bethanie's Journal: Hey, George.

The new Bond.

That man is an impostor

[Ethelred Unraed]

For I am the real Bond.

Oh, wait, I'm the guy with the white puddy-tat. [grantham.de]

Maybe they'll ask me to be the new Blofeld [passagen.se], then. I can do a mean German accent. Really!

Cheers,

Ethelred

Nah, you need a man who looks the part

[Morosoph]

Like Chris! [thestage.co.uk]

Re:That man is an impostor

[tomhudson]

For I am the real Bond.

I think they meant Bond, not Bondo [bondo-online.com] :-)

Re:That man is an impostor

[Ethelred Unraed]

Heh. My brother's first car (this was in the early '80s) was a '68 Ford Falcon 4-door sedan that he bought for the astonishing sum of $44. Its body was in parts almost completely rusted away, but he managed to fix it up with a ton of Bondo. There was quite possibly more Bondo in that car's body than metal. Forever afterwards, the car was referred to solely as "The Bondomobile".

Somewhat oddly, his second car was also a 1968 Ford Falcon, albeit a station wagon, that was in immaculate shape. Even the interio

Re:That man is an impostor

[tomhudson]

There are a lot of "Bondo-mobiles" out there, being driven by people who don't know it.

After hanging around car lots for years, I developed the uncanny ability to spot even the best bodywork as being bodywork, and not original paint. Or to spot a car that just doesn't "sit right", and then go over it and find out why. It got to the point where I could just sit in the driver's seat and tell them the sex of the driver (verified by checking the previous owners' registration) and, usually, their approximate a

Re:That man is an impostor

[Ethelred Unraed]

Of course there's no money to be made in that - sigh - people tend to get upset when you "read" their cars' history. Like last weekend, when a friend was asking me about a piece of trim around the windshield, and I pointed out how his never-been-in-an-accident car that he recently bought was involved in at least 2 separate incidents (left rear quarter panel replaced in one, front end in another).

Ya, I was skeptical about our car being "accident free", especially when I noticed upon replacing a burned out

Re:That man is an impostor

[tomhudson]

If its a Rover, there's a good chance the duct tape is original equipment *ducks* :-)

At 35,000 km, I would expect the tires to be the original tires. If the car had aftermarket tires, and they had a fair amount of wear on them, the odometer's been spun back.

Last year one used car salesman was showing off his 16,000 km Mini Cooper that he'd just bought from the dealer. Of course, I immediately noticed that the rear tires were practically bald. The car had 50,000 km on it, so it's not just "ordinary joes"

Re:That man is an impostor

[Ethelred Unraed]

All kidding aside, Rover was making some big improvements in the last several years. Quality-wise I'd stack up our car with any other mass-market car available in Europe in its class -- Ford, Peugeot, Opel, VW, you name it. Before BMW bought them, they had some serious quality issues, but after the mid-90s they started making big strides. It's a shame they went down the tubes.

At 35,000 km, I would expect the tires to be the original tires. If the car had aftermarket tires, and they had a fair amount of

Re:That man is an impostor

[tomhudson]

Tried to get the priest to buy it for the parish, even offered to chauffeur him, but he demurred. :-)

... that's because with you driving, there'd be a mandatory "Drive like hell ... you'll get there!" bumper sticker.

Re:That man is an impostor

[Ethelred Unraed]

Aw, c'mon! I only hit 36 pedestrians last year! I'm improving!

Cheers,

Ethelred

Re:That man is an impostor

[tomhudson]

Aw, c'mon! I only hit 36 pedestrians last year! I'm improving!

So we can expect to hear you increase your tally next year.

BTW, hitting them when you're NOT DRIVING A CAR doesn't count! Cheater! No wonder your body count is so low. You'll never get to world domination if people don't fear the mere presence of the Ethelred.

It worked for Bush. Too dangerous to be allowed to drive (convicted drunken sot), he got to have the codes to the Big Red Button. You too can qualify.

Have a partial lobotomy,
then a

Welcome to the news of three days ago!

[mekkab]

I already taunted Fort Knox in the original Bond speculation JE as soon as I heard. [slashdot.org]

Re:Welcome to the news of three days ago!

[bethanie]

Yeah, but you didn't link to a source, so we all thought you were just full of shit.

Or was that just me? Yeah. Probably just me. :-)

....Bethanie....

Re:Welcome to the news of three days ago!

[mekkab]

Just get used to me being right all the time. ;)

/I read it in the washington post, so I figured "oh, this'll be all over that dang inter-tron in no time!"

Re:Welcome to the news of three days ago!

[gmhowell]

I like my Washington DC TV news. Fox5DC: all the news that was fit to print on the intarweb... three days ago.

Re:Welcome to the news of three days ago!

[mekkab]

The channels that come in the best for me are the Baltimore stations.

[insert balitimoron joke here]

Re:Welcome to the news of three days ago!

[gmhowell]

Ooh, channel 45. Not just Fox, but Sinclair brand Fox!

45 just hasn't been the same since Cap'n Chesapeake left.

Re:Welcome to the news of three days ago!

[Timex]

Hm. I read about this four days or so ago. I didn't say anything 'cause I thought everyone already knew.

I get a lot of my "breaking news" from Drudge Report, so what the heck would -I- know?

Re:Welcome to the news of three days ago!

[FortKnox]

Yeah, kiss my arse on that and the space, mik cab :P

Looks like

[elmegil]

"Lock Stock & Two Smoking Bonds"

Bah

[LPetrazickis]

He looks like shmuck. That is all.

I don't think he fits with the rest

[NeMon'ess]

"James Bond. Charming, sophisticated secret agent. Shaken but not disturbed."

I don't see it in this new guy yet.

Re:I don't think he fits with the rest

[bethanie]

I think he can pull it off.

I don't think he's as enticingly sexy as Connery or Brosnan (Dalton was easy on the eyes, but more like a big brother, IMO), but I think he'll be able to come across as somewhat dangerous and not quite predictable. He could bring a whole new dimension to the character.

We'll just have to see, I suppose.

....Bethanie....