Photo Captioning Fun! - CLOSED

[poppyhoney]

trancedenza--  That is a truly worthy companion to Rickb's brilliant and heart-rending caption.  Bravo!  Of course, you made me cry all over again, just when I'd gotten to the point where I could look at the original without losing it... but Hell, that's okay.  As long as I also get gaydar, short-eared sheep, and Monroe doing the Bull Durham speech.

Wow, thank you.  I guess it was my way of processing my reaction to Rick's original, because it stayed with me quite awhile after I read it, much like the book and movie did.  I just can't seem to stop writing about this tragedy.  But I did have an idea for a silly caption while I was at dinner so I may go hunt for a picture to match up with it

Wow is right.  Such beautiful and heartbreaking words, but so true.  Even after all the pain, we know Jack still loved Ennis.   Thank you.    

[OnesEnough]

This caption of Rick's has been tossing around inside my head since I first read, and what came of it is below.  I hope no on minds.  Didn't really know where else to share this.

-- Sheera

Not so funny this time, grab a hanky, you've been warned:



Jack Twist:
Congratulations, Ennis Del Mar! You've just won a no-expense paid free entry into the wonderfull world of homosexuality! You won't believe your eyes as you fall madly in love with me, risking all that you are, for a frustrating 20 years of true, but infrequent love! You'll look over your shoulder with paranoia as you cross the street on your daily trips to the post office where you desperately wait for my postcards! You'll puke your guts out with loneliness during the long months in between! You'll be thrilled to pieces as ex-wives and girlfriends demand explanations that terrify you to your core! You'll quit jobs and wreck your life just to be with me a few weeks a year! You'll cry in the alone in the night when I'm dead! You'll scratch and claw and fight your way through life only to end up with nothing but memories of better days. Congratulations, Mr. Del Mar, you are today's big winner!!!

Ennis Del Mar:
 Long as you love me, Jack, as long as you love me.[/b]

Ennis del Mar:
Congratulations, Jack Twist!  You have just won an all-expenses paid trip into a life of shattered dreams.  You will put your heart and soul on the line for me time and time again, only to be rejected for reasons that neither of us understands.  No one will believe in you—your wife, your child, your parents—not even me, the love of your life!  You'll always be treated like some rodeo fuck-up!  You will count down the hours until fishing trips, only to find them over before you blink!  You will sneak into the closet of your childhood bedroom to try and catch of a whiff of me, stifling your cries in the old fabric so your father doesn't come up to beat you!  You will attempt to find comfort in meaningless flings, only to have me threaten to kill you for being a human being like the rest of us!  You will spend most of you life trying to recapture a sleepy moment by the fireplace that required ten planets to be in just the right alignment to occur even once!  Watch as your spirit’s beaten down until you lose the one thing that makes you who are you: hope.

And, of course, our grand prize—you die will alone on a dirt road, whispering my name, far from me and the one place you think of as home, all because some close-minded men are so insecure with their own sexuality that they have to beat you to a pulp to prove their manhood!  Not to mention the bonus prize: your final wish, the one you confided to Lureen when you were trying to drink me away one night and immediately wondered if you’d made a mistake—well, you certainly did, because not a single remnant of your body will ever make it up to Brokeback Mountain!

Congratulations, Jack Twist, you are today’s second big winner!

Jack Twist:
Tell you what, Ennis... bein’ thrown don’t mean that it ain’t worth the ride.  I don’t regret a single goddamned minute.  You were the best dream I ever had, and even if my body died on that dirt road, don’t mean my love went with it.

Yeah, as if Rick B's post was not enough - you have to go and add another one!

The words " It is better to have loved and lost, Than never to have loved at all" sprang immediately into my mind. I looked it up. Its an Alfred Tennyson poem.

I hold it true, whate'er befall;
I feel it, when I sorrow most;
'Tis better to have loved and lost
Than never to have loved at all.

Alfred Tennyson - In Memoriam, 1850

Very very true isn't it.

AfDo the funny caption! I'm sure its a good one.

[Rob.]

Don't you do another one of these saddies for awhile, I cant take it...

I can't imagine ever doing another one like that. It's not something I want to repeat.

  You should!  While it's a tearjerker - it's also very beautiful.

  Thank you!

[RickB]

I'll get you, Aguirre! And your little sheep, too![/i]

Rick B

[Lola]

Jack:  Hey Ennis, did you ever find Bugs Bunny attractive when he put on a dress and played girl bunny?

[aintnoreins]

trancedenza--  That is a truly worthy companion to Rickb's brilliant and heart-rending caption.  Bravo!  Of course, you made me cry all over again, just when I'd gotten to the point where I could look at the original without losing it... but Hell, that's okay.  As long as I also get gaydar, short-eared sheep, and Monroe doing the Bull Durham speech.

Wow, thank you.  I guess it was my way of processing my reaction to Rick's original, because it stayed with me quite awhile after I read it, much like the book and movie did.  I just can't seem to stop writing about this tragedy.  But I did have an idea for a silly caption while I was at dinner so I may go hunt for a picture to match up with it

Wow is right.  Such beautiful and heartbreaking words, but so true.  Even after all the pain, we know Jack still loved Ennis.   Thank you.    

Wow indeed... that was gorgeous. And Jack's response was so very Jack; I can see his expression as he'd say that.
 

[louisev]

Jack:  Hey Ennis, did you ever find Bugs Bunny attractive when he put on a dress and played girl bunny?

muah!

[amscram]

Hell, it's one of the reasons I loved Bugs Bunny!  I can still quote whole runs of dialogue!

[Lola]

Hell, it's one of the reasons I loved Bugs Bunny!  I can still quote whole runs of dialogue!

"So what are you waiting for cowboy, a mating call?"

[jonas]

After all this time, I just realized that Lureen can't be LD and Fayette's biological daughter.  Last time I checked, two blue-eyed people don't make a brown-eyed baby.  Maybe Fayette was getting some USDA Texas beef on the side?

Well, they have to simplify genetics to teach it to people who don't take a special interest in it (such as average schoolkids like myself and - I'm guessing - you, friend  ). I remember learning this in high school, too, but I know it's not true because of my own family: mum has brown hair, blueish/greenish eyes; dad, black hair, blueish/greenish eyes; my sister and me have brown hair and brown eyes while our brother is blond with blueish/greenish eyes.

That said, mum got quite fed up with all the innuendos she got about her blond kid after a while... Fayette might have had her share of those as well...

Ok, this reminds me of something I noticed in the movie and it's just a "continuity" error. Probably many have noticed this error and posted messages about it but I haven't seen any and this posting is probably better on some other thread but I couldn't resist after reading this quoted posting.

Remember that scene in the supermarket when little Alma Jr.  breaks the peanut jars? well, she has beautiful BLUE eyes, then she grows up and they're beautiful BROWN eyes? what happened?

[Lola]

I'll get you, Aguirre! And your little sheep, too![/i]

Rick B

I was thinking the same thing when I saw this Rick!   



I'll get you, my pretty, and your little dog, too!

[Lola]

Maggie:  Gaydar, it's a slang term for the supposed ability of a gay person to detect if another person is gay, bisexual or otherwise not heterosexual.


Get in here Lousie!  

[louisev]

i am lurking....

[Lola]

White shirt:  hey blue shirt, ya ever hear of febreeze?

Blue shirt:  what are you trying to say?

White shirt:  I am saying, I can't stay trapped in this closet with you much longer.

[Garry_LH]

http://davecullen.com/forum/index.php?topic=1082.0

Having run across one long time member that didn't know we're putting a book together, thought I might stick this link in a few spots.