I don't like......

[WILCO]

Jake Spoon.

[SlippShodd]

Watching Lonesome Dove, are we?

[DeanWinchester]

Jake Spoon is a dumb fork.

[shooter93]

With jake....any wind can blow him. He likes to joke and doesn't like to work.....I have those same failings myself... Agustus

[41 mag fan]

Jake Spoon...whose that?
Is he married to Jackie Fork and they have a child named Jack Knife???

[PS Paul]

Remember this- spooning leads to forking! Abstinence is key.

[chsparkman]

That was the greatest Western ever made, in my opinion. Duvall as Gus McCrae was a dead ringer for my late grandpa.

[Valley Forge]

Robert Duvall was never better. I loved Lonesome Dove.

[R.M.]

Gus was my man. It just wasn't right that he got killed off. Jake got what he deserved, lazy SOB.

[wallenba]

Was he the man burner?

[wch]

Was he the man burner?

Naw, the man burner was Blue Duck.

[Doc_Stihl]

The man burner was one of the fellas that Jake took up with to rob a bank.
"I hate sod busters...." was his line.

[L Ross]

Was he the man burner?

While indeed there was a dead sodbuster burned by the Suggs brothers that Jake took up with I think you are thinking of the "man burner" in another of McMurtry's novels.
I enjoy McMurtry's writing and in particular his insight into people, their strengths and weaknesses. Their thoughts, doubts, and foibles. Most of us with a few years behind us realize how life often takes turns and twists we wish it didn't. McMurtry portrays life's trials and tribulations as well as any author I've yet read.

Duke

[wallenba]

While indeed there was a dead sodbuster burned by the Suggs brothers that Jake took up with I think you are thinking of the "man burner" in another of McMurtry's novels.

Duke

I was thinking of the robber Jake took up with in Lonesome Dove. I do recall that there was also a man burner in 'Dead Man's Walk'. Truly evil character that one. That guy also was a dog killer.
Duke[/QUOTE]

[WILCO]

Heavy price paid for 12 horses and chasing buffalos.

[WILCO]

Watching Lonesome Dove, are we?

Yep. I needed to watch and listen to some of my favorite characters.

Question: What does Uva Uvam Vivendo Varia Fit mean from the movie Lonesome Dove?

Answer: The Latin phrase that appears on the Hat Creek Cattle Company sign in "Lonesome Dove" is a garbled corruption, and there's no direct translation. It derives from the scholia to Juvenal 2.81 which cites the proverb "uva uvam videndo varia fit" This means something like "a grape changes color [i.e., ripens] when it sees [another] grape"

Novelist Larry McMurtry probably intentionally misused the Latin, perhaps to make a point about Augustus McCrae's tenuous understanding of the language.

From there, any number of interpretations have arisen to explain why McMurtry chose to communicate that particular idea. Probably the soundest theory is that the phrase serves as a metaphor for the group's journey, as many of the story's characters go through a process of personal maturation and development. Much like grapes ripen in the presence of others.

http://wiki.answers.com/Q/What_does_..._Lonesome_Dove

[Bulldogger]

Thanks for that Wilco, I had always wondered.
Bulldogger

[shooter93]

The outlaws Jake took up with were all hanged and buried except for one. He was left hanging with a note pinned to him that read... horsetheef (mis-spelled like that)and man burner. He shot two sod busters for a watch, then hung them , then burned them.

[TXGunNut]

I'm with Gus, I hated to see Jake hanged.

[wallenba]

Yep. I needed to watch and listen to some of my favorite characters.

Question: What does Uva Uvam Vivendo Varia Fit mean from the movie Lonesome Dove?

Answer: The Latin phrase that appears on the Hat Creek Cattle Company sign in "Lonesome Dove" is a garbled corruption, and there's no direct translation. It derives from the scholia to Juvenal 2.81 which cites the proverb "uva uvam videndo varia fit" This means something like "a grape changes color [i.e., ripens] when it sees [another] grape"

Novelist Larry McMurtry probably intentionally misused the Latin, perhaps to make a point about Augustus McCrae's tenuous understanding of the language.

From there, any number of interpretations have arisen to explain why McMurtry chose to communicate that particular idea. Probably the soundest theory is that the phrase serves as a metaphor for the group's journey, as many of the story's characters go through a process of personal maturation and development. Much like grapes ripen in the presence of others.

http://wiki.answers.com/Q/What_does_..._Lonesome_Dove

It was funny though, 'WE don't rent pigs!', was his interpretation, if I recall.