Just because I'm on a buying binge to find all the Fleming books in hardback and that I have all the original James Bond theme songs on my Ipod does not mean I'm fixated on him!
That's right, Ice Station 0, it's not obsession unless you admit to it! ) I'm quite happy to put my hands up and admit my obsession with all things Bond though. Just thought I'd join in this thread myself as I have used lines from Bond in the past, and this week made a toast with a friend in a bar, saying 'Here's to this moment and the moments yet to come'. Now, could anybody please be kind enough to put me out of my misery and tell me what Roger Moore Bond film this comes from? I could have swore it was from For Your Eyes Only or Octopussy but I've watched a couple of the scenes I thought it was featured in and couldn't see Roger saying it. Can anybody help? It's been bugging me all week!
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The line you are referring to is from TMWTGG steelydan. Bond makes this toast with Mary Goodnight in the dining area of their hotel.
"My acting range? Left eyebrow raised, right eyebrow raised..."
I'm at Uni now, but from the end of my GCSE's up to me leaving sixth form I couldn't walk into a classroom without someone calling me James, or Bond. It started, as these things always do, with one person saying that I bore a striking resembalance to Timothy Dalton. From there it snowballed into a routine of people humming the Bond theme when I entered the room to being greeted by a girl singing Goldfinger at the top of her voice. Even one of my teachers continually called me "Bondy" for two years. I even explaned the whole thing to a class after a teacher asked me why they called me "Bond". I did absolutely nothing to encourage this behavior but it continued up until I left for Uni. Just one of these things that stuck. No one knew that I liked Bond anyway and at the beginning it was cool, but for me it got boring by the end but that didn't stop them!
Well, the only thing I can remember is that my friends know that I'm a big Bond fan and whenever I'm at school they'll ask me questions, which are pretty annoying at time:
Friends: "Who was da first person to play James Bond???"
Well, the only thing I can remember is that my friends know that I'm a big Bond fan and whenever I'm at school they'll ask me questions, which are pretty annoying at time:
Friends: "Who was da first person to play James Bond???"
Me: "Sean Connery."
Friends: "Oh muh Gah how does he know that?!!!"
:007)
) I can relate to that. I often get questions like that at school.
Friend: "What was the first James Bond Movie?"
Me: "Dr. No"
Friend:"You know everyting about James Bond!"
Anyway, back on topic. One day in art class, we had had to create a logo for something.
My family threw me a Bond-themed birthday part for my 21st. It was complete with clues for locations of presents and everything. My sister even sculpted a finger out of gold Fimo. (eww!) I was still a bit cheesed off though when I didn't get my vodka martini that I asked for.
James Bond is a matter of proud for me, I'm not ashamed to say I'm a James Bond fan, is the best character in the world, nobody can deny that, no matter how much someone can hate Bond, everybody will always accept that no other character in the hole world can match James Bond's persona...
James Bond is a matter of proud for me, I'm not ashamed to say I'm a James Bond fan, is the best character in the world, nobody can deny that, no matter how much someone can hate Bond, everybody will always accept that no other character in the hole world can match James Bond's persona...
It's a lot easier to be a Bond fan than a fan of a different genre, particularly those of the science fiction ilk. Bond fans aren't traditionally made fun of as much. Nobody's ever made a movie about Bond fans (that I know of).
And while the discussions among Bond fans can be just as rabid as among those who collect every model of the Enterprise, it's not as easy to detect them in everyday society.
We really have to go out of the way to be humiliating. )
Well, the only thing I can remember is that my friends know that I'm a big Bond fan and whenever I'm at school they'll ask me questions, which are pretty annoying at time:
Friends: "Who was da first person to play James Bond???"
Me: "Sean Connery."
Friends: "Oh muh Gah how does he know that?!!!"
:007)
Look at their faces when you say Barry Nelson... The impact is unbelievable.
hehehe...ok. In 9th grade, we had to make models of different atoms. I chose arsenic, and did my entire model using bond character pictures. My teacher absolutley loved it, and he still has it up in the classroom 3 years later. This kid (also freshmen year) once tried to chalenge me to a Bond trivia war. I beat his A$$ so bad, and the class (who had been lisening in along with the teacher) cracked up and laughed at him. I constantly carry aorund my copy of THE ESSENTIAL BOND, and people stare at me because I walk down the hall compleatly obsorbed. My buddy Colin tells me at least twice a day, "You are a good little Nerd, my dear" for which he always receives a gentle smack. My ex Algebra teacher always asked my opinion when something Bond related showed up in our paper. In spanish, we have a story on tape that we listen to the next chapter in every week. There is a bit in it where this kids boss is yelling at him for snooping around where he shouldn't be. Sr. Molina goes "you're not James Bond..." (this is my second time in this level spanish) and this recieved a loud laugh from me, and very confused stares from the rest of my class. In film lit, we had to introduce ourselves on the first day. When he came to me, Carnes goes, "alright, tell us your name and your favorite movie" I answered "I'm Kelsey Burd, and my favorite movies are the Bond films" he looked pleased about this before asking me to name all the Bond actors in order, which I did easily. Then, he started asking me rediculously easy trivia. hehehe. There are my Bond stories.
Being a Bond fan at the age of 8 I did alot of wierd Bond things. The first one was when I was young I would play guns with the kids in my best church clothes. The last one I can remember is just after I left the miliatry I worked at a casino in Las Vegas. When the company I worked for opened a new casino, they opened it to employees first. We each got about 500.00 dollars in play money to try at the tables. So I hit the Baccart table in me best suit, my wife(Bond Girl) at my side and when the cocktail girl came by I ordered the Martini shaken not stired.
Bond: You don't think I enjoyed what we did this evening, do you? What I did tonight was for King and country! You don't think it gave me any pleasure, do you?
Fiona: But of course, I forgot your ego, Mr. Bond. James Bond, who only has to make love to a woman and she starts to hear heavenly choirs singing.
Years ago, when I was doing my English Language A-Level, I had to produce a rather polished-looking booklet informing parents exactly how to interact with their children in order to encourage their vocal abilities. I had to invent some Doctor to give professional advice summing up all my points at the end; so I found the most hilarious screen-cap of Charles Gray, and named the Doctor after him. My teacher at the time found it hilarious - but had no clue who Gray was at all!
Well, just recently I was semi-humiliated sitting outside the theatre waiting for the midnight premier of CR with my friend and watching all of the looks people gave me as they walked by. But I'd have to say the most humiliating thing that ever happened to me was on my tenth birthday. I'd invited all of my best friends over and a few girls (whom at the time I thought the world of.) When my parents ordered a cake with a picture of James Bond on the front and my face super imposed over Pierce Brosnan's.
A friend of mine told me about the time he was hospitalized and needed an operation. As they administered the anesthetic he recalled how Bond would get drugged and then come to like nothing had happened.
Once the operation was done and he awoke he figured he'd impress the nurses by "snapping out of his drug induced sleep" as quickly as Bond would.
So he instantly sat up and yelled, "I'm awake!" Then he proceeded to throw up all over himself.
My friends and family gave me all kinds of crap about my obsession with Bond, but I haven't had any extremely embarrassing moment. It was quite embarrassing, however, when a couple of my friends showed up at my house while I was on AJB. They were rolling around laughing at the fact that I was an actual member of a James Bond fan site. They've wanted to visit AJB to read some comments I've made so they can make fun of me some more, but they never got the name of this site, luckily.;%
A more important memory of my friends is a time when they weren't jerks about my Bondianism. I was really happy when my closest friends showed interest in Casino Royale and went to the midnight showing with me. I was waiting for some comments after the movie, but instead my friends just smiled, asked me technical Bond questions, and talked about how much they liked the movie. I think they realized how important this experience was to me and helped me have a great time. I'm really grateful to them for that.
In 7th grade I fixated on the older album covers, and redrew the gals from YOLT and DAF--with even bigger bosoms! And proudly showed them to my (female) art teacher. I think she was mortified, but handled it gracefully. {[]
Oddly enough, 30 years later those same two album covers are hanging framed (rather chicly) over my current workspace at home. ;%
This isn't exactly embarrasing, but it would be if someone was with me at the time.
Today, I was driving home from school, and I was daydreaming (don't worry, I was driving safe) After a two or three minutes, I realized that I was singing the James Bond theme the whole time. When I told my brother the story today his only words were, "You're sick..."
Why just today I was in a meeting and several doctors were talking about how to give a certain medication to a baby and someone said something about shaken and I muttered "yes, shaken not stirred" and nobody got it. Obviously no Bond fans in that room. 8-)
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That's right, Ice Station 0, it's not obsession unless you admit to it!
-Roger Moore
I'm at Uni now, but from the end of my GCSE's up to me leaving sixth form I couldn't walk into a classroom without someone calling me James, or Bond. It started, as these things always do, with one person saying that I bore a striking resembalance to Timothy Dalton. From there it snowballed into a routine of people humming the Bond theme when I entered the room to being greeted by a girl singing Goldfinger at the top of her voice. Even one of my teachers continually called me "Bondy" for two years. I even explaned the whole thing to a class after a teacher asked me why they called me "Bond". I did absolutely nothing to encourage this behavior but it continued up until I left for Uni. Just one of these things that stuck. No one knew that I liked Bond anyway and at the beginning it was cool, but for me it got boring by the end but that didn't stop them!
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Walther
Well, you can imagine the comments that got made when we had our end of sixth form ball and theres me in a tux!
Walther
Friends: "Who was da first person to play James Bond???"
Me: "Sean Connery."
Friends: "Oh muh Gah how does he know that?!!!"
:007)
Walther
Friend: "What was the first James Bond Movie?"
Me: "Dr. No"
Friend:"You know everyting about James Bond!"
Anyway, back on topic. One day in art class, we had had to create a logo for something.
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I drew the 007 logo while I was daydreaming....
It's a lot easier to be a Bond fan than a fan of a different genre, particularly those of the science fiction ilk. Bond fans aren't traditionally made fun of as much. Nobody's ever made a movie about Bond fans (that I know of).
And while the discussions among Bond fans can be just as rabid as among those who collect every model of the Enterprise, it's not as easy to detect them in everyday society.
We really have to go out of the way to be humiliating.
Look at their faces when you say Barry Nelson... The impact is unbelievable.
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Fiona: But of course, I forgot your ego, Mr. Bond. James Bond, who only has to make love to a woman and she starts to hear heavenly choirs singing.
Once the operation was done and he awoke he figured he'd impress the nurses by "snapping out of his drug induced sleep" as quickly as Bond would.
So he instantly sat up and yelled, "I'm awake!" Then he proceeded to throw up all over himself.
A more important memory of my friends is a time when they weren't jerks about my Bondianism. I was really happy when my closest friends showed interest in Casino Royale and went to the midnight showing with me. I was waiting for some comments after the movie, but instead my friends just smiled, asked me technical Bond questions, and talked about how much they liked the movie. I think they realized how important this experience was to me and helped me have a great time. I'm really grateful to them for that.
Oddly enough, 30 years later those same two album covers are hanging framed (rather chicly) over my current workspace at home. ;%
Today, I was driving home from school, and I was daydreaming (don't worry, I was driving safe) After a two or three minutes, I realized that I was singing the James Bond theme the whole time.
Yikes . . . who are these strange people?! B-)