Comments on: The Grunt of the Shark http://www.jamesbond007blog.com/2005/06/28/36/ Just another WordPress weblog Fri, 10 Oct 2008 23:26:07 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.1 By: John D http://www.jamesbond007blog.com/2005/06/28/36/#comment-26 John D Mon, 04 Jul 2005 19:27:25 +0000 http://www.jamesbond007blog.com/?p=37#comment-26 I don't think Fleming is making fun of Americans by having Bond drink Old Granddad whiskey. Back in the fifties that brand was apparently a higher quality than it is now, I'm told. Furthermore, I don't think Fleming poked fun at Americans more than any nationality, for two reasons. First, he was too smart to risk offending a huge potential market of readers. Second, most of the things he had Bond enjoy when in the USA are also some of the favorites of my European friends when they visit the USA, like the stone crabs that Bond feasts on in Goldfinger. Fleming did poke a little fun at various dialects and accents, but he did that with the Brits too, when he had Leiter tell Bond never to use certain British words, like "ectually" (actually)..... Jon I don’t think Fleming is making fun of Americans by having Bond drink Old Granddad whiskey. Back in the fifties that brand was apparently a higher quality than it is now, I’m told.

Furthermore, I don’t think Fleming poked fun at Americans more than any nationality, for two reasons. First, he was too smart to risk offending a huge potential market of readers. Second, most of the things he had Bond enjoy when in the USA are also some of the favorites of my European friends when they visit the USA, like the stone crabs that Bond feasts on in Goldfinger.

Fleming did poke a little fun at various dialects and accents, but he did that with the Brits too, when he had Leiter tell Bond never to use certain British words, like “ectually” (actually)…..

Jon

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