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Your most quoted Bond line in everyday life.

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  • ThunderpussyThunderpussy My Secret Lair
    Posts: 13,384
    Once after getting a Happy meal for the kids, my wife sat at the table with the
    Toy ( a baseball net, with a flip switch to throw the plastic ball up and in to it).
    She was having no luck, so I asked for a go. I kept looking at her saying...
    " It looks terribly difficult " keeping eye contact, I flipped the switch, and just
    Knew it had gone in the basket. So I added " No it isn't is it !" ....... She merely
    Replied with. " You arrogant b*stard !" :))
  • DarthDimiDarthDimi Behind you!Moderator
    Posts: 24,161
    @Dragonpol, you mean to say you've never uttered the words, "There is beauty... there is ugliness... and there is death" when suffering from massive diarrhoea?
  • DragonpolDragonpol https://thebondologistblog.blogspot.com
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    DarthDimi wrote: »
    @Dragonpol, you mean to say you've never uttered the words, "There is beauty... there is ugliness... and there is death" when suffering from massive diarrhoea?

    Can't say I have! I more often use quotes from comedy shows to lighten the mood. :)
  • DarthDimiDarthDimi Behind you!Moderator
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    @Dragonpol

    "D D D That's all folks?" when you're on the toilet? :D
  • DragonpolDragonpol https://thebondologistblog.blogspot.com
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    DarthDimi wrote: »
    @Dragonpol

    "D D D That's all folks?" when you're on the toilet? :D

    Well, "Sorry. Forgot to knock!" might be more appropriate! :))
  • Lancaster007Lancaster007 Shrublands Health Clinic, England
    Posts: 1,874
    Welcome to Hell Blofeld, used when I enter my daughters' untidy bedroom!
  • royale65royale65 Caustic misanthrope reporting for duty.
    Posts: 4,423
    Well, I often introduce myself a'la Bond, to doctors/dentists receptionists etc .

    Me - "Hello. I'm here for my appointment"
    Receptionist - "Can I take your name, Sir?"
    Me - "65. Royale 65"
  • Matt007Matt007
    Posts: 1,314
    Red wine with fish
    And
    Positively shocking.
  • DarthDimiDarthDimi Behind you!Moderator
    Posts: 24,161
    @Matt007, you order red wine with fish? :(
    Doesn't matter, I've been told it's not as great a sin as people make it out to be. But I digress. ;-)
  • ThunderpussyThunderpussy My Secret Lair
    Posts: 13,384
    So long as you have chips with the fish and the red wine is Buckfast. :D
  • DarthDimiDarthDimi Behind you!Moderator
    Posts: 24,161
    I prefer vinegar when I have fish and chips. Something I learned to appreciate during my many visits to London. :P
  • ThunderpussyThunderpussy My Secret Lair
    Posts: 13,384
    I remember a snobby friend of my wife, making a big fuss, when a young
    waitress put the red wine bottle into an ice bucket. :(
  • DarthDimiDarthDimi Behind you!Moderator
    Posts: 24,161
    Poor waitress. I'd undoubtedly do the same, since I know absolutely nothing about alcoholic beverages. (And that's the truth!)
  • chrisisallchrisisall Brosnan Defender Of The Realm
    Posts: 17,789
    No matter what someone's doing my comment is always "Filthy habit."
  • Matt007Matt007
    Posts: 1,314
    I use it when if people are drinking red wine. I wouldn't order it myself.
  • 0BradyM0Bondfanatic70BradyM0Bondfanatic7 Quantum Floral Arrangements: "We Have Petals Everywhere"
    Posts: 28,694
    I'm tempted the next time someone asks my name at a big event to simply say, "Mickey Mouse."
  • Lancaster007Lancaster007 Shrublands Health Clinic, England
    Posts: 1,874
    One I use a lot, "I don't have any friends".
  • bondjamesbondjames You were expecting someone else?
    edited December 2015 Posts: 23,883
    "You should give me the name of your oculist"

    I was forced to use this just today in the MI thread due to a comment by a member that I was dumbfounded by.
  • SarkSark Guangdong, PRC
    Posts: 1,138
    Do Brits still say oculist? Americans always say optometrist, I think a low percentage of Americans would know what you were referring to.

    One unfortunate thing for me is that very very few Chinese are going to get many of Bond's jokes unless they're particularly blatant. Even the Chinese English teachers at my school would be dumbfounded by a lot of them.
  • bondjamesbondjames You were expecting someone else?
    edited January 2016 Posts: 23,883
    You're right @Sark, oculist is not used much these days if at all. I wanted to be true to the original, but it may be best to modernize it a bit certainly.

    I agree about the jokes as well - some don't translate too well and perhaps are too subtle. That's where I thought MI-RN did a pretty good job because some of the jokes there were nonverbal cues between Hunt & Ilsa (which I really liked) and which therefore can translate well into any language. Just looks which conveyed a lot. Even Hunt on his own did this: for example in the plane at the start when he steals the nukes and the thug shows up. He gives him a look before detaching the securing cable.
  • chrisisallchrisisall Brosnan Defender Of The Realm
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    bondjames wrote: »
    Just looks which conveyed a lot. Even Hunt on his own did this: for example in the plane at the start when he steals the nukes and the thug shows up. He gives him a look before detaching the securing cable.
    Nice point. The director was very good with that.
  • SarkSark Guangdong, PRC
    Posts: 1,138
    I wonder if the partnership with a Chinese company encouraged them to be a little more 'international' with their humor.
  • Lancaster007Lancaster007 Shrublands Health Clinic, England
    Posts: 1,874
    Sark wrote: »
    Do Brits still say oculist? Americans always say optometrist, I think a low percentage of Americans would know what you were referring to.
    No, we usually say optician.
  • GoldenGunGoldenGun Per ora e per il momento che verrà
    Posts: 7,108
    "Humility is the worst form of deceit."
  • mepal1mepal1
    Posts: 1,098
    "Have you ever thought of getting a drivers license...boy?"
  • mcdonbbmcdonbb deep in the Heart of Texas
    Posts: 4,116
    Allow me
  • bondjamesbondjames You were expecting someone else?
    Posts: 23,883
    "No, after you. I insist"
  • mcdonbbmcdonbb deep in the Heart of Texas
    Posts: 4,116
    bondjames wrote: »
    "No, after you. I insist"

    Always the gentleman :)
  • bondjamesbondjames You were expecting someone else?
    Posts: 23,883
    mcdonbb wrote: »
    bondjames wrote: »
    "No, after you. I insist"

    Always the gentleman :)
    Thx @mcdonbb, to quote OP's delectable Magda, "You're too kind"
  • BAIN123BAIN123
    Posts: 11,189
    My most quoted line when I speak to someone for the first time in a while:

    Them: "How are you?"
    Me: "Just surviving (insert name) just surviving"
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