These are all literal translations. Not "something similar yet pronoucable" as you stated.

Couldn't remember the name, but recalled that in Spanish it's "Tío Rico MacPato" (don't know why someone else forgot the "Tío"); a search for Rich McDuck landed me here!

2 cents:

In English, thanks to Dickens, Scrooge ~ tightwad, an association not made in other cultures, where their authors come first and Dickens' other works would come ahead of "A Christmas Story"

Also, the name doesn't work with the Romance languages, where for pronunciation it would have to be something ugly like "Escruch" (debatable due to the lack of an ending "sh" type sound) MacPato ~ McDuck.

The duck's method of "dropping" balls from a hopper into the sunken ship can't work; they float and would have to be pushed in. Not clear how Kroyer got around that one.

Thanks for a great site, nice read and nice memories.

If others can provide the translations to other languages it'd a be interesting. Here's a few Spanish names that come to mind:

Mickey Mouse: Ratón Miquito, Ratoncito Miguel
Donald Duck: Pato Donald, Pato Pascual
Goofy: Tribilín

Mighty Mouse: Super Ratón

Jughead: Torombolo

The Lone Ranger: El Llanero Solitario
Tonto: Toro (tonto = dummy)

Little Orphan Annie: Anita La Huerfanita
Daddy Warbucks: Papá Diamantino (Diamonded?)

Dagwood Bumpstead: Lorenzo Parachoques (bumper)
Blondie: Pepita
Herb: Heriberto

Betty La Féa: Ugly Betty

It;\'s interesting that names have to be changed to something somewhat similar, yet pronounceable in the other language.

Lars Jensen, another of today's popular Duck writers, has already done one:
http://coa.inducks.org/story.php/x/D+97589/

This story hasn't yet been published in the United States. But ***SPOILER*** it sarcastically tells of how ever since the three nephews were struck by lightning, they occasionally spawn a fourth nephew during periods of stress, who pops momentarily into existence and then vanishes seconds later. ***END OF SPOILER***

All you are doing is indicating your own liberal/Democrat bias, and if I was the moderator of a discussion board, a crack like your "brain trauma" remark would get the perpetrator at least suspended, whichever way it went. OF COURSE liberals don't find Mallard Fillmore funny, but conservatives don't find Doonesbury funny any more, either. And at least Fillmore's Bruce Tinsley doesn't let his affiliation get in the way of getting the facts straight. If HE did that as badly as Trudeau does, he'd lose his distribution. Like Ununnilium asked, let's leave politics of this board, please.

Fine by me. Hoosier X brought it up, and I just couldn't let that remark stand without "equal time." I note with great respect that, despite how politicized discussions of rape have become elsewhere, that didn't get into the "Was Black Canary raped in Grell's 'The Longbow Hunters'?" thread.

My mistake. I wish I had had the book at hand, so I could confirm what I *thought* I had read.

No problema! It's surprising to see him toss in an uncited anecdote like that.

The Iliad was pop culture, yes. Something that *isn't* pop culture... the problem with that is, only stuff that was popular tends to remain from previous eras, because it gets duplicated and distributed so much.

Maybe someone would like to give me an example of something that isn't pop culture.

Besides, Doonesbury is much nicer to the Republicans than they deserve.

Mallard Fillmore is just a collection of conservative talking points. Any occasional resemblance to reality is strictly coincidental.

And he didn't even cite the story I'M stating. He cited the one that's more insulting to Kroyer, which says that Kroyer took the idea from the comic, which Kroyer always vehemently denied. In addition, Heinberg states that Kroyer took the idea from a comic he read as a boy. Kroyer was thirty-five years old when the comic book story was published.

Ah well, que sera, sera!

I HAVE that book! I should check it out. Thanks for the tip.