Author Topic: The "ABCs of BBM": Round 965! (Rules in first post)  (Read 7841875 times)

Offline Toast

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"K" is knapsacks
« Reply #9900 on: January 03, 2007, 03:41:54 pm »
After their trip has ended and their knapsacks, horses, and camping equipment are in the trucks, Ennis finally has to tell Jack that their future plans have changed.   Jack calls it "a goddamn bitch of a unsatisfactory situation".
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"L" is location
« Reply #9901 on: January 03, 2007, 04:16:29 pm »
Alma was unhappy with the ranch's remote location; she wanted to move to town.

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"M" is monotony
« Reply #9902 on: January 03, 2007, 04:27:41 pm »
Alma was tired of the monotony and solitude of those lonsome old ranches.

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"N" is neglectful
« Reply #9903 on: January 03, 2007, 06:31:47 pm »
Ennis became neglectful of his family life in favour of spending time fishing.

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"O" is outwardness
« Reply #9904 on: January 03, 2007, 07:12:19 pm »
Alma was shocked when she discovered the affectionate outwardness that Ennis displayed toward Jack.

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"P" is possibility
« Reply #9905 on: January 03, 2007, 07:23:38 pm »
Hopeful of a social possibility, Alma threw out the idea of getting a baby-sitter for the girls and taking Jack to the Knife & Fork.

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"Q" is quakes
« Reply #9906 on: January 03, 2007, 08:44:56 pm »
Jack quakes as he stands next to Ennis, having to act as though he cares about the other people in Ennis' family.

def - To shiver, as with cold or from strong emotion.
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"R" is rinky-dink
« Reply #9907 on: January 03, 2007, 10:29:45 pm »
Because Ennis only worked odd jobs, he and Alma could only afford to live in a rinky-dink apartment with rinky-dink furniture.

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"S" is smock
« Reply #9908 on: January 03, 2007, 11:31:45 pm »

Alma's work uniform is a long-sleeved smock, which she wears over her street clothes.
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"T" is truck's
« Reply #9909 on: January 03, 2007, 11:43:19 pm »
Signal, Wyoming, early summer day 1964:
Jack drives through town in his truck, which rattles and sputters louder than ever. Drums his fingers on the steering wheel in time to "Faded Love" by Bob Wills and his Texas Playboys, which blares from his fuzzy radio. Eyes the sidewalks and dilapidated storefronts, as if looking for someone:  Ennis. 
Nothing, just a skinny kid on a bike being blown around by the wind, and two old women pulling their grocery carts. Jack parks in the dirt lot of the Farm and Ranch Employment trailer, dust and fine gravel pelting his truck's windows like hail.   [2003 screenplay]