Blofeld’s bizarre “waxwork show for morbid tourists”

August 23, 2026 – 10:07 PM UTC

Alongside some of James Bond/Sir Hilary Bray’s stranger lines in On Her Majesty’s Secret Service, Ernst Stavro Blofeld has a few odd sayings of his own. Here, he’s referring to the unfortunate Shaun Campbell, another British agent investigating Piz Gloria, whose corpse is rather bizarrely hung in effigy from a jagged section of the mountain….

Won’t that be frightfully energetic?

August 23, 2026 – 10:07 AM UTC

In On Her Majesty’s Secret Service, did you ever notice that we never hear George Lazenby’s James Bond recite the sacred “shaken, not stirred” martini line? No, instead, we get these pompous lines from James Bond as genealogist Sir Hilary Bray (Brayisms) with awkward, almost over-acted deliveries from George Lazenby. And although I understand that…

Together we can take the world apart

August 23, 2025 – 10:07 PM UTC

Although I’m not a huge fan overall of The World Is Not Enough theme, it does have some great lyrics, like the above.  Also this: “The World Is Not Enough…But it is such a perfect place to start, my love.” I liked the great 90s choice of Garbage for the song, but to this day…