James Bond: You Knew Who He Was

This week's poll question, "What book did James Bond Write", once again showed that most people usually get the right answers to these things. The correct answer was Birds Of The West Indies Turns out that when Ian Flemming was writing his first Bond book, he wanted a name that sounded as dull as possible. Reaching for a book on his shelf, he decided that the ornithologist James Bond had a truly a dull-sounding moniker. What the real James Bond thought of this is unknown.