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   Mack A. Damia to kongbcs@gmail.com   
   Re: True Lies... "she has an ass like a    
   15 Sep 21 07:57:42   
   
   From: drsteerforth@yahoo.com   
      
   On Wed, 15 Sep 2021 04:26:24 -0700 (PDT), Shiro Nakatomi   
    wrote:   
      
   >On Saturday, January 3, 2009 at 1:55:51 PM UTC-6, John Doe wrote:   
   >> I don't get it. Any of you guys know what the used car salesman was   
   >> talking about?   
   >   
   >   
   >That line is in the movie because it is NOTORIOUS. It comes from one of Ian   
   Flemming's James Bond novels. Flemming got a lot of shit for it. Everyone   
   complained that is a disgusting way to describe a woman. Especially when   
   you're saying she's attractive.   
    Who would want to be compare to that?   
   >   
   >Nobody knows why Flemming wrote that in his spy novel. BUT - True Lies is a   
   spy comedy. This dorky character is a dumb jerk pretending to be a spy. So I'm   
   thinking it's meant to creep us out (it worked) and illustrate that not only   
   is the guy a creep he'   
   s cribbing the WORST spy lines he's ever read to fake his way into a woman's   
   panties.   
      
      
   No evidence that Fleming wrote it.  Find a reference if you can.   
      
   There is a reference that it was said about Paul McCartney.   
      
   Several reference to Bill Paxton, too.   
      
   https://www.cinemablend.com/new/Bill-Paxton-Channeled-His-Own-Fa   
   her-2-His-Sleaziest-Roles-71648.html   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)   

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