Pierce Brosnan Boarding Pass

[Yuliya]

It's really amazing what one can find on eBay while looking for something else.

cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=2192155691&category=125&rd=1

Since the auction ends in a couple of hours, I'll quote the description.

Pierce Brosnan First Class Boarding Pass. This is Pierce's original pass when he was in Sydney to promote one of the James Bond films. This is a collectable piece for any James Bond fan, it also has on the pass VIP-Actor *James Bon.

It doesn't really surprise me that PB would fly like a normal person, and that he'd be issued a ticket, and even that the ticket would mention why he should be taken extra care of (in case the flight attendant is blind, I suppose. Or heterosexual male.) But isn't it amazing what some would sell? And what some would buy? $63.00 US plus very expensive postage from Australia.

[Ace]

Look, non smoking! I didn't think they even had a smoking option on many international flights anymore.

Things like this make me wonder if he's ever afraid his used dental floss will wind up on Ebay retrieved from some hotel waste basket. ;D

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[Yuliya]

Probably not, because whoever sells it will have hard time supplying COA, and if they do, it'll most probably be a fake one. But I would be really worried about hotel registration forms, visa checks, and tapes from security cameras - especially that since I've already seen a few stills in a tabloid.

It may still be a non-smoking flight, but they keep mentioning it in the ticket if the form hasn't changed.

Did you know they started charging for drinks last year? Not the first class, of course, but who flies it anyway. Petty, petty.

[Ace]

Yes we've already seen security camera photos of him buying a Bong.... nothing's sacred let alone secret. ;D

People should probably feel lucky they haven't started charging for use of th bathroom... I wouldn't put it past them.

Ace

[Yuliya]

True. They're probably afraid of flight attendants going on a strike - if some passenger is short on money, the flight atmosphere might be hopelessly ruined, and it's their working environment.

[Ace]

::supressing::

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[sparklingblue]

I'm almost too afraid to ask, but what is a "Bong"?

Another story that will tell the inclined reader what kind of water PB consumes can be found here:
www.nypost.com/business/6064.htm

[Yuliya]

Bong is a slang (it's slang, right?) name for hookah, or water pipe; in Persia and some other countries it's also called kalyan. It's (quoting from Webster) a smoking device that consists of a bowl mounted on a vessel of water which is provided with a long tube and arranged so that smoke is drawn through the water where it is cooled and up the tube to the mouth. I'm sure you're familiar with the device, just not with a name for it.

I believe it's the first tobacco filter - smoke clears going through the water tank. Originally it was probably invented to smoke hashish because tobacco was yet unknown. In the Middle East it's still used to smoke tobacco. However, in the States, and probably Europe, too, it's associated with smoking hashish - like one needs a hookah to smoke it.

Sometimes they're truly objects of arts. I've seen a lot of (fake) antique ones in Israel while I lived there; mostly tourist stuff, of course, but people there still smoker them, too. I understand some American and European artists make very modern hookas that can cost thousands of dollars and probably used as mantlepieces.

A while ago some, er, concerned citizen saw PB looking at a hookah at a tobacco shop and tabloids had a field day with it. One of them had a few pictures from security cameras, too.

BTW, intersting, just a week ago I chatted with a friend from Iran who said her grandmather used to smoke kalyan all the time. And then she added that if she brought it to the States, everybody would immediately assumed she was smoking hashish.

[Barbara]

I truly hope no one bought this item.

We were discussing this very item on CBN, and the consenus was it was a fake. There is no such boarding gate at LAX, and there were other things wrong with it.

You can follow our discussion here:
forums.commanderbond.net/showthread.php?s=&threadid=11516

I should also tell you that I wrote to the seller asking him to prove if this was real, and he never responded. At that point, I took all the info that I had pointing to the boarding pass being a fraud and I reported it to Ebay.

I am sorry if it sounds like I'm no fun, but I honestly don't see anything funny about faking boarding passes in this day and age.

[Yuliya]

Funny (no pun intended) you should say it - when I found this item, I thought it might be a fake, too, mostly because of this VIP thing. As for no one bought it - I hope you mean no one we know because some, er, body did buy it for $63 plus postage. That brings us to what I started at - it's amazing what some would buy.

Does it really matter if the item is a fake if a person is ready to pay that much? Rhetoric question. But it's boarding pass, for crying out loud! I wonder what are they going to do with it.

Xen, I don't think selling fake passes is funny; the thing is, I don't care if they are fake because the situation when somebody is ready to buy them is funny, IMO.

[sparklingblue]

Thanks for the info in the Bong, Yuliya. I am familiar with these pipes, however not through personal experience. I think there's nothing wrong about having one, I just don't smoke at all.

[Yuliya]

You're welcome. If you paid $1000 for an object of art, would you smoke it anyway? Some of them are really very pretty.