Author Topic: The "ABCs of BBM": Round 965! (Rules in first post)  (Read 5399742 times)

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"K" is killin'
« Reply #1800 on: May 13, 2006, 01:58:06 pm »
From the short story, Jack recounts for Ennis his father's crazy rage when he was only three or four years old:

"Christ, he licked the stuffin' out a me, knocked me down on the bathroom floor, whipped me with his belt.  I thought he was killin' me."

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Annie Proulx ends her "-ing" words as "-in".  I've added an apostrophe to her "stuffin" and her "killin".

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"L" is livid
« Reply #1801 on: May 13, 2006, 04:07:43 pm »
Ennis was livid when he found out that Jack had been to Mexico.

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"M" is Macleod
« Reply #1802 on: May 13, 2006, 04:11:41 pm »
Fort Macleod, Alberta, was where the apartment over the laundromat was located where scenes of Ennis and his family were shot.
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"N" is number
« Reply #1803 on: May 13, 2006, 04:47:57 pm »
From the short story:

"He called Jack's number in Childress, something he had done only once before when Alma divorced him and Jack had misunderstood the reason for the call, had driven twelve hundred miles north for nothing."

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"O" is owned
« Reply #1804 on: May 13, 2006, 04:53:50 pm »
From the story: If he does not force his attention on it, it might stoke the day, rewarm that old, cold time on the mountain when they owned the world and nothing seemed wrong.

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"P" is for pub
« Reply #1805 on: May 13, 2006, 06:37:15 pm »
The first time Ennis and Jack meet, after introducing themselves, they go straight to a bar, or pub as us Brits call it.

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Fort Macleod, Alberta, was where the apartment over the laundromat was located where scenes of Ennis and his family were shot.
Good one, Front, I have been researching for our Brokie meeting in Alberta, and I have only just found out it is pronounced "Mac-cloud". I now know better 'cause I had been pronouncing it as "Mac-loud"!  Thanx!

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Becky, Canadians are just very creative with their spellings sometimes.
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"Q" is quick-tempered
« Reply #1807 on: May 13, 2006, 07:14:47 pm »
During the Fourth of July celebration, Ennis' quick-tempered disposition surfaced when he took offense to the ol' bikers' coarse remarks.



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"R" is radio
« Reply #1808 on: May 13, 2006, 07:32:35 pm »
Jack whistled along to the song playing on the radio; in this case, "King of the Road."

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"S" is stock
« Reply #1809 on: May 13, 2006, 08:52:21 pm »
Ennis to Jack:  "What's the point in ridin' some piece of stock for eight seconds?"




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