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Lautremont Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Mar-03-05 10:15 PM
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Poll question: What is your favourite Captain Haddock epithet?
Specifically, which would you most readily apply to * and cronies?
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saltpoint Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Mar-04-05 03:58 AM
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1. At the "Jellied Eels" choice, I got a swift image of Richard Perle. eom
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jdots Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Mar-04-05 04:15 AM
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2. such fine choices
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Frozen Hamster Donating Member (232 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Mar-04-05 07:00 AM
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3. I pretty much voted blind.
I´ve only read Tintin in the Icelandic translation. The insults lose something in the translation, but are still funny as hell.
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Lautremont Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Mar-04-05 12:17 PM
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4. Let's hear a couple of Icelandic Haddock insults!
I want to use them next time I'm in Iceland, or in Gimli.
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CanuckAmok Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Mar-04-05 12:27 PM
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5. Iconoclasts! Adel-pated lumps of anthracite! Morons! Profiteers!
http://www.geocities.com/CapitolHill/Congress/3688/haddock.htm


They're all right here:

Abecedarians
Abominable Snowman
Aborigine
Addle-pated lumps of anthracite
Alcoholic
Anachronisms
Anacoluthon
Antediluvian bulldozer
Anthracite
Anthropithecus
Anthropophagus
Arabesque
Arabian-nightmare
Artichokes
Autocrats
Aztecs
Baboon
Baby-snatcher
Bagpipes
Bandits
Barefaced-liar
Bashibazouks
Bath-tub admiral
Beast
Beetle
Belemnite
Big-head
Bird-brain
Blackamoor
Black-beetle
Blackbird
Blackguards
Body-snatchers
Bonehead
Bootleggers
Borgia
Bougainvillea
Brat
Breathalyser
Brigand
Brontosaurus
Buccaneer
Bully
Cachinnating-cockatoo
Cannibals
Carpathian
Carpathian-bashibazouks
Carpet-sellers
Caterpillars
Centipede
Cercopithecuses
Cheeky
Coconut
Coelacanth
Coleoptera
Corsair
Cowards
Crab-apples
Cro-magnon
Crooks
Cut-throat
Cyclotron
Cyrano
Dictatorial-duck-billed-platypus
Dipsomaniac
Dizzards
Dogs
Donkey
Doryphores
Duck-billed-platypus
Dunderheaded coconuts
Dynamiter
Earthworms
Ectoplasms
Egoists
Ethelreds
Fancy-dress Fatima
Fancy-dress freebooters
Fat-faces
Fat-headed-fire-raisers
Filibusters
Flying saucer
Freshwater-swabs
Fuzzy-wuzzy
Gallows bird
Gallows-fodder
Gangsters
Gibbering ghost
Goat
Goggles
Goosecaps
Great flat-footed grizzly
Guano-gatherer
Guttersnipes
Gyroscope
Harlequin
Heretic
Highwayman
Hijackers
Hooligans
Hydrocarbon
Iconoclast
Ignoramus
Ill-mannered savages
Insolent porcupine
Invertebrate
Jabbernawl
Jackass
Jack-in-a-box
Jack-pudding
Jellied eel
Jellyfish
Jokers
Kleptomaniacs
Ku-Klux-Klan
Land lubbers
Lily-livered bandicoots
Liquorice
Little pest
Logarithm
Lubberly scum
Macrocephalic baboon
Mameluke
Marmot
Megacycle
Megalomaniac
Mineral-water-drinkers
Miserable blundering barbecued blister
Misguided missile
Mister Mule
Molecule of mildew
Monkey
Monster
Morons
Mountebanks
Musical morons
Nanny-goat
Nincompoop
Ninepins
Nitwit
Numskulls
Nyctalops
Odd-toed-ungulate
Old drunkard
Old witch
Orangoutang
Ostrogoth
Pachyrhizus
Paranoiac
Parasite
Patagonian-savages
Phylloxera
Picaroons
Pickled herring
Pirate
Pithecanthropic pickpocket
Pithecanthropuses
Pockmark
Politician
Poltroons
Polygraphs
Polynesian
Profiteers
Psychopath
Puffed-up-Punchinello
Punch-and-Judy-men
Purple jellyfish
Pyrographers
Pyromaniac
Quadrupeds
Rapscallion
Rats
Rattle-trap
Road-hogs
Rogue
Rubbernecks
Ruffian
Ruminants
Savages
Scallywags
Scamp
Scarecrow
Scoundrels
Sea-gherkins
Sea-lice
Shipwrecker
Slave-trader
Slot-machine
Slubberdegullions
Steamrollers
Stool pigeon
Swine
Sycophant
Tartar-twister
Technocrat
Teddy-bear
Terrapins
Terrorists
Thug
Thundering typhoon
Toads
Toffee-noses
Torturer
Traitor
Tramps
Troglodytes
Twister
Vagabonds
Vampire
Vandal
Vegetarian
Vermicelli
Viper
Visigoth
Vivisectionists
Vulture
Weevils
Wildcat
Wreckers
Wretch
Zapotecs


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Lautremont Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Mar-04-05 01:41 PM
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6. Great snakes!
What you can find on the internets.
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