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Author Topic: The "ABCs of BBM": Round 965! (Rules in first post)  (Read 5634985 times)

Offline Toast

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"J" is jittery
« Reply #5290 on: July 31, 2006, 11:48:15 am »

Jack was so jittery that Ennis could feel the vibrations through the floorboard.
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Offline Mikaela

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"K" is kith
« Reply #5291 on: July 31, 2006, 12:18:08 pm »
Ennis's and Alma's kith and kin were present at their modest wedding.
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"L" is littered
« Reply #5292 on: July 31, 2006, 12:21:00 pm »
"They shook hands in the choky little trailer office in front of a table littered with scribbled papers, a Bakelite ashtray brimming with stubs."  [short story]
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M is mirror-like
« Reply #5293 on: July 31, 2006, 12:22:51 pm »
Two cowboys-at-heart ride beside the mirror-like stream, in a quest for Brokeback Mountain. 

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"N" is ninety
« Reply #5294 on: July 31, 2006, 12:29:23 pm »
"Ennis, you got a problem and you got a fix it or it’s gonna be with you until you’re ninety and K.E.’s  ninety-three." (Ennis's father doles out sage advice in the short story.)
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"O" is omnipresent
« Reply #5295 on: July 31, 2006, 01:34:52 pm »
Though Jack and Ennis believed themselves to be invisible on the mountain, the reins of society were omnipresent, either externally (in the form of Joe Aguirre) or internally (Ennis's fears and repressed memories).
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"chewing gum and duct tape"

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"P" is penetrate
« Reply #5296 on: July 31, 2006, 01:36:15 pm »
Ennis flipped Alma around to penetrate her from behind, obviously wishing that she was Jack.
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"Q" is quench
« Reply #5297 on: July 31, 2006, 01:40:34 pm »
The boys like to quench their thirst with the occasional belt of whiskey.
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Offline Mikaela

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"R" is rasping
« Reply #5298 on: July 31, 2006, 01:41:39 pm »
"…then, and as easily as the right key turns the lock tumblers, their mouths came together, and hard, Jack’s big teeth bringing blood, his hat falling to the floor, stubble rasping, wet saliva welling,…" [The short story’s reunion kiss]   :P


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This game *is* getting addictive!  :)

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We're going to be starting a 12-step program soon.
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Hehe. But I'm not certain that I'm yet ready to try quitting!
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"S" is steadiness
« Reply #5299 on: July 31, 2006, 01:51:34 pm »
What both men want, it becomes clear, is what Ennis is afraid to let them have: the steadiness of each other's companionship.     Men in Love - A Brokeback Review by David Leavitt
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