Author Topic: The "ABCs of BBM": Round 965! (Rules in first post)  (Read 6025668 times)

Offline Toast

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"F" is fatalities
« Reply #9780 on: December 28, 2006, 04:13:23 pm »
Joe Aguirre felt fleeced by the fatalities in his flock after the summer of 1962.  So he instigated his fry-with-the-flock - oops sleep-with-the-sheep rule.
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"G" is group
« Reply #9781 on: December 28, 2006, 04:54:35 pm »
The group of electrocuted sheep was part of the "goddamn near twenty-five percent loss" sustained by Joe Aguirre the previous summer.

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"H" is hapless
« Reply #9782 on: December 28, 2006, 05:00:09 pm »
Those poor hapless forty-two sheep were victims of Mother Nature's electrical discharge.

« Last Edit: December 28, 2006, 05:07:22 pm by southendmd »

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"I" is incinerated
« Reply #9783 on: December 28, 2006, 05:20:57 pm »
When a lightning storm incinerated 42 sheep in 1962, the sheep may have been hapless, but the coyotes must have been rather happy.
Ich bin ein Brokie...

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"J" is jeopardized
« Reply #9784 on: December 28, 2006, 05:31:59 pm »
Excessive lightning losses, predator losses, and maybe even human consumption jeopardized the continued grazing on Brokeback Mountain.

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"K" is Keystone
« Reply #9785 on: December 28, 2006, 05:40:17 pm »
"Due to the large box-office success in its limited run, the movie Brokeback Mountain  will open in Indianapolis on Wednesday, December 28th at the Keystone Arts Cinema, rather than the originally scheduled mid-January release date."

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"L" is lightning's
« Reply #9786 on: December 28, 2006, 05:44:42 pm »
The lightning's power zapped the hapless sheep, causing odoriferous hapless sheep vapor.

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"M" is manure
« Reply #9787 on: December 28, 2006, 06:21:13 pm »
The odorific problem on Brokeback came in stages, with the putrefying flesh being a later stage.  Some of the earliest odors were that burnt damp-wool smell, and freshly steamed manure, and ... 
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"N" is noses
« Reply #9788 on: December 28, 2006, 06:43:17 pm »
Aguirre wanted Jack and Ennis to keep their noses clean so that he wouldn't have "goddamn near twenty-five percent loss" from electified sheep like last year.

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"O" is odiferous
« Reply #9789 on: December 28, 2006, 06:53:49 pm »
Jack told an odiferous tale about his first summer on Brokeback Mountain, but it didn't offend Ennis none.
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"chewing gum and duct tape"