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  • NickTwentyTwoNickTwentyTwo Vancouver, BC, Canada
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    Birdleson wrote: »
    I've tried. The best I've found that you can do is rename it something bland and unappealing and hope that it fades into obscurity.

    @Birdleson, are you referring to the "Bond Films by..." thread? It has become a bit of a monster :P
  • SarkSark Guangdong, PRC
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    If Bond is as good a poker player as he's made out to be there's no reason he couldn't be doubling his salary from that, especially in London (remember his work hours aren't too onerous when he's not on a mission) which has some very good games.
  • NickTwentyTwoNickTwentyTwo Vancouver, BC, Canada
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    My thoughts exactly, @Sark. See my comment about Moonraker (novel).
  • DoubleOhhSevenDoubleOhhSeven
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    Sark wrote: »
    If Bond is as good a poker player as he's made out to be there's no reason he couldn't be doubling his salary from that, especially in London (remember his work hours aren't too onerous when he's not on a mission) which has some very good games.

    Doubling? He could theoretically be tripling it or even more. There are professional gamblers who haven't worked a day in their lives and just live off of poker winnings. The movie Rounders (1998) with Matt Damon and Edward Norton (one of my favorite films from the 90s btw) does an excellent job of showing the lives of grinders and how they basically just play poker for a living.
  • DarthDimiDarthDimi Behind you!Moderator
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    @PropertyOfALady, no need for that, good sir. As these threads will no longer accumulate new posts, they will soon be pushed back to the lower bottom of our thread list. ;)

    Thank you for the question, though.
  • SarkSark Guangdong, PRC
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    DoubleOhhSeven wrote: »
    Sark wrote: »
    If Bond is as good a poker player as he's made out to be there's no reason he couldn't be doubling his salary from that, especially in London (remember his work hours aren't too onerous when he's not on a mission) which has some very good games.

    Doubling? He could theoretically be tripling it or even more. There are professional gamblers who haven't worked a day in their lives and just live off of poker winnings. The movie Rounders (1998) with Matt Damon and Edward Norton (one of my favorite films from the 90s btw) does an excellent job of showing the lives of grinders and how they basically just play poker for a living.
    Yes but Bond doesn't put in as many hours as a professional poker player, as he has a full time job. I'm sure he could quit MI6 and become one if he wanted.

    And Rounders wasn't exactly a documentary. It had the same relationship to actual poker as Bond does to real life espionage.
  • PropertyOfALadyPropertyOfALady Colders Federation CEO
    edited February 2015 Posts: 3,675
    How many Lotus fiberglass shells in total were used in TSWLM?

    This website says 5:
    http://www.lotusespritturbo.com/James_Bonds_Lotus_Esprit_S1.htm

    This website says 6:

    http://www.slashgear.com/1977-lotus-esprit-james-bond-submarine-car-hits-ebay-20351588/

    While this one says 7:

    http://www.rmauctions.com/lots/lot.cfm?lot_id=1061050

    Did they launch one of the road cars of the pier?

  • DoubleOhhSevenDoubleOhhSeven
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    Sark wrote: »
    DoubleOhhSeven wrote: »
    Sark wrote: »
    If Bond is as good a poker player as he's made out to be there's no reason he couldn't be doubling his salary from that, especially in London (remember his work hours aren't too onerous when he's not on a mission) which has some very good games.

    Doubling? He could theoretically be tripling it or even more. There are professional gamblers who haven't worked a day in their lives and just live off of poker winnings. The movie Rounders (1998) with Matt Damon and Edward Norton (one of my favorite films from the 90s btw) does an excellent job of showing the lives of grinders and how they basically just play poker for a living.
    Yes but Bond doesn't put in as many hours as a professional poker player, as he has a full time job. I'm sure he could quit MI6 and become one if he wanted.

    And Rounders wasn't exactly a documentary. It had the same relationship to actual poker as Bond does to real life espionage.

    I never said it was a documentary. I merely said that it does a pretty good job of getting inside a gambler's head. Is it romanticized? Ofcourse, but that's Hollywood.
  • SarkSark Guangdong, PRC
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    In QoS Bond sees a man he doesn't know receive a gift bag from under the table instead of on top.It's not shown, but presumably he follows him to a bathroom and incapacitates him to get his bag. Fortunately he's right and it has an earpiece, but is that really all he's going on "this guy got a special bag, lets knock him out and take it."?
  • GerardGerard
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    He has seen his main target (Greene) receive the same bag early on. That, plus other selected people. Which is why he decided to follow the last guy he saw receiving the exact same package.
  • SarkSark Guangdong, PRC
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    I must have missed greene getting that bag.
  • PropertyOfALadyPropertyOfALady Colders Federation CEO
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    On this, a DB4 used for measuring the car for gadgets, what is Icelert?

    "nteresting modifications made to '3 SMF' include a special factory-fitted clutch with lighter 'push', an Icelert (fitted by the factory prior to a trip to Moscow in the 1960s), an engine vacuum gauge and a thermostatically activated overheating alert. Sold strictly as viewed, this potentially most rewarding DB4 restoration project is offered with copy old-style logbook and Swansea V5. "

    https://www.bonhams.com/auctions/18211/lot/306/
  • GerardGerard
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    the "Icelert", from what my google-fu has been able to piece together, was a sensor that warned the driver that outside temperatures were falling, and there was risk of ice forming.

    $(KGrHqUOKikE6e!709-7BOwEJm!R5g~~60_35.JPG
  • fjdinardofjdinardo
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    Now as a Bond superfan I should know this and I do to an extent but what Bond movies are exactly or close to the the story from the novels? Now I know when novels are adapted to movies they are never exactly the same. So it's pretty simple question. I have read Casino Royale, thunderball, OHMSS, YOLT and LALD. The first 3 I read are pretty similar or very close to the movie but the last 2 I know or not. So how about the other novels? Which ones are very similar to the movie and which ones aren't? Thanks
  • ThunderfingerThunderfinger Das Boot Hill
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    All the 60s films except YOLT are very true to the books.
  • PropertyOfALadyPropertyOfALady Colders Federation CEO
    edited February 2015 Posts: 3,675
    By the MI6 building is there a "photographic danger zone", as in "If-I-take-this-picture, I'm-going-to-see-M" type area? Ones they don't want photographed? I know that you can walk close to it, but have read various incidents with photography.

    Apparently in the novelisation of GE John Gardner mentions the DB5 is Bond's personal car, but I cannot find that. Where is it?

    What exactly does "Member, Warned (1)" mean?
  • ThunderfingerThunderfinger Das Boot Hill
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    You usually get a warning or two before you get thrown out of here.
  • NickTwentyTwoNickTwentyTwo Vancouver, BC, Canada
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    Thunderfinger wrote: »
    You usually get a warning or two before you get thrown out of here.

    @PropertyOfALady what did you do! lol I've never seen you post anything that'd get you a warning I don't think.

  • PropertyOfALadyPropertyOfALady Colders Federation CEO
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    @NickTwentyTwo I didn't get a warning; I just saw it on a few profiles and wasn't sure what it meant.
  • NickTwentyTwoNickTwentyTwo Vancouver, BC, Canada
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    Oh good!
  • PropertyOfALadyPropertyOfALady Colders Federation CEO
    edited March 2015 Posts: 3,675
    Anyone have any guesses on when the actual poster for SPECTRE will be unveiled?

    Also, I read all of the Fleming books on Kindle; are there any continuation novels worth getting in book form for neat hardcover art?
  • Pierce2DanielPierce2Daniel
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    I have a question about LALD:

    Who sends Bond the playing card when he is San Monique that exposes Rosie as a traitor?
  • PropertyOfALadyPropertyOfALady Colders Federation CEO
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    Pierce2Daniel wrote: »
    I have a question about LALD:

    Who sends Bond the playing card when he is San Monique that exposes Rosie as a traitor?


    I believe either Solitaire or Felix. This is one of the questions in the "Bondiverse" (yes, I made that up) that doesn't really have a clear answer.
  • Master_DaharkMaster_Dahark
    edited March 2015 Posts: 4,813
    I have one about LALD too: Sheriff JW Pepper, Louisiana State Police. I don't believe you can be both, unless Louisiana does things differently...
  • PropertyOfALadyPropertyOfALady Colders Federation CEO
    edited March 2015 Posts: 3,675
    Well, I think Pepper is the sheriff of a parish. I believe it's probably just a dialogue error.
  • DRush76DRush76
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    Pardon me for asking this again, but does anyone know how long it took Bond and Tatiana to travel from Istanbul to the Yugoslav-Italian border, aboard the Orient Express in "FROM RUSSIA WITH LOVE"?
  • ThunderfingerThunderfinger Das Boot Hill
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    DRush76 wrote: »
    Pardon me for asking this again, but does anyone know how long it took Bond and Tatiana to travel from Istanbul to the Yugoslav-Italian border, aboard the Orient Express in "FROM RUSSIA WITH LOVE"?

    No idea, but today it is a four and a half hours travel.
  • PropertyOfALadyPropertyOfALady Colders Federation CEO
    edited March 2015 Posts: 3,675
    Why in the world would the DB5 have trouble starting after it ran fine in SF?



    Apparently in the novelisation of GE John Gardner mentions the DB5 is Bond's personal car, but I cannot find that in the Kindle version. Is it only in the actual copy?

    See http://jamesbond.wikia.com/wiki/Aston_Martin_DB5

    "Although its origins are not mentioned on screen, the novelization of GoldenEye states that Bond purchased this DB5 as his own personal vehicle."
  • DRush76DRush76
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    I read somewhere that today, it takes three nights for a person to travel from Istanbul to Trieste by train. The passenger would have to change trains in Sofia. He also revealed that before World War II, it took the old Orient Express train at least 36 to 40 hours to travel from Istanbul to Trieste. It took longer after World War II, due to the train's efforts to avoid traveling through the Soviet bloc via Greece.

    Yet . . . it took Bond and Tatiana 12 to 15 hours to travel from Istanbul to near the Yugoslav-Italian border by the Orient Express in 1963. Odd.
  • TokolosheTokoloshe Under your bed
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    Why does Solitaire thump Bond with her handbag at the airport?

    Is she genuinely not on his side at that point, or putting on a show for Kananga's goons, or giving Bond a deliberate chance to escape?
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