Re: Boondocks on "b rokeback"

[RonButters at AOL.COM]

The full name is, after all, "Brokeback Mountain." It is not uncommon for
topographical names to have "negative polarity" not is it uncommon for movies to
contain words with "negative polarity."

I do find the film was a bit daring in selecting a title that is so close to
"Bareback," given that that is a euphemism for unprotected anal sexual
intercourse that is well known in American culture--and I seriously doubt that those
cowboys carried condoms into the field in the 1960s (even though they were
actually herding sheep).

In a message dated 1/24/06 7:20:53 AM, hwgray at GMAIL.COM writes:


> IMO, the latter use of "brokeback" has been extracted from the phrase,
> _ADJ as a brokeback mule_, a very common BE expression.probably two
> days older than water. I was a bit taken aback when I first learned
> that there was a movie entitled "Brokeback" anything, given the total
> negative polarity of the BE term, which is sometimes dysphemized as
> "brokedick."
>
> -Wilson
>

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