007 references in popular culture

Agent_99

Amazing! (I remember reading years ago that Germany had banned naming your baby after an aristocratic title, so King, Earl etc.)

Dragonpol

It's rather curious to see Osama bin Laden as a banned baby name in Germany but not "Adolf" or "Hitler" banned. I'd have thought that Hitler and the Nazis caused a lot more trouble in Germany than bin Laden ever did. Talk about getting their priorities right! It could be an example of that thing about Germany not facing up to its Nazi past.

However, I understand that the name Adolf which was very common in Germany when Hitler came to power became much less popular as a name after the end of World War II after the excesses of the regime and the horror of the Holocaust became fully apparent. However, neo-Nazis do still exist and operate in Germany and many other countries, so there is always the possibility of the name continuing to be used. I do recall a case some years ago in the United States involving the use of Adolf Hitler as a name for the child of a neo-Nazi couple.

j_w_pepper

The name Hitler is not considered a first name and would be rejected by German registrars since it is suitable and likely to endanger the child's welfare and best interests. The name Adolf is legal, but it is a regular first name that has been around for probably over a thousand years, and which was much in fashion in the late 19th century and (with an unsurprising but short-lived rebound in the 1930s) basically totally went out of fashion in the 20th, even before the end of the 3rd Reich. Chances are there is maybe one child in 100,000 that is given that name today. I never ever met anybody that was my age or younger that was actually named Adolf. As far as I can see, even among neo-Nazi politicians there is no-one wiith that name that I heard or read about.

But this is rather leading away from "007 References in Popular Culture". By the way, you couldn't call your child "007" in Germany either, nor any other number.

Thunderfinger

Dragonpol wrote: »

It's rather curious to see Osama bin Laden as a banned baby name in Germany but not "Adolf" or "Hitler" banned. I'd have thought that Hitler and the Nazis caused a lot more trouble in Germany than bin Laden ever did. Talk about getting their priorities right! It could be an example of that thing about Germany not facing up to its Nazi past.

However, I understand that the name Adolf which was very common in Germany when Hitler came to power became much less popular as a name after the end of World War II after the excesses of the regime and the horror of the Holocaust became fully apparent. However, neo-Nazis do still exist and operate in Germany and many other countries, so there is always the possibility of the name continuing to be used. I do recall a case some years ago in the United States involving the use of Adolf Hitler as a name for the child of a neo-Nazi couple.

https://www.news18.com/news/buzz/im-not-like-him-namibian-politician-named-adolf-hitler-distances-self-from-german-dictator-3165197.html

Dragonpol

j_w_pepper wrote: »

The name Hitler is not considered a first name and would be rejected by German registrars since it is suitable and likely to endanger the child's welfare and best interests. The name Adolf is legal, but it is a regular first name that has been around for probably over a thousand years, and which was much in fashion in the late 19th century and (with an unsurprising but short-lived rebound in the 1930s) basically totally went out of fashion in the 20th, even before the end of the 3rd Reich. Chances are there is maybe one child in 100,000 that is given that name today. I never ever met anybody that was my age or younger that was actually named Adolf. As far as I can see, even among neo-Nazi politicians there is no-one wiith that name that I heard or read about.

But this is rather leading away from "007 References in Popular Culture". By the way, you couldn't call your child "007" in Germany either, nor any other number.

Well, that's good to know. I had hoped/suspected that would've been the case in reality. I get that Adolf is just an ordinary German name but, as you say, it does now have very negative connotations. Just to be clear, I was thinking more of parents trying to call their baby, say, Adolf Hitler Schmidt with "Hitler" being the middle name. I could see parents possibly trying to get around the rules that way but ultimately failing. I imagine that wouldn't fly with the German registrars either, for obvious reasons but I think it is the sort of thing that that American neo-Nazi couple I referred to were trying to do. I suppose that neo-Nazi politicians don't want to be that obvious or on the nose but there are a lot of nuts among their followers who might want to name a baby Adolf Hitler. Neo-Nazis might think it "sacrilegious" to name themselves after their founder Adolf Hitler. Anyway, I too am happy for the thread to move back to the subject it was originally intended for and away from images of babies with toothbrush moustaches! :)

Thunderfinger wrote: »

Dragonpol wrote: »

It's rather curious to see Osama bin Laden as a banned baby name in Germany but not "Adolf" or "Hitler" banned. I'd have thought that Hitler and the Nazis caused a lot more trouble in Germany than bin Laden ever did. Talk about getting their priorities right! It could be an example of that thing about Germany not facing up to its Nazi past.

However, I understand that the name Adolf which was very common in Germany when Hitler came to power became much less popular as a name after the end of World War II after the excesses of the regime and the horror of the Holocaust became fully apparent. However, neo-Nazis do still exist and operate in Germany and many other countries, so there is always the possibility of the name continuing to be used. I do recall a case some years ago in the United States involving the use of Adolf Hitler as a name for the child of a neo-Nazi couple.

https://www.news18.com/news/buzz/im-not-like-him-namibian-politician-named-adolf-hitler-distances-self-from-german-dictator-3165197.html

I remember seeing that story on the front page of that bastion of British journalism and thought, the Daily Star, a while back. That is a very unfortunate name for a politician who is presumably only trying to good for the people who elected him. It's funny that he's been a councillor since 2004 and the story only broke in 2021. It must've been a very slow news day! 🐌

RichardTheBruce

Not mass produced but interesting I think.


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James Bond Dog Names
"James Bond Dog Names for you all-action dog."

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If you're a 007 fan then you've come to the right place to find Bond-themed dog names.

To get you started with your search we've picked out a few.

How about?

DOMINO: Domino Derval, Thunderball
FREELANCE: Photographer at airport, Dr. No
LARGO: Emilio Largo villain, Thunderball
MR BIG: Villain and drug lord , Live and Let Die

Continue with the list below, featuring some of the most memorable characters to grace the silver screen.

Heroes, villains, henchmen and of course the famous Bond girls.
007 James Bond's secret service code
AKI Japanese agent, You Only Live Twice
ALEC Villain Alec Trevelyan, GoldenEye
ANDREA Andrea Anders, The Man with the Golden Gun
ANGELO Doubles as Colonel Derval, Thunderball
ANYA Anya Amasova, The Spy Who Loved Me
BAMBI Fights with Bond, Diamonds are Forever
BIANCA Opening sequence flashes legs, Octopussy
BIBI Bibi Dahl, For Your Eyes Only
BLODFELD Head of criminal organisation SPECTRE
BOOTHROYD Major Boothroyd Q's rank and name
BOND James Bond British secret agent
BOUVIER Pam Bouvier, Licence to Kill
BORIS Boris Grishenko, GoldenEye
BROSNAN Pierce Brosnan, fifth James Bond
CAMILLE Camille Montes, Quantum of Solace
CHANG Drax's henchman, Moonraker
CHEW MEE Girl in pool, The Man with the Golden Gun
CHULA Karate student, The Man with the Golden Gun
COLUMBO Milos Columbo, For Your Eyes Only

CONNERY Sean Connery, the original Bond
CORINNE Pilot Corinne Dufour, Moonraker
DALTON Fourth James Bond, Timothy Dalton
DARIO Sanchez henchman, Licence to Kill
DOMINIC Dominic Greene, Quantum of Solace
DOMINO Domino Derval, Thunderball
DIKKO Dikko Henderson, You Only Live Twice
DISCO Disco Volante, Largo's yacht, Thunderball
ELEKTRA Elektra King, The World is not Enough
FALCO Damian Falco NSA official, Die Another Day
FELICCA At Fekkesh's house, The Spy Who Loves Me
FELIX Felix Leiter CIA agent and Bond's ally
FIONA Fiona Volpe henchwoman, Thunderball
FREDERICK Sir Frederick Grey, Spy who Loved Me
FREELANCE Photographer at airport, Dr. No
GOODNIGHT Mary Goodnight, The Man with the Golden Gun
GOGOL General Gogol KGB, The Spy Who loved Me
GRISCHSKA Kamal Khan's henchman (with twin), Octopussy
GRUNTHER Henchman, On Her Majesty's Secret Service
GUSTAV Villain Sir Gustav Graves, Die Another Day

HANS Blofeld's bodyguard, You Only Live Twice
HELGA Henchwoman Helga Brandt, You Only Live Twice
HOLLY Holly Goodhead CIA agent , Moonraker
HONEY RYDER The first of the Bond Girls, Dr. No
HUGO Hugo Drax the villain, Moonraker
IRMA Baddie Irma Bunt, On Her Majesty's Secret Service
JANNI Emilio Largo's henchman, Thunderball
JAWS Henchman, The Spy who Loved Me / Moonraker
JINX NSA agent, Die Another Day
JOSEF Henchman, On Her Majesty's Secret Service
KARA Kara Milovy, Living Daylights
KARL Karl Stromberg, The Spy who Loved Me
KISSY Kissy Suzuki, You Only Live Twice
KOSKOV General Koskov, The Living Daylights
LARGO Emilio Largo villain, Thunderball
LING Opening sequence, You Only Live Twice
LISL Countess Lisl von Schlaf, For Your Eyes Only
LUPE Girlfriend of villain, Licence to Kill
LOCQUE Henchman, For Your Eyes Only
M Head of M16 and Bond's boss
MAGDA Octopussy's subordinate, Octopussy

MANUELA Bond's contact in Rio, Moonraker
MARIE Opening sequence, Diamonds are Forever
MATHIS French agent Casino Royale / Quantum of Solace
MAY DAY Villain's girlfriend, A View to a Kill
MELINA Melina Havelock, For Your Eyes Only
MILTON Milton Krest, Licence to Kill
MIRANDA Miranda Frost M16 agent, Die Another Day
MISCHKA Kamal Khan's henchman (with twin), Octopussy
MISS TARO Secretary at Government House, Dr. No
MONEYPENNY Miss Moneypenny, M's assistant
MR. BIG Villain and drug lord , Live and Let Die
MR. CHANG Chinese Intelligence agent, Die Another Day
MR. JONES Picks Bond up at airport, Dr. No
MR. KIDD Blofeld's henchman, Diamonds are Forever
MR. SOLO Gangster killed by Oddjob, Goldfinger
MR. WHITE Casino Royale and Quantum of Solace
NAOMI Karl Stromberg's pilot, The Spy Who Loved Me
NATALYA Works with Bond to disarm the Goldeneye
NICK NACK Works for Scaramanga, The Man with the Golden Gun
ODDJOB Henchman to villain, Goldfinger

more James Bond Dog names...

ORLOV General Orlov Russian officer, Octopussy
PEPPER Sheriff, Live and Let Die/The Man with the Golden Gun
PLENTY Bond meets in hotel casino, Diamonds are Forever
Q Quartermaster, head of Q-Branch
QUIST Largo's henchman, Thunderball
RED Henchman Red Grant, From Russia with Love
QUARREL Bond's guide in Jamaica, Dr. No
RENARD Renard Zokas villain, The World is not Enough
ROGER Third James Bond, Roger Moore
ROSA Rosa Klebb, Russian officer, From Russia with Love
ROSIE Rosie Carver, Live and Let Die
SAIDA Belly dancer, The Man With The Golden Gun
SANCHEZ Franz Sanchez villain, Licence to Kill
SAXBY Bert Saxby (casino manager), Diamonds are Forever
SCARAMANGA Francisco Scaramanga, The Man with the Golden Gun
SCARPINE Max Zorin's henchman , A View to a Kill
SMITHERS Q's assistant, For Your Eyes Only / Octopussy
SOLITAIRE Tarot expert for Dr. Kananga, Live and Let Die
SPECTRE Criminal organisation headed by Blofeld
STACEY Stacey Sutton, A View to a Kill

more James Bond Dog names...

STRANGEWAY John Strangeways [sic], Dr. No
STAVRO Stavro Blofeld head of SPECTRE
SUZUKI Kissy Suzuki, You Only Live Twice
SYLVIA Sylvia Trench, Dr. No / From Russia with Love
TANAKA Tiger Tanaka, You Only Live Twice
TEE HEE Henchman of Mr. Big, Live and Let Die
TERESA Teresa di Vicenzo, On Her Majesty's Secret Service
THUMPER Fights with Bond, Diamonds are Forever
TIBBETT Sir Godfrey Tibbett, A View to a Kill
TIFFANY Tiffany Case, Diamonds are Forever
TILLY Tilly Masterson, covered in gold, Goldfinger
VALENKA Villain Le Chiffre's girlfriend, Casino Royale
VARGAS Emilo Largo's henchman, Thunderball
VAVRA Chief of gypsy, From Russia with Love
VERITY Fencing coach, Die Another Day
VESPER Vesper Lynd, Casino Royale
VIDA Gypsy woman, From Russia with Love
VIJAY Field operative in India, Octopussy
WAI-LIN Chinese Intelligence agent, Tomorrow Never Dies
WHISPER Mr. Big's henchman, The Man with the Golden Gun
ZAO Henchman of Gustav Graves , Die Another Day

Gerard

In France, we could only use the names beginning by T this year, so from Tanaka to Tilly.

Agent_99

Domino would be a great name for a Dalmatian!

@Gerard, I knew about the alphabetical naming of dogs in France from friends. Does it only apply to pedigrees? So you could name a mutt anything you wanted?

Gerard

For Pedigreed dogs, that's mandatory, for mutt, that's optional. But most people prefer to name their dogs with a name starting with the letter of the year, wether the dog is pedigreed or not. For example, in 1976, when we got the family dog, we named him Nemo because that was the year of the N. But he was not a pedigree dog. But we loved him a lot.

Thunderfinger

Gyro Gearloose has the role of Q, of course.

Agent_99

Gerard wrote: »

For Pedigreed dogs, that's mandatory, for mutt, that's optional. But most people prefer to name their dogs with a name starting with the letter of the year, wether the dog is pedigreed or not. For example, in 1976, when we got the family dog, we named him Nemo because that was the year of the N. But he was not a pedigree dog. But we loved him a lot.

Ah, thank you! He sounds a lovely dog. My friends had Della the Bernese mountain dog from a D year :)

Revelator

The April 11th edition of the London Sunday Times has an interview with director Paul Verhoeven, who mentions Bond:

“It’s about crashing and blowing up,” [Verhoeven] says with a sigh of big films. “Sometimes these movies are fun, but the narrative tells you nothing about us now. I don’t see any other thought in Marvel or Bond movies.”

So what would Verhoeven do with Bond? “I’d go back to reality,” he says. “Cars that don’t leap up into the sky.” He liked Casino Royale, but not the latest instalment, No Time to Die. After all, the latter had zero sex. “There was always sex in Bond!” he cackles. “They did not show a breast, or whatever. But they had some sex.”

Last_Rat_Standing

If you have kids and Netflix. Season 2 of Green Eggs and Ham contains Bond spoof titles for each episode and an opening song that sounds very Bondian for a kids show. It is spy themed with Dr. Seuss characters

Some_Kind_Of_Hero

Gerard wrote: »

For Pedigreed dogs, that's mandatory, for mutt, that's optional. But most people prefer to name their dogs with a name starting with the letter of the year, wether the dog is pedigreed or not. For example, in 1976, when we got the family dog, we named him Nemo because that was the year of the N. But he was not a pedigree dog. But we loved him a lot.

I guess you guys get a lot of Xaviers and Xochitls during the "X" years, huh?

Gerard

No. You see, until very recently, X was part of the six letters that were banned from the list (the others being K, Q, W, Y and Z). But now, you can use those letters in the same year as the authorized one that precedes them. So, in 2024, it will be possible to use X, W,, Y and Z :

https://www.loof.asso.fr/gp/lettre_annee.php

Some_Kind_Of_Hero

That's cool they're putting that into practice. I was wondering if people ever got a chance to name their pets beginning with one of those less common letters. It seems like a very particular tradition, but as with all traditions it obviously started for some reason.

RichardTheBruce

Last_Rat_Standing wrote: »

If you have kids and Netflix. Season 2 of Green Eggs and Ham contains Bond spoof titles for each episode and an opening song that sounds very Bondian for a kids show. It is spy themed with Dr. Seuss characters

I was interested enough to look those up, @Last_Rat_Standing. Pretty good.

Green Eggs and Ham (2019– )
Season 2 - Episode List
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt4651448/episodes/?ref_=tt_ov_epl

The Mom Who Loved Me
The ultimate battle between Yookia and Zookia comes down to both of them launching rockets at each other, Michellee going into labor and Sam and Pam's realtionship being tested.

The Mom Identity
A taste of home sends Sam on a mission to find his mom, with Guy and E.B. in tow. But a plot twist takes their story in a wildly different direction.

Tinker Tailor Mother Spy
Sam and his friends manage to find Sam's mother, Pam, who is a spy working for the nation of Yookia as they and the nation of Zookia are at war and they are dragged on to her mission.

Goldenguy
Sam shadows Pam on a super-secret mission, even though she'd rather work alone. In tech-loving Zookia, Guy finds an inventor's paradise.

Three Days of the Mom-dor
Sam goes with his mother to retrieve a mysterious object called the Moo-Laka-Moo while Guy and E.B. end up and Zookia and see their side of things, culminating in Guy getting an inventing job.

To Yookia With Love
E.B. and Looka have a night out together that soon ends up with them finding out how the conflict between Yookia and Zookia was instigated.

You Only Mom Twice
Guy finds out from a letter from Michelee that she's going to have another kid while Sam and Pam end up in a jungle that manipulates time and age.

Guyfall
When E.B. tells Guy about Looka, Guy causes him to be arrested, upsetting E.B. Soon though, they reunite with Sam and Pam where tensions mount when Guy becomes suspicious of Pam's intentions.

The Sam Who Came in From the Cold
When Pam delivers the Moo-Laka-Moo to the Yookia Dook, her plans to live a life with Sam becomes derailed when Sam realizes that the Moo-Laka-Moo will be used to destroy Zookia.

On Her Dookess' Secret Service
Guy resolves to dismantle his weapon against the Yooks and a pregnant Michellee helps him. Sam tries to steal the Moo-Laka-Moo back.

The Mom Who Loved Me
The ultimate battle between Yookia and Zookia comes down to both of them launching rockets at each other, Michellee going into labor and Sam and Pam's realtionship being tested.

Green Eggs and Ham: The Second Serving (Season 2) Intro

Revelator

A Bond reference in this week's Times Literary Supplement, from a disturbing review of Red Carpet: Hollywood, China, and the global battle for cultural supremacy, by Erich Schwartzel:

American studios increasingly sought to ingratiate themselves [with the Chinese government] -– a level of obeisance that has ensured that, since the late-1990s, Hollywood rarely dared to produce a film in which China is cast as the villain. In 2012 alone, to make it past the censors for the Chinese market, the producers of Skyfall cut a scene in which a Chinese guard dies, Cloud Atlas lost its gay romance strand, Django Unchained hid Jamie Foxx’s penis, Men in Black 3 erased its memory-erasing gadget (which could have been viewed as “a metaphor for authoritarian control”), and Red Dawn –- a reboot of the 1984 film which features a United States invaded by the Soviet Union and its allies -– was hurriedly re-edited to turn its Chinese baddies into North Koreans, after MGM feared China might retaliate by blacklisting the studio’s highly profitable James Bond franchise.

Many of these decisions are based on self-censorship (studios circulate unofficial lists of themes, such as ghosts, that won’t be acceptable in China), though sometimes China has a more direct hand in proceedings. In 2014 the director Michael Bay went to Beijing to discuss his latest film, Transformers: Age of extinction. A scene at the end involved Hong Kong being trashed by killer robots before Americans show up to save the day. What if, the Chinese film bureau suggested, China turned up to the rescue first? The script was rewritten. “For the first time since Hollywood’s founding, creative decisions at the root level of moviemaking-– casting, storylines and dialogue –- were being made with China, not America, first in mind”, Schwartzel writes.

This approach is premissed on the idea that Chinese audiences are easily fooled by blatant pandering. The same strategy underpinned the US–China co-production The Great Wall (2016), directed by Zhang Yimou and featuring Matt Damon as a mercenary, battling monsters during the Song dynasty. It bombed in both territories. Meanwhile, as American studios were wringing their hands about how to please the Chinese, China’s own studios were learning how to construct blockbuster hits for their audiences. They found their own Captain America in Wolf Warrior 2 (2017), a tale of a Chinese super-soldier defending an unnamed African country from a ruthless American mercenary. It stormed the Chinese box office with $854 million in takings.

...Today, the franchise is the preeminent vehicle for blockbuster cinema: films that deal with grand themes of morality, apocalyptic threat and supernatural power, bursting with laser-shooting robots and kung-fu pandas; films that, crucially, tend to be stripped of just enough historical and political context to be able to safely play in any market. Hollywood, Schwartzel writes, was once “America’s most persuasive evangelist”. Now, financial considerations mean it “remains beholden to another country”.

Last_Rat_Standing

RichardTheBruce wrote: »

Last_Rat_Standing wrote: »

If you have kids and Netflix. Season 2 of Green Eggs and Ham contains Bond spoof titles for each episode and an opening song that sounds very Bondian for a kids show. It is spy themed with Dr. Seuss characters

I was interested enough to look those up, @Last_Rat_Standing. Pretty good.

Green Eggs and Ham (2019– )
Season 2 - Episode List
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt4651448/episodes/?ref_=tt_ov_epl

The Mom Who Loved Me
The ultimate battle between Yookia and Zookia comes down to both of them launching rockets at each other, Michellee going into labor and Sam and Pam's realtionship being tested.

The Mom Identity
A taste of home sends Sam on a mission to find his mom, with Guy and E.B. in tow. But a plot twist takes their story in a wildly different direction.

Tinker Tailor Mother Spy
Sam and his friends manage to find Sam's mother, Pam, who is a spy working for the nation of Yookia as they and the nation of Zookia are at war and they are dragged on to her mission.

Goldenguy
Sam shadows Pam on a super-secret mission, even though she'd rather work alone. In tech-loving Zookia, Guy finds an inventor's paradise.

Three Days of the Mom-dor
Sam goes with his mother to retrieve a mysterious object called the Moo-Laka-Moo while Guy and E.B. end up and Zookia and see their side of things, culminating in Guy getting an inventing job.

To Yookia With Love
E.B. and Looka have a night out together that soon ends up with them finding out how the conflict between Yookia and Zookia was instigated.

You Only Mom Twice
Guy finds out from a letter from Michelee that she's going to have another kid while Sam and Pam end up in a jungle that manipulates time and age.

Guyfall
When E.B. tells Guy about Looka, Guy causes him to be arrested, upsetting E.B. Soon though, they reunite with Sam and Pam where tensions mount when Guy becomes suspicious of Pam's intentions.

The Sam Who Came in From the Cold
When Pam delivers the Moo-Laka-Moo to the Yookia Dook, her plans to live a life with Sam becomes derailed when Sam realizes that the Moo-Laka-Moo will be used to destroy Zookia.

On Her Dookess' Secret Service
Guy resolves to dismantle his weapon against the Yooks and a pregnant Michellee helps him. Sam tries to steal the Moo-Laka-Moo back.

The Mom Who Loved Me
The ultimate battle between Yookia and Zookia comes down to both of them launching rockets at each other, Michellee going into labor and Sam and Pam's realtionship being tested.

Green Eggs and Ham: The Second Serving (Season 2) Intro

I was wrong initially with saying that every title is Bond related. Most are but some spoof other spy films. My boys love this show and have watched the second season like 3 times already. It's highly entertaining

Last_Rat_Standing

In my watching of X-Files for the first time I came across an episode that features our favorite Russian friend General Gogol. I thought the actor had passed but this episode was in the 95-96 time-frame

RichardTheBruce

https://www.newsportel.com/labor-and-the-liberals-are-waging-an-election-meme-war-but-what-is-the-point-australia-news/

Thunderfinger

https://forbiddenknowledgetv.net/the-megadeath-intellectuals-of-the-great-reset/

Birdleson

Gerard

Seems like Dale (of Chip and Dale fame) has become a movie star, and his latest movie is :

Revelator

From a recent issue of Private Eye:

Gerard

And one very big mistake in the title of the article ! No need to point it out, I can hear the people on this forum screaming bloody murder.

Revelator

Yes, I'm surprised no one at Private Eye caught that howler.

BT3366

Gerard wrote: »

And one very big mistake in the title of the article ! No need to point it out, I can hear the people on this forum screaming bloody murder.

They also got Tracy's last name wrong.

Dragonpol

It's a very common mistake in the media sadly and has even cropped up on the back cover blurb of the UK Panther paperback of Christopher Wood's James Bond, The Spy Who Loved Me (1977):

"The Cold War thaws as the might of M15 joins the cream of the KGB for one unique mission."