# Opinions of Diamonds Are Forever?

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/opinions-of-diamonds-are-forever/787524>\
**Category:** Cafe Society\
**Created:** [May 27, 2017, 3:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/opinions-of-diamonds-are-forever/787524 "2017-05-27T03:13:21Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 3\
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**Author:** ![Tranquilis](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tranquilis/32/3639_2.png) [@Tranquilis](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tranquilis)\
**Post date:** [May 31, 2017, 7:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/opinions-of-diamonds-are-forever/787524/61 "2017-05-31T19:43:23Z")

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> [@madsircool](#):
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> That fight in the elevator wasnt just phoning it in imo. No matter how professional, there was going to be a real punch thrown there. It hurts to watch that scene and also goes to show why most of the actors who played Bond could have never been Bond.

You picked the single best bit of the movie. Yes, he clearly still had the chops - But most of the movie, he’s sleepwalking.

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**Author:** ![Bryan\_Ekers](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bryan_ekers/32/183_2.png) [@Bryan\_Ekers](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bryan_Ekers)\
**Post date:** [May 31, 2017, 11:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/opinions-of-diamonds-are-forever/787524/62 "2017-05-31T23:36:07Z")

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> [@terentii](#):
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> In high school German class one day, we were talking about professions. I said I wanted to be a spy like James Bond, and mentioned Pussy Galore and Plenty O’Toole.
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> My teacher, Fräulein I \_ \_ \_ \_, who was young but fairly uptight about such things, turned on me and said _“What?!?”_ :dubious:
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> After I explained they were two of Ian Fleming’s characters

Pussy Galore was invented by Fleming. O’Toole was created for the film.

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**Author:** ![CalMeacham](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/calmeacham/32/35_2.png) [@CalMeacham](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CalMeacham)\
**Post date:** [June 1, 2017, 11:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/opinions-of-diamonds-are-forever/787524/63 "2017-06-01T11:47:32Z")

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> [@Bryan\_Ekers](#):
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> Pussy Galore was invented by Fleming. O’Toole was created for the film.

True, but “Plenty O’Toole” would be right at home with the names Fleming created for his “Bond Girls”. Heck, in _Diamonds are Forever_ you’ve got the outrageously-named “Tiffany Case”

Elsewhere in the novels you have:

Honeychile Rider (_Dr. No_

“Domino” Vitale (_Thunderball_)

Vesper Lynd (\* Casino Royale\*)

Kissy Suzuki (\* You Only Live Twice\*)

Mary Goodnight (\* The Man with the Golden Gun\*)

_The Man with the Golden Gun_ also gave us “Tiffy”, who explains that she was named after a flower, like her sisters. Her mother couldn’t think of any other flowers after she’d named her sisters, so she named her “Artificial” after Artificial Flowers, shortened to “Tiffy”. I thought this one of the most ridiculous explanations for a Bond Girl name, until I read in one of Fleming’s biographies that he really did meet a woman in Jamaica named “Tiffy” for just this reason.  
“Pussy Galore” is a name that Fleming wasn’t sure he’d get past the censors even for the book. It did, of course, and even got into the pre-ratings movie. The name had the intended effect of raising a minor scandal each time, with the attendant publicity. In the years since, it’s been a ripe subject for parody. Michael Myers put “Lotta Fagina” in the Austin Powers movies. Alan Moore has a character tell Bond her name was “Plenty O’Quim” in his League of Extraordinary Gentlemen – The Black Dossier. And in the kid’s film **Cats and Dogs: The Revenge of Kitty Galore** the villainess is named “Kitty Galore”

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