Red Rackham’s Treasure
1. Thomson: “A real herd of elephants!” Thompson: “To be precise: a real herd of elephants!” -pg.4
2. Thomson: “Maybe, maybe. But anyway, now we are aboard you will be able to feel that you are perfectly safe.” Thompson: “To be precise: perfectly safe.” -pg.14
3. Thomson: “This island is h-h-haunted, Captain. Let’s hurry back t-t-to the sh-sh-ship.” Thompson: “To b-b-be precise: l-let’s hurry back t-t-to the sh-sh-ship.” -pg.28
4. Thompson: “You never ordered us to stop pumping, Captain. So here we are, pumping.” Thomson: “To be precise: we’re pumping.” -pg.45
5. Thomson: “Now for the simple, healthy tasks of the countryside! No more pumping!” Thompson: “To be precise: no more pumping!” -pg.57
The Seven Crystal Balls
1. Tintin: “Hello! ... How are things?” Thomson: “Hmm... All right... We can’t deny that we’re right as ever.” Thompson: “Quite right... quite right... To be precise: we can deny that we’re ever right.” -p.17
2. Thomson: “It is my duty, Dr. Midge, my duty... To be precise: headquarters expects that every detective will do his duty.” -p.22
3. Thompson: “Between ourselves, let’s face it -- that was a narrow escape...” Thomson: “Between ourselves, to be precise: I agree!” -p.23
Prisoners Of The Sun
Now here are all the ‘to be precises’ from Prisoners of the Sun.
1. Thompson: “That sounds like the telephone.” Thomson: To be precise: the telephone.” -p.10
2. The Thomsons and Captain are looking for footprints at the beach. Thompson: “It’s like looking for a needle in a haystack.” Thomson: “To be presise: we look like needles in a haystack.”-p.11
3. The Thompsons don’t know where Tintin, Captain, are. They looked for them and now are reporting back to headquarters. Thomson: “We’ve searched South America from top to bottom, sir, without result. We lost all trace of Tintin, the Captain, and the Professore.” Thompson: “To be precise: we got lost.” -p.51
4. Thomson: “We have decided to undertake a fresh search using entirely new methods. It’s the only way: otherwise we have absolutely no hope.” Thompson: “To be precise: we’re absolutely hopeless.” -p.51
Land Of Black Gold
The Thompsons are in this book a lot. So be ready for the ‘to be precises’!
1. (This is personally one of my favorites) Tintin: “Good morning. What news?” Thomson: “What news! Plenty! Something very odd has just happened!" Thompson: “To be precise...we just happen to be very odd!” (and that’s true!) -p.3
2. The Thompsons just got kicked down stairs. Thomson: “How uncouth!” Thompson: “To be presise: most impolite! But you have to admit, he’s got plenty of push...” -p.8
3. Thomson: “A real stroke of luck hitting this road.” Thompson: “To be precise: we’ve really had a stroke!” -p.29
4. Thompson: “Driving in the sun has given me a spitting headache!” Thomson: “To be precise: I’m a headache too!” -p.59
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