Author Topic: The "ABCs of BBM": Round 965! (Rules in first post)  (Read 7242925 times)

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"R" is rattled
« Reply #7500 on: October 02, 2006, 09:44:13 am »
Back at the Motel Siesta:

"A few handfuls of hail rattled against the window followed by rain and slippery wind banging the unsecured door of the next room then and through the night."  [story]

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"S" is sometime
« Reply #7501 on: October 02, 2006, 12:43:59 pm »
Jack was a sometime rodeo rider.


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Welcome back, friend.
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"T" is tune
« Reply #7502 on: October 02, 2006, 12:59:25 pm »
Jack sings a tune about water and Jesus near the fire.


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Thanks,
I'm back for some quality time.
I see that you all had some great times in Boston.
Any cherry cake left in your freezer??
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"U" is ups
« Reply #7503 on: October 02, 2006, 01:05:56 pm »
Jack and Ennis' love survived the ups and downs of a twenty-year relationship.

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Welcome back - I was getting tired of Danish and bagels.


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"V" is veil
« Reply #7504 on: October 02, 2006, 01:31:57 pm »
Ennis sometimes used humor to veil their true feelings towards Jack.

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We had a blast in Boston; sorry, no cherry cake left.
Sandy's won first prize, though.
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"W" is would-be
« Reply #7505 on: October 02, 2006, 02:07:25 pm »

Over the next few years, Ennis and Jack both find their way through mundane, hollow lives, the former working as a ranch hand in Wyoming, the latter as a would-be rodeo star in Texas who later ends up selling high-end farm equipment.     Love Story by R Shulman

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   *ignores cakeless Paul*
Oh Sandy, Sandy, Sandy. My friend ...

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"X" is xplicitly
« Reply #7506 on: October 02, 2006, 02:52:09 pm »
"After their first, drunken sex -- xplicitly but tactfully filmed -- Ang Lee's images, developed from the screenplay, point up the difference between the two men. Ennis wakes up, hung over; wonders if he really did what he remembers doing...." -- Andrew Hudson  [review]
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"Y" is yuckier
« Reply #7507 on: October 02, 2006, 03:38:12 pm »
Jack found eating beans to be yuckier than the drip-drying elk meat.

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"Z" is zoogamic
« Reply #7508 on: October 02, 2006, 03:46:08 pm »

Ennis castrated young male animals to control zoogamic activity in the herd.

def: adj. sexual reproduction of animals


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Round 271!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
« Reply #7509 on: October 02, 2006, 03:59:35 pm »
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