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Oh, man. I'd managed to forget James Bond Jr....
EDIT: Holy Jesus. Get a load of their Dr. No.
This is apparently part of a wider phenomenon, here: The recasting of old "yellow peril" villains as green-skinned, claw-fingered, pointed-eared mutants.
Other recipients of the green peril treatment include Ming the Merciless and the Mandarin.
Weird. The thing about Dr. No is that the green almost looks yellow...
That show has some really lame character designs. This is Jaws:
Dang, what's up with his clothes? Did somebody just tumble-dry him, or is that some 1980s rumpled chic holdover?
Weird. The thing about Dr. No is that the green almost looks yellow...
Also, his moustache almost looks like nostril hair.
birdtongue
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i'd kinda hoped my boyfriend was making that up.
Theme Song to James Bond, Jr.
AngryRobotsInc
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The James Pond games are great. At least the second and third ones are. The first one is a bit meh.
Looking for work on craigslist today.
I don't think I'm gonna go for this one.
If the original 007 is his 'uncle' how is he James Bond Jr? That family has some 'splainin' to do.
The same way Donald Duck raises a large and shifting horde of "nephews" and "nieces" with no father in sight. In cartoon culture it's a suitable euphemism for your bastards.
I mean seriously you didn't expect Bond to get hitched to anyone who didn't immediately and conveniently get ventilated by Blofield, right?
birdtongue
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i want this to be real.
internet? yay! internet worked for me!
If the original 007 is his 'uncle' how is he James Bond Jr? That family has some 'splainin' to do.
According to the James Bond Jr. novel that came out in the 60s (the first time the character was introduced) James Bond Jr.'s father was a guy named David Bond. I guess the "Jr." part is some sort of nickname?
Thing is though, in the Ian Fleming novels, Bond isn't supposed to have any surviving family.
To make things more complicated, there is also a series of Young James Bond books (which are actually supposed to be not bad, and pretty true to the source material.) In addition, James Bond also had a son named James Suzuki, who has appeared in more recent (post Fleming) novels.
Furious Sterling
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The same way Donald Duck raises a large and shifting horde of "nephews" and "nieces" with no father in sight. In cartoon culture it's a suitable euphemism for your bastards.
Actually, Carl Barks created a pretty extensive family tree for the Donald Duck comic books, one he updated a few times. And that was expanded even more by Don Rosa.
Yeah, Donald's nephews are actual nephews. It's Mickey's "nephews" that are actually his own bastard children. With Minnie.
Well known comics folklore.
Sure, if you say so. I just love how every single family tie with anyone who actually shows up in any cartoon is aunt/uncle-nephew/niece. Like, this is the one acceptable way to be related to somebody. I'm not buying this nonsense with Della and Hortense Duck, I've never even heard of them.
Also now I know that in Swedish Donald Duck is "Karl Magnus Anka" so hey
Kodiak
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Sure, if you say so. I just love how every single family tie with anyone who actually shows up in any cartoon is aunt/uncle-nephew/niece. Like, this is the one acceptable way to be related to somebody. I'm not buying this nonsense with Della and Hortense Duck, I've never even heard of them.
Also now I know that in Swedish Donald Duck is "Karl Magnus Anka" so hey
Yes but Magnus is a badass name for a duck we can agree on this right
Furious Sterling
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"My beckoning call" sounds like an indie folk band.
birdtongue
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i swear i'm not obsessed with chickens, this is just a coincidence.
it is, however, kind of awesome.
Kodiak
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Yes but Magnus is a badass name for a duck we can agree on this rightIn English, yes, it's badass. But in sweden it sounds nerdy and amusing, much like Kurt.
Kodiak
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Extremely cool and just as cute. It's got 3 eyelids fer chrissakes!
birdtongue
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my cats chitter like that when they spot a bird or a squirrel... very cute owl.
it's in moon-language, and non-anime Japanese TV is normally baffling to me -- looks like a blend of game show, talk show and educational TV. O_o
birdtongue
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continuing in the theme of "hey, my cat does that," here's a video from the old boards of a fox spazzing out (joyfully, it seems) on a trampoline. seriously, my cats + nip = those moves...
HOTTT
fishcake
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Giovanna
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Fuckin' wops. I am reminded why I left Long Island.
fishcake
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and rare footage of the mating dance
OK, I have no idea if this is the good place to post this (seriously, guys, is this a picture thread or a link thread ?), I've got to show you guys this :
These are the insane dolls created by Ludovic Levasseur. See more on this Flickr set.
maecrab
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This website is awesome! This guy's hobby is hunting down old airforce crash sites, researching their backgrounds, interviewing survivors, and then posting pictures and the story on his website. It has special meaning for me, since I live about a mile from an airforce base, and military planes are regularly flown over my house on their way out into the desert by pilots-in-training. He's very respectful on the site towards the victims and their families and survivors, and when he finds any personal effects (dog tags, for example) he attempts to return them to any surviving family.
Aircraft Wrecks in Arizona and the South West
maecrab
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Gothiness: 6 Sweatiness:5
"Goodness dear, this garden's getting messy! Look at those Azalias, they're running wild."
"Like the torment in my soul, they grow through every space. Binding my waking thoughts with the dark matter of their misery, strangling the young shoots of my happiness in the tangleweed of despair. I am become Death, the destroyer of worlds."
"Yes dear. Oooh, is that the kettle boiling?"
An illustration from "The Great American Fraud, an investigative article by Samuel Hopkins Adams", printed in 1907. It quite successfully helps one understand the reason for the popularity of many quack medicines then on the market: Their astonishingly high alcohol content.
Many of these quacky, boozy remedies were sold with promises to calm and soothe, which I'm sure they did, in sufficient quantities. Oftentimes, they were also a respectable, middle-to-upper-class woman's only source of alcohol. It was unthinkable for a decent wife and mother in 1907 to grab herself a beer off the grocery shelf, but Ma So-and-So's Vegetable Compound for the Bowel and Bladder? Different matter entirely.
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