Showing posts with label Captain Haddock. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Captain Haddock. Show all posts

Aug 28, 2022

 INSULTS GALORE...
Have fun with it!!! 
Surprise some idiots in your life. 

I stumbled upon this really amazing group of words that are apparently swear/cuss words. They sound so much like Captain Haddock's curses, I tell you. ☺ Use them in your spoken language, they are much more fun than those that start with a, b, s, and in desi style m's and b's even. Your opponent will be thoroughly GOBSMACKED and ask you, "You called me WHATTT?" 

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1. GOUBERMOUCH

Apparently means a busybody. 
This is an Irish term for someone who likes to meddle in other people's business. 

Try saying "You, you Goubermouch, stay out of this!"



2. GNASHNAB

It is an 18th century northern English word which is used to describe a whiny person who keeps complaining all the time. Synonyms for this word would include nitpicker, grumbler and moaner. 

Imagine yourself saying, "He looks like he's gonna kick some human ass, ya whinin' gnashnab!"



3. SNOUTBAND

A conversation interruptor... Somebody who intercepts conversations to put in his/her own bit in it. Mostly to show off their own knowledge and to correct or contradict the opponent. Every social group has their own snoutband who think they know everything. In fact I suffered from this malady myself for the longest time. :P But you bet I won't be indulging in this any longer. You bet, I don't want to be called a snoutband



4. STAMPCRAB

Somebody that is clumsy or heavy of foot. stumbling onto places that they have no business being in, would be a stampcrab. 



5. SCOBBLELOTCHER

scobberlotcher is someone who avoids hard work like it's their job. The next time you catch someone dozing off at their desk, hit 'em with this one. 



6. ZOOTERKINS

The website Matador Network says this is "a 17th century variant of ‘zounds’ which was an expression of surprise or indignation." 

It's less of an insult and more of something to yell after someone has insulted you... but of course you can follow up with some other great words of your own. :P some Haddock style blistering barnacles. 



7. ZOUNDERKITE

Not a bird this one........ were you thinking on the lines of a dogbird? 

No no, if you were, you are way off target. This is a Victorian word simple meaning idiot. Especially to be spoken with indignant irritation. Synonyms would be buffoon! 



8. BEDSWERVER

I just love this one... William Shakespeare coined this to describe an adulterer, literally speaking a bedhopper. But I guess, hopper did not sound sophisticated enough, hence the swerver. 



9. FOPDOODLE

A fopdoodle is someone of literally none or little significance. So if you're letting someone get on your nerves that really shouldn't have the power, remember that they're just a fopdoodle. ;) ;) :D Then carry on.


10. KLAZOMANIAC

This is a person who can only ever shout in any argument. THAT's ALL I AM GOING TO SAY ABOUT THAT, YOU HEAR ME! ....hehehe... i guess you got the point. (Wait! :D Did you not know that writing full sentences or paras in Capitals is akin to shouting at people on the internet?)



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So what are you waiting for We all have some Fopdoodles in our lives, lets get on with telling them what absolute Zooterkin Snoutbands they are behaving like. :) :) :D


Wise words for Aug 28, 2022:
He may look like an idiot and talk like an idiot, but don't let that fool you. He really is an idiot."
-- Groucho Marx.



Dec 22, 2008

Haddock's Curses

Tintin comics have a peculiar trademark in the form of Captain Haddock's colourful exclamations, that he hurls out every time he gets in a rage.

History: At the time Captain Haddock was first introduced, just before the second world war, his manners presented a moral problem to Hergé. As a sailor, Haddock ought to have a very colorful language. Yet as he was to appear in a Catholic children's magazine, he obviously was forbidden to use any swearwords. Sollution came one night when Hergé (Author of Tintin) overheard a political argument amongst two passer-by's in the street. In the heat of the discussion one of the persons became so enraged that he lost his contenance for a moment and started yelling at his companion "You... You... You peace-pamphlet yourselves". This was the solution Hergé sought: what if the captain would use strange or difficult words that were not offensive in themselves, but would hurl them out as if they were very strong cusswords... (This would also add a comical note by portraying the captain as a pseudo-intellectual who loves to use difficult words without really knowing what they mean.)

From the simple ("dogs!", "rats!") to the scientific ("pithecanthropuses!") to the sublime ("vegetarian!"), you will just love Captain Haddock of Tintin fame for his unique turn of phrase. I have made bold the ones that I love from the following list.
  • Pirates!
  • Doryphores!
  • Gobbledygooks!
  • Filibusters!
  • Slubberdegullions!
  • Patagonians!
  • Vampires!
  • Sycophant!
  • Kleptomaniacs!
  • Egoists!
  • Tramps!
  • Monopolizers!
  • Pockmarks!
  • Belemnite!
  • Crooks!
  • Miserable earthworms!
  • Coconuts!
  • Harlequin!
  • Parasites!
  • Macrocephalic baboon!
  • Brutes!
  • Guano gatherer!
  • Pachyrhizus!
  • Toads!
  • Gyroscope!
  • Bougainvillea!
  • Bloodsuckers!
  • Nincompoop!
  • Shipwreckers!
  • Cyclone!
  • Gallows-fodder!
  • Politician!
  • Baboon!
  • Torturers!
  • Fuzzy-wuzzy!
  • Blackbird!
  • Mountebanks!
  • Cannibal!
  • Duck-billed platypus!
  • Black-beetles!
  • Ruffian!
  • Vermicellis!
  • Lily-livered bandicoots!
  • Rats!
  • Logarithm!
  • Cro-Magnon!
  • Freshwater swabs!
  • Beasts!
  • Bully!
  • Anthropophagus!
  • Pithecanthropuses!
  • Savages!
  • Gangsters!
  • Wreckers!
  • Vandal!
  • Carpet-sellers!
  • Numbskulls!
  • Gang of thieves!
  • Slave-trader!
  • Picaroons!
  • Visigoths!
  • Toffee-noses! Wink
  • Anacoluthons!
  • Hydrocarbon!
  • Technocrat!
  • Buccaneer!
  • Traitors!
  • Caterpillars!
  • Odd-toed ungulate!
  • Woodlice!
  • Polynesian!
  • Swine!
  • Blackguards!
  • Vegetarian! Big Grin
  • Dizzards!
  • Fancy-dress freebooters!
  • Centipede!
  • Sea-lice!
  • Ectoplasm!
  • Fat faces!
  • Artichokes!
  • Troglodytes!
  • Turncoats!
  • Bashi-bazouks!
  • Olympic Athlete!
  • Ectoplasmic Byproduct!
  • Balkan Beetle!
  • Two-timing Tartar Twisters!
  • Terrapins!
  • Breathalyser!
  • Profiteers!
  • Abecedarians!
  • Vulture!
  • Phylloxera!
  • Dogs!
  • Hooligans!
  • Steamrollers!
  • Body-snatcher!
  • Ostrogoth!
  • Brigand!
  • Heretic!
  • Blackamoor!
  • Anthracite!
  • Black marketeers!
  • Ophicleides!
  • Dynamiter!
  • Pickled herrings!
  • Gibbering ghost!
  • Corsair!
  • Moujiks!
  • Rhizopods!
  • Bootlegger!
  • Gogglers!
  • Villain!
  • Aborigine!
  • Bagpipers!
  • Pyrographers!
  • Crab-apples!
  • Goosecaps!
  • Aztecs!
  • Paranoiac!
  • Twister!
  • Vagabonds!
  • Sea-gherkins!
  • Road-hogs!
  • Hi-jackers!
  • Zapotecs!
  • Cercopithecus!
  • Toads!
  • Psychopath!
  • Nest of rattlesnakes!
  • Jellied-eel!
  • Liquorice!
  • Coelacanth!
  • Invertebrate!
  • Nyctalops!
  • Mameluke!
  • Dipsomaniac!
  • Diplodocus!
  • Cowards!
  • Megalomaniac!
  • Highwayman!
  • Autocrats!
  • Bandit!
  • Nitwits!
  • Polygraphs!
  • Iconoclast!
  • Orangoutang!
  • Squawking popinjay! LOL
  • Prattling porpoise!
  • Scoffing braggart!
  • Ten Thousand Thundering Typhoons Eek
  • Blue Blistering Bell-Bottomed Balderdash!
  • Cushion footed quadrupeds!
  • Fancy-dress Facist!
Check, this french site for a list of curses along with the names of comics they feature in.

Haddock Trivia:
  • In Tintin and the Picarros, Captain Haddock does not complete one of his curses - Miserable blundering barbecued blister... (One can only imagine what could be coming!)
  • When Haddock attempts to cure Calculus of his amnesia by scaring him via dressing up as a ghost, he trips on the bedsheet, and as he's struggling to free himself, he screams "Ten Thousand Terrifying Turtles!" Trying to picture what 10,000 terrifying turtles would look like had could have anyone on the floor in fits of laughter.
  • In Iran, Tintin was published in Farsi. The Farsi pronounciation of Haddock's name is 'Kapitaan Haadook'.
  • Bashi bazouk - this term was originally applied in Turkey to non-uniformed soldiers. It literally means a savage and brutal ruffian, and was popularized by Captain Haddock.
  • According to the book "Le Petit Haddock Illustré", Captain Haddock might have said more than 220 curses during all the adventures.
  • In one particularly angry state, Hergé had the captain yell the 'cussword' Pneumotorax (An inflatable ring placed inside the windpipe of tuberculosis patients to help them keep their airflow, 1930's style medicine). One week after the scene appeared in Tintin Magazine, Hergé received a letter from a father whose boy was a great fan of Tintin, but also was a heavy tuberculosis sufferer and had precisely such a pneumothorax inserted. According to the letter the boy was devastated that his favorite comic made fun of his own condition. Afterwards it turned out that the letter was a fake written and planted by Hergé's own studio workers (One source mentions Bob de Moor) and when this came out soft-spoken Hergé was just as devastated by his 'betrayal' as the boy of the letter allegedly was.

Wise Words of the Day :

"Survey the circling stars, as though yourself were in mid-course with them. Often picture the changing and rechanging dance of the elements. Visions of this kind purge away the dross of our earth-bound life."
-- Marcus Aurelius (121-180).