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I'm just entirely too fond of Jon Ronson.
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'member how you were admonishing me not to pick on Savannah?
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Interesting fact: Ian Fleming named James Bond after an ornithologist because it was the ‘dullest name’ he’d ever heard. The original name for James Bond was ‘James Secretan’; Ian Fleming took the eventual name from the author of a book on birds.
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More interesting fact: Ian Fleming based the character on James Bond on his buddy Roald Dahl, author of Charlie & The Chocolate Factory, British spy on the Americans and sometime confidant of Eleanor Roosevelt. Ian Fleming went out on exactly one OSS training mission and freaked the fuck out; he wasn't cut out for it. Meanwhile Roald Dahl had been shot down twice and reported directly to Intrepid.