Author Topic: The "ABCs of BBM": Round 965! (Rules in first post)  (Read 5469148 times)

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"Q" is Quadrants
« Reply #22050 on: August 12, 2011, 12:49:35 pm »
oth Ennis and Jack managed to find each other when they met in Signal back in 1963, despite coming from opposite quadrants of the state of Wyoming, Jack from up in Lightnin' Flat in the northeastern part of the state and Ennis from around Sage, in the southwest.
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"S" is scandal
« Reply #22051 on: August 12, 2011, 01:21:18 pm »
eing exposed to scandal was one of Ennis's biggest fears, hence his feeling when he got out on the pavement, that "they all know".

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"T" is temperaments
« Reply #22052 on: August 12, 2011, 02:20:37 pm »
rokeback Mountain's protagonists, Ennis del Mar and Jack Twist, maintained a clandestine, decades-long romance despite separate lives and temperaments.


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"U" is uncared
« Reply #22053 on: August 13, 2011, 05:35:11 pm »
esides feeling unwanted and uncared for, Alma wanted the security of having a husband with a reliable job, so she divorced Ennis and married Monroe.

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"W" is wobbles
« Reply #22054 on: August 13, 2011, 10:40:12 pm »

undled up in a blanket, Ennis wobbles toward the tent to join Jack and meet his destiny.

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Round 922!
« Reply #22055 on: August 14, 2011, 12:34:51 am »

922!

This round will focus on the letter "C".

Each post will begin with a word
that starts with the letter "C" and,
as usual, include an unplayed word.


We're going to have one of the cows
Jack was envisioning for his sweet life with Ennis
assist us with this round, so please be sure to include
the following symbol at the beginning of your post:


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"A" is acknowledging
« Reply #22056 on: August 14, 2011, 05:36:22 am »
"oz I know what they got in Mexico for boys like you", says Ennis, without acknowledging his own orientation.


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"B" is bargain
« Reply #22057 on: August 14, 2011, 08:06:20 pm »
assie thought that Ennis didn't live up to his end of the bargain in their relationship.

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"C" is Cheyenne
« Reply #22058 on: August 14, 2011, 11:32:41 pm »
heyenne Hill played Alma Jr., age 13, in the film Brokeback Mountain.

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"D" is D.I.V.O.R.C.E.
« Reply #22059 on: August 15, 2011, 08:54:19 am »
assie's bar is the setting for Loretta Lynn's song "D.I.V.O.R.C.E.".