# "The Name Is Bond. Israel Bond." **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [December 11, 2003, 8:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-name-is-bond-israel-bond/218433 "2003-12-11T20:50:25Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 7\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Eve](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/9e8a1a/32.png) [@Eve](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eve)\ **Post date:** [December 11, 2003, 8:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-name-is-bond-israel-bond/218433/1 "2003-12-11T20:50:25Z")
The _Bored of the Rings_ thread reminded me of Sol Weinstein’s wonderful (and _feelthy!_) Oy-Oy-Seven books; am I the only person who remembers these? I have a feeling that the writers of _The Hebrew Hammer_ have a few copies lying around. I still have my father’s copies of [Loxfinger](http://www.bondian.com/books/20754863.html) and [Matzohball](http://www.bondian.com/books/74596108.html), but I will have to hunt down the other titles. ---
**Author:** ![Rube\_E.Tewesday](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/f0a364/32.png) [@Rube\_E.Tewesday](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rube_E.Tewesday)\ **Post date:** [December 11, 2003, 10:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-name-is-bond-israel-bond/218433/2 "2003-12-11T22:03:20Z")
This is ringing some kind of bell – did they sometimes appear in _Playboy_ in the sixties? ---
**Author:** ![Exapno\_Mapcase](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/exapno_mapcase/32/1051_2.png) [@Exapno\_Mapcase](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Exapno_Mapcase)\ **Post date:** [December 11, 2003, 10:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-name-is-bond-israel-bond/218433/3 "2003-12-11T22:07:54Z")
I have those and also _You Only Live Until You Die_, though not _On the Secret Service of His Majesty, the Queen_. And it’s quite possible that Beard and Kenney were familiar with the books, which started coming out in 1965. They have exactly the same type of silly name play (his gun was a Simon-Garfunkel) and over the top cultural references (if less drug humor). And there were very few full book-length parodies of single titles before his. He also later did a Godfather parody called, what else, _The Oddfather_, with Howard Albrecht. > [@](#): > > Fungi, his temper at the boiling point, shouted, “Who dared to order the shooting of our Don? Rickeloni, Knottso, Cherri…?” > > “Any or all of them,” said the _calculatori_. “Your father and I knew they would not accept his total control of peanut brittle.” > > “The neighbors say the shooting was done by a Fireside Girl who was driven away by a colored one in a Cadillac,” said Renzo chomping on what he thought was Contadina’s lasagna, but cringing as an exploding bullet flew from his teeth and killed one of the _soldati_ from Bensonhurst, “See that the man’s widow is royally treated.” I have to admit that I think he’s deservedly forgotten. ---
**Author:** ![Exapno\_Mapcase](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/exapno_mapcase/32/1051_2.png) [@Exapno\_Mapcase](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Exapno_Mapcase)\ **Post date:** [December 11, 2003, 10:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-name-is-bond-israel-bond/218433/4 "2003-12-11T22:43:08Z")
Hey, I was playing around on that Bond site, and it turns out that I’m on it for a book that I did! For a book that nobody bought, it sure gets around. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Eve](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/9e8a1a/32.png) [@Eve](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eve)\ **Post date:** [December 11, 2003, 11:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-name-is-bond-israel-bond/218433/5 "2003-12-11T23:59:04Z")
What was _your_ book, **Harpo**? What I remember from the Israel Bond series was El Al Airlines’ slogan, “You Should Only Land and Be Well.” ---
**Author:** ![Exapno\_Mapcase](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/exapno_mapcase/32/1051_2.png) [@Exapno\_Mapcase](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Exapno_Mapcase)\ **Post date:** [December 12, 2003, 3:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-name-is-bond-israel-bond/218433/6 "2003-12-12T03:16:36Z")
Sorry, **Eve** , I’m not public the way you are. I can send you an e-mail if you’re really consumed with curiosity. ---
**Author:** ![Little\_Nemo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/little_nemo/32/3120_2.png) [@Little\_Nemo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Little_Nemo)\ **Post date:** [December 12, 2003, 4:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-name-is-bond-israel-bond/218433/7 "2003-12-12T04:27:57Z")
The thing I remember about _The Oddfather_ was the dedications. As I recall, the author’s list of people that he thanked took several dozen pages.