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Author Topic: The "ABCs of BBM": Round 965! (Rules in first post)  (Read 5695923 times)

Offline Fran

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"G" is guardian
« Reply #14290 on: August 01, 2007, 09:57:13 am »
Jimbo had acted as Jack's guardian angel, distracting the angry bull until Jack could make it to safety.
« Last Edit: August 01, 2007, 10:04:44 am by Fran »
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"H" is harming
« Reply #14291 on: August 01, 2007, 10:38:40 am »
Rodeo clowns react quickly to keep the bull from harming the cowboy after his ride.   Jack told Ennis of a "Friend a mine got his oil checked with a horn dipstick and that was all she wrote."
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"I" is inanition
« Reply #14292 on: August 01, 2007, 01:14:31 pm »
Jack made only $2000 (film) or $3000 (story) bull-riding and nearly suffered from inanition.

(def:  starvation)
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"J" is Jensen
« Reply #14293 on: August 01, 2007, 02:14:51 pm »
"The protagonists meet signing up for seasonal work with a testy sheep rancher.  Ennis Del Mar (the outstanding Ledger), an orphan raised by siblings, doesn't say much; his lowered eyes and hunched posture suggest a closed-up, locked-down wariness that expects nothing more from life than more hard knocks.  Jack Twist (Gyllenhaal) is more open and talkative.  He's also the more experienced sheep herder, having worked the job before, between stints riding bulls in the rodeo."
-- Lisa Jensen, "Heartbreak Ridge"
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"L" is looseness
« Reply #14294 on: August 01, 2007, 02:43:01 pm »
Jack ensured that he was fastened to the rodeo bull with enough looseness to make a hasty exit when the ride had ended.
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"M" is mitigate
« Reply #14295 on: August 01, 2007, 02:49:38 pm »
The chance of winning money riding bulls served to mitigate the risk of crushed vertebrates.
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"N" is nonsuccess
« Reply #14296 on: August 01, 2007, 04:02:20 pm »
With the exception of his winning ride at the Childress rodeo, Jack typically experienced nonsuccess while riding bulls at Texas rodeos.
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"O" is overhears
« Reply #14297 on: August 01, 2007, 04:04:29 pm »
 INT: TEXAS: NEWSOME FARM AND RANCH: DAY (CONTINUOUS): 1971:
Two dour FARMERS are watching JACK demonstrate the fancy air-conditioned tractor. LUREEN is sitting at her desk, copying numbers from an account book.
She overhears the conversation.


                FARMER #1
        I say, didn't that piss-ant used to ride the bulls?

                FARMER #2
            (sarcastic)
        He used to try ....

LUREEN looks over at the oblivious JACK, a sad, disappointed look on her face.

[The Annotated Brokeback]
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"P" is pitfalls
« Reply #14298 on: August 01, 2007, 05:04:13 pm »
Jack suffered the pitfalls of riding bulls in Texas and would often fall down on the job.
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"R" is rodeoer
« Reply #14299 on: August 01, 2007, 06:16:01 pm »
Story Jack said he was no broke-dick rodeoer.
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