Posted on 09/23/2012 9:43:19 PM PDT by ruralvoter
He’s the dashing secret agent who surrounded himself with women, ruthlessly despatched his enemies and had a series of swashbuckling adventures.
It is not James Bond but a real Second World War hero who has now been identified as the inspiration behind Ian Fleming’s fictional creation.
A new biography of Wing Commander Forest “Tommy” Yeo-Thomas, one of Britain’s greatest secret agents of the war, claims the writer based the character of 007 on the spy and recreated many of his real life experiences in his novels.
Yeo-Thomas, who was known by the code name White Rabbit, was parachuted into occupied France three times – after one mission reporting back directly to Winston Churchill – before being captured and tortured by the Gestapo.
He was taken to Buchenwald concentration camp but managed to escape and reach the Allied lines.
(Excerpt) Read more at telegraph.co.uk ...
All week I have been flooded with Bond movies on my G-Sat
Cinemax channel. They are playing all 24 of them, and at least twice for each one, so I am reliving my past.
“View to a Kill” ended an hour ago. It has been great fun.
Not likely. What really happened was that Hitler himself, stroking a white cat, put him in an olympic pool. He was bound on one side, and 7 hungry sharks were on the other side. A metal grate seperated them. At exactly noon, the sun would reflect in, and onto a magnifying glass that would burn through a rope holding the gate closed.
Then Hitler told him every plan, and what the weaknesses of the Nazis were.... then he left, laughing maniacally that the agent would soon be dead.
On an earlier mission, on a train containing lots of Germans, Yeo-Thomas had found himself having tea with Klaus Barbie, a notorious Nazi known as the “Butcher of Lyon”.
Taking the last seat in the dining car of the Lyon to Paris express, the agent realised he was sitting next to the notorious local chief of the Gestapo.
The Nazis were on the lookout for Yeo-Thomas at the time, but the agent, who was fluent in French, engaged Barbie in conversation and pretended that he was a supporter of the German occupation.
At the end of the meal he was uncertain whether the German had twigged who he was. But he managed to get away safely when the train reached Paris.
THAT Is One Hella Story!
Meeting you,
with a view to a kill.
Face to face in secret places,
feel the chill.
Nightfall covers me,
but you know the plans I’m making.
Still over sea,
could it be the whole earth opening wide?
A sacred why,
A mystery gaping inside.
The weekends why,
Until we
Dance into the fire,
that fatal kiss is all we need.
Dance into the fire,
to fatal sounds of broken dreams,
Dance into the fire.
that fatal kiss is all we need,
Dance into the fire.
The choice for you,
is a view to a kill.
Between the shades,
assassination standing still.
First crystal tears,
fall of snowflakes on your body.
First time in years,
to drench your skin with lover’s rosy stain.
A chance to find,
a phoenix for the flame.
A chance to die,
but can we
Dance into the fire,
that fatal kiss is all we need.
Dance into the fire,
to fatal sounds of broken dreams.
Dance into the fire.
that fatal kiss is all we need,
Dance into the fire.
When all we see,
is the view to a kill.
Damn it, just when my years of therapy to supress the memories of Simon Le Bon’s screeching voice finally take hold, you go ahead and post that.
A wetsuit works by letting water in to form a layer of water between you and the suit, insulating you from the cold briny deep. Maybe the Norwegian used a dry suit.
“Meeting you, with a view to a kill.”
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Thanks for that.
Goldeneye just started, so I am watching it again.
A bit of a misconception regarding insulation, but regardless, the wetsuit wasn’t developed until the 50s.
But drysuits were used by the Navy in WWII and War surpluses ran out in the 50s sparking the innovation of the wetsuit.
Yes, drysuits have been around for a long time. Where I live a lot of sport divers use them because water temp is around 50F (I just go to Hawaii or Mexico).
Bond in more than 4 seconds:
Pizzicato Five - Twiggy Twiggy vs. James Bond
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ywhm_9UTtR0
Freddy Mercury a better choice? LOL!
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