Happy birthday Ian Fleming

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Happy birthday Ian Fleming

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101 today, if you were still alive.
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This year is Albert R. Broccoli's 100th Birthday. Last year was Ian Fleming's 100th, I always had the idea of Cubby being much younger than Fleming.
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Happy Birthday Mr. Fleming!
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Ian Fleming died quite young. It would have been interesting to see what influence he would have had on the Bond if he had died in the 1980's.
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Happy Birthday Ian.

BTW Capt. Sir Dominic Flandry, I love your new sig.
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Capt. Sir Dominic Flandry wrote:Ian Fleming died quite young. It would have been interesting to see what influence he would have had on the Bond if he had died in the 1980's.
I don't think he had a whole lot of influence on the movies even when he was still alive. I'm glad he didn't live to see the series' descent into farce during the 70s, though he might have liked John Glen's slightly more realistic 80's films better.

PS: I like the new sig too. Who's the artist? It reminds me a little of Josh "Shag" Agle.
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The Bond movies today would have been better if he's still alive.

And Capt, DC looks like a cross between Gollum and Dobby in your sig.
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Fleming was 56 at the time of his death.Way too young. :(
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I found the picture for the signature whilst sorting through my bookmarks. It's from brainchewer.co.uk. On the Brainchewer site it says all illustrations by www.alexiswest.com so I presume it's from there.
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Capt. Sir Dominic Flandry wrote:I found the picture for the signature whilst sorting through my bookmarks. It's from brainchewer.co.uk. On the Brainchewer site it says all illustrations by www.alexiswest.com so I presume it's from there.
Is the middle one meant to be Roger Moore? Connery and Brosnan are instantly recognisable, but Moore (assuming it is him) not so much.
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Kristatos wrote:
Capt. Sir Dominic Flandry wrote:I found the picture for the signature whilst sorting through my bookmarks. It's from brainchewer.co.uk. On the Brainchewer site it says all illustrations by www.alexiswest.com so I presume it's from there.
Is the middle one meant to be Roger Moore? Connery and Brosnan are instantly recognisable, but Moore (assuming it is him) not so much.
You mean that is not supposed to be George Hamilton. ;) He looks crispy :lol:

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I knew it was Roger straight away. I agree with Kristatos that the Roger is not as good a caracature as the Sean and Pierce ones.
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