Posted on 05/28/2015 3:02:55 AM PDT by Perdogg
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>> Pussy Galore ... Goldfinger mission
Interesting...
Any book saddled with a very bad pun as a title is off to a bad start. So sad to see an entertaining series reduced to using a gumbo of guest authors.
What are talking about? It sounds like your mind is in the gutter.
The bad pun referenced is “Trigger Mortis”, the TITLE of the book.
Looks like you are the one focused on the gutter...the name of the temptress is not a pun. It was, and has always been, a juvenile sexual jape.
Frankly, I have never liked the Bond series, and have always thought Flemming was a perpetual teenager with a typewriter.
if you are not interested, then move on...
LOL!
Here's the cut and paste of my remark,-
Any book saddled with a very bad pun as a title is off to a bad start. So sad to see an entertaining series reduced to using a gumbo of guest authors.
Please show me which part of it offended you.
Btw, in case you didn't catch the pun, "Trigger Mortis", is a play on rigor mortis.
“Trigger Mortis” is a play on “Trigger Finger” which was the original title of “The Living Daylights” by Ian Fleming.
The original “Pussy Galore” of the 1960s or thereabouts, was for that era.
In the 1980s, James Bond, portrayed by Timothy Dalton (incidentally my favourite James Bond actor, who really was more inclined to theater & stage) kept it ‘clean’ with 1 main female Bond interest, because of AIDs in the 1980s and it’s social and live or die implications. And, maybe James Bond had more of a following in the younger generation back in the 80s than it does now.
Interesting to see a “Pussy Galore” in James Bond again, connotations and all.
Your reply makes no sense - except as a snide attack to divert from your gaff that I pointed out.
Intelligent folks, such as myself, can be interested and engaged in a conversation about a book or author, without having any interest in the book or author themselves.
There has always been something about the “Bond” series that is appealing in theory, but few of the films have been very good.
For some reason they always drift off into the absurd, and then I feel myself wanting the exit. I realize it’s fantasy, but it’s too fantastic in many cases.
...but what in my remarks offended you so greatly as to accuse me? hmmmm?
You really don’t understand the nature of puns do you? Too bad, because Fleming’s works are rife with them.
You continue to be wrong - “Trigger Mortis” is an obvious pun for...rigor mortis - you know, that death thing...you know how when you pull the TRIGGER, the target gets rigor?
“Pussy Galore” was one of many reasons Mom wouldn’t let this then-13 year old see “Goldfinger” when it came out in ‘64. In those pre-VHS days, if you missed a movie at its initial release in a small town, you didn’t know how many years would pass before you might be able to see it again. I don’t think I caught on to the name’s double-entendre until I was in my 40s.
I agree. Bond is part of a bygone era, when men were more like men.
I recall a time when I was working with a university IT department, and we got the campus excuse-for-a-newspaper. The movie “reviewer” was writing about the latest Bond film (I think it was Goldeneye).
Never did I read such a bushel basket of metrosexual whining. The little emo-hipster was decrying Bond’s way with women with every sound bite ever written by feminazis - probably to ingratiate himself with the female emo-hipsters in an attempt to get laid.
I am thinking that Bond has few, if any, devotees among today’s emasculated generation.
I don’t know, Austin Power’s “Alotta Fagina” is a pretty powerful contender...
>>>”Never did I read such a bushel basket of metrosexual whining. The little emo-hipster was decrying Bond’s way with women with every sound bite ever written by feminazis - probably to ingratiate himself with the female emo-hipsters in an attempt to get laid.”<<<
LOL
Dittos on the emo-whiners. The old Bond’s drinking, gambling, screwing and spying sounds a hell of a lot more fun than fixing refrigerators!
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