Off Topic: The "CraigNotBond" site still exists!

As the description says, this blog is supposed to be largely about politics and polling but occasionally there's interesting or funny news on a different topic. This is most definitely the latter.

This site still exists. Seriously!

A bit of background, back in 2005 when Daniel Craig was first announced as replacing Pierce Brosnan as James Bond there were some die hard fans who didn't like the idea, saying Craig was unsuitable for a number of reasons, most of them focusing on him being a bit too blond.

They picked on him for all sorts of tiny issues like having big ears or wearing a life jacket for the publicity stunt announcing him as Bond (despite the fact that a worse headline surely would have been "Foolhardy Craig drowns in Thames after declining life jacket") but the craziest was a site called CraigNotBond.com.

This site not only listed reasons why they thought Craig was a bad choice but actually had reviews and ratings of every other Bond just to prove the point as well as calling for a boycott of Casino Royale.

And then this happened, all the criticism disappeared and Craig suddenly became the best Bond since Connery.

I assumed that the CraigNotBond.com guy would give up in embarrassment at being proven so clearly wrong but here we are, two films later and he's still at it. Most of the links don't work but it's still being updated with rants about Skyfall and everything. The site is now a little collecting point for those people who are bravely resisting Daniel Craig's charms.

The best bit though is that they have their own little self-selecting polls section asking (what else?) who visitors think the best Bond is. First place is Sean Connery with 36% but in close second with 35% is the man a user of the site describes as "look[ing] just like that marionette that was the star of Thunderbirds Are Go."