Posted on 03/20/2010 11:05:06 AM PDT by Perdogg
The name was Fleming, Valentine Fleming. But to his four young boys, Bond creator Ian Fleming among them, he was Mokie a baby-talk bastardization of Smokie, so called because he always had a pipe dangling from his lips, the same way Sean Connery would one day sport a cigarette in his debut appearance as James Bond in Dr. No. Curiously, no one in turn-of-the-century England thought to arrest Mr. Fleming for smoking in the presence of his children, nor did social services batter down his door to cart the poor cancer-threatened kids away. He was their Pop, and they adored him, smoke and all.
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And I bet you look great in a bowler hat...
I would love to have a workable “golden gun” like in the movie.
"Do you 'ave a woom?"
Tell Kay she can be Jamie Lee Curtis to your Arnold Schwarzenegger. "True Lies" looked like a lot of fun.
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