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Author Topic: The "ABCs of BBM": Round 965! (Rules in first post)  (Read 7208523 times)

Offline memento

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"P" is Portsmouth
« Reply #11080 on: February 12, 2007, 03:17:46 pm »
After a high-time supper by the fire... tossing sticks on the fire to keep the talk going, Jack and Ennis talked about the loss of the submarine Thresher which was built at the Portsmouth Naval Shipyard, Kittery, Maine
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"R" is resting
« Reply #11081 on: February 12, 2007, 04:05:51 pm »
After a high-time supper by the fire... tossing sticks on the fire to keep the talk going, Jack and Ennis talked about the loss of the submarine Thresher, and the crew's final resting place on the sea floor off Cape Cod.
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"S" is submarines
« Reply #11082 on: February 12, 2007, 04:13:45 pm »
After a high-time supper by the fire... tossing sticks on the fire to keep the talk going, Jack and Ennis talked about the implosion of Thresher, one of the Navy's nuclear-powered attack submarines.
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"T" is tragic
« Reply #11083 on: February 12, 2007, 04:30:35 pm »
After a high-time supper by the fire... tossing sticks on the fire to keep the talk going, Jack and Ennis talked about the tragic loss of life in the implosion of the submarine Thresher.



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"U" is undersea
« Reply #11084 on: February 12, 2007, 05:19:34 pm »
After a high-time supper by the fire... tossing sticks on the fire to keep the talk going, Jack and Ennis talked about the loss of the submarine Thresher, and the crew's undersea final resting place.
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"V" is visualizing
« Reply #11085 on: February 12, 2007, 06:56:31 pm »
After a high-time supper by the fire... tossing sticks on the fire to keep the talk going, Jack and Ennis talked about the the submarine Thresher  lost two months earlier with all hands, visualizing how it must have been in the last doomed minutes.
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"W" is warfare
« Reply #11086 on: February 12, 2007, 07:00:34 pm »
Jack and Ennis had a high-time supper by the fire...  swapping the bottle while the lavender sky emptied of color and the chill air drained down, discussing the submarine Thresher lost two months earlier with all hands and how it must have been in the last doomed minutes, two 'cowboys' wondering why warfare was fought under the ocean.
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"X" is xceeding
« Reply #11087 on: February 12, 2007, 07:06:46 pm »
After a high-time supper by the fire... tossing sticks on the fire to keep the talk going, Jack and Ennis talked about the loss of the submarine Thresher, and its last garbled, telling message: "...xceeding test depth."
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Round 408!
« Reply #11088 on: February 12, 2007, 07:28:27 pm »
Round 408!
Time to carbon-date!
"Before/After BBM, Annie Proulx..."
You decide--it's up to you

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"A" is Accordion
« Reply #11089 on: February 12, 2007, 07:54:14 pm »
Annie wrote Accordion Crimes in 1996 which takes a panoramic sweep of the American immigrant experience, relating a multitude of stories all linked by a lovingly hand-crafted Sicilian accordion.
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