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From: sharp@yale.ARPA (Oliver J. Sharp)
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Subject: Bond's double entendre's
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Date: Sun, 18-Nov-84 22:51:48 EST
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  As anyone who follows Bond knows, there are many examples of these
scattered throughout the books and even more in the movies.  Some of these
aren't particularly subtle, either - the main female protagonist in Gold-
finger is named Pussy Galore.  This is pretty explicit.  When the movie was 
shown here recently, every time Bond called her by name a wave of laughter 
broke out in the audience.  This was in the original book, by the way.

  I could keep going for a while, but I'll only give one more: at the end of 
The Spy Who Loved Me, when Bond and Barbara are .. um .. relaxing after their 
vigorous activities with the bad guys and preparing for a different kind, 
M and Bach's supervisors see them.  M asks Bond what he's doing and he 
answers, "just keeping up the British end, sir." 

  Fleming had fun with this sort of thing, and the movies built on that.
I guess a lot of people these days don't see it as harmless wordplay, but
it hasn't seemed to hurt box office sales much ....

Oliver Sharp
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