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[dodge]

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For starters...

Bond and Numerology

Sean Connery and Daniel Craig: 11 letters in each name. A very lucky number.
Roger Moore: 10 letters. A symbol of excellenceTimothy Dalton, George Lazenby and Pierce Brosnan: 13 letters in each name. An unlucky number for three actors plagued by bad timing or bad decisions.

Now to you...

[Santa]

What can you tell me about the number 7 in Bond numerology?

[dodge]

What can you tell me about the number 7 in Bond numerology?

The only connection I'm able to make is that Moore alone made seven films. Fleming himself seems to have avoided this very lucky number like the plague. If anyone knows otherwise, I'd simply love to know.

[plankattack]

What can you tell me about the number 7 in Bond numerology?

The only connection I'm able to make is that Moore alone made seven films. Fleming himself seems to have avoided this very lucky number like the plague. If anyone knows otherwise, I'd simply love to know.

I'm not sure if I'm getting the point here, but the original Magnificent Seven featured James Coburn (Flint) and Robert Vaughn (Napoleon Solo), both products of the 60s spy craze that Bond gave birth to. And wasn't Napoleon Solo a Fleming character? Was there a lawsuit or something?

[dodge]

Very good, Plank. Thanks. I'm moving this over to the left so we don't get too caught up in numerology. Anything goes. I just started off with something that struck me: the numers of the letters in the actors' names. And how they formed into two groups and one very singular Bond.

Anything goes. A little-known fact about a particular actor. An interpretation of a Bond film/book that's never been presented. A connection, as you've pointed out between Napoleon Solo and Fleming. Did Connery shag his fem co-stars? Is the report true that Fleming changed the direction of the Bond books after the success of the films? Etc.

Anything new!

Edited by dodge, 04 April 2007 - 04:15 PM.

[Judo chop]

Oh yay! I did some decoding work a while back in the

[dodge]

The Ursula Andress/Quentin Tarrantino connection. In keeping with Plank's bank-shot strategy...40 years before Grindhouse will present a female amputee with a machine gun prosthetic leg, Bond babe Undress blazed the trail in a little sci-fi thriller called The Tenth Victim. Ursula appeared, in full glory, in a double-barreled bra...and mowed down half a room. Just thought you'd like to know.

Onward, Virgin Bond!

[plankattack]

Aston Martins.....Sir Rog never drove one as Bond (I guess all part of the attempt to distinguish his interpretation from SC). And yet as Sir Brett Sinclair in the TV show The Persuaders (which he left to become 007 in LALD) he looks quite at home in one, though if my memory serves me correctly it was not the traditional grey or birch colour that Astons are associated with.The same model that Laz drove in OHMSS, me thinks?

Of course, in one of those funny twists of fate, as Simon Templar he famously drove that old Volvo - a company now owned by Ford, who also recently owned Aston Martin, and just about every other brand, it seems.

So what's my point?

[Judo chop]

Oh dear Lord. Please don't tell me you two are going to miss my post in THIS thread as well! If ever I wanted credit for a post, this is the one!!!

(no, not THIS one. The one up there )

[plankattack]

Oh dear Lord. Please don't tell me you two are going to miss my post in THIS thread as well! If ever I wanted credit for a post, this is the one!!!

(no, not THIS one. The one up there )

My problem is, I just cant count....

[dodge]

[quote name='Judo chop' post='722753' date='4 April 2007 - 16:24']Oh yay! I did some decoding work a while back in the

[doublenoughtspy]

Actually you really need to include middle names.

Ian Lancaster Fleming, Thomas Sean Connery, George Robert Lazenby, Roger George Moore, Timothy Peter Dalton, Daniel Wroughton Craig, etc. etc.

Otherwise the whole excercise is pointless!

[Judo chop]

Actually you really need to include middle names.

Ian Lancaster Fleming, Thomas Sean Connery, George Robert Lazenby, Roger George Moore, Timothy Peter Dalton, Daniel Wroughton Craig, etc. etc.

Otherwise the whole excercise is pointless!

First I

[plankattack]

Actually you really need to include middle names.

Ian Lancaster Fleming, Thomas Sean Connery, George Robert Lazenby, Roger George Moore, Timothy Peter Dalton, Daniel Wroughton Craig, etc. etc.

Otherwise the whole excercise is pointless!

I hate to say this Judo, but 00Spy has a legitimate point here.....

[dodge]

You all know how I hate to be difficult. But unless a man uses his middle name it can't be held against him. Agree or disagree with that, it's still interesting to note that the on the strength of first and last names, the Bonds fall into appropriate camps.

Hopefully, we can now move on to manly discussions about Urusula's bra. Or anything, anything, anything else that strikes our fancies.

Doublenaught: any cool OHMSS nuggets that you'd like to share?

[dodge]

Starved for more about Parkour, the free running style that leads off CR? Check out a little gem on DVD called District 13, or Banlieue 13 in French. David Belle, the star, actually founded parkour and the film contains 2 extended parkour sequences that blow CR's away. You can also research him on Google. Absolutely amazing athlete. And a chance for you to see parkour in more awesome detail.

[plankattack]

Starved for more about Parkour, the free running style that leads off CR? Check out a little gem on DVD called District 13, or Banlieue 13 in French. David Belle, the star, actually founded parkour and the film contains 2 extended parkour sequences that blow CR's away. You can also research him on Google. Absolutely amazing athlete. And a chance for you to see parkour in more awesome detail.

Second! The free-running stuff is tremendous - the opening sequence has to be watched a couple of times to truly appreciate (it's on youtube if anyone's interested). For the life of me, I swore I remember Martin Campbell acknowledging the movie in an interview somewhere, which if true is a nice bit of creative honesty on the part of the director.

So talking of running - I never remember SC flat out running in any of his appearances. At most it's this strange half-gallop, almost as if he's too cool to run flat-out. DC and PB, they don't think twice about sprinting and Sir Rog, well, at least he's having a go. But was SC too cool to actually be in a situation where he went all out.

Enlighten me! (And I'm not counting Bob Simmons doing his running for him - I mean SC himself).

[MHazard]

I'm fairly sure Sean doesn't run, he prowls (think blowing up the heroin factory pre-credit in GF) although you should check what speed he gets himself and Ursula Andress under cover when the machine guns from the boats rake the coast in DN. And I think he jogs on the dock while fighting half of Japan in YOLT and jogs while escaping from Spectre in the Junkanoo in TB. But, in fairness to Sean, he was always wearing suit shoes.

[doublenoughtspy]

Dalton ran pretty well in the PTS of TLD.

[Judo chop]

Laz kinda had the suffle run Connery had. But he does slide on his belly for a spell. There's a first and last, no?

[Mister Asterix]

[mra]A picture of the first actor to play

[dodge]

[quote name='Mister Asterix' post='722789' date='4 April 2007 - 18:45'][mra]A picture of the first actor to play

[Zorin Industries]

Step right up with virgin facts, trivia, deep thoughts, insights, anything that yields relief from the same-old same-old. A sanctuary for curious minds seeking amusement or insight. A place to come, with luck, each day for something we haven't seen elsewhere.

For starters...

Bond and Numerology

Sean Connery and Daniel Craig: 11 letters in each name. A very lucky number.
Roger Moore: 10 letters. A symbol of excellenceTimothy Dalton, George Lazenby and Pierce Brosnan: 13 letters in each name. An unlucky number for three actors plagued by bad timing or bad decisions.

Now to you...

Oh please....

Is it a slow news day stateside...?!

Though I have noticed that the characters of 'Q', 'R' and 'M' all share exactly the same amount of letters in their name. Coincidence or what?!!

I am surprised at you Young Dodge....

[plankattack]

Step right up with virgin facts, trivia, deep thoughts, insights, anything that yields relief from the same-old same-old. A sanctuary for curious minds seeking amusement or insight. A place to come, with luck, each day for something we haven't seen elsewhere.

For starters...

Bond and Numerology

Sean Connery and Daniel Craig: 11 letters in each name. A very lucky number.
Roger Moore: 10 letters. A symbol of excellenceTimothy Dalton, George Lazenby and Pierce Brosnan: 13 letters in each name. An unlucky number for three actors plagued by bad timing or bad decisions.

Now to you...

Oh please....

Is it a slow news day stateside...?!

Though I have noticed that the characters of 'Q', 'R' and 'M' all share exactly the same amount of letters in their name. Coincidence or what?!!

I am surprised at you Young Dodge....

Oh Zorin please! This is a great thread! A big hand for Dodge!

[dodge]

Step right up with virgin facts, trivia, deep thoughts, insights, anything that yields relief from the same-old same-old. A sanctuary for curious minds seeking amusement or insight. A place to come, with luck, each day for something we haven't seen elsewhere.

For starters...

Bond and Numerology

Sean Connery and Daniel Craig: 11 letters in each name. A very lucky number.
Roger Moore: 10 letters. A symbol of excellenceTimothy Dalton, George Lazenby and Pierce Brosnan: 13 letters in each name. An unlucky number for three actors plagued by bad timing or bad decisions.

Now to you...

Oh please....

Is it a slow news day stateside...?!

Though I have noticed that the characters of 'Q', 'R' and 'M' all share exactly the same amount of letters in their name. Coincidence or what?!!

I am surprised at you Young Dodge....

Why, Zorin, I live to surprise and delight you. I can only echo Telly in my beloved OHMSS: The thoughts of great minds often confound lesser minds.

Seriously, sincerely: if you have something to contribute that can better entertain or enlighten us all, be generous and share your deepest, most brilliant, Zorinian gems.

[Santa]

double-barreled bra...

I must get myself one of those.

I am surprised at you Young Dodge....

I'm not.

Judo, I may appreciate your post in a few weeks, after I've had time to forgive you for making me watch Braveheart.

[dodge]

double-barreled bra...

I must get myself one of those.

I am surprised at you Young Dodge....

I'm not.

Judo, I may appreciate your post in a few weeks, after I've had time to forgive you for making me watch Braveheart.

It gives me great pleasure to think that you're explosive enough in yourself.

But we must careful here. The arch-conservative Zorin is after me again for streaking past the Old Right Guard. Is it my fault if I'm full of the devil? How long must my pillowing--I mean, my pilloring last?

[Santa]

I'll take that as a compliment. Don't take too much pleasure though, that could be a bit creepy.

[dee-bee-five]

Step right up with virgin facts, trivia, deep thoughts, insights, anything that yields relief from the same-old same-old. A sanctuary for curious minds seeking amusement or insight. A place to come, with luck, each day for something we haven't seen elsewhere.

For starters...

Bond and Numerology

Sean Connery and Daniel Craig: 11 letters in each name. A very lucky number.
Roger Moore: 10 letters. A symbol of excellenceTimothy Dalton, George Lazenby and Pierce Brosnan: 13 letters in each name. An unlucky number for three actors plagued by bad timing or bad decisions.

Now to you...

Can I cast the runes instead? Or examine the entrails of a freshly slaughtered goat?

[dodge]

Step right up with virgin facts, trivia, deep thoughts, insights, anything that yields relief from the same-old same-old. A sanctuary for curious minds seeking amusement or insight. A place to come, with luck, each day for something we haven't seen elsewhere.

For starters...

Bond and Numerology

Sean Connery and Daniel Craig: 11 letters in each name. A very lucky number.
Roger Moore: 10 letters. A symbol of excellenceTimothy Dalton, George Lazenby and Pierce Brosnan: 13 letters in each name. An unlucky number for three actors plagued by bad timing or bad decisions.

Now to you...

Can I cast the runes instead? Or examine the entrails of a freshly slaughtered goat?

You'd be better off making a pit stop one night to check on your emissions.