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30. At the beginning of "Thunderball," M ships Bond off to a health clinic

Reply to Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin (Original post)

Fri Dec 13, 2013, 10:00 PM

Dec 2013

to get all healthy again, since he was drinking and smoking too much and it was starting to effect his physical performance, and we can't have that now, can we 007?

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James Bond's dirty little spy secret: He's an alcoholic [View all] Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin Dec 2013 OP

Yeah, but you get to drive a cool car with great gadgets. BKH70041 Dec 2013 #1

They forgot to take into account that 007 is a robot and, like Bender, runs on alcohol. nt Xipe Totec Dec 2013 #2

Is the same true for John Boehner? Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin Dec 2013 #4

Put it this way... jmowreader Dec 2013 #8

I suppose next they'll claim Paul Bunyan's ox wasn't blue jberryhill Dec 2013 #3

What? How dare you? CTyankee Dec 2013 #17

And... he was white, that's a verifiable fact jberryhill Dec 2013 #44

he's got nothing on Archer WhaTHellsgoingonhere Dec 2013 #5

"If I quit drinking right now, Twinguard Dec 2013 #6

"I need you to go home, sober up, and make sure your apartment is secure!" Initech Dec 2013 #37

Funniest fucking show on TV. Warren DeMontague Dec 2013 #15

Hell yeah! Who wants a Green Russian? Initech Dec 2013 #45

Nor Modesty Blaise - oops, sorry, wrong impression from the thread. I forgot how Archer drank haele Dec 2013 #18

I had a thing for Emma Peel Warren DeMontague Dec 2013 #26

So did these guys Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin Dec 2013 #31

Emma Peel lapfog_1 Dec 2013 #32

She looked fantastic in those catsuits. Ilsa Dec 2013 #33

She played Margaery Tyrell's grandmother in GOT Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin Dec 2013 #43

Having read the books Warren DeMontague Dec 2013 #47

Yep. Warren DeMontague Dec 2013 #48

Extraordinary crimes against the state must be avenged by agents extraordinary... nt Buns_of_Fire Dec 2013 #35

+++ aye MerryBlooms Dec 2013 #24

I know. When they had Archer wake up with amnesia in Bob's Burgers, it was classic. Warren DeMontague Dec 2013 #28

Yes! MerryBlooms Dec 2013 #39

"Bloody Mary, full of vodka, blessed art thou among cocktails." Initech Dec 2013 #36

The wonderful thing about fictional characters is that reality need not apply! Arkansas Granny Dec 2013 #7

Ian Fleming, Bond's creator, died of heart disease at 56! LongTomH Dec 2013 #9

I'm 56 Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin Dec 2013 #19

And he is WHITE...he just is, kiddies. DearAbby Dec 2013 #10

"I'll stop drinking as soon as figure out a better way to get the stuff down." longship Dec 2013 #11

Perhaps he only drank when he was on assignment FarCenter Dec 2013 #12

I know many people that can drink with no apparent effects. Packerowner740 Dec 2013 #13

He's also not exactly, what's the word? ...Real. Warren DeMontague Dec 2013 #14

The hell you say Major Nikon Dec 2013 #29

I wonder if they took into account that when you shake a martini kentauros Dec 2013 #16

To Quote President Bartlett, Wolf Frankula Dec 2013 #22

Not really a surprise, since in most respects Bond was Ian Fleming Spider Jerusalem Dec 2013 #20

Shaken but not stirred! Rosa Luxemburg Dec 2013 #21

I wonder which movie is the best to roll for a drinking game? Major Nikon Dec 2013 #23

a "shaken" martini is a dilute martini 0rganism Dec 2013 #25

My candle burns at both ends jazzimov Dec 2013 #27

At the beginning of "Thunderball," M ships Bond off to a health clinic Buns_of_Fire Dec 2013 #30

Actually in the books ballabosh Dec 2013 #34

If your liver is hard enough, it will deflect bullets Glassunion Dec 2013 #38

Unless this "study" was done as a hobby, they just wasted a bunch of time and money 1000words Dec 2013 #40

Actually the study was on the long term effects of a feline deficient diet. Glassunion Dec 2013 #41

Nice! 1000words Dec 2013 #42

I have read more than one novel in which characters drink a great deal of alcohol SheilaT Dec 2013 #46

Bond would be a flop, so to speak, in the sack. 47of74 Dec 2013 #49