http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Piotr_Skut
From 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.'
