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Your feelgood, real life 'Bond' moments.

saunderssaunders Living in a world of avarice and deceit
edited March 2011 in Bond Movies Posts: 987
Yet another great thread from the old site that should be resurrected. I can't remember who originally came up with it so to save arguments let's just say it's all my great idea.
So anyway, the general idea of this is to recall those moments recently or in the distant past when you were in a situation and felt like Bond, maybe it was when you ordered a dry Martini, or overtook a Ferrari at high speed, maybe it was when a pretty hotel receptionist flirted with you or even something as simple as the last time you pushed a bald guy off a rooftop, whatever it was that made you feel like Bond this is the place to brag about it.
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  • BondBond
    Posts: 503
    When me and my cousins used to play "Bond & Villain" (variation on cops & robbers) and I was Bond. We used toy guns and everything. :-))
  • saunderssaunders Living in a world of avarice and deceit
    edited March 2011 Posts: 987
    Quoting Bond: When me and my cousins used to play "Bond & Villain" (variation on cops
    & robbers) and I was Bond. We used toy guns and everything. :))

    That sounds amazing Bond, splendid effort, that's just the sort of reponse this topic is looking for!
    :-D
  • CoH_GHOST_007CoH_GHOST_007
    edited March 2011 Posts: 303
    When at school, (a few months back), and everyone played bulldog takedowns, and nearly everyone of my friends (around 10-15 of them) were on and had to catch, and pin me to the ground, but i just constantly kept running straight past them, diving over there legs, dodging their fists, and every time, i won :')

    Another time; when at school, was when my friend was getting bullied by three other kids, so i just walked up to them and knocked the living daylights out of them, and i never got caught, and saved my friend, great Bond-ish moment :D
  • Sir_Hilary_BraySir_Hilary_Bray
    Posts: 57
    Quoting Bond: When me and my cousins used to play "Bond & Villain" (variation on cops & robbers) and I was Bond. We used toy guns and everything.
    This is exactly what I did when I was small! At the age of 10-11 I used a camera to film my bond adventures, sometimes my whole school class joined me for a big military end battle in a bond style. I was of course James Bond :D

    Another story: Last December my plane was canceled due to heavy snow, the airline reserved a really cheap hotel for me (I traveled economy), however I saw that people from the business class (and other people with special benefit cards) got a 5* hotel. That made my inner Bond come up: I went to the youngest female airport hostess and flirted with her... That's how I managed to be the only economy traveler who spent a night for free in a 5* hotel :D (it even included diner)
  • saunderssaunders Living in a world of avarice and deceit
    Posts: 987
    Remember that scene at Piz Gloria in OHMSS when Bond having just made love to Ruby minutes earlier finds Nancy in his room and despite being exhausted and 'spent' has to also make love to her? Well (and I don't want to sound like I'm boasting) the very same thing happened to me, okay maybe a slight difference being that I was on my own in both cases but technically I'm sure it's still a valid Bond moment! :)
  • TheWizardOfIceTheWizardOfIce 'One of the Internet's more toxic individuals'
    Posts: 9,117
    When I was 7 at school this kid came at me with a needle (as in needle and thread not a syringe-this is a primary school in Staffordshire not the Bronx) which when youre that age is as good as a knife. I remember measuring the distance before kicking it out of his hand Bond style. The kid bottled it and legged it when he saw the kind of person he was dealing with. I felt as cool as Lazenby himself. Just a shame I didnt come up with a one liner along the lines of 'he got the point'. Shouldve nutted him then I couldve quipped 'stitch that'. Alas his name wasnt Jimmy which would have made that line even better.
  • dragonskydragonsky
    Posts: 2,491
    @saunders hahahah this made me laugh hahaha
  • doubleonothingdoubleonothing Los Angeles
    Posts: 864
    When I was staying at my dad's place in Singapore, I discovered a tarantula in my bedroom. Now, I like spiders, but there was no way I was spending the night with this critter, nor was I about to try to escort it outside with a glass and a piece of paper. The only thing for it was to thwack it with the intruder truncheon that was hanging up by the front door. I actually missed it on the first whack, which was surprising considering the thing was as big as my hand. After that, it zipped off, followed by me uselessly whacking at it until finally it bit the dust, rather messily I might add, at the end of the wooden bat.

    It's only recently that I thought of this as a "Bond Moment", but it is very like the bit from Dr.No.
  • saunderssaunders Living in a world of avarice and deceit
    Posts: 987
    That's a really impressive 'Bond moment' doubleonothing and you handled it like a true '00' agent, I trust you then staggered into the bathroom in true Connery style ( though personally if it was me any toilet functions would of been done in my underpants the moment I saw the spider!)
  • doubleonothingdoubleonothing Los Angeles
    Posts: 864
    Funnily enough, saunders, I went right to bed and slept like a baby.

    I do feel guilty about it to this day, though. I like spiders, and this one was unlikely to have caused me any harm.

    Not the biggest spider I have ever seen, but big enough. About the size of the red-knees you see in Raiders. So you understand why I wasn't looking forward to it being in my bedroom.

  • The_Preacher711The_Preacher711
    Posts: 139
    On my Honeymoon in 2000- went to Corfu and visited the 'Old Fort' used in FYEO for the assault on the drug warehouse, and Bond chasing Locque......

    Found myself running up the steep steps, and mock shooting out of the tunnels..... before finally kicking an imaginary car off the ledge.

    The wife was by that point very afraid about what sort of lunatic she'd married.....
  • Master_DaharkMaster_Dahark
    edited April 2011 Posts: 4,813
    LOL I would have done the same thing! I'm jealous, BTW.
    I hope you took pics- if you had a good shot of the 'point gun in tunnel' pose, that would be the best facebook profile ever!

    ** I bet you could run up those stairs faster than Moore did ;)
  • The_Preacher711The_Preacher711
    edited April 2011 Posts: 139
    Quoting Master_Dahark:
    LOL I would have done the same thing! I'm jealous, BTW.
    I
    hope you took pics- if you had a good shot of the 'point gun in tunnel' pose,
    that would be the best facebook profile ever!

    ** I bet you could run up
    those stairs faster than Moore did ;)
    I do have pics- they are pre digital, so need digging out an scanning..... visited just about all the Corfu locations and got pics.

    Pose- no..... sadly the pictures are of me running around like a hyperactive child....

    Stairs- I started out well.... didn't last though... there really is a lot......
  • saunderssaunders Living in a world of avarice and deceit
    Posts: 987
    I once went on a Bond pilgrimage to Gibraltar with my long suffering wife and reenacted that scene when Bond is on top of the landrover on the very road used in the film, I say reenacted but I didn't actually have a vehicle, I just ran down it really, really fast but I'm sure the surprised tourists thought I looked pretty awesome with my cool Bond like running and the asthma inhaler wedged in my red wheezing face!
  • Bond_EdBond_Ed
    Posts: 37
    Nothing specific, but generally, on some of my visits to the Caribbean beaches and tropical locales, you can. for a moment, feel just like Bond.
  • The_Preacher711The_Preacher711
    edited April 2011 Posts: 139
    Quoting saunders: I didn't actually have a vehicle, I just ran down it really, really fast but
    I'm sure the surprised tourists thought I looked pretty awesome with my cool
    Bond like running and the asthma inhaler wedged in my red wheezing face!
    Still laughing at that image, ten mins after reading it....... Can't blame you- would have been me too!
  • HASEROTHASEROT has returned like the tedious inevitability of an unloved season---
    Posts: 4,399
    i was driving down the highway into work one day - and there was a car that was swerving all over the road, nearly running into other cars, and almost slamming into the concrete separation barriers at times - not to mention, he was cruising at a pretty good clip - roughly, i would say 95 - 100 mph..

    well, after nearly getting ran off the road by this guy myself - i stomped the gas of my mighty v6 Kia Optima (lol) and i sped up after him - weaving around traffic myself... so basically, you have two lunatics swerving through traffic at 100+ mph.... but all i wanted to do was get a good look at the man's license plate, so I could call up the police - which i did... once i got his plate number, i slowed back down and got on my cell phone... the chase went only about 2 - 3 miles though...... typically, i will not NARC on speeders - but i take offense when i nearly get killed by one, lol..

    but the whole time, the only thing going through my head while weaving through traffic, was the music track "Time To Get Out" from Quantum Of Solace, lol..
  • MrBondMrBond Station S
    Posts: 2,044
    Well this thread is worth a bump.
  • 0BradyM0Bondfanatic70BradyM0Bondfanatic7 Quantum Floral Arrangements: "We Have Petals Everywhere"
    Posts: 28,694
    My High School prom, rocking a DN/CR like tuxedo. It was worth it just to wear that baby for 4 hours. I love tuxedos, suit coats, and dressing up in general due in small part to Bond.
  • 4EverBonded4EverBonded the Ballrooms of Mars
    edited June 2012 Posts: 12,480
    Driving a friend to the airport trying to make his plane departure, weaving in and out of traffic in a controlled yet hell bent manner (as much as my Subaru would allow), shifting in perfect timing, like I was in the zone (like when I had a good game playing as a midfielder) and my friend turned to me with a grin and said - over the noise of traffic, as I passed someone on the bridge -"Well done," - and then started humming/singing the Bond theme. I broke out laughing; it made my day. Years ago and I still remember that with a smile. And I still prefer driving a stick.
  • JWESTBROOKJWESTBROOK
    Posts: 5,745
    There was one time last summer I was at a friends house. We were swimming and he went to the bathroom so I decided to hide from him.

    Anyways, made it up to the roof (we do it all the time) and waited for his return. As I started running I threw my phone (needed something to do while waiting) onto a table chair, lept into the air and landed in the pool. Scared the stiff out of him.

    Was immensely fun.

    Also, I drive like I'm a NASCAR professional daily, make Craig's pouty face intentionally when I got out with my dad to shoot, and frequently hunt invisible henchmen throughout my house when nobody is home.

    I'm 17 and still a child =P~
  • 0BradyM0Bondfanatic70BradyM0Bondfanatic7 Quantum Floral Arrangements: "We Have Petals Everywhere"
    Posts: 28,694
    I had a very fun time just last week when I made my way over to a friend's house. As I came in the door, I hear his voice slightly withdrawn, guessing he was in his living room. My hand still grasping the doorknob, my feet just inside the house, he points a nerf gun at me. I glance at him with a laughable expression, caught obviously off guard. He tells me that I have 2 seconds to get the other nerf gun laying just a few feet away on the stairs near the doorway, and figure out how to load it before he shoots me. I continue ploying him into conversation, getting his mind elsewhere, when I suddenly break conversation and dive for the stairs, getting out of his sight. I became able to reach around to the front step and retrieve the gun. I was boxed in at that position, so I made my way into the room to the right of the door, using his computer chair as a shield as we both shot each other and pulled the slides on the guns to load more darts until we were both out, laughing giddily like children. Fun times, and I felt very Bond by the end of it.
  • Creasy47Creasy47 In Cuba with Natalya.Moderator
    edited June 2012 Posts: 41,009
    Prom was definitely a good Bond-esque tale for me. Spent an hour or so there, strolling around in my tuxedo, 'Bond' comments flying at me from all directions, and after leaving around halfway through, I dedicated the rest of the night to trying, as suave as I could be, to bed a girl from my graduating class.
  • thelordflasheartthelordflasheart
    Posts: 1,370
    Many years ago I had to attend a charity golf event for work. It was at a course a little out of town and there was a slightly winding road to get there which led through some pretty countryside. I had a Miata and they were fairly new at the time and got a lot of looks (women in particular really liked mine - I had it custom painted a variation of British Racing Green). So I'm a little dressed up and a woman in a Porsche Boxter comes up behind me and passes me. So I floor the accelerator and pass her on the next bend (Miatas handle amazingly in corners) and smile and give her a Brosnan-like wave. We both had the tops of our cars down - it was an unusually warm day - so we were able to smile and make little gestures to each other easily. We repeated this a couple of times - passing each other and smiling and nodding at each other - but then I had to turn off for the golf course and she kept going.

    I had a girlfriend at the time so I never thought about continuing the "chase". But those couple of minutes were likely the most I ever felt like Bond in my life.
  • MrBondMrBond Station S
    Posts: 2,044
    Creasy47 wrote:
    Prom was definitely a good Bond-esque tale for me. Spent an hour or so there, strolling around in my tuxedo, 'Bond' comments flying at me from all directions, and after leaving around halfway through, I dedicated the rest of the night to trying, as suave as I could be, to bed a girl from my graduating class.

    Haha, i recognise that from when i graduated from 9th grade for a couple of weeks ago ;)
  • PositiveTouchPositiveTouch
    Posts: 67
    I've had many Bond moments in life. The ones I remember well were playing poker with my friends in my basement. I didn't always win. In fact, we made little plotlines. The winner was the villain, and they'd take the case full of chips with a henchman on the run. The other guy and myself were Felix and Bond respectively. I have woods near my home and it's fun to play manhunt there.

    More recently, I cut my hair short and immediately hit the golf course with my grandmother and aunt. I wore a cardigan over a dress shirt with slacks. I ended up quoting lines from the golf scene in Goldfinger like a boss.

    Last weekend was my prom. I wore a black pinstripe 3-piece with a blue tie. I strolled around with a cat-like grace. After it was over, well, I took my girlfriend home with me. I won't get into details but I can say that my Bondian streak of the night ended quickly. :\">

    I still often walk around my house like Bond, when I'm alone. I have an Airsoft P99 that I had painted black for a play, along with a shoulder holster that I fashioned out of gym bag straps. Works pretty well. I also have a tactical vest and boots that I use to do recon missions around my house and my grandmother's. It's more fun to exercise if I have motivation. It's pretty fun in the winter. I'm 19 and not ashamed of the impact Bond had on me. As the man himself once said "...It comes from not growing up at all."
  • JWESTBROOKJWESTBROOK
    Posts: 5,745
    This one time I was out in the woods behind my house playing paintball. It was supposed to be 1 v 1 v 1 but ended up being 2 v 1 (being me). I ended up running to the creek and dodged behind a tree, and at this exact moment a few paintballs slammed into the creek in a line as if they were bullets streaking past, splashing up water. Probably one of the few times I was taken out of reality and gone 'woah, that was cool'.

    Anyways, I lost :/ but I brought fireworks so they stopped wanting to play very quickly ;)
  • CraigMooreOHMSSCraigMooreOHMSS Dublin, Ireland
    Posts: 8,230
    JWESTBROOK wrote:
    This one time I was out in the woods behind my house playing paintball. It was supposed to be 1 v 1 v 1 but ended up being 2 v 1 (being me). I ended up running to the creek and dodged behind a tree, and at this exact moment a few paintballs slammed into the creek in a line as if they were bullets streaking past, splashing up water. Probably one of the few times I was taken out of reality and gone 'woah, that was cool'.

    Anyways, I lost :/ but I brought fireworks so they stopped wanting to play very quickly ;)

    Paintball can provide many a thrill. I often go and engage in large scale battles. A lot of the time I don't even know the person I'm shooting at. Not very Bond-like, but I thought I'd stick it in there.
  • largo2largo2
    Posts: 469
    Overtaking on the motorway doing 100 plus trying to get from Silverstone to Portsmouth to catch the boat back home. Made it in 40 minutes. Naughty I know but lots of fun And I only have an AudiA3 :D
  • thelivingroyalethelivingroyale
    edited April 2013 Posts: 12,837
    When I've been skydiving and base jumping before. Reminds me of MR every time.
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