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Author Topic: The "ABCs of BBM": Round 965! (Rules in first post)  (Read 7279760 times)

Offline Front-Ranger

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"F" is fourteen
« Reply #4730 on: July 10, 2006, 02:25:10 pm »
Every time he visited Ennis, Jack had fourteen hours of driving ahead of him.
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"G" is gallant
« Reply #4731 on: July 10, 2006, 02:29:26 pm »
Jack was quite gallant at the benefit dance; he cut a nice figure and cut a rug with Latalk.
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"H" is Hi-Top
« Reply #4732 on: July 10, 2006, 03:54:05 pm »
“He picked up a few short-lived ranch jobs, then settled in as a wrangler on the old Elwood Hi-Top place north of Lost Cabin in Washakie County.”
    From the short story
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"I" is insular
« Reply #4733 on: July 10, 2006, 04:03:33 pm »
John Twist only allowed insular words to escape his mouth.   >:(
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"J" is jabs
« Reply #4734 on: July 10, 2006, 04:45:41 pm »
Ennis and Jack were throwing jabs at one another before they left the mountain. 8)
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"K" is kinnikinnick
« Reply #4735 on: July 10, 2006, 04:55:18 pm »
A native plant that grows all over the mountainous areas of Wyoming where the story is set is kinnikinnick, also called bearberry because the bears love to eat its red berries in the fall.
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"L" is for lesson
« Reply #4736 on: July 10, 2006, 05:01:42 pm »
Ennis thought he would teach those foul-mouthed bikers a lesson...and what a lesson he taught! ;D
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"M" is middle-aged
« Reply #4737 on: July 10, 2006, 05:16:54 pm »
When Alma Jr. visited her dad at the end of the story, he is middle-aged.
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"N" is No
« Reply #4738 on: July 10, 2006, 06:50:39 pm »
The song "No One's Gonna Love You Like Me" was written and produced by Gustavo Santaolalla and performed by Mary McBride.
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"O" is opportunities
« Reply #4739 on: July 10, 2006, 08:28:42 pm »
Over the twenty-year period of their friendship/love affair, the boys had only a few opportunities to spend more than a few days together.
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