I don't have the rest of the story, but by the context of those pages I'm going to expect Mac Paper being Scrooge's uncle for whom Scrooge had great admiration.
HLD calling him "Granduncle" is probably because they call Scrooge just Uncle.
I don't have the rest of the story, but by the context of those pages I'm going to expect Mac Paper being Scrooge's uncle for whom Scrooge had great admiration.
I read the whole story yesterday, and indeed Scrooge says he admired him.
HLD calling him "Granduncle" is probably because they call Scrooge just Uncle.
Maybe, but it doesn't make sense: if Paper is Scrooge's uncle, then he is HDL's great-great-uncle, so they must either call him "great-great-uncle" (exact relationship) or "uncle" (for short). But calling him "great-uncle" is just stupid.
So next on my list are Wilma, Malcolm, and Sandy McDuck (so called on the tree; their official English names might be different like Gorman's). I've chosen them because they also look like they're from pretty recent stories and thus will likely be easier to find. Any ideas?
Post by Scrooge MacDuck on Jul 1, 2017 20:30:56 GMT
Right, having read the story in English, I made page for Gummo McDuck on the Scrooge McDuck Wiki. It's there and might give you a better idea of who he is.
HLD calling him "Granduncle" is probably because they call Scrooge just Uncle.
Maybe, but it doesn't make sense: if Paper is Scrooge's uncle, then he is HDL's great-great-uncle, so they must either call him "great-great-uncle" (exact relationship) or "uncle" (for short). But calling him "great-uncle" is just stupid.
You are reading too much in it, and forgetting in Italy "any relative(or not) older than you that is not your father or grandfather is an uncle" especially previous decades
Scrooge is HLD's uncle, so his uncle would be their granduncle, mostly because they don't know him and talk about him that way by respect(they call Scrooge just uncle because they have regular contact with him, see above). That's it, regardless the exact relationship.
Maybe, but it doesn't make sense: if Paper is Scrooge's uncle, then he is HDL's great-great-uncle, so they must either call him "great-great-uncle" (exact relationship) or "uncle" (for short). But calling him "great-uncle" is just stupid.
You are reading too much in it, and forgetting in Italy "any relative(or not) older than you that is not your father or grandfather is an uncle" especially previous decades
In that case, it's strange they didn't call him "uncle".
they call Scrooge just uncle because they have regular contact with him, see above
Actually, I'd say they call him "uncle" because it's short for "great-uncle", as calling him "great-uncle" every time would be redundant and pointless. I don't think it has anything to do with the fact that they have regular contact with him.
Right, having read the story in English, I made page for Gummo McDuck on the Scrooge McDuck Wiki. It's there and might give you a better idea of who he is.
Ha! Ha! Is he named after the Marx Brother? Or did it come from needing dentures at an early age!
Right, having read the story in English, I made page for Gummo McDuck on the Scrooge McDuck Wiki. It's there and might give you a better idea of who he is.
Ha! Ha! Is he named after the Marx Brother? Or did it come from needing dentures at an early age!
I presume it's the former, though I have no explanation in-universe. Perhaps it's the other way around: Gummo was such a notorious historical prankster that the Marx brother decided to use a stage name based on him?
Ha! Ha! Is he named after the Marx Brother? Or did it come from needing dentures at an early age!
I presume it's the former, though I have no explanation in-universe. Perhaps it's the other way around: Gummo was such a notorious historical prankster that the Marx brother decided to use a stage name based on him?
Ha! Ha! But that could only be the Marx Brothers (or was it Barx Brothers?) in the alternate Duck Universe.
I presume it's the former, though I have no explanation in-universe. Perhaps it's the other way around: Gummo was such a notorious historical prankster that the Marx brother decided to use a stage name based on him?
Ha! Ha! But that could only be the Marx Brothers (or was it Barx Brothers?) in the alternate Duck Universe.
Indeed — but we know they exist, at least in the cartoon universe, since Harpo Marx was part of a polo team that went up against a team comprised of Mickey, Donald, Goofy and Co. in Mickey's Polo Team.
Ha! Ha! But that could only be the Marx Brothers (or was it Barx Brothers?) in the alternate Duck Universe.
Indeed — but we know they exist, at least in the cartoon universe, since Harpo Marx was part of a polo team that went up against a team comprised of Mickey, Donald, Goofy and Co. in Mickey's Polo Team.
Good point! Were the Duck Universe Marx Brothers family also from Elsass (Alsace), as in our Universe? Did Groucho also have his terrific Alsatian dialect accent that he used in several films in The Duck Universe?
Indeed — but we know they exist, at least in the cartoon universe, since Harpo Marx was part of a polo team that went up against a team comprised of Mickey, Donald, Goofy and Co. in Mickey's Polo Team.
Good point! Were the Duck Universe Marx Brothers family also from Elsass (Alsace), as in our Universe? Did Groucho also have his terrific Alsatian dialect accent that he used in several films in The Duck Universe?
I mean, probably? They look pretty close to the real-life selves — they're even full humans rather than dognoses. The cartoon's versions of Charlie Chaplin, Laurel & Hardy and Harpo looked and behaved like their screen alter-egos rather than as actors, but at the same time there was an Italian one-pager showing Donald and Daisy watching a Charlie Chaplin picture. Maybe in that universe they are more similar to their screen selves and made pictures just like Mickey or (in some people's headcanon) Donald, where they pretty much acted as themselves in an exaggerated manner.