HOW MANY DIFFERENT NAMES DID THE CAPTAIN USE TO DESCRIBE HIS “BELOVED” NEPHEW?
Over a hundred, ranging from gull-bellied, snip-headed busy-body to quivering squid with a jellied backbone. Here’s the list (contributed by Rhonda Nichols, after many long hours of perusing episodes) in alphabetical order: aromatic fishmonger barnacle (four times) benighted barnacle blasted barnacle blasted ninny blasted sea slug blasted pipsqueak blasted bonehead blockhead blubberbrain buffoon (three times) chuckle-headed booby clod (three times) clumsy nit clumsy dolt conniving cipher corrupt cockleshell cowardly codfish devout coward dolt dreadful nuisance dunce (twice) dunderhead Ebenezer Scrooge failure at living fiddlebrain flotsam-faced fake fool (twice) fortunate clod Gregg pretender gull-bellied, snip-headed busy-body ill wind insignificant petty conniver jellyfish larcenous sea slug leech lilyliver (twice) lout, as welcome as an outbreak of scurvy lummox malingering bilge-blister mere pygmy miserable barnacle miserable sheep in wolf’s clothing miserable wart miserable skinfl
