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southendmd:
Here's Jeff's explanation from a few weeks ago:
--- Quote from: Jeff Wrangler on March 04, 2009, 11:48:16 am ---I don't have The Text in front of me, but surely you recognize "boneless blue" as Annie Proulx's phrasing? In this context I've always taken "boneless" to mean "cloudless," though I can't exactly say where I picked up that notion and it may predate my reading of Annie Proulx.
I know, for example, that a ship moving fast enough to create a white wave at the bow is said to have "a bone in her teeth," so I may be projecting from "bone" = "white wave" to "boneless blue (sky)" = cloudless, clear blue sky.
If I remember correctly, Annie's use occurs in her narration of the last horsepacking trip in May 1983.
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Kelda:
--- Quote from: Jeff Wrangler on March 24, 2009, 04:06:17 pm ---Yes, we did. It's getting kind of depressing, Brokies who don't recognize a Brokeback reference when they see it. :(
Where's that old thread on use of Brokieisms? Perhaps it should be bumped--and made into required reading. ... ;D
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Jeff! You have a job - bump that thread!!!
CellarDweller:
wasn't that a disco move? "The Bump?"
oilgun:
--- Quote from: CellarDweller on March 24, 2009, 05:57:18 pm ---wasn't that a disco move? "The Bump?"
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I'm ashamed to admit that I still have that former-pornstar-disco-queen-who's-name-I-forget's vinyl album that includes the song LADY BUMP! And yes it was the only "good" song on it, lol!
southendmd:
--- Quote from: oilgun on March 24, 2009, 07:31:15 pm ---I'm ashamed to admit that I still have that former-pornstar-disco-queen-who's-name-I-forget's vinyl album that includes the song LADY BUMP! And yes it was the only "good" song on it, lol!
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This was the "good" song??
[youtube=425,350]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rkrdmf7GzKg[/youtube]
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