Originally posted by HENG@:
whooops! oh yea my bad.
um, Estonia? well then the only thing i know about it is that Skut, the pilot whom Tintin 1st encounter in the "Red Sea Sharks" is Estonian.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Piotr_SkutFrom the article:
'Piotr Skut (Piotr Szut) is a character from The Adventures of Tintin series of classic comic books drawn and written by Hergé. He is an eyepatch-wearing Estonian pilot and radio expert, who appears in two albums: The Red Sea Sharks and Flight 714.
The surname Skut (or Szut) does not, however, seem to be Estonian. The closest spelling to Estonian should be Sütt. This is because of an inside joke: when he first meets Tintin and Captain Haddock, he is captured by them and the Captain asks his name. He says Szut, which sounds like the French word "zut", which is roughly translated as "damn". The captain thinks he is insulting him, before he tells him that it's his name. In the English version, he pronounces his name like "scoot", leading the Captain to think he's being told to get lost.'