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

[memento]

Texans don't drink coffee 'cause they don't want to cause their lover's wife undue alarm, because they are shaking with exceitement. 

[Meryl]

Texans don't drink coffee but will lay down good wampum for a bottle of whiskey.

[Meryl]

ROUND 777!

THE LATIN ROUND




Each reply must include an unplayed word and a Latin phrase

List of Latin phrases here

[Fran]

"One of the most striking aspects of Ang Lee's achievement in Brokeback Mountain -- one aspect of many -- is the way he squares unwavering verisimilitude with visuals of remarkable beauty and finesse. Almost every frame, though rigorously controlled by its mandate of realism, is beautifully assembled -- the textural duplication of sheep's wool in the fleecy coulisses of the pines that frame their ascent when Ennis and Jack shift camp, for instance, or the rhythmic multiplication across frames of the ogee line -- first in the termination of the cliff toward which the sheep are moving in the first aerial shot of them, then in Ennis's hat brim, then in the escarpment edge in the shot that follows (Jack removing thorns from a sheep) and then in the unfocused branch across the following scene. One could point and analyse these beauties ad infinitum, and one could also write at length about the way the nicety of the period detail anchors the experience...."

-- Rodney Stenning Edgecombe, Film Criticism   

[southendmd]

One could say that Jack and Ennis lived by the phrase "bibo ergo sum"--"I drink, therefore I am".

=aside= Meryl
Great idea for a round!  But, I'm having flashbacks to eighth grade...

[memento]

Even though Alma dreaded another pregnancy, Ennis was not in favor of using rubbers or practicing coitus interruptus, saying he would be happy to leave her alone if she didn't want any more of his kids.

[Fran]

"One of the most striking aspects of Ang Lee's achievement in Brokeback Mountain -- one aspect of many -- is the way he squares unwavering verisimilitude with visuals of remarkable beauty and finesse. Almost every frame, though rigorously controlled by its mandate of realism, is beautifully assembled -- the textural duplication of sheep's wool in the fleecy coulisses of the pines that frame their ascent when Ennis and Jack shift camp, for instance, or the rhythmic multiplication across frames of the ogee line -- first in the termination of the cliff toward which the sheep are moving in the first aerial shot of them, then in Ennis's hat brim, then in the escarpment edge in the shot that follows (Jack removing thorns from a sheep) and then in the unfocused branch across the following scene. One could point and analyse these beauties ad infinitum, and one could also write at length about the way the nicety of the period detail anchors the experience...."

-- Rodney Stenning Edgecombe, Film Criticism   

[Meryl]

In their quest to embody the characters created so vividly by Annie Proulx, Diana Ossana and Larry McMurtry wrote much of the screenplay's dialogue ipsissima verba, i.e., word for word, from the short story.

[memento]

Ennis believed in the philosohy of felis qvi nihil debet, happy [is] he who owes nothing.

[southendmd]

When Aguirre told the poor sap on the other end of the phone, "Not on your fucking life", he was invoking Caesar Augustus's phrase "ad Kalendas Graecas". 

Note:  The phrase means "never" and is similar to phrases like "when pigs fly". The Kalends (also written Calends) were specific days of the Roman calendar, not of the Greek, and so the "Greek Kalends" would never occur.

--Wiki