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

[Fran]

"Proulx's story caused a sensation when it appeared in The New Yorker  eight years ago. Its raw masculinity, spare dialogue and lonely imagery subverted the myth of the American cowboy and obliterated gay stereotypes." 

-- Sean Smith, Newsweek 

[southendmd]

After Jack tells of the poor unfortunate sheep, Ennis pulls out his nub of a cigarette and asks for the Zippo.

[Toast]

In the movie, Jack made this observation about the hapless zapped sheep:

"Last year, one storm, the lightning killed 42 sheep.
I thought I'd asphyxiate from the smell.
Aguirre got all over my ass, like I was supposed to control the weather."

[Fran]

Jack thought he'd asphyxiate from the putrid odor of the electrocuted sheep.

[southendmd]

Jack quantifies that there were exactly forty-two haplessly zapped sheep.

[Toast]

In 1962 the sheepherders on Brokeback had to decide what was to be done about the rotting remnants of the haplessly zapped sheep.  Then they had to continue herding those that were in mint condition.

=aside= Sandy
We had some very cool putrid posts today,
but my fav was about Jack getting a bang for his buck.
You are so witty.

=reply= Toast
Thanks toast. My post was kind of a stinker.
Sandy

[Fran]

"They found a bar and drank beer through the afternoon, Jack telling Ennis about a lightning storm on the mountain the year before that killed forty-two sheep, the peculiar stink of them, and the way they bloated, the need for plenty of whiskey up there."  [story]

[memento]

Jack told Ennis about a tempestuous lightning storm that zapped forty-two sheep the year before.

[Meryl]

With such an unlooked-for abundance of roast mutton at hand after the lightning storm of '62, Jack could have used some of that mint jelly mentioned by Toast.

[Toast]

After the sheep were zapped, Jack worried about being asphyxiated by the putrid vapors.