The "ABCs of BBM": Round 965! (Rules in first post)

[memento]

Once the T.V. was turned off, the football game's viewership decreased by two.

[Fran]

Having successfully put L.D. in his place, Jack is shown wielding the carving tools at the end of the Thanksgiving scene.

[southendmd]

When LD got up the second time to turn off the TV, Jack spoke xtempore about LD's poorly educated backside and time travel.

{def: on the spur of the moment}

[southendmd]

Round 507!
Wyoming is almost heaven!

The Equality State wants equal time!

[Meryl]

In Brokeback Mountain Alberta stood in for Wyoming, but the astounding vistas were no exaggeration of Wyoming's beauties.



=aside=Paul
I agree it's time for some Big Sky action 

[Fran]

As Jack said, "the Big Horn Mountains ain't in Texas"; they're in Wyoming.



=compliment= Paul
Great announcement!

[memento]

"Years on years they worked their way through the high meadows and mountain drainages, horse packing into the Big Horns, the Medicine Bows, the south end of the Gallatins, the Absarokas, the Granites, the Owl Creeks . . ." [story]

Boysen Reservoir, Wind River canyon through Owl Creek Mountains. 25 miles northeast of Riverton, WY. View to NNE. The Wind River changes it name to the Bighorn River as it passes through the Owl Creek Mountains; the stream is superimposed on the mountain structure. (15Apr66)

[Meryl]

In Wyoming Annie Proulx must have found just about all she desired in the way of inspiration for Brokeback Mountain:  grassy plains, big sky, mountains, rivers, weatherbeaten towns, plain-spoken people, and of course the "great flowery meadows and the coursing, endless wind."

[southendmd]

The great expanse of sky in Wyoming surely inspired Annie in writing the story.

[Fran]

"Legions of Brokeback Mountain  fans have been flooding the phone lines at Wyoming's tourism office with inquiries on how to get to the majestic peaks captured so artfully on the big screen."

-- Mary Nersessian, CTV.ca News