Author Topic: The "ABCs of BBM": Round 965! (Rules in first post)  (Read 7861748 times)

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"D" is distancing
« Reply #16980 on: March 26, 2008, 05:46:31 pm »
The last time they were together before the reunion, Jack felt that Ennis was distancing himself from him.

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"E" is eligibility
« Reply #16981 on: March 26, 2008, 07:21:19 pm »
When Ennis asked Jack about the Army, Jack said, "Too busted up." In other words, he didn't meet basic eligibility criteria for induction.
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"F" is futility
« Reply #16982 on: March 26, 2008, 07:39:41 pm »
Jack confronts Ennis about the futility of their situation:

 "Tell you what, we could of had a good life together, a fuckin' real good life, had us a place of our own.  But you didn't want it, Ennis, so what we got now is Brokeback Mountain.  Everything built on that.  It's all we got, boy, fuckin' all, so I hope you know that if you don't never know the rest.  You count the damn few times we've been together in nearly twenty years.  Measure the fuckin' short leash you keep me on, then ask me about Mexico and then tell me you'll kill me for needin' somethin' I don't never hardly get.  You got no idea how bad it gets. And I'm not you.  I can't make it on a couple of high-altitude fucks once or twice a year.  You are too much for me, Ennis, you son of a whoreson bitch.  I wish I knew how to quit you."

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"G" is gleamed
« Reply #16983 on: March 26, 2008, 08:55:53 pm »
A spark gleamed in Ennis' eye when he said to Jack: "You may be a sinner, but I haven't had the opportunity."

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"H" is hell's
« Reply #16984 on: March 26, 2008, 09:11:05 pm »
When he dropped in on Joe Aguirre in 1964, Jack didn't realize that he had a snowball in hell's chance of getting rehired.
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"I" is inquiry
« Reply #16985 on: March 26, 2008, 11:08:13 pm »
Jack dropped in on Joe Aguirre in 1964 to make an inquiry about a job and to find out if Ennis had been around.

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"L" is locking
« Reply #16986 on: March 27, 2008, 05:28:47 am »
Alma got an eyeful when she opened the apartment door and discovered Ennis and Jack locking lips in the stairwell.

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I'm heading to where it's warm for a few days.
I just may drop you a line.

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"M" is mental
« Reply #16987 on: March 27, 2008, 08:43:19 am »
After Ennis read Jack's postcard with the request, "Drop me a line," it didn't take much in the way of mental machinations for him to compose the two word reply, "You bet."
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"N" is nippier
« Reply #16988 on: March 27, 2008, 09:11:17 am »
Story Ennis wore worn boots, jeans, and shirts summer and winter but added a canvas coat in nippier weather.

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"O" is outlay
« Reply #16989 on: March 27, 2008, 09:21:10 am »
For Ennis to respond to Jack's request to drop me a line, a simple outlay of the cost of a postcard was all it took.