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Entry: When spies were sexy

The Bad Hair Blog has When spies were sexy:

Back when I was a kid I wanted to grow up to be Mrs. Emma Peel of The Avengers. She was witty and had a great voice (still does), wore great clothes, her hair and nails always looked good, and invariably at the end of each episode she drove off into the sunset with Mr. Steed after saving him & kicking the bad guys' butts. Mr. Steed was one of the reasons why I developed early on a liking for British actors (Alan Bates was another one -- Patrick Macnee turns out is Canadian -- but I digress).

I still would like to grow up to do stuff like Mrs. Peel used to. Regrettably, real-life espionage doesn't live up to the 1960s TV version and I never took up Karate.