The "ABCs of BBM": Round 965! (Rules in first post)

[southendmd]

This "thing" that grabbed Jack and Ennis was hard for them to fathom.

=comment=

Happy 27th Birthday, Jake!

[memento]

When story Ennis was separated from Jack, he gratifies himself by wringing it out a hundred times thinking about him.

=aside= Jake
Happy birthday.

[Fran]

Ennis took a week off to be with Jack even though his boss, a hell-raiser named Stoutamire, raised hell about it.

=aside= Sandy
Great picture of the birthday boy!

[southendmd]

Not knowing how to face their parting after the summer, Ennis inflicted a blow onto Jack's noggin.

[Meryl]

When Jack tried to persuade Ennis to accept his proposal of the sweet life in the form of a cow-and-calf operation, he exuded a Jake-like charm.

=aside=Fran and Sandy
Just thought I'd revive "J" in honor of our birthday boy.  Hope s'alright. 

[memento]

In the end, Ennis came to realize that his love for Jack was larger than life.

=aside= Meryl
S'alright, s'alright. In fact, it's jake*.

*Def:  slang : ALL RIGHT, FINE 

=aside= Fran
Agreed that it is a fantastic picture of the birthday boy.

[Fran]

Ennis messes around with Jack for the first time one cold night when it was too late to go up to the sheep.

[southendmd]

Jack may have thought himself as a nonconformist, but after disappointments and loneliness, he decided to marry Lureen.

[memento]

Ennis felt that there was an oddness about two men living together and would never commit to a "sweet life" with Jack.

[Fran]

"The failure of Ennis and Jack to agree upon a common future is the underlying tragedy in this film.  Even though Jack may feel shoved away by Ennis, the viewer knows Ennis is irrevocably attached to Jack.  Their love is mutual, but their ideas are not.  Jack desires a permanent life with Ennis, while Ennis deems it impossible. The former's hope and positivity wrestle with the latter's pessimism and fear until they are both destroyed."

-- An excerpt from a user comment posted by firth_m-1 at IMDb