Roger Moore And Mont Blanc Fountain Pens

[lawrenceg]

Dear all,

 

Just read an article in the Sunday Times about Roger Moore. (20th June 2010 back of the Money section)

He was asked the question "what is your money weakness" and answered

 

"Pens. I have hundreds of them - all Mont Blanc. I'm sitting at my desk now looking at them except most don't work.".

 

I thought James Bond had a weakness for the ladies, now we know the truth.

 

Sounds like a lot of pens going to waste in Switzerland and Monaco, perhaps we should introduce him to a local pen repair shop, Does anyone know of one?, Preferably tall and blond!

 

Regards all

Lawrence.

[Bookman]

Dear all,

 

Just read an article in the Sunday Times about Roger Moore. (20th June 2010 back of the Money section)

He was asked the question "what is your money weakness" and answered

 

"Pens. I have hundreds of them - all Mont Blanc. I'm sitting at my desk now looking at them except most don't work.".

 

I thought James Bond had a weakness for the ladies, now we know the truth...

 

Regards all

Lawrence.

 

In all fairness, he wasn't much of a Bond.

[markc]

In all fairness, he wasn't much of a Bond.

 

Ouch! (true, but dang!)

 

I'm more of a Sean Connery fan with the classic bond..

[The Rockster]

Sounds half baked to me.

It's not like he can't afford to fix them.

What pen aficionado would have Broken MBs??

Sounds more like a MB graveyard..............what a waste!!!!

[RLTodd]

Remember Acting & Theater are not real.

 

I can just picture, fill once, discard, buy new.

 

Jeeves.

 

Yes Sir.

 

Pick me up another gross of 149s.

 

Yes Sir.

[vickiehof]

He could already be an undercover FPN member only he'd be using a "pen" name. He'd feel at home here.

 

A few scenes from "Moonraker" were filmed in our area, which was pretty exciting at the time. We used to watch his TV show, "The Saint".

[SimonJamesLucas]

Dear all,

 

Just read an article in the Sunday Times about Roger Moore. (20th June 2010 back of the Money section)

He was asked the question "what is your money weakness" and answered

 

"Pens. I have hundreds of them - all Mont Blanc. I'm sitting at my desk now looking at them except most don't work.".

 

I thought James Bond had a weakness for the ladies, now we know the truth...

 

Regards all

Lawrence.

 

In all fairness, he wasn't much of a Bond.

 

I have to disagree!

[lawrenceg]

Dear all,

The purpose of my post was about the pens, so can we please keep the comments to his choice of pens rather than personel critisism of him playing Bond (they are all good and entertaining Bonds in there own way).

Regards

Lawrence

[Bookman]

Dear all,

 

Just read an article in the Sunday Times about Roger Moore. (20th June 2010 back of the Money section)

He was asked the question "what is your money weakness" and answered

 

"Pens. I have hundreds of them - all Mont Blanc. I'm sitting at my desk now looking at them except most don't work.".

 

I thought James Bond had a weakness for the ladies, now we know the truth...

 

Regards all

Lawrence.

 

In all fairness, he wasn't much of a Bond.

 

I have to disagree!

 

He demanded a deal from all his Bond directors: Don't film me running—use a stand-in—because I look funny when I run. Sounds more like George Costanza than James Bond.

[dogpoet]

I think the Bond film the hardcore aren't having at all (Never Say Never Again) did involve Connery using an MB full of acid, didn't it?

[FrankB]

dogpoet wrote:

 

"I think the Bond film the hardcore aren't having at all (Never Say Never Again) did involve Connery using an MB full of acid, didn't it?"

 

I think I remember it. It was a 149 with a large Union Jack on the barrel. I thought it fired a rocket-like projectile. If I recall, he fired the pen at Fatima Blush and she literally exploded - after a delay.

 

I guess one could say Mr. Moore is brand loyal. I am very surprized at the comment that most of his pens don't work. But, consider that the majority of us pen people are eccentric. I guess the non-functional pens are part of his eccentricity.

[Muncle]

I'm trying to think of what pen James Bond would use. A MB actually seems the most likely, it would fit in with his dinner-jacket persona. For field missions, I wouldn't be surprised if he used a Space Pen; he could be one of the few people who would need it for under water, upside down, in the mud, etc.

 

Another point for the MB, they are so huge (IMHO) that you could easily fit a magazine of bullets, acid, rockets, GPS, piano wire, and anything else a superspy would need.

[HBlaine]

I think the Bond film the hardcore aren't having at all (Never Say Never Again) did involve Connery using an MB full of acid, didn't it?

 

Yes and No. The MB 149 in NSNA fired some sort of explosive rocket.

 

There was an MB in the Moore film "Octopussy" that dispensed acid, and also had a receiver built in to monitor a remote listening device.

 

Kind of amusing, as these two films were out at the same time, in competition with one another. Connery got the better pen line ("You could write a very binding contract with this!"), while Moore only got some reference to poison pens...

 

(There's actually an article over on Pentrace about the NSNA pen, which also mentions the MB Solitaire used in Octopussy.)

[pen2paper]

Beg to disagree.

Roger = "the Saint"

Sean Connery = "A-007"

[holzmeister]

I think it was noted well above-->how many of Bond's pens really were meant to write with vs being a 'poison pen', exploding something-or-other or audio receiver? Maybe Moore has embraced this other-ness, and can't reveal it to the interviewer, otherwise he'd have to send him back to SMERSH (SMIRSH? SMERSCH?).

 

Reversing the thinking, has anybody seen any real-life fountain pens that were also gadgets? That'd be cool to know too!

[Kabe]

There was a Parker in GoldenEye, seemed a Jotter.

 

Following the tradition of Bond girl names, I guess his pen provider is named Penelope Founts

[Truffle Finder]

Quite a few years ago now, I used to get up really early every Friday morning [i'm talking about getting there at 4.00 am!] to Bermondsey market to buy Fountain Pens. I had been going there for some time, and some of the dealers knew me well enough to save them for me. One time shortly after I had got there I saw a friend [Roy] who looked quite shocked! He showed me a 'Peligun' [that was written on the side of the 'Pen'], and he then told me that he had nearly blown his head off!!! During the week, he had picked up a box of the belongings that had been cleared out of a flat somewhere in London. In it was this aluminium pen shaped thing, and on the Friday he was looking through the box to find it for me, little did he know that it was a gun, and worse, it was loaded with a real bullet, he was fiddling with it, and it suddenly went off [luckily just over his shoulder!]

He showed it to me when I saw him in his rather shaken state, along with whatever other pens he had found, and I bought them all.

I took the 'Peligun' to a retired police detective who I knew locally, he took it from me, and told me that they were homemade 'Zip-guns' made in the 60's, and used to scare [and no doubt hurt or worse] the opposition in the underworld. He said that he would give it to the police training centre at Hendon, to use as a 'visual-aid' in lectures!

Scary!!! Huh?

Truffle Finder.

[Truffle Finder]

About an hour ago, I 'posted' a reply on this topic about a 'pen' that I found and bought at Bermondsey Market about 5 years ago. It seems to have disappeared into the ether!!!

Anyway, I'll try again, hoping that 'Big Brother' will allow people to read about it this time!

This 'Pen' was shaped just like a normal [if cheap looking] aluminium pen, it had the name on the side called 'Peligun'! The friend of mine who sold it to me had inadvertently nearly shot himself with it, as he had triggered the mechanism while he was sorting through the box which he had bought from some where after a 'flat clearance' sale. Needless to say that he looked pretty shaken, as the bullet had just missed his head when the 'Peligun' had gone off!

I bought this 'pen' along with some others, and showed it to a retired Police Inspector who I knew at the time, he told me that it was a 'Zip-gun' which started emerging in the underworld in the 60's. I certainly didn't want it, and so I gave it to him, he told me that he would give it to the Hendon Police training School, to use as a 'visual-aid'!

Scary! Huh?

Truffle Finder.

[dogpoet]

I think it was noted well above-->how many of Bond's pens really were meant to write with vs being a 'poison pen', exploding something-or-other or audio receiver? Maybe Moore has embraced this other-ness, and can't reveal it to the interviewer, otherwise he'd have to send him back to SMERSH (SMIRSH? SMERSCH?).

 

Reversing the thinking, has anybody seen any real-life fountain pens that were also gadgets? That'd be cool to know too!

 

I think the couple of gimmicked pens I've seen advertised are both biros. One gives anybody who picks it up an electric shock (which could be useful in a few offices I've worked in) and the other has a listening device in it.

[riff raff]

Well, he did say that most don't work, he didn't say they were necessarily broken. Maybe most are simply un-inked?