August 18, 2005

Random Observations for Thursday, August 18, 2005

Just some of the stuff that's currently flitting about in my head.

  • Is it just the husband or is it a worldwide male thing that necessitates the stuffing of an umbrella back into its condom-like wrapper? Sort of like the way men always declare WD-40 is the solution to most problems, and if that doesn't work Duct Tape probably will?

  • Whenever the Doctor and ML ask me to walk their dog in the day because they'll be out of town, it's a guarantee for poor weather. They're in Dee Cee this week and, of course, today it's raining. Last December when they were tooling around the wine country, it was ten below zero. Earlier this summer when they were biking around Minnesota, it was a hundred degrees outside. Just once would I like to walk their dog when the weather agrees with such an activity.

    At least I get out of watering their plants today.

  • The husband and I have been watching "The Complete Bond 1962-1989" on AMC for the past week or so. We'll quit after tonight, because the Roger Moore ones go straight to hell after The Man With the Golden Gun.

    A few observations:

    • I adore the way Sean Connery pronounces Pussy Galore's name in Goldfinger. It just makes me smile.

    • Thunderball is still my hands-down favorite of all of them.

      And this chick is the baddest of the bad Bond Girls.

      luciana.jpg

      There shall be no debate on this one, either. My decision is final.

    • You Only Live Twice is the last one that has that lovely early to mid-sixties aesthetic sense that just suits the Bond World so well. George Lazenby never had a chance when they stuffed him into a ruffled tuxedo shirt in the opening scenes of On Her Majesty's Secret Service. It was never going to work. They should have known better.

    • The husband commented last night when we were watching Live and Let Die that he really didn't like how Bond conned Solitaire into giving up her virginity. The husband said it was cheating.

      Is the husband correct? Discuss.

    • Why could they not find one Felix Leiter?

  • Why do Jolly Ranchers no longer have hard edges on them? Also, why are they exceedingly sticky nowadays? They seem smaller, too.

  • Tide with a "Touch of Downy" is a waste of money. By itself it does not cut down on static cling. And if you use a sheet of Bounce, well, your clothes don't exactly come out smelling like Downy, ya dig? Just buy a bottle of Downy along with the regular Tide.

And that's enough of a peek for you, my devoted Cake Eater readers.

Posted by Kathy at August 18, 2005 02:36 PM | TrackBack
Comments

Wha-? You don't like the pitched battles among sub crews, frogmen and space-suited marines of the High Moore Era? My two favorite have always been The Spy Who Loved Me and Moonraker. Connery spanks Moore like a naughty schoolgirl as far as acting goes, but I prefer the pacing, scale and special effects of the later movies. But then I always was a pretty shallow moviegoer.

Posted by: Robert the Llama Butcher at August 18, 2005 04:04 PM

Oh, God. I feel another cage match coming on.

Posted by: Kathy at August 18, 2005 08:52 PM

Yay a cage match!!

Just watch out for his dwarf, oh wait, never mind.

Posted by: phin at August 18, 2005 09:12 PM

Thunderball was a bit overdone, silly and slow at times, but very enjoyable. But the classic cold war Bond is From Russia, With Love. You know all along that Bond and Grant (Robert Shaw) are going to have it out at the end and Spectre #1 is at his most mysterious. "Three men were found dead aboard the train at Trieste. One of them was Grant. What have you to say, #5?"

Posted by: R-Five at August 19, 2005 12:00 AM

"This gun...seems more fitting for a woman."

"Do you know a lot about guns, Mr. Bond?"

"No. I know a little about women."

Can't recall that quote without breaking into a smile.

Posted by: MRN aka "The Husband" at August 19, 2005 10:29 AM

The line that always breaks me up is when Connery smacks the "doomed Bond Chick" in "Goldfinger" on the rear and tells her to "Run along now, dear" because he wants to have a "Man Talk".

"Goldfinger" & "Live & Let Die" are my faves. Poor Timothy Dalton didn't have a chance if you look at the stinker movies he got stuck with.

Posted by: Russ from Winterset at August 19, 2005 12:24 PM

oh yeah, and that "Leiter" thing was VERY annoying to me as well. It's not like the lead role, where they had to change Bonds every few years. If they could keep Desmond Llewellyn as "Q" for all those movies, why couldn't they settle on ONE, or maybe even TWO, actors to play Felix?

Posted by: Russ from Winterset at August 19, 2005 12:26 PM
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