The Adventure of TinTin

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nospam@example.com (liooran) — 2008-06-10T05:10:36Z

US $489.00

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Tintin interview

nospam@example.com (liooran) — 2008-05-13T01:02:21Z

Lucky Reporter: So, Mr. Tintin. I just have a few questions--
Tintin: That's fine.
Lucky Reporter: First off: do you have a last name?
Tintin: Tintin.
Lucky Reporter: Ah, so it's your Christian name that's not commonly known. Your good friend,
Haddock, is actually named Archibald. The Professor is named Cuthbert, and another friend of yours is Chang. So what is your first name, then?
Tintin: Tintin.
Lucky Reporter: Tintin Tintin?
Tintin: It's Tintin. I'm the only one here.
Confused Reporter: Well, yes, ahem...
Tintin: Is there anything else you'd like to know?
Lucky Reporter: Ah...yes! There is another item, I believe. Mr. Tintin, how old are you?
Tintin: As old as my tongue and a little older than my teeth.
Lucky Reporter: (chuckles) I mean, what is your age?
Tintin: Somewhere around eighty, I'd approximate.
Lucky Reporter: I meant your biological age.
Tintin: Generally one's lifespan from birth to current date is considered biological age, isn't it? I've been around since the early twentieth century. I don't keep track of birthdays, so I'm ballparking, but I am about eighty years old.
Annoyed Reporter: All right. Very good. So. What is your financial support?
Tintin: Money. Occasionally buried treasure, but only when the situation lends itself.
Lucky Reporter: Obviously, financial support is achieved through money. I am asking specifically where the money comes from.
Tintin: Money's more of an idea than an actual value. Money means something else, something that we get because of money. That's the real currency. I'm not sure when the concept of trade-this-for-anything began, thought there are some people I know that could probably tell you. Money comes from a mentality.
Annoyed Reporter: I agree. Yes. That is true.
Tintin: Was that what you wanted to know?
Lucky Reporter: Basically.
Tintin: If you're interested, the Professor occasionally dabbles in ancient history. I'd be glad to introduce you.
Lucky Reporter: No, thank you. That does bring me to another point, however. You have an astonishing array of friends and acquaintances, from various points on the globe. Would you say that you are a "social butterfly", of sorts?
Tintin: Well, I wouldn't put it that way-
Lucky Reporter: I mean do you consider yourself friendly?
Tintin: I suppose. Friendship, though, isn't a light matter. It doesn't have much to do with butterflies. Lucky Reporter: But you seem to make friends nearly everywhere you go. If friends are so important, many of them only increase your responsibility. Why befriend so many?
Tintin: Friendship is mutual, you know. It can be a burden, but usually it's a help. There's strength in community.
Lucky Reporter: I understand. Now, let me see...
Tintin: Go ahead.
Lucky Reporter: You have met people from around the globe, many of them women. You seem to make friends everywhere, but they are all men or boys. Why no female companions?
Tintin: I don't know. I don't see them very often, mostly in the cities or in crowds. For some reason I never seem to have contact with women.
Lucky Reporter: But there's Ms. Castafiore.
Tintin: That's more of a pursuer vs. fugitive relationship. Somehow she always knows where to find the Captain and I. She annoys him to no end.
Lucky Reporter: And you, too?
Tintin: Not particularly. I'm just not a fan of opera.
Lucky Reporter: Well, then, Mr. Tintin. A final question.
Tintin: Yes?
Lucky Reporter: Is there a reason for your adventures? There has been speculation, you know. Some attribute it to loneliness, some restlessness, some even boredom. Have you an explanation?
Tintin: I seem to think that it has to do with an author.
Lucky Reporter: Indeed. And why is that?
Tintin: Money.
Confused Reporter: Money?
Tintin: For a variety of purposes. Money doesn't buy friendship, but it can enable one to meet new people. It's also insurance against the advance of age.
Annoyed Reporter: Which doesn't seem to be a problem for you.
Tintin: Money can also be used to establish a person's name.
Resigned Reporter: Of which you have but one.
Tintin: That's right.
Resigned Reporter: Tintin.
Tintin: Exactly.
Resigned Reporter: It was nice to meet you, Mr. Tintin.
Tintin: It was nice to meet you, as well.
Resigned Reporter: Thank you.

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Tintin's personas

nospam@example.com (liooran) — 2008-05-09T02:17:19Z

Tintin's synopsis

Whilst on holiday with his friend Captain Haddock, Tintin reads about a plane crash in the Himalayas. That evening he dozes off while playing chess with the Captain at the hotel and has a vivid dream that his young friend Chang has survived a plane crash on his way to Tibet. The next morning, he reads in the paper that Chang's plane actually did crash in Tibet. Believing that his dream was a telepathic vision, Tintin travels to Kathmandu, followed by a sceptical Captain Haddock. They meet a sherpa named Tharkey, and accompanied by some porters, they head to the crash site.

Following a number of events, they discover footprints in the snow that Tharkey claims belong to the Abominable Snowman. When they reach the crash site, Tintin finds a teddy bear half-buried in the snow, which he believes belonged to Chang. Tintin sets off with Snowy to try and retrace Chang's steps, and find a cave where Chang has carved his name on a rock.

Tharkey decides not to go on any further, believing Chang to be dead, but Tintin refusing to believe his friends fate, heads off with Snowy and Haddock after spotting a scarf on a cliff face. Haddock loses his grip and hangs perilously over a cliff edge. He wants Tintin to cut the rope to save himself, but Tintin refuses, saying that either they're both saved or they die together. Tharkey, moved by Tintin's selflessness, returns just in time to save them. They pitch their tent in a storm, but it blows away so they head on through the night, eventually seeing a monastery in the distance for shelter, but before they can reach it an avalanche occurs and the three are buried in the snow.

Blessed Lightning, a monk at the monastery, has a vision where he sees Tintin, Snowy, Haddock and Tharkey in the snow. Meanwhile up in the mountains Tintin regains consciousness and, unable to reach the monastery himself, writes a note and gives it to Snowy to deliver. Snowy drops the message when he finds a bone, but then realises what he's done, and runs to the monastery to alert the monks who then follow him.

Captain Haddock awakes to find himself in the monastery. He finds Tintin and Tharkey again. After Tintin tells the Grand Abbot why they are there, the Abbot tells him to abandon his quest and return to his country, but Blessed Lightning has another vision, through which Tintin learns Chang is still alive in a mountain cave, but the "migou", or Abominable Snowman is there. Haddock doesn't believe the monk is genuine, but the Abbot explains to him that many things that occur in Tibet seem unbelievable to Westerners. Tintin heads to the Horn of the Yak mountain where Chang is said to be, according to Blessed Lightning. Haddock initially gives up and refuses to follow Tintin anymore, but eventually agrees to go with Tintin and Snowy

Tintin heads into the cave where he finally finds Chang, who is feverish and shaking. Haddock fails to warn Tintin when the Abominable Snowman returns and as it reaches toward Tintin, he sets off the flash bulb of the camera that Tintin is carrying. Frightened by the light, it runs out of the cave bowling over the Captain who has come to save Tintin. Chang is carried out by the two of them, and he tells the story of how he survived, and how the Snowman took care of him. Chang calls him "Poor Snowman", and Tintin comments that he didn't call him "Abominable". "Of course I don't, Tintin," says Chang, "he took care of me. Without him I'd have died of cold and hunger." They are met by the Grand Abbot and an envoy of monks who present Tintin with a silk scarf in honour of his bravery and the strength of his friendship with Chang. They are taken back to the monastery, and Chang muses that the Snowman is no wild animal, but instead has a human soul.

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Tintin in Iran

nospam@example.com (liooran) — 2008-05-09T02:05:41Z

I saw this cover on Internet.It's an Iranian Magazine from the seventies. The title of the magazine is "Aftab/Mahtab" (Sunshine/Moonshine). This magazine is Number 11 and the illustrator is probably FARIBA ZARRE MOHAZZABIE.

Does anybody can give me more details about this magazine ?

http://foto.telenet.be/7737294112

UPDATE: posted: 10 Dec 2007 09:55:37

On the cover it's written "Tintin and Pink Panter on the unknown planet". The signature of artist is not readable, and it's written YEAR 1960 - we don't know what this year mean.

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Dalai Lama visit to UK

nospam@example.com (liooran) — 2008-05-09T02:00:21Z

The Dalai Lama will be in London on 22nd May at the Albert Hall. There is a bond between Tibet and the adventures of Snowy and Tintin - I'm going to see him and hope that one day Tibet may be a place to visit.

London Tintin Shop

nospam@example.com (liooran) — 2008-05-09T01:54:50Z

I spent a while doing a new website for the shop, it went live last week but we now have some of the new range (new t-shirts, socks, cars, resin, plushes) in so I thought it would be worth a mention.

I hope you like it, there's still work to be done but we are aware of most of the issues. If there's anything distinctly wrong, please tell me.

Many thanks,

http://www.thetintinshop.uk.com/

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Welcome to tintin's.org

nospam@example.com (liooran) — 2008-05-08T01:08:58Z

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