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Author Topic: The "ABCs of BBM": Round 965! (Rules in first post)  (Read 5489717 times)

Offline Mikaela

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"S" is stereotype-shattering
« Reply #6070 on: August 13, 2006, 05:27:05 pm »
"And yet, making the rounds for perhaps the most important and stereotype-shattering romance made in the last ten years hasn’t shaken their modesty even an inch. Gyllenhaal counters Lee’s airy and aloof self-deprecation with a surprising intensity, and their banter hits at a close bond."
The Stanford Daily: Gyllenhaal and Lee interview here
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XXX - knuckle
« Reply #6071 on: August 13, 2006, 05:27:24 pm »
Toast, the word "knuckle" was played in Round 147 by Snowflakes.

We need a replacement "K".
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"K" is koala
« Reply #6072 on: August 13, 2006, 05:32:30 pm »
After Ennis hands his elder daughter to Alma, Junior hugs her mother and hangs on as tightly as any little koala clinging to a safe and sheltering eucalyptus tree.



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Next letter up is "T"
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"T" is traumatized
« Reply #6073 on: August 13, 2006, 05:41:43 pm »
Jack attempts to persuade Ennis to climb out of the rut of heteronormative expectations in rural Wyoming, but Ennis is traumatized by a childhood episode in which his father took him and his brother to see a gay man tortured and beaten to death for having the temerity to live openly with another man.     From Brokeback Mountain to Walden Pond

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Eucalyptus Alma
I love the smell of that one.
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"U" is unctuously
« Reply #6074 on: August 13, 2006, 05:51:25 pm »
"I'd sure as hell rather not," the biker replied unctuously.

def: Characterized by affected, exaggerated, or insincere earnestness
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"chewing gum and duct tape"

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"V" is vetoed
« Reply #6075 on: August 13, 2006, 06:03:32 pm »
Ennis vetoed Jack's proposed cow-and-calf operation and a sweet life together.
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"W" is Walden
« Reply #6076 on: August 13, 2006, 06:05:08 pm »
While the transcendentalist philosopher wrote long before Annie Proulx wrote the short story upon which Ang Lee based his film of "Brokeback Mountain," Thoreau is as relevant today as when "Walden" was published in 1854.    From Brokeback Mountain to Walden Pond
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"X" is xoteric
« Reply #6077 on: August 13, 2006, 06:11:01 pm »
As far as Ennis was concerned, there was little about his relationship with Jack that was xoteric.

def: suitable to be imparted to the public
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"Y" is yuck
« Reply #6078 on: August 13, 2006, 06:26:35 pm »
Jack's opinion of beans, summarized in one word: Yuck!
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"Z" is zoographic
« Reply #6079 on: August 13, 2006, 06:27:40 pm »
Annie Proulx used a number of zoographic terms and phrases in her short story "Brokeback Mountain".  Here are some of them:

bay mare
big bull
big chestnut
big son of a bitch coyote
black bear
cow and calf operation - mmm?
darling horses
Dead Horse - oops that's a road...
goddam pup - oops that's a tent...
good night horse
late heifers
little dog
milling sheep
mouse-coloured grullo
run-out horse
skittish bay mare
startled bear
strawberry roan
stud duck
talking horses - oops
tame ranch dogs
tough old birds

adj.   Of or pertaining to the description of animals.

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I think this is my favorite "Z" post.
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