Let's talk about Tintin

Fandyien

Tintin is awesome, you guys. Is anyone else here familiar with Tintin?

He's a dapper young lad and clever detective, with an array of interesting friends and his pal, snowy.



Tintin goes on awesome adventures all over the world, shooting nazis and soviets and bedouin natives and solving crimes. He usually brings his pal, Captain Haddock along, who may well be my hero-



Tintin is fucking sweet, and Captain Haddock is an awesome drunken mariner. He likes to insult people and drink whiskey.

How do you fuckers feel about Tintin?!

potatoe

haddock's feet are about the same size as his nose

PotU

His name is Tim here and the dog is Struppi.

Balefuego

Tintin is dated horribley by it's blatant racism.

I did love him as a kid though.

Green Lantern

I never really cared for Tintin. Asterix and Lucky Luke always took my comic reading time back in the days

PotU

Asterix was damn awesome.

Hunter

Insulting people and drinking whiskey are my favorite things in the world. Tell me more about this drunken mariner.

Procrastinator

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/6/6e/Les_cigares_du_Pharaon.jpg

Fandyien

Hunter wrote: »

Insulting people and drinking whiskey are my favorite things in the world. Tell me more about this drunken mariner.

He is blustery and british and bearded. Here is a compilation of his drunken slanders-

Aslan

I don't know from Tintin, but I went to this New Year's Eve party a couple of years ago and I met this nice Croatian man who, as the night progressed and we got more and more drunk, eventually decided to give me his Tintin tie. I have never worn it since, but I still have it. Apparently, Tintin is the shit in the Eastern Bloc.

Rhan9

Haddock was awesome, though I didn't particularly care for the rest of the cast. I loved Asterix and Lucky Luke comics though.

Ruckus

5 seconds until Gay Tintin fanfic...

Berk

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TlE80V9zuB8&

Procrastinator

naporeon

I too like to insult people and drink whiskey.

So my response to Tintin has been largely positive.

Karenna

Oh wow, I loved the Tintin books growing up...still have them someplace in near pristine condition, too.

nostalgia. wheeee!

Butters

Are DVDs available in English? I only saw a few episodes on Nick Jr. and I really enjoyed it.

Octopus Melody

I loved Tintin as a kid, I still have a bunch of the old comics somewhere. The rocketship he took to the moon is the grooviest looking rocketship around:

Karenna

The moon rocket was a V-2.

...about to be fired at England?

Tossrock

I remember Tintin goes to the moon

that was sweet

humble

i dyed my hair blonde in highschool and people started calling me tin tin

Procrastinator

My friend has a bathroom in her house that is entirely Tintin themed.

Wallpaper, towels, soaps, thoothbrushes, posters on the wall, little figurines... EVERYTHING.

It looks like a Tintin museum and a bathroom rolled into one!

HolyHesus

How man times was Tintin chloroformed and gagged? As I remember, it was a lot. Probably a lot of rape was involved.

Captain Crunch

I remember him, cool stuff.

And apperantly dreamworks is making a cgi tintin trilogy, and the first two are directed by peter jackson and steven speilberg.

Lucky Cynic

Berk wrote: »

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TlE80V9zuB8&

AHAHA.

Procrastinator

Captain Crunch wrote: »

I remember him, cool stuff.

And apperantly dreamworks is making a cgi tintin trilogy, and the first two are directed by peter jackson and steven speilberg.

I... what?


ASPLODE.

Karenna

Wikipedia wrote:

A video game featuring levels based on all 21 of the original stories translated in English, titled The Many Adventures of Tintin, is scheduled to be released for Nintendo's Wii, Sony's PlayStation 3, Microsoft's Xbox 360 and Nintendo DS around 2008 (published by Infogrames and developed by Vivendi Universal).

Wait, whoa...a current gen game? Awesome!

McNally

there are allready 2 live action tin tin movies that were only realeased in belgian, france and canada.

Here in Quebec, there is a restaurant chain called Frite Alors!! and it's tin tin themed.

McNally

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0058663/
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0055526/

linkstravaganza

Procrastinator

McNally wrote: »

there are allready 2 live action tin tin movies that were only realeased in belgian, france and canada.

Here in Quebec, there is a restaurant chain called Frite Alors!! and it's tin tin themed.

Wait, WHAT?

I have seen none of these around Gatineau!

WHERE CAN I FIND ONE?

Also, whereabouts are you in Quebec?

Fandyien

McNally wrote: »

there are allready 2 live action tin tin movies that were only realeased in belgian, france and canada.

Here in Quebec, there is a restaurant chain called Frite Alors!! and it's tin tin themed.

That's fucking awesome. I need to go visit everything like this before I die.

My brother went to china and came back with two tintin shirts. Evidently it's incredibly popular over there, and everyone fucking loves it.

Lucky Cynic

Hmm, I wonder who would win in a Brawl. Tintin or Waldo. Waldo as in, from the "Where's Waldo?" books.

Procrastinator

Lucky Cynic wrote: »

Hmm, I wonder who would win in a Brawl. Tintin or Waldo. Waldo as in, from the "Where's Waldo?" books.

Tintin with his hands tied behind his back.

Because he has done it before!

Procrastinator

Lucky Cynic

Procrastinator wrote: »

Lucky Cynic wrote: »

Hmm, I wonder who would win in a Brawl. Tintin or Waldo. Waldo as in, from the "Where's Waldo?" books.

Tintin with his hands tied behind his back.

Because he has done it before!

But wally has a cane. Surely that ought to push things in his favor.

Procrastinator

McNally

Procrastinator wrote: »

McNally wrote: »

there are allready 2 live action tin tin movies that were only realeased in belgian, france and canada.

Here in Quebec, there is a restaurant chain called Frite Alors!! and it's tin tin themed.

Wait, WHAT?

I have seen none of these around Gatineau!

WHERE CAN I FIND ONE?

Also, whereabouts are you in Quebec?

there are like 9 in montreal.
2 in quebec city i think.

i'm in montresl.
we met once in o.dot, remember?

Procrastinator

I can't remember last night!

Tell me more of our supposed meeting.

McNally

we saw Saw 2 with simon.
you gave me a ride.

Procrastinator

My therapist says I shouldn't bring those memories back to the surface.

McNally

aaaaaaaw