid further speculation that could pique the curiosity of the polite company? 

Thinking back further, when Lureen asks with such a sing-songy teasing voice about why Ennis never comes to Texas and Jack always has to drive seventeen hours blahblahblah. 

Fast forward now, (dizzy yet?), to the post "Deceased" phone call from Ennis when Lureen was so ice cold and seemingly rehersed in her response.  She only releases when she truly understands who Ennis is.  Do you think Lureen knew all along and she used that knowledge as an unspoken control mechanism.

Am I late to the party and this has been discussed before?

PERFECT!!

~ j U d E

[j.U.d.E.]

This thread is hilarious!!

But yeah, something in me says Lureen HAD to know but I'm kinda thinking if she DID she certainly didn't seem upset about it?!?!?

That's what I thought from the very beginning.. She knew.. just in denial. In my eyes, she is an ice-cold (well, kind of), calculating woman. From the very first moment Lureen and Jack meet they hump.. in the back of the car, marry, get pregnant and then back to work. It's like Jack and Bobby aren't really interesting enough, but she needed to be married and a mother. The fact that she does react to Ennis I think is almost more a pride thing..

Ray, have you started the healing process yet?

~ j U d E

[j.U.d.E.]

Still think the mopping is SO gay and cute, Ray... 

     

I think it's just Europe and Australia on this thread right now. America is still sleeping..

~ j U d E

[Kelda]

But yeah, something in me says Lureen HAD to know but I'm kinda thinking if she DID she certainly didn't seem upset about it?!?!?  She always seemed to have this teasing voice which suggested she seemed more amused than anything else.  And then I wonder if she DID know cause when Ennis revealed himself to her on the phone at the end, she seemed quite distraught and upset..  Hmm....

I don't think she knew when she first met him, and cerainly she seemed happy to bag the man and the child so very quickly.

But I think that she worked it out at some point after the reunion, maybe after the 2nd fishing trip? That would be when Bobby was like a year and a half maybe?

By that time, she was engrossed in her work and didn't really care.. I see her as a bit of an Alexis Carrington character anyway (ceretainly not in the very beginning but she came to be that type of character).

I'm sure she was having it away just as much as Jack was....

[MaineWriter]

     

I think it's just Europe and Australia on this thread right now. America is still sleeping..

~ j U d E

America wakes up!

Kelda, I believe she said she was a tri delt, which would be Delta Delta Delta, founded in 1888 at Boston University (I didn't know that!).

http://www.tridelta.org/about/our_founding.asp

As for Ray's other questions...too early in the morning for me to give that much concentrated thought to anything...

[j.U.d.E.]

America wakes up!

  Did I talk too loud? 

Kelda, I believe she said she was a tri delt, which would be Delta Delta Delta, founded in 1888 at Boston University (I didn't know that!).

http://www.tridelta.org/about/our_founding.asp

Cool! I once worked at the Boston University for a summer job in 1994. That brings me yet another tiny bit closer to BBM! Love it!

~ j U d E