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Re: The Brokeback glossary: Acronyms, scene names & whatchamacallits
« Reply #1 on: July 18, 2006, 01:33:50 am »
  • GDBOUS - Goddamn Bitch of an Unsatisfactory Situation (spoken by Jack in the FLS).

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Re: The Brokeback glossary: Acronyms, scene names & whatchamacallits
« Reply #2 on: July 18, 2006, 10:39:00 am »
SWB- Son of a whoreson bitch
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Re: The Brokeback glossary: Acronyms, scene names & whatchamacallits
« Reply #3 on: July 18, 2006, 11:01:04 pm »
Wow, what and extremely good idea (and useful idea!) for a thread!
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Well there are related bits of Brokie vocab that seem essential around these parts and most of them involve acronyms, etc.

STS- the Story to Screenplay book

TOB- the Old Board (usually referring to the "Big Board" on imdb or sometimes "PT" on imdb).  Can also mean the Old Boards

Big Board/ TOB- the main message board for the film Brokeback Mountain on imdb

PT/ TOB- "Pierre Tremblay" board on imdb named for one of the First Assistant Directors of BBM and was a smaller message board on imdb dedicated to Brokeback.  Like people from the Big Board, a mass exodus occured to this haven called BetterMost during the troll wars which happened in March and April... and are on-going back on the Old Boards.

BBM- is of course, Brokeback Mountain
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Re: The Brokeback glossary: Acronyms, scene names & whatchamacallits
« Reply #4 on: July 24, 2006, 05:44:26 pm »
HUNH? An Ennis Del Marism used at the end of a statement. Pronounced somewhat like the "huh?" people say in "real life." But unlike huh, hunh is rarely used as a direct question, as in "What did you say?" or "What do you mean by that?"

More often, it serves to provide emphasis and solicit agreement, as in, "Why, that snow barely stuck an hour. Hunh?"

However, as a Brokieism it is used in all of the above ways.
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Re: The Brokeback glossary: Acronyms, scene names & whatchamacallits
« Reply #5 on: July 24, 2006, 08:38:50 pm »
This one's made more than one appearance at the ABCs game:

OMT = Old Man Twist

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Re: The Brokeback glossary: Acronyms, scene names & whatchamacallits
« Reply #6 on: August 17, 2006, 10:13:20 am »
Did you want to add this one too?

Happy Tussle:  the time when Ennis "tags" Jack and they fool around and then they **really**  fool around  ;) :D!  -  unaware that creepy Aguirre is spying on them.

not to be confused with the other Tussle.  I don't know if there is a name for the other one.

PS can you please list FNIT, SNIT and TNIT as individual entries?

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Re: The Brokeback glossary: Acronyms, scene names & whatchamacallits
« Reply #7 on: August 17, 2006, 11:36:12 am »
not to be confused with the other Tussle.  I don't know if there is a name for the other one.

I've heard the other one called "the Angry Tussle." And also The Punch.

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Re: The Brokeback glossary: Acronyms, scene names & whatchamacallits
« Reply #8 on: August 17, 2006, 12:19:27 pm »
This is a handy thread for Brokies (hey, that's a term to add)  :D

Important scene names include:

The Reunion

Post-Divorce Scene


Shorthand terms for some other scenes:  Alley, Motel, Mexico, Pie, Drive-In, Fourth of July, Wedding, Grocery, Twist Ranch, Toboggan, Elk, Bear, Thanksgiving, Childress Dance Hall


Other terms I've seen used:

Ennis's snow dance

Earl Flashback

LSP - Low startle-point

EAP - E. Annie Proulx

WWJ - Water Walkin' Jesus

« Last Edit: August 17, 2006, 12:21:07 pm by meryl »
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Re: The Brokeback glossary: Acronyms, scene names & whatchamacallits
« Reply #9 on: August 17, 2006, 06:39:33 pm »

Oops!  Here are a couple more:


LF:  Lightning Flat

Brokeism:  a line quoted from the film or the story.  ie:  "she is such a die-hard Brokie, she can't even write a lousy e-mail sans a brokeism!"  The person saying or writing the brokeism experiences a fleeting moment of warmth and a small thrill, not unlike the feeling Jack had when he lassoed Ennis during the Happy Tussle.

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