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[Walecs]

Everybody laughs at this name because it is a joke, but I really can't get it. What's so funny about the name "goodhead"? Does it have a double meaning, like Pussy Galore?

[lonestar]

IMO. "Goodhead" is no laughing matter

[MajorB]

Indeed. The opposite can be quite the letdown.

[The Shark]

"Head" or "getting head" is slang for fellatio.

 

Goodhead = Buonopompino.

[Professor Pi]

I take it then that you dont get the 'cunning linguist' joke from Tomorrow Never Dies either.

[thecasinoroyale]

........... as a self-proclaimed hardcore Bond fan, I have never picked up on that 'TND' joke until now Professor!

 

 

D'oh! How did I miss that?! 

[iexpectu2die]

Guys, when Bond says "I have been known to keep my tip up" in Die Another Day, he just means his fencing sword, right?

And when Bond says "I'm an early riser myself" in A View To A Kill, he is referring to getting out of bed, right?

[Hockey Mask]

So does Christmas come more than once per year?

Edited by 00Hockey Mask, 18 March 2013 - 12:04 PM.

[Walecs]

"Head" or "getting head" is slang for fellatio.

 

Goodhead = Buonopompino.

 

Thank you.

[MajorB]

And when Bond cautions against going off half-cocked . . .

 

But I think we've made our point.

 

So to speak.

[delfloria]

And it's very cold up there in Piz Gloria.

[MajorB]

SHRINKAGE!!!

 

...Whoops, sorry, wrong franchise.

[Vauxhall]

........... as a self-proclaimed hardcore Bond fan, I have never picked up on that 'TND' joke until now Professor!

 

 

D'oh! How did I miss that?! 

 

Obviously a less corrupted mind than the rest of us, TCR!

[thecasinoroyale]

I wanted to be part of the Bond corruption though! I have to ask myself some serious questions...

 

 

Does this mean my licence to post is revoked?

[plankattack]

Of course in all seriousness, many of the aerial stunts in the films have been done by BJ Worth. http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0941654/

 

Ta dum.

[Vauxhall]

I wanted to be part of the Bond corruption though! I have to ask myself some serious questions...

 

 

Does this mean my licence to post is revoked?

"Licence to post" could be another euphemism, for all I know!

[Professor Pi]

........... as a self-proclaimed hardcore Bond fan, I have never picked up on that 'TND' joke until now Professor!

 

 

D'oh! How did I miss that?! 

 

Obviously a less corrupted mind than the rest of us, TCR!

 

Don't feel bad...there are loads of jokes we don't get (and perhaps shouldn't?) upon first viewings as a teenager that dawn on us later on...

 

For me there was...

 

"provided the collars and cuffs match" -- Diamonds Are Forever

"she's just coming sir" -- The Man with the Golden Gun

"If it's '69, you were expecting me" -- Moonraker

and even the obvious "Agent XXX" -- The Spy Who Loved Me

 

I'm thinking about making a separate thread on the subject...

 

 

 

[thecasinoroyale]

We obviously need a new Bond film QUICK if we've resorted to insepcting the classic innuendo of Bonds past!

[David_M]

Whenever I've watched MR with younger viewers, I've always "explained" that the name meant "she has a good head on her shoulders." After all, she must be smart to have a PhD, right?  :-)  Thankfully I've never been reduced to claiming that "Pussy Galore" got her name from having a house full of cats.

 

Anyway, notice at the end of the film, Holly lives up to her name by asking James to "take me once more around the world."  THAT reference I confess got right past me, until the guy behind me in the theater starting guffawing in a way that made it clear a very naughty reference had just occurred.

 

Such general smuttiness and schoolboy humour as Ian Fleming might have disapproved of - there's not a lot of it in the novels.

 

True, and as a youngster I missed it.  My favorite gag came in Fleming's GF, where Pussy Galore tells a gangster, "If I could do it all over again, I'd do it all over you."

[ggl]

Well, first time I understand the name Goodhead... but I´m Spanish, that explains something

 

I don´t get the "collars and cuffs" one from DAF ?

[David_M]

It's also been expressed as "carpet and drapes."

The gag is that you don't really know a woman's true hair color until she disrobes.  And now we're in the age of the "Brazilian," not even then.

[Mr_Wint]

Such general smuttiness and schoolboy humour as Ian Fleming might have disapproved of - there's not a lot of it in the novels.

"Pussy Galore"

[Professor Pi]

I was at a Saturday matinee performance of Tomorrow Never Dies a week or two after it came out.  Lots of single dads taking junior out for his first Bond movie.  Moneypenny calls Bond at the Dutch professor's office and says that line about his linguistic skills.  All the fathers start busting out in laughter at 11AM on this weekend morning.  I overhear a 10 year old boy ask, "Dad, what's so funny?"  

 

Fast forward a little over ten years and I'm watching Moonraker on Bluray.  Close your eyes and it's like listening to dialogue in a porn movie.  Bond walks into to Holly's hotel room and sees the champagne.  "Bollinger.  If it's '69 you were expecting me."  Rog was able to get away with it with his smug charm in ways Brosnan never quite could.  "Take me around the world one more time." 

 

Plenty O'Toole perhaps named after her father. 

 

So much to explain, son.

Edited by Professor Pi, 21 March 2013 - 12:10 AM.

[MkB]

Moneypenny calls Bond at the Dutch professor's office and says that line about his linguistic skills.  

 

Danish, not Dutch. If you can't hear the difference, I suggest you try brushing up on both

[Professor Pi]

I know!  I tried to edit that change, without success evidently. 

[Matt_13]

This is a great thread.

[Mr_Wint]

I have not figured out if this is a double-entendre or not: 

 

Stacey: Do you know what I'm sitting on?

(Bond looks at her butt)
Bond: I'm trying not to think about it.

[Mr Teddy Bear]

I've wondered about that one too. If I recall, Roger does deliver it fairly straight, but maybe it was too obvious he thought he didn't need to play it up?

[Professor Pi]

I never caught this before but when they cut to what Bond sees, the bag of dynamite right next to her butt does say "EXPLOSIVE"

[saint mark]

I never knew what Goodhead stood for untill somebody offered it to me and when she explained what it meant she was rather insulted in my laughing because I understood the naughtiness of EON. Suffice to tell you while I got the joke the rest did not happen.

 

I fairly quick figured out what several names did mean like Pussy Galore, with the help of English fans. This was before the internet really was all around us.