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The Brokie Connection (a game)
southendmd:
--- Quote from: Ellemeno on December 08, 2009, 01:22:25 pm ---Next: Les Misérables
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In Les Misérables, a desperate Fantine becomes a prostitute. In BBM, a desperate Jack visits a prostitute.
So, Les Misérables is Brokieish!
Next: Hudson River
Shakesthecoffecan:
The Hudson River was named for the explorer Henry Hudson, who was looking for the Northwest Passage.
The Missouri River was also thought by explorers to be a northwest passage, and the washes that originate in Lightning Flat, Wyoming flow into the Missouri River, eventually, therefore Henry Hudson is Brokiesh
Next: Badger Clark
southendmd:
--- Quote from: shakesthecoffeecan on December 08, 2009, 02:03:22 pm ---Next: Badger Clark
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Badger Clark (1883-1957) the famous cowboy poet is certainly Brokieish. Please read this:
The Lost Pardner
I ride alone and hate the boys I meet.
Today, some way, their laughin' hurts me so.
I hate the mockin'-birds in the mesquite--
And yet I liked 'em just a week ago.
I hate the steady sun that glares, and glares!
The bird songs make me sore.
I seem the only thing on earth that cares
'Cause Al ain't here no more!
'Twas just a stumblin' hawse, a tangled spur--
And, when I raised him up so limp and weak,
One look before his eyes begun to blur
And then--the blood that wouldn't let 'im speak!
And him so strong, and yet so quick he died,
And after year on year
When we had always trailed it side by side,
He went--and left me here!
We loved each other in the way men do
And never spoke about it, Al and me,
But we both knowed, and knowin' it so true
Was more than any woman's kiss could be.
We knowed--and if the way was smooth or rough,
The weather shine or pour,
While I had him the rest seemed good enough--
But he ain't here no more!
What is there out beyond the last divide?
Seems like that country must be cold and dim.
He'd miss the sunny range he used to ride,
And he'd miss me, the same as I do him.
It's no use thinkin'--all I'd think or say
Could never make it clear.
Out that dim trail that only leads one way
He's gone--and left me here!
The range is empty and the trails are blind,
And I don't seem but half myself today.
I wait to hear him ridin' up behind
And feel his knee rub mine the good old way
He's dead--and what that means no man kin tell.
Some call it "gone before."
Where? I don't know, but God! I know so well
That he ain't here no more!
Next: shark fin soup
Ellemeno:
--- Quote from: southendmd on December 08, 2009, 02:11:54 pm ---
The Lost Pardner
And him so strong, and yet so quick he died,
And after year on year
When we had always trailed it side by side,
He went--and left me here!
We loved each other in the way men do
And never spoke about it, Al and me,
But we both knowed, and knowin' it so true
Was more than any woman's kiss could be.
We knowed--and if the way was smooth or rough,
The weather shine or pour,
While I had him the rest seemed good enough--
But he ain't here no more!
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Thanks Paul and Truman.
Front-Ranger:
Shark fin soup, unlike egg rolls and bird's nest soup, is actually made from shark's fin. Large deep-water sharks, such as the hammerhead and the thresher shark, are hunted for this soup, which is sought after as a symbol of prosperity and a cure-all. Shark's fin soup has been proven to alleviate arthritis but its curative powers for pneumonia and cancer are myths at this point.
Unfortunately, the large sharks are simply thrown back in the water after their fins are taken because the meat (very tasty though it is) has much less value. They are not able to navigate without their fins, and as we all know, a shark has to keep moving or die, so they suffocate in the water. This is similar to the sad fate of Jack, who drowned (suffocated) in his own blood.
Early in the story, Jack and Ennis entertained each other by talking around the campfire and one of their topics was the submarine Thresher, which had just gone down a few months ago losing all on board. Jack and Ennis imagined what the last doomed minutes were like, and then went back to discussing dogs they had known and owned.
So, shark's fin soup is Brokish!!
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