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Dragonpol

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Dragonpol
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https://thebondologistblog.blogspot.com
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Favourite Fleming Novel
Moonraker
Favourite Bond Film
On Her Majestys Secret Service
Favourite Bond Actor
Timothy Dalton
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  • Well, at least someone got to vote on it and the people voting were themselves democratically elected MPs of the UK House of Commons. Maybe some people would prefer the old days of the pre-1965 Conservative system of the "Magic Circle" when the Tory…
  • SecretAgentMan⁰⁰⁷ wrote: » Ryan wrote: » I mean, considering where we last saw Bond, maybe Sam Mendes' little bit of pretentious text at the beginning of SPECTRE can be repurposed into a title: The Dead Are Alive I think it would hav…
  • Thunderfinger wrote: » You people are so bad at repeating propaganda, you should become journalists. Furthermore, is WW2 still on? WW2 ended a good while ago but there may still be elderly Japanese soldiers in the jungle somewhere who think…
  • mtm wrote: » DewiWynBond wrote: » Always Secret Which is the motto of MI6 of course, but I think it sounds cooler in its original Latin: Semper Occultus It’s not a typical Bond title at all but I think it has the right air to it. …
  • j_w_pepper wrote: » I'm tempted to ask the ironical question what an X Box is in the first place. But I do basically know in reality, it's just that I never had any computer game console, nor do I expect to develop the urge to own one. My comput…
  • CrzChris4 wrote: » Nobody in the thread has mentioned this… …seeing Kamal Khan pop the eye out of the stuffed sheep’s head and eating it is disgusting, my dad’s reaction always makes it better. Yes, that is a deliciously gross moment and…
  • ToTheRight wrote: » Q installed a new keyboard for me, so it looks as though I can comment again. Had it been Ben Whishaw's Q I'd have new laptop, but since it was Algernon I plugged an external keyboard into my old laptop. Therefore, @ToTheRig…
  • QBranch wrote: » Dragonpol wrote: » QBranch wrote: » I'll never forget it. It was everywhere. It began merely as a title, but then we watched it slowly spread...it took over everything. First, advertising, and then the children's toys. It …
  • QBranch wrote: » I'll never forget it. It was everywhere. It began merely as a title, but then we watched it slowly spread...it took over everything. First, advertising, and then the children's toys. It reigned for the best part of a decade. Maybe…
  • DarthDimi wrote: » I can't predict the future, but I'm not sure we're headed in the same direction. No, things are different this time but I was just referring to there being war in Europe for the first time in nearly 80 years. It's dangero…
  • j_w_pepper wrote: » Thanks to @NickTwentyTwo who rediscovered it, I'm just "bumping" this thread for further good use, while war is closer to Europe than during the last 77 years. Yes, sadly we're back to the bad old days in Europe again. W…
  • j_w_pepper wrote: » Go ahead and find it. I'm still a toddler on this board...after a paltry 5 1/2 years. No, you've fitted in very well here as have the other IMDb refugees who came here when the forums there closed down in February 2017.…
  • j_w_pepper wrote: » Thanks. I suppose Dragonpol and I will consider it. Just maybe not on this thread. I think the late @barryt007 had an old World War II thread that could maybe be revived to discuss some of this stuff.
  • NickTwentyTwo wrote: » Is it a kids friendly forum? As far as I'm concerned, the F word is in two Bond films now, and therefore is fair game here as well. ;) Shall we say it's not encouraged here and the mods take a dim view of it. I hope w…
  • j_w_pepper wrote: » OK. Feel free to PM me any time if you want more discussions like this. Thank you. That'd be good. :)
  • Yes, I'm sure it was a lot closer to home for you. That reminds me that one of my Maths teachers at secondary school used to talk a lot about History and other non-Maths stuff (it might explain my grades!). Anyway I remember him saying that when he …
  • Dead Behind the Eyes. It could describe my avatar.
  • SecretAgentMan⁰⁰⁷ wrote: » Since62 wrote: » SecretAgentMan⁰⁰⁷ wrote: » GoldenSun. mmm....I cannot improved, but I can mess around: Colonel GoldenSun Of course, too many folks are unaware that "colonel" is the written word they h…
  • j_w_pepper wrote: » Dragonpol wrote: » Like you, I don't wish to stray too far into political matters in this thread. I think we're being perfectly civil though. I'm merely looking at it from a historical perspective. Yes, and I appreci…
  • stag wrote: » Great tribute @Dragonpol It's such a shame that many people have crawled out from beneath their stones to mock her, even as she lay dying. Personally, I'm not sure I'll hold King Charles III in such reverence. He's got a lot of…
  • Revelator wrote: » My review of With a Mind to Kill is now online at Artistic Licence Renewed. I was hoping it would get some reactions but I didn't expect this one. Congratulations on a well-deserved compliment to one of our finest Flem…
  • j_w_pepper wrote: » Well, the really frightening thing about January 1933 was the fact that it was actually a sort of democratic election that ultimately made Hitler the Reich Chancellor, although his party didn't have a majority. Supported by na…
  • NickTwentyTwo wrote: » Come What May I think someone else suggested that one but I like it. Is Theresa going to come back? 👀
  • Whirlybird_Fan wrote: » I was in my early 20s when it happened. I thought the publicity it generated was incredible (it brought out more interest in me than it really should have); I wonder if there was one single Los Angeles place of business …
  • vzok wrote: » mtm wrote: » Bit of a random observation, but just watching AVTAK again, there's a little motif I hadn't noticed before when the helicopter is spinning out of the control in the pre-credits sequence. Just a sort of five note bras…
  • I've no doubt that Connery was the real deal when it came to fighting and sticking up for himself or others. That's what made him such a good Bond - you really did think he was dangerous and capable of many of the things you saw him portray onscreen…
  • j_w_pepper wrote: » According to an old joke (actually, I think, Lenin said this or something similar), Germans will never make a revolution because that would require stepping on the grass. Not a Soviet style revolution perhaps but there w…
  • Archangel007 wrote: » Using a quote from a previous Bond film, Thunderball. Another Time, Another Place That was actually the name of a 1958 film which Sean Connery had starred in, so it was a little in-joke in the script.