Captain Haddock

Mysore, India(Zone 10a)

One of my favourite comics is Herge's Tintin. Captain Haddock is an interesting character in it. He is a short-tempered one. I have made a list of what he says (or shouts)in various situations when he is mostly angry. Emulate them!

Caramba! Crumbs! Misguided missile; Billions of blue blistering barnacles; Thundering son of a sea-gherkin; ten thousand (or trillions) thundering typhoons; Blue blistering barnacle in a thundering typhoon; you thundering nitwitted numskull; Scoot; Blithering bomardier, Ectoplasm, Insolent porcupine; Ill-mannered savages; Wreckers; Pirates; Filibusters; Picaroons; Iconoclasts; Troglodytes; Pickled herrings; Sea gherkins; Visigoths; Anacoluthons; Addle-pated lumps of anthracite; you trafficker in human flesh; Baboon;Carpet-seller; Paranoiac; Pockmark; Cannibal; Duck-billed platypus; Jellied eel; Anthropophagus! Ceropithecus! Psychopath! Coelacanth! Vulture! Body-snatcher! Ostrogoth! Vandal! Dunderheaded coconuts! Stool-pigeon! Confounded rattletrap! Tincan contraption; "you deserve to be strng up on the mizzen yardarm"; Flying Coffin (aeroplane)......

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