*shrugs shoulders*

Dirty PunkerDirty Punker ...Your Eyes Only, darling."Posts: 2,587MI6 Agent
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If I had a nickel for everytime Fleming described a character shrugging their shoulders...I'd have enough money to buy the stoopid Rome y Julietta screen used cigar. X-( X-(
a reasonable rate of return

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  • Silhouette ManSilhouette Man The last refuge of a scoundrelPosts: 8,845MI6 Agent
    *Rolls eyes* 8-)
    "The tough man of the world. The Secret Agent. The man who was only a silhouette." - Ian Fleming, Moonraker (1955).
  • ThunderpussyThunderpussy Behind you !Posts: 63,792MI6 Agent
    Can't say I've ever noticed.
    "I've been informed that there ARE a couple of QAnon supporters who are fairly regular posters in AJB."
  • The Domino EffectThe Domino Effect Posts: 3,638MI6 Agent
    Me neither (shrugs shoulders).
  • caractacus pottscaractacus potts Orbital communicator, level 10Posts: 4,109MI6 Agent
    what if you took a drink every time Bond takes a drink?
    the books are pretty quick reads, if you start right now you could probably be unconscious by dinner time
  • BondJasonBond006BondJasonBond006 SwitzerlandPosts: 870MI6 Agent
    Oh don't be so fun spoilers...

    I for one am fascinated with such stuff...

    I did some seemingly ridiculous statistics about cinematic Bond like noting each lipstick colour Moneypenny is wearing in every film.

    I may count all the shrugs shoulders in the books :)
    Dalton Rulez™
  • IanFryerIanFryer Posts: 327MI6 Agent
    BondJasonBond006 wrote:
    Oh don't be so fun spoilers...

    I for one am fascinated with such stuff...

    I did some seemingly ridiculous statistics about cinematic Bond like noting each lipstick colour Moneypenny is wearing in every film.

    I may count all the shrugs shoulders in the books :)
    Lipstick colours I could imagine being a hard one to judge, as what you're seeing would depend on how the DVD/BluRay you're watching has been colour balanced. Did you post the results on here?
  • Charmed & DangerousCharmed & Dangerous Posts: 7,358MI6 Agent
    Go easy. BondJasonBond needs cheering up. *hugs soldiers*
    "How was your lamb?" "Skewered. One sympathises."
  • Silhouette ManSilhouette Man The last refuge of a scoundrelPosts: 8,845MI6 Agent
    In all seriousness, I can't say I've ever noticed this before at all. I do need to re-read all of the Fleming Bonds again admittedly. I suppose though that all authors have their favourite phrases that they use again and again without maybe even realising it. I'm sure then that Ian Fleming was no different in this regard to other writers of fiction.
    "The tough man of the world. The Secret Agent. The man who was only a silhouette." - Ian Fleming, Moonraker (1955).
  • Charmed & DangerousCharmed & Dangerous Posts: 7,358MI6 Agent
    That's true - for instance Raymomd Benson does mention Bond's favourite phrase is "So that's the score".
    "How was your lamb?" "Skewered. One sympathises."
  • Silhouette ManSilhouette Man The last refuge of a scoundrelPosts: 8,845MI6 Agent
    Charmed & Dangerous wrote:
    That's true - for instance Raymomd Benson does mention Bond's favourite phrase is "So that's the score".

    From the Fleming novels and stories? Is that in the Bedside Companion?
    "The tough man of the world. The Secret Agent. The man who was only a silhouette." - Ian Fleming, Moonraker (1955).
  • Dirty PunkerDirty Punker ...Your Eyes Only, darling."Posts: 2,587MI6 Agent
    Silhouette Man wrote:
    *Rolls eyes* 8-)
    *Palms face* :D
    a reasonable rate of return
  • Westward_DriftWestward_Drift Posts: 3,113MI6 Agent
    Dirty Punker wrote:
    If I had a nickel for everytime Fleming described a character shrugging their shoulders...I'd have enough money to buy the stoopid Rome y Julietta screen used cigar. X-( X-(

    That's nothing compared to how many times David Weber has characters shrug in his Honor Harrington novels. Almost every freaking conversation. The later novels run 500-600 pages. That's a lot of shrugging.
  • ThunderpussyThunderpussy Behind you !Posts: 63,792MI6 Agent
    With the Miss Marple stories, she nearly always says
    Something like the killer had the eyes of ..... and then
    Mention some old butcher who killer his wife or
    Girlfriend. Or a local Politician who had an affair. :)
    "I've been informed that there ARE a couple of QAnon supporters who are fairly regular posters in AJB."
  • Silhouette ManSilhouette Man The last refuge of a scoundrelPosts: 8,845MI6 Agent
    I was rereading TMWTGG there again and I noticed that Scaramanga shrugged when he met Bond in the bar of the brothel. I'll update you all if I happen to notice anything else!
    "The tough man of the world. The Secret Agent. The man who was only a silhouette." - Ian Fleming, Moonraker (1955).
  • Charmed & DangerousCharmed & Dangerous Posts: 7,358MI6 Agent
    Silhouette Man wrote:
    Charmed & Dangerous wrote:
    That's true - for instance Raymomd Benson does mention Bond's favourite phrase is "So that's the score".

    From the Fleming novels and stories? Is that in the Bedside Companion?
    I'm pretty sure it is, but. I haven't read it for a while.
    "How was your lamb?" "Skewered. One sympathises."
  • ThunderpussyThunderpussy Behind you !Posts: 63,792MI6 Agent
    Perhaps Bond was just looking through a selection of Movie Soundtracks ? ;)
    "I've been informed that there ARE a couple of QAnon supporters who are fairly regular posters in AJB."
  • BarbelBarbel ScotlandPosts: 37,868Chief of Staff
    Charmed & Dangerous wrote:
    Silhouette Man wrote:
    Charmed & Dangerous wrote:
    That's true - for instance Raymomd Benson does mention Bond's favourite phrase is "So that's the score".

    From the Fleming novels and stories? Is that in the Bedside Companion?
    I'm pretty sure it is, but. I haven't read it for a while.

    Yes, Benson mentions it while discussing TB (though of course Bond had said/thought it earlier).
  • Charmed & DangerousCharmed & Dangerous Posts: 7,358MI6 Agent
    Thanks for the clarification, Barbel -{ :007)
    "How was your lamb?" "Skewered. One sympathises."
  • ThunderpussyThunderpussy Behind you !Posts: 63,792MI6 Agent
    Shrugs Shoulders, would this be a French influence on the books ? :p
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    "I've been informed that there ARE a couple of QAnon supporters who are fairly regular posters in AJB."
  • Silhouette ManSilhouette Man The last refuge of a scoundrelPosts: 8,845MI6 Agent
    Thank you for that, Barbel.
    "The tough man of the world. The Secret Agent. The man who was only a silhouette." - Ian Fleming, Moonraker (1955).
  • onemonk909onemonk909 Posts: 65MI6 Agent
    Was just reading DAD and noticed this very thing... "He shrugged his shoulders" and etc is one of those phrases that always bugs me and momentarily pulls me out of the fictive dream...I mean, what ELSE on the human body can you shrug BUT your shoulders? It should just be, "He shrugged," and that's it...
  • Bond44Bond44 Vauxhall CrossPosts: 1,581MI6 Agent
    DP

    It’s a bit like DC Bond and his love of touching ears and perspectives I would be a rich man by now!!

    Cheers :007)
    My name is Bond, Basildon Bond - I have letters after my name!
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