Jake Spoon.
Jake Spoon.
"Everyone has a plan, until they get punched in the face!" - Mike Tyson
"Don't let my fears become yours." - Me, talking to my children
That look on your face, when you shift into 6th gear, but it's not there.
Watching Lonesome Dove, are we?
I saw this in a cartoon once. I'm pretty sure I can pull it off...
Jake Spoon is a dumb fork.
With jake....any wind can blow him. He likes to joke and doesn't like to work.....I have those same failings myself... Agustus
Jake Spoon...whose that?
Is he married to Jackie Fork and they have a child named Jack Knife???
Remember this- spooning leads to forking! Abstinence is key.
A government that robs from Peter to pay Paul can always depend on the support of Paul.
That was the greatest Western ever made, in my opinion. Duvall as Gus McCrae was a dead ringer for my late grandpa.
Robert Duvall was never better. I loved Lonesome Dove.
Valley Forge
Gus was my man. It just wasn't right that he got killed off. Jake got what he deserved, lazy SOB.
R.M.
The tree of liberty must be watered periodically with the blood of tyrants and patriots alike..........Thomas Jefferson
Was he the man burner?
Dutch
"The future ain't what it used to be".
-Yogi Berra.
The man burner was one of the fellas that Jake took up with to rob a bank.
"I hate sod busters...." was his line.
It is hard to fail, but it is worse never to have tried to succeed.
Theodore Roosevelt
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
Heavy price paid for 12 horses and chasing buffalos.
"Everyone has a plan, until they get punched in the face!" - Mike Tyson
"Don't let my fears become yours." - Me, talking to my children
That look on your face, when you shift into 6th gear, but it's not there.
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
"Everyone has a plan, until they get punched in the face!" - Mike Tyson
"Don't let my fears become yours." - Me, talking to my children
That look on your face, when you shift into 6th gear, but it's not there.
Thanks for that Wilco, I had always wondered.
Bulldogger
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.
I'm with Gus, I hated to see Jake hanged.
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I hate rude behavior in a man. I won't tolerate it. -Woodrow F. Call, Lonesome Dove
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