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Where's the MI6 jubilee street party?

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  • slyfoxslyfox
    edited June 2012 Posts: 940
    I was surprised. Did anyone watch it as well?? One of the hosts made a comment (to millions worldwide) after her song saying she was the James Bond writer, Ian Fleming's daughter. Massive error on the BBC then....
  • TheWizardOfIceTheWizardOfIce 'One of the Internet's more toxic individuals'
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    slyfox wrote:
    I was surprised. Did anyone watch it as well?? One of the hosts made a comment (to millions worldwide) after her song saying she was the James Bond writer, Ian Fleming's daughter. Massive error on the BBC then....

    To be fair I thought it was supposed to be a (not very good) joke. Although I suppose my level of Fleming literacy is more than most so its understandable that the general public might be misled.

  • slyfoxslyfox
    edited June 2012 Posts: 940
    Awful joke if that's the case. It was something like "Wonderful performance by Renne Fleming, the daughter of the legendary James Bond writer Ian Fleming." Hense - no laughter from public.

    Great show though. We Brits always put on a good party.
  • TheWizardOfIceTheWizardOfIce 'One of the Internet's more toxic individuals'
    edited June 2012 Posts: 9,117
    Wasnt it more something like 'what a talented family; Renee is an amazing singer and her father also created James Bond.'

    Either way though poor and Brydon at his most feeble, or was it Lenny? Both should have been nowhere near this really.
  • slyfoxslyfox
    edited June 2012 Posts: 940
    Yea something like that came out of the horse's mouth (Brydon's).

    Fun evening though. Macca doing Live and Let Die whilst fireworks explode around him was immense. Tom Jones and Shirley were on their usual top form. Grace Jones looked just as frightening as in bed with poor ol' Rog in AVTAK. I was kinda of hoping she'd shout "Get Zorin for meeeeeee" followed by a pleasing explosion on stage.
  • TheWizardOfIceTheWizardOfIce 'One of the Internet's more toxic individuals'
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    LALD, DAF, the Jones twins - Tom and Grace, the mention of Fleming:- all in all quite a lot of Bond in the lineup but then the Royal Family are big Bond fans.

    Has there been any word who is attending the SF premiere yet? As its the 50th and the Jubilee should really be the Queen herfself I reckon.
  • slyfoxslyfox
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    And the theme blasting out on the river on Saturday as well. Big weekend for Bond!

    I would bet on her to show up at the premiere. Her being a big fan, Bond's 50th, her 60th on the throne, it's the perfect marriage.

    Elsewhere, it looks like Bond could be turning up at the Olympics too, again with the Queen's involvement. Regardless of the paper, the story is circling around again. Certainly not an April Fool's Day trick anymore.

    http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/london-2012-daniel-craig-to-open-860295
  • RogueAgentRogueAgent
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    Always been a proud Brit! Even more so this weekend after terrific Diamond Jubilee celebrations!
  • 0BradyM0Bondfanatic70BradyM0Bondfanatic7 Quantum Floral Arrangements: "We Have Petals Everywhere"
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    Getafix wrote:
    She is not Ian Flemings daughter.
    HAHAHA obviously not! :))
  • DaltonCraig007DaltonCraig007 They say, "Evil prevails when good men fail to act." What they ought to say is, "Evil prevails."
    edited June 2012 Posts: 15,723
    I always thought british presentators were on drugs whenever there was a major live event..... when I was a kid I thought it was impossible to make shows like ITV's grand prix broadcasts if you didn't take some strong stuff a few hours before being on air :p
  • 0BradyM0Bondfanatic70BradyM0Bondfanatic7 Quantum Floral Arrangements: "We Have Petals Everywhere"
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    Fleming's daughter would be at least 70 or 80.
  • TheWizardOfIceTheWizardOfIce 'One of the Internet's more toxic individuals'
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    0BradyM0Bondfanatic7 wrote:
    Fleming's daughter would be at least 70 or 80.

    There are huge flaws in either your maths, your human biology, or your knowledge of Flemings life.

    Assuming Fleming did the business the night before he died (thats if his ticker could take it) she would have just recently had her 47th birthday.

    Given that opera singer Renee Fleming was born in 1959 then, like a car that sprouts wings, the notion is 'quite feasible'.
  • DaltonCraig007DaltonCraig007 They say, "Evil prevails when good men fail to act." What they ought to say is, "Evil prevails."
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    TheWizardOfIce wrote:
    0BradyM0Bondfanatic7 wrote:
    Fleming's daughter would be at least 70 or 80.

    There are huge flaws in either your maths, your human biology, or your knowledge of Flemings life.

    Assuming Fleming did the business the night before he died (thats if his ticker could take it) she would have just recently had her 47th birthday.

    Given that opera singer Renee Fleming was born in 1959 then, like a car that sprouts wings, the notion is 'quite feasible'.

    Fleming would have been 100 in 2008... so if he had his daughter at age 20, she'd be 80 by now.

  • TheWizardOfIceTheWizardOfIce 'One of the Internet's more toxic individuals'
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    DaltonCraig007 wrote:

    Fleming would have been 100 in 2008... so if he had his daughter at age 20, she'd be 80 by now.

    Yes she would. And if he'd had her at age 30 she'd be 70, at 40 she'd be 60; I could go on but I'm not sure what point you are trying to make.

    You do realise men are able to produce sperm into their 60s' 70's and even 80's. Fleming doesnt have to actually give birth to her himself you know.
  • DaltonCraig007DaltonCraig007 They say, "Evil prevails when good men fail to act." What they ought to say is, "Evil prevails."
    edited June 2012 Posts: 15,723
    TheWizardOfIce wrote:
    You do realise men are able to produce sperm into their 60s' 70's and even 80's. Fleming doesnt have to actually give birth to her himself you know.

    Fleming turned 80 in 1988..... are you saying that zombie-Fleming could have produced sperm from his grave ? he must have been a skeletton by the late 80's.

  • thelivingroyalethelivingroyale
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    A thread about the Jubilee becomes a thread about Flemings sperm. Gotta love how off topic things get around here.
  • TheWizardOfIceTheWizardOfIce 'One of the Internet's more toxic individuals'
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    thelivingroyale wrote:
    A thread about the Jubilee becomes a thread about Flemings sperm. Gotta love how off topic things get around here.

    Well it seems some people cant comprehend how babies are made.
    DaltonCraig007 wrote:
    TheWizardOfIce wrote:
    You do realise men are able to produce sperm into their 60s' 70's and even 80's. Fleming doesnt have to actually give birth to her himself you know.

    Fleming turned 80 in 1988..... are you saying that zombie-Fleming could have produced sperm from his grave ? he must have been a skeletton by the late 80's.

    Cant believe I have to explain such basic mathematics and biology (or even that the Wizard can be bothered to waste his time on extrapolating such simplistic points).

    Fleming died in August 64. Assuming he was on the job the night before a 'daughter' would conceivably be born at the latest in May 65 - making her just 47 at the youngest.

    As Renee Fleming was born in 1959 (that makes her 53 just in case you cant manage the calculation yourself) its quite conceivable that she could in theory be Flemings daughter.

    Therefore Bradys original contention which I was refuting, that any daughter would be 70 or 80, is entirely false.

    Jesus.
  • DaltonCraig007DaltonCraig007 They say, "Evil prevails when good men fail to act." What they ought to say is, "Evil prevails."
    edited June 2012 Posts: 15,723
    you said that men can copulate well into their 80th year of age...... what has that got to do with Fleming ? Unless his reproduction system was still fully operational 24 years after his death, which is physically impossible !!!

    I said that Fleming could have had his daughter at age 20, thus she'd be 80 by now. Fleming could have had her in his 20's, no ?
  • TheWizardOfIceTheWizardOfIce 'One of the Internet's more toxic individuals'
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    I was trying to make sense of your rather nonesensical point that if he'd had her at 20 she'd be 80. I dont really understand what you were getting at apart from a statement of the bleeding obvious.

    The point I'm trying to get across is that Fleming would be perfectly able to father a child the night before his death aged 56 so there is no logic to Brady's original assertion that she would have to be 70 or 80.

    Someone help me here - is this really that difficult to comprehend?
  • DaltonCraig007DaltonCraig007 They say, "Evil prevails when good men fail to act." What they ought to say is, "Evil prevails."
    edited June 2012 Posts: 15,723
    Did Fleming have a daughter at all ?

    edit : I see he had a son.
  • BAIN123BAIN123
    edited June 2012 Posts: 11,189
    I decided to skip the jubilee stuff today and headed down to Beaulieu instead :D Saw part of the concert last night though. Grace Jones was pretty terrible as was Sir Cliff and Cheryl Cole.

    As Pierce's Bond would say "who's strangling a cat?"
  • echoecho 007 in New York
    edited June 2012 Posts: 6,396
    DaltonCraig007 wrote:
    TheWizardOfIce wrote:
    You do realise men are able to produce sperm into their 60s' 70's and even 80's. Fleming doesnt have to actually give birth to her himself you know.

    Fleming turned 80 in 1988..... are you saying that zombie-Fleming could have produced sperm from his grave ? he must have been a skeletton by the late 80's.

    Forget daughters. Dig him up, clone his DNA a la Jurassic Park, advance-age him, and set Fleming 2.0 to writing some new novels! Eon needs him!
  • 4EverBonded4EverBonded the Ballrooms of Mars
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    DaltonCraig007 wrote:
    Did Fleming have a daughter at all ?

    edit : I see he had a son.

    And, sadly (if I remember correctly), his son committed suicide.
  • slyfoxslyfox
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    thelivingroyale wrote:
    A thread about the Jubilee becomes a thread about Flemings sperm. Gotta love how off topic things get around here.

    Classic. If only there was a like button.

    Seems some members on this forum might need the Wizard to start up his own sex education thread on here!
  • 0BradyM0Bondfanatic70BradyM0Bondfanatic7 Quantum Floral Arrangements: "We Have Petals Everywhere"
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    We seriously all got worked up over this? Good god this forum is spinning out of control these days...
  • slyfoxslyfox
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    Not me. I actually find it a highly amusing de-railed thread.
  • 0BradyM0Bondfanatic70BradyM0Bondfanatic7 Quantum Floral Arrangements: "We Have Petals Everywhere"
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    slyfox wrote:
    Not me. I actually find it a highly amusing de-railed thread.

    You weren't here for the worst of it.
  • GetafixGetafix
    edited June 2012 Posts: 11,425
    The best threads are the ones that go amusingly off topic.
  • thelivingroyalethelivingroyale
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    slyfox wrote:
    thelivingroyale wrote:
    A thread about the Jubilee becomes a thread about Flemings sperm. Gotta love how off topic things get around here.

    Classic. If only there was a like button.

    Seems some members on this forum might need the Wizard to start up his own sex education thread on here!

    That would be hilarious :))
    BAIN123 wrote:
    I decided to skip the jubilee stuff today and headed down to Beaulieu instead :D Saw part of the concert last night though. Grace Jones was pretty terrible as was Sir Cliff and Cheryl Cole.

    As Pierce's Bond would say "who's strangling a cat?"

    I only caught a bit of it because I was watching QOS on the other channel, but yeah Cheryl was awful. Last night she showed why she usually mimes. I didn't bother with any of it today either, can't be doing with it all tbh. Is Beaulieu the car place?
  • 0BradyM0Bondfanatic70BradyM0Bondfanatic7 Quantum Floral Arrangements: "We Have Petals Everywhere"
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    Getafix wrote:
    The best threads are the ones that go amusingly off topic.

    Yes, of course. 8-|
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