Daniel’s iPhone Photo Blog
Daniel’s iPhone Photo Blog
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Thursday, October 8, 2009
Isn’t it remarkable that someone who has the means of acquiring, and thus probably naming, a yacht like this doesn’t know that Ian Fleming’s famous agent James Bond is never, ever called "zero zero seven" but always "double-oh seven"? True, "Zero Zero Seven" was used to advertise the Coca-Cola company’s latest "can of nothing", Coke Zero (zero calories, zero caffeine, zero everything), but surely, this boat cannot possibly be named after a soft drink ad! On a completely different note, few people know that in "On Her Majesty’s Secret Service”, Ian Fleming created parents for his hero: Scotsman Andrew Bond, and Swiss Monique Delacroix (of the canton of Vaud), Fleming’s Swiss fiancée in real life. This blog gets more educational every day...