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The secret of TinTin's youth revealed...

  • 08-12-2004 11:08pm
    #1
    aidan_walsh
    Closed Accounts Posts: 17,208 ✭✭✭✭


    http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/ArticleNews/TPStory/LAC/20041207/HTINTIN07/TPHealth/
    The swashbuckling comic-book hero and boy-journalist extraordinaire Tintin is ageless, and now researchers know the reason why.

    It appears that his perennially prepubescent look is due to a growth-hormone deficiency and hypogonadotropic hypogonadism, conditions likely brought on by repeated blows to the head.

    Well doesn't that just explain it all... The amount of work that went into coming to this conclusion is great however, though I can't help but think it may have been an excuse to read some classic comics more than anything else... :D

    I can see one of the first posts being "Whose TinTin?", I really can... *sigh*


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  • #2
    Sir Digby Chicken Caesar
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 23,556 ✭✭✭✭Sir Digby Chicken Caesar


    used to love tin tin :)


    gotta dig up my old books


  • #3
    monkeyfudge
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 23,216 ✭✭✭✭monkeyfudge


    What was Professor Calculus suffering from then?

    other than bestcharacterintintinitus...


  • #4
    aidan_walsh
    Closed Accounts Posts: 17,208 ✭✭✭✭aidan_walsh


    monkeyfudge wrote:
    What was Professor Calculus suffering from then?

    other than bestcharacterintintinitus...
    I always though poor old Captain Haddock suffered that particular ailment...


  • #5
    monkeyfudge
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 23,216 ✭✭✭✭monkeyfudge


    I rememember a great scene with Captain Haddock where he was about to go to bed and someone asked him if he slept with his beard above or below the covers... and was awake all night trying to work out which was best.


  • #6
    herobear
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,554 ✭✭✭herobear


    you know tintin made the quiff fashionable ? before the comic strip, there was no such thing as it.


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  • #7
    darkened_corner
    Closed Accounts Posts: 138 ✭✭darkened_corner


    monkeyfudge wrote:
    I rememember a great scene with Captain Haddock where he was about to go to bed and someone asked him if he slept with his beard above or below the covers... and was awake all night trying to work out which was best.

    Oh sweet heavens I'd forgotten that one! :D

    Must dig out the old Tintin stuff myself... Asterix too...


  • #8
    hailtothechimp
    Closed Accounts Posts: 85 ✭✭hailtothechimp


    He was indeed always getting smacked over the head. Snowy would turn up beside his prone body wailing "Wooooaaaaaaaa Wooaaaaaaaaa" in his own inimitable fashion!


  • #9
    Crucifix
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,437 ✭✭✭Crucifix


    Wow, I definitely don't remember the one where he was hit with an empty whiskey bottle.


  • #10
    Slutmonkey57b
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,578 ✭✭✭Slutmonkey57b


    TinTin was ghey. Incidentally, he was also homosexual, but most importantly, the whole comic was ghey. And crap. And not funny. And crap.

    Asterix all the way.


  • #11
    Scratch Acid
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 456 ✭✭Scratch Acid


    Slutmonkey57b wrote:
    TinTin was ghey. Incidentally, he was also homosexual, but most importantly, the whole comic was ghey. And crap. And not funny. And crap.

    Asterix all the way.


    ...Die.


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  • #12
    ][cEMAN**
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,126 ✭✭✭][cEMAN**


    Back on topic before I have to lock this thread and start handing out detention slips!


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