Okay, so I was reading about Captain Haddock’s infamous expletives. I never realized this when I was a kid, but his creatively colorful language was a way of depicting him as “swearing like a sailor” without actually using any profanity. Darned clever, that fella Herge!
Gallows-fodder! Gibbering anthropoids! Goosecaps! Guano-gatherer!
Pithecanthropuses! Psychopath! Pachyrhizus! Patagonians! Poltroons! Polygraphs!
Thundering Typhoons! Baboons! Belemnite! Blackamoor! Blackguard! Brigands! Billions of Bilious Blue Blistering Barnacles!
