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Sahil1khan Posted 12 years ago
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Billions of blue blistering barnacles!

Billions of blue blistering barnacles!
what does that mean?
  

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It's an attempt a alliteration, a series of words beginning with the same sound. blistering is probably not the best word to use here, because it means causing sores; barnacles are those hard growths on wood pilings along a shore or ship.

— Philip

  • It's an attempt a alliteration, a series of words beginning with the same sound.
  • blistering is probably not the best word to use here, because it means causing sores; barnacles are those hard growths on wood pilings along a shore or ship.
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It's an attempt a alliteration, a series of words beginning with the same sound. blistering is probably not the best word to use here, because it means causing sores; barnacles are those hard growths on wood pilings along a shore or ship.
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sahil1khan Billions of blue blistering barnacles!what does that mean?
It is one of Captain Haddock's curses.
http://tintin.wikia.com/wiki/List_of_Captain_Haddock's_Curses

Curses are just expressions of outrage; they don't necessarily mean any
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sahil1khanBillions of blue blistering barnacles!
"Blistering barnacles!" is humorous oath, the catchphrase of the character Captain Haddock in the English translation of The Adventures of Tintin. It is not used in real life except perhaps humorously by aficionados of those books. I assume it was invented by the translators. The original French was appar
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