Old-Fashioned Fruitcake
Captain Haddock to slave-trader:
Sheer off, filibuster!… Out of my sight, you gallows bird!… Baboon!… Carpet-seller!… Paranoiac!… Pockmark!… Cannibal!…
[slave-trader departs]
Duck-billed platypus!… Jellied-eel!… Bashi-bazouk!… Anthropophagus!… Cercopithecus!… Psychopath!… Er…
Tintin:
No good, Captain. He’s too far away now…
Haddock:
That’s what you think! He hasn’t heard the last of me! [dashes off]
“Away with cosiness [Gemütlichkeit]! Only where cosiness ends, does humanity begin.”
Adolf Behne
Who found it was just as I feared:
While barrowing wood
For next winter’s good
Found a weta (med-small) in his beard.
To my great surprise, he did not yell, scream, give himself an emergency beard-ectomy, or burn the house down. Truly a deep and mysterious man, the Caped Gooseberry.