The Brokeback glossary: Acronyms, scene names & whatchamacallits

[Adiabatic]

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[Ellemeno]

• GDBOUS - Goddamn Bitch of an Unsatisfactory Situation (spoken by Jack in the FLS).

[Front-Ranger]

SWB- Son of a whoreson bitch

[Brown Eyes]

Wow, what and extremely good idea (and useful idea!) for a thread!
 

Well there are related bits of Brokie vocab that seem essential around these parts and most of them involve acronyms, etc.

STS- the Story to Screenplay book

TOB- the Old Board (usually referring to the "Big Board" on imdb or sometimes "PT" on imdb).  Can also mean the Old Boards

Big Board/ TOB- the main message board for the film Brokeback Mountain on imdb

PT/ TOB- "Pierre Tremblay" board on imdb named for one of the First Assistant Directors of BBM and was a smaller message board on imdb dedicated to Brokeback.  Like people from the Big Board, a mass exodus occured to this haven called BetterMost during the troll wars which happened in March and April... and are on-going back on the Old Boards.

BBM- is of course, Brokeback Mountain

[serious crayons]

HUNH? An Ennis Del Marism used at the end of a statement. Pronounced somewhat like the "huh?" people say in "real life." But unlike huh, hunh is rarely used as a direct question, as in "What did you say?" or "What do you mean by that?"

More often, it serves to provide emphasis and solicit agreement, as in, "Why, that snow barely stuck an hour. Hunh?"

However, as a Brokieism it is used in all of the above ways.

[Fran]

This one's made more than one appearance at the ABCs game:

OMT = Old Man Twist

[welliwont]

Did you want to add this one too?

Happy Tussle:  the time when Ennis "tags" Jack and they fool around and then they **really**  fool around  !  -  unaware that creepy Aguirre is spying on them.

not to be confused with the other Tussle.  I don't know if there is a name for the other one.

PS can you please list FNIT, SNIT and TNIT as individual entries?

[nakymaton]

not to be confused with the other Tussle.  I don't know if there is a name for the other one.

I've heard the other one called "the Angry Tussle." And also The Punch.

Mel

[Meryl]

This is a handy thread for Brokies (hey, that's a term to add) 

Important scene names include:

The Reunion

Post-Divorce Scene


Shorthand terms for some other scenes:  Alley, Motel, Mexico, Pie, Drive-In, Fourth of July, Wedding, Grocery, Twist Ranch, Toboggan, Elk, Bear, Thanksgiving, Childress Dance Hall


Other terms I've seen used:

Ennis's snow dance

Earl Flashback

LSP - Low startle-point

EAP - E. Annie Proulx

WWJ - Water Walkin' Jesus

[welliwont]

Oops!  Here are a couple more:


LF:  Lightning Flat

Brokeism:  a line quoted from the film or the story.  ie:  "she is such a die-hard Brokie, she can't even write a lousy e-mail sans a brokeism!"  The person saying or writing the brokeism experiences a fleeting moment of warmth and a small thrill, not unlike the feeling Jack had when he lassoed Ennis during the Happy Tussle.

 
 

[welliwont]

Lookin' good adiabatic!!!   

[Daniel]

Reviving an old thread here... Really good to have in combination with my "Memoirs of a Brokeback Mountain Priest"... Jane, thought you would want more words from/about the Performance.

The Performance - A humor filled rendition of "Brokeback Mountain" performed by the Chez Tremblay Brokies. Also known as "Brokenarsed Mountain" or "BAM".  For many, a humorous outlet to fuel the psycho-spiritual angst brought about by the film experience.

Brokeback Mountain Cult - The pseudoserious notion maintained by several of the Chez Tremblay Brokies that devotion to Brokeback Mountain carries a religious significance, and that certain rituals, songs, and invocations can enhance or maintain that significance.  The Brokeback Mountain Cult carries its own terms and symbolisms which may be worthy of their own document, entailing such experiences that were shared by the Chez Tremblay Brokies as the Adventure of the Sacred Seven, the Tribulation, and the Revelation.

Chez Tremblay -  Literally "The house of Tremblay". The section of BetterMost established by the mass exodus from the Old Boards (TOB) or more specifically the PT posters. The Pierre Tremblay board became a temporary refuge from the ongoing troll wars at the Old Board until it was invaded by the Enemy in the waning phase of the sixth Moon of the Year of Establishment. (May, 2006 by traditional standards.) Not entirely certain about the date, most of my recollection is based on memory rather than on an accurate timekeeping record. Feel free to correct me if you know for certain.

[Ellemeno]

(May, 2006 by traditional standards.) Not entirely certain about the date, most of my recollection is based on memory rather than on an accurate timekeeping record. Feel free to correct me if you know for certain.

Mass Tremblayan emigration to BetterMost began on March 30th, 2006.

[Jeff Wrangler]

Mass Tremblayan emigration to BetterMost began on March 30th, 2006.

Maybe we should call that the Exodus? 

Precipitated by the Great Troll Uprising?

[welliwont]

There is one more nickname for the Performance Thread:  the PT.  That is the one I have been used to seeing all this time....

Looks like you've got some work ahead of you, adia!

 

[Daniel]

A note on the date... In that case, It should be the waxing of the fifth Moon of the Year of Establishment. (March, 2006)

Sorry I got the date wrong. That was when my computer crashed and by the time I got back up on it and went to look at my threads on TOB and PT boards, they had been slaughtered by the Enemy. Reluctantly, I was not a combatant during the terrible wars, only a victim.

My last thread on TOB (The Art Which Transcends Art) was the last of my surviving threads but it too became a victim of the Troll Wars in June, 2006 (waxing of the seventh Moon of the Year of Establishment).

[fernly]

This is great!
(How did I miss this thread the first time around?)
anyway....

• GDBOUS - Goddamn Bitch of an Unsatisfactory Situation (spoken by Jack in the FLS).

Tell ya what, the acronym version of this, spoken phonetically, is quite satisfying, and might just come in handy in certain settings when a full rendition of the phrase could be considered inappropriate.

[Daniel]

Hmm, when I say the acronym out loud it sounds like I'm saying "Get a bus" in Canadian.

[fernly]

Hmm, when I say the acronym out loud it sounds like I'm saying "Get a bus" in Canadian.

[Daniel]

One more for old times sake, for those of you who can remember this from when TOB:PT came under serious fire.

The Enemy: A nameless fourteen year old troll who discovered the hidden Pierre Tremblay board and who with his accomplices mass reported every post on that board to IMDB administration, who failed to look at the posts being reported and deleted every one of them.  Also most likely responsible for preventing the IMDB rating for "Brokeback Mountain" from including it among IMDB's top 100 films (though it was there for a short period of time).

[Front-Ranger]

That's funny, adiabatic!

Here's an acronym that I use all the time in connection with BBM and Brokie social events:

BTS

Means Better Than Sex!

[serious crayons]

The Enemy: A nameless fourteen year old troll who discovered the hidden Pierre Tremblay board and who with his accomplices mass reported every post on that board to IMDB administration, who failed to look at the posts being reported and deleted every one of them.  Also most likely responsible for preventing the IMDB rating for "Brokeback Mountain" from including it among IMDB's top 100 films (though it was there for a short period of time).

That is just so unconscionable. I blame imdb almost as much as the trolls themselves. Sure, I understand why they can't check every single report, but to ignore a huge mass of them and act -- or to let their software act, or however it works -- against the complaints of the participants is ridiculous.

However, the troll wars (at this point, I suppose you might call them the troll skirmishes) are still being fought within Brokiedom's borders, on the imdb front. It's horrifying, but I'm glad there are still intrepid Brokies, both veterans and newbies, who are willing to fight them. Even though, IMO, they should be ignoring them.  OK, I guess that isn't totally consistent logic, is it?  I guess I mean there are veterans and newbies intrepid enough to post ANYWAY, because the function they perform is still really crucial.

[Jeff Wrangler]

That is just so unconscionable. I blame imdb almost as much as the trolls themselves. Sure, I understand why they can't check every single report, but to ignore a huge mass of them and act -- or to let their software act, or however it works -- against the complaints of the participants is ridiculous.

I could be wrong, but I seem to remember somebody saying at some point that the deletion at IMDb is automatic, that no reports of abuse are checked, that you hit that report button and the post disappears.

Still, I agree with Katherine: It's unconscionable.

[fernly]

I could be wrong, but I seem to remember somebody saying at some point that the deletion at IMDb is automatic, that no reports of abuse are checked, that you hit that report button and the post disappears.

Still, I agree with Katherine: It's unconscionable.

It seems to be erratically automatic....I'm still reporting trolls over at IMDb, and sometimes they vanish right away, and other times, even with lots of reporting by at least several people, those posts are there for days.

What was unconscionable for me, was that IMDb knew about those mass deletions, because lots of us were sending specific, detailed messages to their Help desk. Mostly we just got silence back, sometimes we got obviously canned, 'form' messages back, but sometimes we got responses apparently newly written by a person, so employees there knew what was going on, and, for whatever reason, did nothing.

[Ellemeno]

It seems to be erratically automatic....I'm still reporting trolls over at IMDb, and sometimes they vanish right away, and other times, even with lots of reporting by at least several people, those posts are there for days.

What was unconscionable for me, was the IMDb knew about those mass deletions, because lots of us were sending specific, detailed messages to their Help desk. Mostly we just got silence back, sometimes we got obviously canned, 'form' messages back, but sometimes we got responses apparently newly written by a person, so employees there knew what was going on, and, for whatever reason, did nothing.

Ach, don't get me stahted!

Here's my current sig line at IMDb, where I foray occasionally:

BetterMost, where trolls don't stick an hour.
http://bettermost.net/forum

[loneleeb3]

What is the Q.T. Aguirre talks about?
I still don't know whatthat means?

[serious crayons]

What is the Q.T. Aguirre talks about?
I still don't know whatthat means?

It means, in secret. Short for "quiet," I guess.

[loneleeb3]

It means, in secret. Short for "quiet," I guess.

Oh! Thanks!
It's been drivin me crazy for months.

[serious crayons]

Oh! Thanks!
It's been drivin me crazy for months.

Well, don't let THAT happen again! This is the place to ask those things -- somebody will always have an answer.