James bond, an alcoholic....Really???

[The Big D]

Sooooooooo, James Bond would have croaked from the cumulative effects of enjoying life with fine dining, fine liquor, and fine women.

I can think of many worse ways to go.

Be safe.

 

[DeadAye]

I grew up in the '50s & '60s and it seemed like a lot of guys died pretty young (relatively speaking) back in those days.

Back then, it was alcohol and tobacco. Today, it seems like a lot of people shorten their lives by abusing drugs.
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And potato chips

 

[policerevolvercollector]

Klaatu! Wow, he would have made a most erudite Bond.

I'd never considered him (Michael Rennie) in the role. But,he might have been perfect!

 

[shouldazagged]

This trio of medical marvels also postulate that Popeye used steroids to supplant his vegan diet, Bugs Bunny had conflicted identity issues causing him to frequently cross dress, Ralph Kramden's Type A personality would have resulted in premature coronary disease and chronic ulcers, and that Moe, Larry, Curly and Shemp were a thinly-veiled metaphor representing the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse.

Since the whole "study" is obviously a huge, sly, British leg-pull, you may be right. And it would be fun to see what these jokers would do with Mr. Bean. Or the Minister of Silly Walks.

 

[Cholo]

Surely the responses to the OP are in jest as it's a valid study worth no less that $1 (one) billion USD's. I know nothing of $pounds except as it relates to what I want to do to the person who cuts in front of me in my local Walmart. I digress...

It's nothing but simple mathematics so to speak. Allow me to explain... JB, aka James Bond, consumes X amount of alcohol. He's with X amount of women after inhaling copious amounts of nicotine. You take his age, add to it his daily consumption of alcohol + his nicotine intake while subtracting his perilous situations regarding guns (did I say I like guns?) and you come up with the approximate age of his demise. I come up with 186.7 years.

Questions?

 

[the ringo kid]

Surely the responses to the OP are in jest as it's a valid study worth no less that $1 (one) billion USD's. I know nothing of $pounds except as it relates to what I want to do to the person who cuts in front of me in my local Walmart. I digress...

It's nothing but simple mathematics so to speak. Allow me to explain... JB, aka James Bond, consumes X amount of alcohol. He's with X amount of women after inhaling copious amounts of nicotine. You take his age, add to it his daily consumption of alcohol + his nicotine intake while subtracting his perilous situations regarding guns (did I say I like guns?) and you come up with the approximate age of his demise. I come up with 186.7 years.

Questions?

The above sounds a bit like Algebra and Trig, I wouldnt know how to ask Questions either. I didnt do well in either class and didnt like them either.

 

[Doug M.]

... On one of our earlier cruises I sat down in one of the lounges and a cute little waitress from Wales, oddly enough, asked me for my drink order. I noticed her very pleasant accent and asked her where she was from. We talked a bit and I told her I'd try one of her countryman's favorite drinks.

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Connery is not Welsh, he's a Scotsman. One could cause an international incident with that error. FWIW, as I recall, the Bond character is also a Scotsman.

 

[the ringo kid]

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Connery is not Welsh, he's a Scotsman. One could cause an international incident with that error. FWIW, as I recall, the Bond character is also a Scotsman.

He was a Scot and I found it funny that an Irishman (Brosnan) was chosen to portray him. In the end, I thought he did a great job of it.

 

[spad124]

The culture is different, as noted. I think Bond would qualify today, and correctly, as an alcohol abuser, based on that consumption level. It was not unusual, either. I can recall working on a hotel in the late 70s, and most of the business travelers we had were drinking more than I did at the time as an undergrad with no sense.

In the business I'm in we still drink when we travel

 

[Old TexMex]

Bond an Alcoholic?

What the devil does that make Travis McGee!?

 

[spad124]

I grew up in the '50s & '60s and it seemed like a lot of guys died pretty young (relatively speaking) back in those days.

Back then, it was alcohol and tobacco. Today, it seems like a lot of people shorten their lives by abusing drugs.
Maybe it all averages out.

If you want to see smoking and drinking watch the first three movies in the "Thin Man" series from the early 1930s. William Powell puts Bond to shame in that category. My Dad " came of age" in the early 30s. He smoked from about 15 until he died at. 95. Do the math

 

[the ringo kid]

What the devil does that make Travis McGee!?

Irish-American?

 

[rwsmith]

PS - James Bond preferred his vodka martinis stirred, and not shaken. Shaking a vodka martini bruises the vodka, affecting its taste (according to Bond). The error occurred early in production of the movies, and was never corrected in subsequent movies.

Thank you Dennis The B, I THOUGHT that was right but never really cared to argue it.

 

[UncaGrunny]

And here is a special note: James Bond is a fictional character. This whole thing was like doing a study on Popeye to see if spinach really made him strong. He was just as real as James Bond!

I'll never forget one part of the campfire-bull-session scene in "Stand By Me," where the one kid asks of the other, "So, in a fight between Superman and Mighty Mouse, who would win?"

The other kid answers in a condescending tone, "Don't be stupid! Mighty Mouse is just a cartoon; Superman's a real guy!"

This study reminds me of that.

 

[Texas Star]

He was a Scot and I found it funny that an Irishman (Brosnan) was chosen to portray him. In the end, I thought he did a great job of it.

Fleming said that Bond had a Scots father and a Swiss mother. His citizenshop was, of course, British.

The gentlman who mentioned the Welsh waitress was probably just referring to Great Britain when he called Bond one of her countrymen. Yes, Sir Sean Connery is Scottish. I do not know his order of knighthood. KCMG?

But there is some agitation for both Wales and Scotland to become independent of the UK. In Spain, it's the Basques and the Catalonians who want to be independent. In the USA, some Texans want to leave the USA and become a separate nation again.

Texas is the only one of these locations that could make it on its own, having the world's seventh largest economy. Frankly, I doubt that any will secede from the present unions.

 

[the ringo kid]

Truthfully, I hope nobody wishes to leave the union, that would be embarassing and would begin to make us look like a third world place and a failed experiment.I agree, Texas can make it on its own, we even have a large Gold Depository here separate from the Feds stash.

 

[jframe]

I don't know about all this leaving the union ****, and James Bond being a chronic alcoholic, but I sure as hell agree 100% with Caje's view on the state of this world!

 

[CAJUNLAWYER]

I grew up in the '50s & '60s and it seemed like a lot of guys died pretty young (relatively speaking) back in those days.

Back then, it was alcohol and tobacco. Today, it seems like a lot of people shorten their lives by abusing drugs.
Maybe it all averages out.

Well, nobody could match my dad when it came to abusing alcohol and tobacco-he took a back seat to no one in that department and he lived to be 81. He shoulda died at age 59 when he had the stroke but he recovered completely. Go Figure....

 

[therevjay]

007

Errol Flynn would have made the best Bond. Since that was not possible Sean Connery was a good choice. (although Roger Moore was my favorite Bond)

Todays kinder, gentler, sensitive, non smoking, clean living, veggie munching, unisexual, P.C. Bond isn't a patch on the real deal.



P.S. A Doctor told my Dad that he would never see 60 if he didn't quit smoking and drinking. It would kill him for sure. Well it did, but he was almost 80 at the time. (and he outlived that Doctor)

 

[moosedog]

Have you ever been to Britian? They lost their rights to own guns, they eat bland food that costs too much and they drink warm beer.
Does anyone really give credibility to any British Research?