Captain Haddock Appreciation Thread

[cuppajoe_9]

http://www3.sympatico.ca/brooksdr/haddock/main.htm

I've just stumbled across this excellent collection of the good Captain's favorite curses. Start appreciating, you carpathian bashi-bazouks!

[kathycf]

Fancy-dress freebooters!

:lol:

Squawking popinjay!

[Nightshade]

Blistering barnacles now that is one I rember and actually use on occasions

oh but I Like this one Olympic Athlete!

:lol:

[Pendragon]

"Billions of bilious blue blistering barnacles!" loved the alliteration in that one! Always wondered how he could think of one like that! :lol:

http://www3.sympatico.ca/brooksdr/images/haddock/2.jpg

[cuppajoe_9]

The story I've heard is that Monsieur Hergé wanted the Captain to be a traditionally foul-mouthed old salt, but the Catholic newsletter he was writing for didn't think much of that idea.

[kathycf]

Well, that is a good thing too, because then we would have missed out on such gems as:

# Macrocephalic baboon!

# Guano gatherer! :lol: