Olga does 007

Just when I thought we had seen the last of our favorite poster, Olga Noitapitsnokovna, she comes back with a thought-provoking post after seeing Quantum of Solace.

Quantum of Solace, the new James Bond movie, hit theatres last week and it seems that at the moment, all a luxury goods company has to do to sell one of their "special" ridiculously overpriced products, is to hint that it is made for MI6 spies with a licence to kill.. Ah yes, James Bond would have liked the new limited edition of Bollinger Champagne with the 007 inscribed on its exterior. How very subtle. Just the thing secret agents are looking for to get pie-eyed on during an assignment. Especially in public. But, the prominent 007 numbers on the bottle are not the only thing that defies common super spy-sense (besides the price), it's also the bottle's questionable shape. Supposedly it is designed after a bullet befitting James Bond's weapon of choice. Now I know that the nice people at Bollinger didn't mean to allude to James Bond's other weapon---you know, the totally embarrassing thing that keeps popping into your head---on purpose. No, of course not.

So for a mere $5,765USD, and while the bubbly lasts, you too can briefly feel what it is like to be a womanizing, deadpan wisecracking, bespoke London suit wearing, able to leap tall buildings and murdering every traitor in sight---kind-of super spy. The empty bottle can then be used as a container for things not apt to be strewn about, and it even has a key chain at one end of it. Super spy cool, isn't it? Never you mind that Daniel Craig, who is a real person with a real good physique, loves to guzzle cheap beer at the local pub. True, he is no Vladimir Putin, but Craig is buff enough. Yes, never you mind about reality, cheap beer calories and strenuous work outs, you just go ahead and get that super expensive bottle of 007 Bollinger bubbly and use your super imagination.

As for Olga, she would prefer the "real" scraggly faced, yet meaty Daniel Craig over the suave "make believe" James Bond any day. But that is just her. Maybe it is because every single one of "make believe" James Bond's girlfriends ends up dying a horrible death, while "the real" Daniel Craig's girlfriend is still very much alive and seems to be sporting a huge diamond engagement ring lately.

And what does this have to do with pearls, you ask? Well, if you are going to actually buy some of that limited edition Bollinger 007 Champagne, you might want to up the super spy ambience a bit and pop that cork on board a mother-of-pearl lined super yacht (real or imagined).

Alvaro Ferranti is making nacreous tiles fit for plastering anything and everything, and they have made a big splash with the super yacht crowd and their trendy super yacht interior designers. Just think what new heights the nacre tile plastering of your ho hum super yacht toilet can reach! Finally, a "throne" worthy of any filthy rich pearlmeister's behind! And that is not all, Alvaro Ferranti prides itself on keeping the cost down on these pearly tiles, so that super yacht owners can save some money using them instead of the usual super expensive fancy exotic woods! Oh, I am so super excited to have found this. It sounds like even I can afford it.

Just think how impressed Olga's camping and hiking friends would be if she micro-mosaic-ed some of that mother of pearl on the interior of her Souris River canoe! Maybe do matching paddles and her waterproof pack too. What fun! Algonquin Park here I come!