Bludgers

To reiterate: here at Blog Central, we compare Poul Anderson's Dominic Flandry to Ian Fleming's James Bond and also regard SM Stirling as a worthy colleague and successor of Poul Anderson - although the title of this post does not describe any of these gentlemen. Thus, we are not wandering too far off the reservation if we trace some connections between a novel by Fleming and one by Stirling.

Stirling shows us some Japanese, then some Australians (see here), whereas Fleming shows us an Australian in Japan (see here).

Dikko Henderson intones:

"'I bludge,
"'Thou bludgest,
"'He bludges,
"'We bludge,
"'You bludge,
"'They all bludge.'"
-Ian Fleming, You Only Live Twice (London, 1966), 3, p. 36.

A sergeant shouts:

"'Out off the fucking way, you bludgers!'"
-SM Stirling, The Golden Princess (New York, 2015), Chapter Four, p. 76.

For the meaning of "to bludge," either google or read Fleming, op. cit., p. 37.

Blogging is completely unpredictable. There was no way that I could have known in advance that an Australian insult would appear in both a Bond novel and an Emberverse novel.