TAS s1e8 “The Magicks of Megas-tu”
All right qapla. Hand over your license and registration… your registration? Hurry up qapla.
Driver: sorry laughs
Is there something funny here boy?
Driver: Oh, no.
Then why you laughing, Mister… Larry Johnson? All right qapla, where were we?
Driver: Excuse me, are you saying qapla?
Am I saying qapla?
Driver: I thought…
Don’t think boy. Qapla, do you know how fast you were going?
Driver: laughs
Qapla what is so damn funny?
Driver: I could have sworn you said qapla.
Do I look like a Klingon to you, boy? Am I jumpin’ around all nimbly-bimbly from battle to battle? Am I drinking bloodwine from a chalice? DO YOU SEE ME EATING GAGKH??
Far’vaH: Who can say “petaQ” the most? You guys are real crazy, hey look out for these guys.
Far’vaH: Hell I can say “petaQ”. I can say “Hab SoslI’ Quch!”, for twenty slips of latinum I’ll tell the guy to have a dishonorable death…
So… Y’all do realize that a “snozberry” is a booger, right? 🤢
I thought it was a euphemism for a dick which the author used in another story.
Edit: yup, it’s dick
In 1979, Dahl decided to revisit snozzberries in his adult novel My Uncle Oswald.
The term “snozzberry” comes up when Yasmin Howcomely recounts her experience with George Bernard Shaw:
“How did you manage to roll the old rubbery thing on him?”
“There’s only one way when they get violent,” Yasmin said. “I grabbed hold of his snozzberry and hung onto it like grim death and gave it a twist or two to make him hold still.”
Hunh. That seems sus, but could go either way. Ofc, that tactic is only slightly more humane if it were by the nose.
