Comments on: Stop Getting Martinis Wrong Bond https://freakytrigger.co.uk/ft/2006/07/stop-getting-martinis-wrong-bond Lollards in the high church of low culture Wed, 14 Nov 2007 17:27:52 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.4.3 By: Pete Baran https://freakytrigger.co.uk/ft/2006/07/stop-getting-martinis-wrong-bond/comment-page-1#comment-337185 Wed, 14 Nov 2007 17:27:52 +0000 https://freakytrigger.co.uk/ft/2006/07/stop-getting-martinis-wrong-bond/#comment-337185 Shaking is more likely to break off small bits of ice, which then melt in the process (shaking embues energy, not heat, likely to melt small bits).

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By: sophie https://freakytrigger.co.uk/ft/2006/07/stop-getting-martinis-wrong-bond/comment-page-1#comment-337163 Wed, 14 Nov 2007 16:06:00 +0000 https://freakytrigger.co.uk/ft/2006/07/stop-getting-martinis-wrong-bond/#comment-337163 actually i think you will find shaking does not heat up a martini or the spirit inside, it actually breaks down the vodka with the ice making it the perfect COLD temperature. thankyou.

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By: Tim https://freakytrigger.co.uk/ft/2006/07/stop-getting-martinis-wrong-bond/comment-page-1#comment-87627 Fri, 24 Nov 2006 15:45:19 +0000 https://freakytrigger.co.uk/ft/2006/07/stop-getting-martinis-wrong-bond/#comment-87627 “Tricycle, you’re needed. Agent Hobbyhorse was on a very dangerous mission in the former Societ Union but hasn’t reported in. We sent Agent Pogo Stick after him but she has disappeared as well.”

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By: Tim https://freakytrigger.co.uk/ft/2006/07/stop-getting-martinis-wrong-bond/comment-page-1#comment-87626 Fri, 24 Nov 2006 15:43:40 +0000 https://freakytrigger.co.uk/ft/2006/07/stop-getting-martinis-wrong-bond/#comment-87626 AGENT TRICYCLE!?

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By: Pete Baran https://freakytrigger.co.uk/ft/2006/07/stop-getting-martinis-wrong-bond/comment-page-1#comment-87621 Fri, 24 Nov 2006 15:21:43 +0000 https://freakytrigger.co.uk/ft/2006/07/stop-getting-martinis-wrong-bond/#comment-87621 I did not notice the smirnoff amongst the gazillion product placements in Casino Royale. Indeed when he orders/invents a Vesper Martini it is quite clearly a gin one.

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By: Elisha Sessions https://freakytrigger.co.uk/ft/2006/07/stop-getting-martinis-wrong-bond/comment-page-1#comment-26229 Tue, 25 Jul 2006 21:18:01 +0000 https://freakytrigger.co.uk/ft/2006/07/stop-getting-martinis-wrong-bond/#comment-26229 Could also poss. have been a snark at Fleming’s most likely model for bond, Dusko Popov, aka Agent Tricycle, who Fleming apparently ham-handedly followed around London and Lisbon during WWII – and who delivered a withering put-down to said Fleming’s unstealthy methods (hypothesized by Lord Sukrat once as “cutting eyeholes in the day’s newspaper”) – of course once imagines Tricycle going with the even more downmarket bur racily American-made Popov

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By: Pete Baran https://freakytrigger.co.uk/ft/2006/07/stop-getting-martinis-wrong-bond/comment-page-1#comment-26129 Tue, 25 Jul 2006 14:55:58 +0000 https://freakytrigger.co.uk/ft/2006/07/stop-getting-martinis-wrong-bond/#comment-26129 Bond as Fleming autobiog (use other Connery’s pls)

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By: mark sinker https://freakytrigger.co.uk/ft/2006/07/stop-getting-martinis-wrong-bond/comment-page-1#comment-26106 Tue, 25 Jul 2006 14:41:09 +0000 https://freakytrigger.co.uk/ft/2006/07/stop-getting-martinis-wrong-bond/#comment-26106 possibly but there is that story that sir anthony eden, under stress during suez, flew out to stay at GOLDENEYE for a respite, but after a week of the DREADUL FOOD and RATS IN THE RAFTERS, he returned home to westminster and had a total nervous breakdown

haha “i may drink red wine with fish, but LOOKS WHO’S ON HIS KNEES!”

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By: Pete Baran https://freakytrigger.co.uk/ft/2006/07/stop-getting-martinis-wrong-bond/comment-page-1#comment-26078 Tue, 25 Jul 2006 14:09:49 +0000 https://freakytrigger.co.uk/ft/2006/07/stop-getting-martinis-wrong-bond/#comment-26078 “Smirnoff – the genuine taste of fusel oil”.

Yes, I definately think Bond’s martini habits is Fleming trying to say something ultra subtle like “Bond is a social climber. We will let him assasinate for us, but he will never be one of us”.

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By: mark sinker https://freakytrigger.co.uk/ft/2006/07/stop-getting-martinis-wrong-bond/comment-page-1#comment-26064 Tue, 25 Jul 2006 13:49:21 +0000 https://freakytrigger.co.uk/ft/2006/07/stop-getting-martinis-wrong-bond/#comment-26064 are we talking about the film or the book? in one of the books he sprinkles pepper on his vodka to take the “fusel oil” to the bottom

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By: Ewan https://freakytrigger.co.uk/ft/2006/07/stop-getting-martinis-wrong-bond/comment-page-1#comment-26058 Tue, 25 Jul 2006 13:41:44 +0000 https://freakytrigger.co.uk/ft/2006/07/stop-getting-martinis-wrong-bond/#comment-26058 I tend to avoid olives as being not quite subtle enough, but the bottom line is that a martini is a drink almost entirely made of vodka or gin, so it’s very important to have a really good quality alcohol. Smirnoff is not. Bon’s taste in cocktails seriously lets him down.

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By: mark sinker https://freakytrigger.co.uk/ft/2006/07/stop-getting-martinis-wrong-bond/comment-page-1#comment-26033 Tue, 25 Jul 2006 11:58:14 +0000 https://freakytrigger.co.uk/ft/2006/07/stop-getting-martinis-wrong-bond/#comment-26033 we need a BAD BOND SCIENCE project i think

(shorter project: ALL OF IT!)

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