Makes you think, don’t it?
Hey! Why Are Movie Monsters Overwhelmingly Male?
Straight Line of the Day: How To Have Fun During Your Guest Appearance on “The View” …
Question of the Day: Where Have All the Flowbees Gone, Long Time Passing?
Bond Girlathon Friday : Results from 10/9/2026 : New Matches for 10/16/2026
It’s Friday, let’s get freaky.
Results from 10/9/2026
| Martine Beswick | No Preference | Luciana Paluzzi |
|---|---|---|
| 88 | 2 | 45 |
| (6) Molly Peters | No Preference | (5) Daniela Bianchi |
|---|---|---|
| 109 | 4 | 39 |
New Matches for 10/16/2026
Match 1
Maryse Guy Mitsouko (Mademoiselle La Porte) vs Zena Marshall (Miss Taro)
| Contestant | Record | Total Scores |
|---|---|---|
| Maryse Guy Mitsouko | 2 – 6 – 0 | 592 – 14 – 1019 |
Mademoiselle La Porte
Actress: Maryse Guy Mitsouko Nationality: French Bond Movie: Thunderball (1965) Synopsis:
Mlle. La Porte was Bond’s French liaison during his attendance of SPECTRE agent Jacques Bouvar’s funeral. She informs Bond that Bouvar passed away in his sleep, and as the two leave the funeral she ends with “Is there anything else our French station can do for Monsieur Bond?”, to which Bond replies, “Later, perhaps.”
Maryse Guy Mitsouko
VS
| Contestant | Record | Total Scores |
|---|---|---|
| Zena Marshall | 1 – 7 – 0 | 478 – 9 – 960 |
Miss Taro
Actress: Zena Marshall Nationality: English Bond Movie: Dr. No (1962) Synopsis:
Miss Taro was a spy working for the villainous Dr. No. She got herself a job at government house in Kingston, Jamaica, so that she could steal secret files detailing Dr. No and Crab Key Island. She invited Bond to her house for dinner, where she laid a trap for his assassination. However, Bond smelled something was fishy and got his men to arrest Miss Taro so he could lay a trap for the assassin.
Zena Marshall
Match 2
Mie Hama (Kissy Suzuki) vs Eunice Gayson (Sylvia Trench)
| Contestant | Record | Total Scores |
|---|---|---|
| Mie Hama | 1 – 7 – 0 | 377 – 12 – 1122 |
Kissy Suzuki
Actress: Mie Hama Nationality: Japanese Bond Movie: You Only Live Twice (1967) Synopsis:
Kissy Suzuki was a ninja working for the head of the Japanese secret service, Tiger Tanaka. She had a mock wedding with James Bond, who underwent surgery to disguise himself as a Japanese fisherman, so that the pair could explore a quiet village without being noticed.
Mie Hama
VS
| Contestant | Record | Total Scores |
|---|---|---|
| Eunice Gayson | 3 – 5 – 0 | 447 – 31 – 888 |
Sylvia Trench
Actress: Eunice Gayson Nationality: English Bond Movie: Dr. No (1962) From Russia With Love (1963) Synopsis:
Sylvia Trench introduced herself in the opening scene of Dr. No as “Trench. Sylvia Trench”, which Bond then mimicked with his now trademark “Bond. James Bond”. Trench was Bond’s girlfriend for the first two films, with a running joke that Bond was called away on a mission just as things were heating up.
Eunice Grayson
Quote of the Day
Do you feel lucky, punk? Well, do ya?
“The cities become a magnet for two kinds of people. The highly educated elite who can afford $3 million houses, and then public housing. Who’s squeezed out is the entire middle class. If you’re a cop or a firefighter and you work in Palo Alto, you can be commuting 3 hours both ways just to have a house and afford a family.” ~~ Marc Andreessen
Three Charges; Three Questions
Three apparent sex workers (Xiaochung Peng, Xiaoqin Wu, and Ping Zhang) were arrested on charges involving maintaining a bawdy place, aiding prostitution, and using a vehicle in the commission of a crime.
— Reason | 10.14.2026 | Elizabeth Nolan Brown
1. “Maintaining a bawdy place” — is it too much to ask that they define “bawdy”? And, for that matter, “place”? Otherwise, at their discretion, IMAO could be considered one.
In which case, my defense would be based on “Babeas Corpus” — “You Have [Quite] the Bawdy.”
Next they’ll be outlawing “ornery speech.”
2. “Aiding Prostitution”: Am I not guilty of aiding it if I do nothing about it?
And where is this standard when it comes to illegal immigration, and sanctuary and welfare states?
3. “Using a vehicle in the commission of a crime”: Where did that come from? Using a pencil in commission of a crime? Using socks / shoes / a map in commission of a crime? Using a sofa in commission of a crime?
Perhaps in this case, one of the criminals brought the car in to a mechanic and said that it was making a kind of “Xiaochung Peng” sound, with an intermittent “Ping Zhang.”
Straight Line of the Day: If Trees Don’t Mean Us Harm, Why Are There So Many of Them?
Scientists estimate that there are more than three trillion trees on Earth—a number that even dwarfs the amount of stars in our galaxy.
— Yahoo News | June 11, 2026 | Susan Lahey
After All, How Difficult Could It Have Been?
Cartoons and Memes
Quote of the Day
Former Ambassador to Greece Willing To Work at IMAO If We Handle Assets
There Is Literally No Difference Between the Way IMAO Operates and the Way the California High-Speed Rail Operates
IMAO World Headquarters
California High Speed Rail to Nowhere Paid for Nightclub and Cigar Bar
frontpagemag.comDan Greenfield
The California High-Speed Rail to Nowhere started out with a $9.95 billion bond measure back in 2008 that was supposed to link up LA, San Francisco and the Central Coast by 2020, and is now up to… $231 billion.
Hopefully. At this rate, it’ll cost all the money in the world and still never exist.
So where is that money going? Here’s a hint.
Around the same time that the CEO of the California High-Speed Rail Authority, was arrested on suspicion of domestic battery after an appearance with Gov. Gavin Newsom celebrating the progress of the ‘train-to-nowhere’, Democrats were moving forward a bill to ban the public from getting crucial information about the project whose budget is more than 5 times that of NASA.
But at least someone’s been having fun.
California’s High Speed Rail Authority paid nearly $600,000 in unallowable travel expenses to “questionable locations that appear unrelated to state business,” including trips to gyms, a nightclub, an escape room, a tiki bar and a cigar lounge over a two-year period, according to an investigation released Tuesday by the inspector general that oversees the agency.
The report found that the agency routinely reimbursed consultants for trips that were unauthorized or poorly justified. Some consultants flew first-class and were reimbursed without questioning, in violation of contracts and state policies. One consultant flew his private plane from Washington, D.C. to California and was reimbursed for a premium fare.
Nothing to see here. Just business as usual.
Say, what do you think of our updated IMAO logo?
Straight Line of the Day: What Did the Medieval Era Ever Do For Us?
Well, for one thing, it gave me another word I can misspell.
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And it gave us a ton of reasons to create the nickname “the Dark Ages”:
The Council of Toulouse in 1229 prohibited laypeople in its jurisdiction from possessing Old and New Testament books and especially vernacular translations.
(The Bishop of Toulouse had the first name of “Folquet,” so there’s that.)
Bond Girlathon Wednesday : Results fro 10/7/2026 : New Matches for 10/14/2026
Round 10 is almost in the books and with these matches we will rerank the top 16 Bond Girls. Will any positions change?
Results from 10/7/2026
| (12) Olga Kurylenko | No Preference | Kell Tyler |
|---|---|---|
| 161 | 1 | 12 |
| Catherina Murino | No Preference | (13) Carey Lowell |
|---|---|---|
| 98 | 1 | 55 |
New Matches for 10/14/2026
Match 1
(1) Barbara Bach (Anya Amasova) vs Carmen du Sautoy (Saida)
| Contestant | Record | Total Scores |
|---|---|---|
| (1) Barbara Bach | 9 – 0 – 0 | 1929 – 8 – 276 |
Anya Amasova
Actress: Barbara Bach Nationality: American Bond Movie: The Spy Who Loved Me (1977) Synopsis:
Anya Amasova, code name ‘Triple X’, was a KGB agent working under General Gogol. She had the same mission as Bond, to retrieve stolen microfilms for a submarine tracking system. After half co-operating and half getting in the way of each other, Bond and Amasova meet their bosses at the Egyptian HQ, who tell them that MI6 and the KGB are now co-operating, and the two should work together.
Barbara Bach
VS
| Contestant | Record | Total Scores |
|---|---|---|
| Carmen du Sautoy | 1 – 8 – 0 | 326 – 31 – 1415 |
Saide
Actress: Carmen du Sautoy Nationality: English Bond Movie: The Man with the Golden Gun (1974) Synopsis:
Saida was a Lebanese belly dancer, and the ex-lover of agent 002, Bill Fairbanks. When Fairbanks is found dead, Bond visits Saida to find out what happened. Saida mentions that she found the bullet that killed Fairbanks and now uses it as a lucky charm belly button. Bond tries to casually steal the bullet, but after getting hit on the back by the club bouncer, he swallows it by mistake.
Carmen du Sautoy
Match 2
(3) Eva Green (Vesper Lynd) vs Talisa Soto (Lupe Lamora)
| Contestant | Record | Total scores |
|---|---|---|
| (3) Eva Green | 9 – 0 – 0 | 1584 – 16 – 571 |
Vesper Lynd
Actress: Eva Green Nationality: French Bond Movie: Casino Royale (2006) Synopsis:
Vesper Lynd worked for Her Majesty’s Treasury, and was assigned to manage the funds lent to Bond for his poker game with villain Le Chiffre. She got caught up with a vicious fight between Bond and Steven Obanno, that ended in Obanno’s bloody death. Bond found Vesper sitting shivering and fully dressed in the shower, trying to wash away the blood. He comforted her, and the two bonded. When Bond was poisoned by Le Chiffre, Vesper came to Bond’s aid and saved his life. Later in the film, the pair were captured, and Vesper spared Bond’s life in a series of events that led to the end of her own.
Eva Green
VS
| Contestant | Record | Total Scores |
|---|---|---|
| Talisa Soto | 3 – 6 – 0 | 745 – 29 – 1142 |
Lupe Lamora
Actress: Talisa Soto Nationality: American Bond Movie: Licence to Kill (1989) Synopsis:
Lupe Lamora was the mistress of drug baron Franz Sanchez. Lupe frequently slept around, and Sanchez went to deal with one of her lovers in Florida, getting himself arrested by the DEA in the process. Bond met Lupe unintentionally when trying to kill someone aboard her boat. They met again at a casino, and Bond forced Lupe into taking him upstairs to meet Sanchez. Although Lupe was a love interest, Bond left her at the end of film to be with Pam Bouvier.
Talisa Soto