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  • DragonpolDragonpol https://thebondologistblog.blogspot.com
    edited December 2016 Posts: 18,264
    A warm welcome aboard to @Agnes_007 and @QuantumOrganization. :)
  • ThunderfingerThunderfinger Das Boot Hill
    Posts: 45,489
    Welcome to the new greedy bastard.
  • Agnes_007Agnes_007 Manchester, UK
    Posts: 50
    Hello @QuantumOrganization and Dragonpol! :D
  • Agent_99Agent_99 enjoys a spirited ride as much as the next girl
    Posts: 3,176
    Morning! (please adjust as appropriate for your time zone)

    I came to Bond through the novels, which kept me sane when I was a bored, lonely teenager at boarding-school, but I'm partial to the movies too, especially the Dalton era. I also love all the post-Bond spoofs and campy spy franchises, Get Smart in particular (hence username).

    My MI6 credentials:

    - As a teen, I went on BBC Radio 4 to talk about why I loved Bond (I sincerely hope all recordings of this have been destroyed)

    - My friend and I won a Bond quiz at the V&A Museum by a single point, despite having a bitter argument about For Your Eyes Only in the middle of it

    - I once got to hold a first edition of Casino Royale, and I still slightly regret not doing a runner with it
  • ThunderfingerThunderfinger Das Boot Hill
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    Welcome here. Englishman.
  • ThunderpussyThunderpussy My Secret Lair
    Posts: 13,384
    Nice to meet you Agent_99 , and all
    the new members.
  • DragonpolDragonpol https://thebondologistblog.blogspot.com
    Posts: 18,264
    Welcome aboard, @Agent_99. I must say that you do sound an interesting chap already. :)
  • Agent_99Agent_99 enjoys a spirited ride as much as the next girl
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    One tries one's best :)
  • DragonpolDragonpol https://thebondologistblog.blogspot.com
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    Agent_99 wrote: »
    One tries one's best :)

    That is all anyone can do. I'm sure that you'll fit in nicely here. :)
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    Welcome indeed !!
  • jake24jake24 Sitting at your desk, kissing your lover, eating supper with your familyModerator
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    A warm welcome to you, @Agent_99.
  • ThunderfingerThunderfinger Das Boot Hill
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    Dragonpol wrote: »
    Agent_99 wrote: »
    One tries one's best :)

    That is all anyone can do.

    Not me.
  • JustJamesJustJames London
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    Hello, a little difficulty passing the human test (don't use questions that look like a trick question....) and my bandwidth is too low to upload an avatar it seems.

    Anyway, I went through a brief Bond fandom stage in my teenage years, at which time I preferred Dalton as Bond. This culminated in Goldeneye on N64 for my eighteenth birthday and far too many Martinis in celebration. As time has gone on, I decided I quite liked the Brosnan era, apart from Die Another Day, and the weaker elements in Tomorrow Never Dies (any moment Johnathan Pryce or his Jean-Pau
  • JustJamesJustJames London
    Posts: 216
    Hello, a little difficulty passing the human test (don't use questions that look like a trick question....) and my bandwidth is too low to upload an avatar it seems.

    Anyway, I went through a brief Bond fandom stage in my teenage years, at which time I preferred Dalton as Bond. This culminated in Goldeneye on N64 for my eighteenth birthday and far too many Martinis in celebration. As time has gone on, I decided I quite liked the Brosnan era, apart from Die Another Day, and the weaker elements in Tomorrow Never Dies (any moment Johnathan Pryce or his Jean-Paul Gaultier issue henchman is on screen basically) with probably the same nostalgia my father had for Connery. I am not a fan of the Craig reboots...I don't like obvious reboots in general (it's already implicit in Bond films after all...) and aside from some excellent cinematography, don't feel they have much to offer in a positive way. (Craig portrays his character well, but I am not quite sure who that character is supposed to actually be...)

    I did read quite a few Fleming novels at around that time (ironically, I don't think he is the best Bond Author, OHMSS is...pretty bad.) and liked a few newer ones (Raymond Benson has a certain charm, the Jeffrey Deaver one was excellent and deserved a follow up, I read the Gardner novelisation of LTK and License Renewed, but have basically forgotten everything about them.) as well as branching out into British Espionage Fiction in general (I feel it's a different category to the American Spy Novel, they tend to be...louder.) and have a soft spot for Spooks over on TV.
  • JustJamesJustJames London
    Posts: 216
    Hello, a little difficulty passing the human test (don't use questions that look like a trick question....) and my bandwidth is too low to upload an avatar it seems.

    Anyway, I went through a brief Bond fandom stage in my teenage years, at which time I preferred Dalton as Bond. This culminated in Goldeneye on N64 for my eighteenth birthday and far too many Martinis in celebration. As time has gone on, I decided I quite liked the Brosnan era, apart from Die Another Day, and the weaker elements in Tomorrow Never Dies (any moment Johnathan Pryce or his Jean-Paul Gaultier issue henchman is on screen basically) with probably the same nostalgia my father had for Connery. I am not a fan of the Craig reboots...I don't like obvious reboots in general (it's already implicit in Bond films after all...) and aside from some excellent cinematography, don't feel they have much to offer in a positive way. (Craig portrays his character well, but I am not quite sure who that character is supposed to actually be...)

    I did read quite a few Fleming novels at around that time (ironically, I don't think he is the best Bond Author, OHMSS is...pretty bad.) and liked a few newer ones (Raymond Benson has a certain charm, the Jeffrey Deaver one was excellent and deserved a follow up, I read the Gardner novelisation of LTK and License Renewed, but have basically forgotten everything about them.) as well as branching out into British Espionage Fiction in general (I feel it's a different category to the American Spy Novel, they tend to be...louder.) and have a soft spot for Spooks over on TV.
  • ThunderfingerThunderfinger Das Boot Hill
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    Welcome, @JesseJames!
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    Flemings OHMSS is pretty bad ?! ...Dr Thunderfinger,you are at it again - on form tonight !
  • ThunderfingerThunderfinger Das Boot Hill
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    I noticed that, but almost nobody s perfect, so I let it pass.
  • Posts: 19,339
    Indeed....
  • Agent_99Agent_99 enjoys a spirited ride as much as the next girl
    Posts: 3,176
    Hurray, I'm not the newest any more! Welcome from me, and thanks to all for welcoming me so warmly!
  • JustJamesJustJames London
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    barryt007 wrote: »
    Flemings OHMSS is pretty bad ?! ...Dr Thunderfinger,you are at it again - on form tonight !

    It's the overall complicated villain plot, the 'guid and bloody' steaks and the harem comedy nature. It's been twenty years since I read it, and it sticks in my head as much for the wrong reasons as the right ones. (Urine invisible ink on passport pages and being told of for blood alcohol being too high...watch as a knuckle duster...well..that would knacker your own hand pretty fast...) it's kind of put me off the Fleming bond altogether actually. Though I still like my old edition of Live and Let Die with the pretty pin up girl sat on a gun for a cover, and quite liked From Russia With Love. Casino Royals was hard work, then OHMSS killed it for me.
  • Posts: 19,339
    Well fair play to you,as Mr White said in QOS : "Tosca isnt for everyone"... ;)
  • QuantumOrganizationQuantumOrganization We have people everywhere
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    Oh wow
  • KONNEENNKONNEENN SOUTHAMPTION UK
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    Good evening to all listed 00 agents and MI6 management. I am an Irish man 71 years young retired Air Con engineer and former highly active sportsman fitness was paramount then, stealth and cunning will be my mantra as a 00 agent for MI6.
  • DragonpolDragonpol https://thebondologistblog.blogspot.com
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    KONNEENN wrote: »
    Good evening to all listed 00 agents and MI6 management. I am an Irish man 71 years young retired Air Con engineer and former highly active sportsman fitness was paramount then, stealth and cunning will be my mantra as a 00 agent for MI6.

    Welcome aboard, @KONNEENN! I am Northern Irish myself. :)
  • Posts: 19,339
    Welcome indeed @KONNEENN !!
  • KONNEENNKONNEENN SOUTHAMPTION UK
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    Thanks to Dragonpol & barryt007 for your warm welcome to the 00 section at MI6. Question to Dragonpol, are you in control of the NI section?
  • KONNEENNKONNEENN SOUTHAMPTION UK
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    barryt007 wrote: »
    Welcome indeed @KONNEENN !!
    Ta for the welcome, have you been on an assignment recently ?
  • ThunderfingerThunderfinger Das Boot Hill
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    Insanity may spread. Be careful now.
  • DragonpolDragonpol https://thebondologistblog.blogspot.com
    Posts: 18,264
    KONNEENN wrote: »
    Thanks to Dragonpol & barryt007 for your warm welcome to the 00 section at MI6. Question to Dragonpol, are you in control of the NI section?

    Yes, I'd say that I am in control of the NI section, though there are relatively few of us here, I think, so that may not mean much! :D
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