Author Topic: The "ABCs of BBM": Round 965! (Rules in first post)  (Read 5379538 times)

Offline Lumière

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"K" is knockabout
« Reply #890 on: April 21, 2006, 01:17:20 pm »
When we meet the lads for the first time, Jack was driving a knockabout old "GMC" pick-up truck.


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L is lingers
« Reply #891 on: April 21, 2006, 01:47:05 pm »
...after the dozy embrace, Jack lingers while watching Ennis depart.

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"M" is Montana
« Reply #892 on: April 21, 2006, 02:10:26 pm »
Jack came from Lightning Flat, Wyoming, which is near the Montana border.

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"N" is not
« Reply #893 on: April 21, 2006, 02:17:03 pm »
The biker said, "I sure as hell would rather not."
"chewing gum and duct tape"

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"O" is only
« Reply #894 on: April 21, 2006, 02:29:24 pm »
Ennis and Cassie are the only ones on the dancefloor the night they meet.   :)
Now bring me that horizon.♥We have our heading.

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"P" is postcard
« Reply #895 on: April 21, 2006, 02:30:46 pm »
A postcard reunited them and then tore them apart

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"Q" is quick
« Reply #896 on: April 21, 2006, 02:44:31 pm »
Proulx describes Ennis:  "His reflexes were uncommonly quick, and he was farsighted enough to dislike reading anything except Hamley's saddle catalog."

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R is reflexes
« Reply #897 on: April 21, 2006, 02:51:15 pm »
...which, as Fran just told us, were uncommonly quick. Teamwork!

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"S" is sooty
« Reply #898 on: April 21, 2006, 03:08:38 pm »
The colour of the mountain is described as sooty.
"chewing gum and duct tape"

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"T" is Thresher
« Reply #899 on: April 21, 2006, 03:12:16 pm »
In the novella, when the Jack and Ennis first bonded up on Brokeback, one of the stories they shared was about the sunken submarine called the Thresher and her crew.
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