By “asked to be a shelter,” I suspect Mr Osteen means, “gave us five big boxes of money to be a shelter.”

Perhaps Mr Llamas should have his face covered...

I believe one of my chauffeurs mentioned once in passing that I possess a number of garages on my spacious grounds. I’ve no idea if she was telling the truth, of course, as I had to dismiss her for rising above her station, speaking without being spoken to first. A great pity, as she was my firstborn. Morganatic,…

“Grandpa’s taking me to see the flood, but I didn’t have anything to wear, so I’m stuck in these rags.”

I’m speculating, of course, but these minor league appearances feel like something the insurance companies required, to see if Wright could play at all. Then, a trip to an insurance company doctor to certify that his playing days are done, followed by retirement. It’s a grotesque ritual, but one that has to be…

Twin Peaks has been so incredibly Lynchian, I find myself wondering if we might even see Bobby Briggs and Laura Palmer get back together. Okay, she’s been dead 25 years, but...it’s Twin Peakstown, Jake.

Come to think of it, I did get one or two odd looks...

Amazing. Ordinarily, I think I sound like Mr Peterson from The Bob Newhart Show. When I do this, however, I sound exactly like Gregory Peck in The Guns of Navarone. Well...from now on, I’m walking around with magazines pressed to the side of my head All The Time. :)

But you’ve also completely ignored the point that not everyone in the UK talks like the BBC. And yet...they’re native-born. But they don’t exist in your little world, do they?

You haven’t been reasoning at all. All you offer is your belief that Bond should speak in a proper British (male) voice.

Actually, my opinion on this is pretty mild. I just get the strong feeling that you’re lying about your reasons. The one you offer — 007 has to have a British accent — feels like cover for your real reasons. Adieu, troll.

I just find it interesting that you want the accent and all that folderol you keep arguing for, but you can’t come up with one single reason why you want it, except that’s the way it’s always been. Not a reason you’re willing to own up to, anyhow.

It’s guys like this give fat old sacks of hate a bad name...

Bond doesn’t need a backstory at all. But you’d be okay, then, with someone with an Indian accent or a Canadian accent or a Hong Kong accent, then, as long as the backstory is that he or she was largely raised and educated in the UK? Like I said...all sorts of accents in the UK. I’ll bet you could even find people…

But you don’t say why. Just because something has always been doesn’t mean it always must be. See: Jackie Robinson, 1947.

Actually, Bond’s father was Scottish and his mother was Swiss.

Everybody in England (Scotland, Wales, etc.) doesn’t have “an English accent.” There isn’t just one. And there’s no reason Bond must have an “English accent,” any more than Bond has to be white, male, and tall.

And an American, Barry Nelson. A live-tv production of Casino Royale in 1954. Not very good, as I recall, even with Peter Lorre as the very first Bond villain and Linda Christian as the very first Bond Girl.

So did I. Wonder if he took the sheets and pillowcases from his prison cell, too? And stole the warden’s sunglasses?

Assuming that’s actually Lenny Dykstra on the video footage — I somehow still think of him as a skinny little outfielder in a Mets uniform — for a man of only 54 he really has the “old man walk” down just right.