Go tell it on the mountain

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#1

As it’s nearly Christmas, and that’s a vaguely Christmassy ditty…

If you were to Mount Rushmore (it’s a viable verb, ish) various categories of Bond things, bearing in mnd you only have four choices to manifest your personal pantheon of greatneness, what would you carve?

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For what it’s worth, as I chip my on choices artistically:

Bonds

Connery
Moore
Dalton
Craig

Films (ignoring how one would actually carve these, for a mo-mo)

Thunderball
OHMSS
Moonraker
Casino Royale

Directors

Young
Hamilton
Gilbert
Hunt

Books (an abstract carving, this - me like a challenge, me do)

Moonraker
From Russia with Love
You Only Live Twice
Nobody Lives Forever

etc.

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#2

Difficult - but one has to make choices in life.

Bonds: Moore, Connery, Dalton, Craig

Films: The Spy Who Loved Me, From Russia With Love, The Living Daylights, Skyfall

Directors: Young, Hamilton, Gilbert, Glen

Books: From Russia With Love, OHMSS, Dr. No, Goldfinger

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#3

I guess this game can extend into all sorts of areas.

Q’s ties: Goldfinger, Moonraker, Licence to Kill, GoldenEye.

Etc

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#4

Fleming, Cubby, Saltzman, BB

Love or hate, they all controlled Bond’s life!

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#5

Exploding pens: GOLDENEYE, SKYFALL, SKYFALL & SKYFALL

Welcome return of the DB5: THUNDERBALL, CASINO ROYALE, SKYFALL, LEGO

Favourite Gardner traitors: M, M, M & Boldman

Most realistic villain: Goldfinger evidently, then blank faces for 52 years…

Torture tools: carpet beater, keelhauling, buzzsaw, twitter

Codenames: Thunderball, Bedlam, Corona and finally Mailedfist.

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#6

Egregious animal misdemeanour: Urinating Junkanoo Dog, Double-Taking Pigeon, Cretin Parrot, Animated Mouse of Total Plot-Resuscitating Convenience.

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#7

The Collosi of Cringe: “Asian” Connery, Tarzan-yodelling Roger, “Eddy Munster hair” Dalton, tsunami-surfing Brosnan

The Dons of Diminishing Returns: JW Pepper, Jaws, Jack Wade, Valentin Zhukosky

The “Dumb as Rocks Already, So Why Not Make 'Em Scultptures” Squad: Tiffany Case, Mary Goodnight, Stacey Sutton, NSNA Domino

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#8

Useless henchmen: Elvis, guys following Q in “Spectre”, brute lying on conveyor belt in AVTAK, Goldteeth-guy in TWINE.

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#9

The “Satellites of Love”: DAF satellite, Petya and Mischa from GE, Icarus from DAD

The “If those were for real, he’d be wearing a brick on his arm” watches: magnet and buzzsaw Rolex Submariner from LALD, DYMO strip pager Seiko from TSWLM, grappling device Omega Seamaster from TWINE, Laser Omega Seamaster from GE

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#10

Villains with the most expensive real estate taste:

Blofeld (YOLT), Stromberg, Drax, Blofeld (Spectre)

Most intelligent henchmen:

Grant, Wint & Kidd, NickNack, Jaws (takes two films but then notices he‘s the kind of guy his employer wants to eradicate)

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#11

“Commerce Over Art” Product Placement Hall of Shame: 7-Up, BMW, Kentucky Fried Chicken, Heineken

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#12

Henchmen/women: Red Grant, Oddjob, Jaws, Xenia Onatopp

Bond’s women: Honey Rider, Tracey, Lois Maxwell’s Moneypenny, Judi Dench’s M.

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#13

Bonds: Connery, Moore, Dalton, Craig

Films: From Russia With Love, The Spy Who Loved Me, The Living Daylights, Casino Royale

Directors: Young, Glen, Campbell, Hamilton

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#14

Seriously - he drove that?

Citreon 2CV (FYEO) - Renault 11 (AVTAK) - Ford Mondeo (CR) - that bloody Aston Martin (DAD)

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#15

WTF? A Bond film on their resume???

Rowan Atkinson (NSNA) - Richard Branson (CR) - pick anyone from CR 67 - Britt Ekland (TMWTGG) - ta-dum!

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#16

I can’t believe you fell for the oldest trick in the book! What’s with you man?!

Bond/M falling for the Honeypot in FRWL, Blofeld not recognizing Bond in OHMSS, Bond not realizing Frost emptied his gun until he tried to shoot her in DAD, Bond and Q hooking Silva’s computer directly into MI6’s infrastructure in SF

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#17

The first and last also qualify for “Mi6 need to learn about leaving their ego at the door” see also Bond micromanaging a threat that is not even slightly threatening the UK in DAF, falling for Koskov’s blatant lies in TLD, not bothering to do a proper background check on Miranda Frost in DAD…

…Casino Royale’s plot, both book and film (the film at least is a bit less dictated by blind luck)

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#18

Hotel staff who should have had their own spin-off, together. What larks! It would have been better than Jinx, trust me.

“A surprise; hee hee hee”; Valerie Leon’s Total Desperation; “The President’s Suite”*; the porter who let Bibi into Bond’s bedroom who is evidently a sex trafficker.

*remains the most obviously missed open-goal not to have Moore reply “Is he?”

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#19

In the same film in which 007 calls himself Mickey Mouse in Italian. Hmmm, and in DR. NO we hear “Three blind mice” on the soundtrack. And rodents, in particular, appear in FRWL and DAF… coincidence?

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#20

And in Die Another Day, that Madonna person appears as a particularly whiskery ferret peering through a mop head. You might be onto something.

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