Cogito ergo sum

Familiar with Asterix? Then the above phrase must have sent you back to your childhood. It brought back fond memories for me. I spent so many years trying to figure out what it meant and I finally found the place of knowledge :D
http://www.bbc.co.uk/dna/h2g2/A218882
Their phrases are pretty handy and loads of fun. It's unbelievable how extremely serious a phrase like "I tought I taw a puddy tat" can sound. So dig in and enjoy!!

But what is so sad is that these days hardly anybody even recognises Asterix or Obelix. If I ask around among my friends, the name Asterix will be recieved with a blank stare. I feel so sorry for all those people out there who have never experienced the joy of Asterix's latest escapade or laughed at Cacofonix's latest tune. Tintin fares a little better coz of the recent cartoon series. But how can anyone appreciate Captain Haddock's rich repertoire of curses after they've been translated into Hindi? The original words have to be heard to be fully appreciated. One of my personal faves - "Billions of bilious blue blistering barnacles in ten thousand thundering typhoons!" How can you not love something like that???
My father has almost the whole series of Asterix and Tintin comics. When I was a kid, I would lie around for hours and hours upon end, leafing thru the books one by one. Back then, I couldn't understand much more than the basic story, but that was hilarious enough for me. Now, when I open one of those books, I appreciate deeper layers of meaning, the slight nuances here and there. The names in the Asterix comics make a lot more sense now. Who could forget the incredible chief Vitalstatistix, the potions of the druid Getafix, the quarrels between Fulliautomatix the blacksmith and Unhygenix the fishmonger? And why would anybody want to forget anything so wonderful! My parents, my brother and me, we are all fans of Asterix and Tintin. We've read the comics innumerable times and conversations at mealtimes are so full of allusions that an outsider would feel absolutely lost.
The comics that come out today are nice no doubt, but they aren't a patch compared to the vagaries of Asterix and his horde of Gauls or to Tintin and Captain Haddock's merry curses!