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It has been pointed out that it is Mr. Baxter, Director General of the Sprodj Atomic Research Centre in the Moon books, who says it, in Destination Moon. If you can’t actually find it yourself, I’ve gone through the book, and it’s on page 31, and comes after a scream is heard by the observatory team during the test flight; they ask what the noise was, and it was the Captain, who, having lost his pipe and searched high and low (enduring several indignities as he goes), has managed to burn himself with it, because it is actually caught in the back of his overalls.

Unfortunately, as in most cases, describing a gag takes away from it…

As mentioned in another thread, Whiskers, you’ve set this all in motion without actually contributing your own favourite quote; so rather than just questioning other people’s choices, what is your own favourite dialogue?

Personally, I’m also partial to almost any of the nonsense of the detectives, but this declaration in Crystal Balls — “Doctor Simons? …This is Thomson… No, without a ‘P’, as in Venezuela…” — reaches the sublime heights of both making sense and having no value whatsoever as information, whilst being particularly funny.

I am partial to the Venezuela quote, and also its counterpart in The Black Island, "This is Thompson with a P, as in psychology"

Any of the "To be precise..." lines that results in spoonerism.

Oh - I remember one from the Blue Lotus...

"I'm a bird! I'm a plane! I'm... ACTION MAN!"

xD

And in Tintin and Picaros when Tintin was in the jungle and the Thompsons were on TV...

"We object! We were BORN with our mustaches!"

xDD

Does spoonerism lead to forkerism?


There are so many good ones...but one of my recent favorites came from Thomson, in The Castafiore Emerald:
"Goodbye! And thanks for trying to help with the case."

"Well, between you and me, I AM SECRETLY RAMSES THE SECOND"
-Sophocles Sarcophagus
Cigars of the Pharaoh

In Tintin and Picaros, Haddock called Tapioca a "dictatorial duck-billed diplodocus". I don't know why it's good, it's just... Catchy. XD

I can't remember the name of the comic, but there is a scene where Captain H takes a look at the car that tries to run them down and finds that it has a DC badge (diplomatic corps). He remarks "Certified Diplodocuses, that's what you are!"
Usually, anything that has to do with Captain Haddock's colourful language makes my day!

There are some really good quotes in Tintin, and I would like to know what your favorite one (or two) is. Please say who is speaking and what book and page it is from. Two of my all-time favorites are:

"Me? Drive round something that's nothing but something you think is something but is nothing?... I never herd such rubbish! We're going straight ahead!"-Thompson, Black Gold, page 23. The mirages are one of my favorite sequences!

"Never! Either we're both saved, or we die together!..."-Tintin, Tibet, page 40. This one always touches me how loyal Tintin is to the Captain!