Author Topic: The "ABCs of BBM": Round 965! (Rules in first post)  (Read 5518924 times)

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"Q" is quick-fix
« Reply #5460 on: August 02, 2006, 08:32:34 am »
Ennis' quick-fix solution to the lack of lubricant in Tent Scene I was to use saliva and spit.

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"R" is rampant
« Reply #5461 on: August 02, 2006, 08:59:15 am »
Homophobia unfortunately ran rampant in the community where Ennis grew up.

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"S" is sheepherder
« Reply #5462 on: August 02, 2006, 09:04:20 am »
Jack Twist was a sheepherder in 1962 and 1963.

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"T" is talk
« Reply #5463 on: August 02, 2006, 09:18:54 am »
Lashawn sure could talk, either to your delight or to your dismay.



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"U" is upside
« Reply #5464 on: August 02, 2006, 09:27:25 am »
One cold night in a tent on Brokeback Mountain turned Ennis’s whole world upside down for ever.

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Wishing you all coolness and shade in your heatwave!
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"V" is veritable
« Reply #5465 on: August 02, 2006, 09:32:41 am »
Brokeback Mountain was a veritable Garden of Eden.


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It's 63 degrees in my corner of the Rocky Mtns.
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"chewing gum and duct tape"

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"W" is weapons
« Reply #5466 on: August 02, 2006, 10:00:05 am »
Michael Barnes on Jack: "His smooth features are all eyes, almond-shaped, infinitely blue, surrounded by eyelashes so thick they could be registered as weapons." Link
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"X" xpanded
« Reply #5467 on: August 02, 2006, 10:10:10 am »
Screenwriters Larry McMurtry and Diana Ossana xpanded Annie Proulx's short story.
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"Y" is yerked
« Reply #5468 on: August 02, 2006, 10:23:02 am »
It was just another happy tussle until Jack accidently yerked Ennis in the nose.

def: Yerked

Yerk \Yerk\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Yerked; p. pr. & vb. n. Yerking.] [See Yerk.] 1. To throw or thrust with a sudden, smart movement; to kick or strike suddenly; to jerk.

Their wounded steeds . . . Yerk out their armed heels at their dead masters. --Shak.

2. To strike or lash with a whip. [Obs. or Scot.]

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"Z" is ZackScott.net
« Reply #5469 on: August 02, 2006, 10:27:35 am »
ZackScott.net talks about how one man tries to overcome his Brokeback phobia. Link
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