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Double meanings: Lines that can be taken more than one way

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Meryl:
And with a little speculation thrown in for good measure, possibly even a fifth:

"Since I've gone to the trouble of writing that note and placing it in the box to find out if you're really lying about the fishing, I'm certainly going to make sure you actually bring that fishing gear along with you!"

 ;D  ;D  ;D

Mikaela:
;D back at'ya!


Moving on to another line:

"I think my dad was right."


It's not till it's seen alone and out of context like this that it strikes me how much, in the context of the total film and story, that one may have a meaning beyond the immediate and joking response to Jack's rodeo fuck-up performance.

We get to know about Ennis's father's opinion on exactly two kinds of people: Rodeo cowboys and "queers". Ennis jokes about agreeing with his father on the former, but it's anything but a joke that his father instilled fear and homophobia into his son to such an extent that Ennis also thinks his father was right about the latter.  :(
 

Meryl:
Yes, sadly, I don't think Ennis ever stopped feeling contempt for "queers."  It was instilled in him early by his father and supported by society, too.    As much as he loved Jack, he still had contempt for what he was ("boys like you"), and of course he hated himself for it, too.  :(

Brown Eyes:
Another sad double meaning has occurred to me lately.  The words "tire iron" refer to both versions of how Jack could have died.  If Jack died in an accident while changing his tire... well he would have been using a tire iron as a normal tool.  And if he was attacked and murdered, Ennis believes that a tire iron would have been used as the weapon.  It's interesting, I've assumed that the idea of a tire iron immediately comes to Ennis's mind because that's what was used to kill Earl, but maybe the idea of fixing a car with a tire iron also caused that idea to come to Ennis's.

 :( :'(

Mikaela:
Amanda, I think "Tire Iron" surely  has become one of the most ominous concepts in the English language, to me!  :(

I was trying to find something more light-hearted with a double meaning, but it's not easy.
Here's one:

"Jack ain't the restaurant type"

Of course Ennis has to stop Alma from entertaining any notions she'll be going along with the two of them, - but it has a unintended hint of the humorous to it because it seems like a gentle dig at Jack's constant complaining about the food situation on the mountain and all the fussing over the beans. 

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