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Exclamations used by Tintin's Captain Haddock

Cory Doctorow at 6:59 am Fri, Sep 15, 2006

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Wikipedia's entry "List of exclamations used by Captain Haddock" covers the incredible expletives employed in Herge's beloved Tintin comics:
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Aardvark! Abecedarians! Aborigine! Addle-pated lumps of anthracite! Anachronisms! Anacoluthons! Anthracite! Anthropithecus! Anthropophagus! Arabian Nightmare! Artichokes! Autocrats! Aztecs! [13]

B
Baboons! Baby-snatchers! Bagpipers! Bald-headed budgerigar! Bandits! Bashi-bazouks! Bath-tub Admiral! Beast! Belemnite! Billions of billious barbecued blue blistering barnacles! Billions of Bilious Blue Blistering Barnacles! Billions of Blue Blistering Barnacles! Black beetles! Black Marketers! Blackamoor! Blackbird! Blackguards! Blistering Barnacles! Blistereing blundering birdbrain! Bloodsuckers! Blue blistering barnacles! Blue Blistering Bell-Bottomed Balderdash! Blunderbuss! Bodysnatcher! Bootlegger! Borgia! Bougainvillea! Brat! Breathalyser! Brigands! Brutes! Bucaneers! Bully! Butcher! [33]

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Cachinnating cockatoo! Cannibals! Carpetsellers! Caterpillars! Centipede! Cercopithecus! Coelcanth! Colocynths! Corsair! Cowards! Crabapples! Crooks! Cushion footed quadrupeds! Cyclotron! [14]

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