 Gordon Brown Talks With Sebastian Faulks, British PM and 007 novelist in discussion at the London Book Fair |
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Commander RNVR Group: Commanding Officers Enlisted: 9 January 2002 From: Edmonton, Canada  |
15 April 2008 - 00:42
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Commander Group: Veterans Enlisted: 14 October 2007 From: North Smithfield, RI, USA |
15 April 2008 - 00:45
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Wow, interesting stuff; never knew old Brownie was a fan of Look Back in Anger.
You only live twice:
Once when you're born And once when you look death in the face. --Ian Fleming |
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Lieutenant Group: Crew Enlisted: 13 January 2002 From: London, Ontario |
15 April 2008 - 02:17
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That echos Kennedy liking From Russia With Love.
Live life like Fleming is narrating.
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Commander RNVR Group: Commanding Officers Enlisted: 2 August 2001 From: Oxfordshire |
15 April 2008 - 06:50
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QUOTE(Jeff007 @ 15 April 2008 - 03:17)  That echos Kennedy liking From Russia With Love. "Prime Minister, you're no Jack Kennedy".  "There was a violent cruelty, a pathological desire to wound, quite near the surface in the man." CBn: ...we have people everywhere Only James Bond is James Bond. |
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Lt. Commander Group: Veterans Enlisted: 23 November 2004 |
15 April 2008 - 10:06
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QUOTE(Jim @ 15 April 2008 - 07:50) QUOTE(Jeff007 @ 15 April 2008 - 03:17) That echos Kennedy liking From Russia With Love. "Prime Minister, you're no Jack Kennedy". Er... Fleming's Bond = Jack Kennedy - handsome, worldly, charming, immaculately dressed, irresistible to women, respected around the world. Faulks' Bond = Gordon Brown - lardy, scuffily dressed, ineloquent, bumbling, limited experience with women (some say alternative peferences), not desperately respected even in th UK.  The omen's for DMC = not good if that's the case. Oh, and: Fleming's Bond = Jack Kennedy = dead.  |
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Lt. Commander Group: Veterans Enlisted: 9 August 2006 |
15 April 2008 - 13:09
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QUOTE(Jim @ 15 April 2008 - 07:50) QUOTE(Jeff007 @ 15 April 2008 - 03:17) That echos Kennedy liking From Russia With Love. "Prime Minister, you're no Jack Kennedy". Quite. Is it really healthy that James Bond is being associated, however tenuously, with the walking disaster currently occupying Downing Sreet? God knows, I was no fan of Blair and yearned daily for his removal from office. But, sadly, it's true that one should always be wary of what one wishes for... |
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Commander CMG Group: Veterans Enlisted: 13 May 2002 |
15 April 2008 - 13:38
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The Prime Minister admitted to being a fan of 007, having read "most of the James Bond novels a long time ago".
Oh, very good. He gets to claim that he's down wiz da Bond-reading kidz, but, of course, it was all so long ago, so for heaven's sake don't ask him any questions about what he thinks of the books. |
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