Author Topic: The "ABCs of BBM": Round 965! (Rules in first post)  (Read 5514665 times)

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"U" is unarguably
« Reply #11870 on: March 16, 2007, 01:10:02 pm »
Although he started tentatively, Ennis quickly screwed up his courage and nailed an unarguably perfect performance.

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"V" is ventures
« Reply #11871 on: March 16, 2007, 01:53:55 pm »
After Ennis ventures into the tent, he quickly screwed up his courage and nailed a perfect performance.

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"W" is warm-blooded
« Reply #11872 on: March 16, 2007, 02:28:28 pm »
Because Ennis was a warm-blooded full-throttle kind of guy, he screwed up his courage to nail a perfect performance.

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"X" is xcludes
« Reply #11873 on: March 16, 2007, 03:51:42 pm »
The film version of TS1 xcludes the story's "gun's goin' off" exclamation by Jack in response to Ennis's perfect performance.
« Last Edit: March 16, 2007, 03:54:49 pm by Fran »

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Round 442!
« Reply #11874 on: March 16, 2007, 04:09:16 pm »
Round 442!


"Now what do we do?"
(The time frame between TS1 and TS2)
« Last Edit: March 16, 2007, 10:40:25 pm by Fran »

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"A" is agreed
« Reply #11875 on: March 16, 2007, 04:53:31 pm »
Jack agreed with Ennis, who was trying to straighten things out between them, when he said "I ain't no queer.”
« Last Edit: March 16, 2007, 05:01:51 pm by Memento »

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"B" is began
« Reply #11876 on: March 17, 2007, 12:35:59 am »
TS1 began a new phase in Jack and Ennis's relationship, and it also began a different, more serious, tone in the film.
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"C" is crawled
« Reply #11877 on: March 17, 2007, 08:49:18 am »
The next morning Ennis crawled out from under the bedroll with his pants around his knees.

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"D" is downplayed
« Reply #11878 on: March 17, 2007, 10:11:34 am »
Ennis downplayed the events of the previous night when he said: "This is a one-shot thing we got goin' on here."

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"E" is elusiveness
« Reply #11879 on: March 17, 2007, 12:46:24 pm »
Ennis and Jack were hampered by the elusiveness of the correct words to express what they were doing to, and feeling for, each other.