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

[Meryl]

Jack keeps eyeballing the sheep while he tries to disentangle them, but finds that "half the goddamn paint brands are wore off."

[Toast]

Ennis stayed on Cigar Butt and kept the flocks apart while Jack had the frustrating job of getting in there and finding their faded paint brands among the Chilean herd.

[memento]

Jack and Ennis guarded the sheep on Brokeback but they were caught off guard when Aguirre caught them "stemming the rose."

[Meryl]

Jack indulged in some histrionics while separating the sheep, cussing a blue streak and bodily dragging and carrying them back to their proper place.

[Toast]

When a frustrated Jack, surrounded by palely marked and foreign sheep, says "Fuck Aguirre!" Ennis indicates the importance of doing a good job for the man:  "Oh yeah, Fuck Aguirre? What if we need to work for him again, huh, you think of that? We gotta stick this out, Jack."

[memento]

Jack loses his cool when trying to separate the jumbled-up herds of sheep, while Ennis is much more pragmatic about it.

[Meryl]

As they slogged through the job of separating the sheep, Ennis took his own frustration out on Jack, lambasting him for cussing out Aguirre: "What if we need to work for him again?  We gotta stick this out, Jack."

[Toast]

Jack marshalled the individual sheep into their herd once he figured out that it might be their sheep.  In the end he seemed to depend more on herd numbers than on paint brands.

[memento]

In trying to get the sheep sorted out properly, Jack seemed to depend more on numerics than on paint brands.

=aside= Toast
 

[Meryl]

By the end of the summer the paint brands on the sheep were so worn down they had become otiose.

def.= serving no practical purpose