Preferably, a classic, well known one. Here is what i learnt from Barkses ''7 cities of Cibola''...
-Lost cities that nobody has managed to discover for centuries can be found by three ducklings with tracking abilities. -Water in barrels can be perfectly mantained for 400 years. -If the people of a city die all together, there will be no corpses, no bones, no nothing. -Indians had no problem living in a place where, at any moment, any psycho could bury them alive by simply moving a statue. -If a whole mountain falls on you, you'll be able to crawl out of rocks that weigh tons, unharmed, with partly amnesia being the only side effect.
Post by Scrooge MacDuck on Jul 29, 2016 19:15:13 GMT
Ah, that's a fun game to play. Though maybe this would belong more in the lounge. Let's see… "Land beneath the ground" maybe?
- The best thing to do when you fear that your home may be in an area prone to earthquakes is obviously to make ludicrously big holes in the already-unstable grounds. - Newton and Pascal can go home, you can obviously breathe and walk around just fine thousands of meters deep into the Earth. No atmospheric pression problems. - Similarly, it's not hot at all down there. - Getting a pile of money up a spiraling tunnel of thousands of meters is easy, just kick it from down the tunnel.
I learned how to read English and Dutch from Disney comics. I learned that there was a huge World out there, and that I wanted to learn where all the countries were, and wanted to go see them (Learned that mainly from Carl Barks' Uncle Scrooge). Tat led me to work for The United Nations for 20 years in Africa, The Middle East and The Far East. I learned about human nature from Carl Barks and Floyd Gottfredson. I learned about some real science from Carl Barks, and pseudo science from Gyro Gearloose.
Post by Scrooge MacDuck on Jul 30, 2016 9:19:30 GMT
Robb, I'm afraid you're missing the point. This is a joke-thread (which is why I suggested it be moved to "Lounge") about the nonsensical things in Disney comics.
Robb, I'm afraid you're missing the point. This is a joke-thread (which is why I suggested it be moved to "Lounge") about the nonsensical things in Disney comics.
NO. I fully understood that this thread was intended to bring out funny "other universe facts" we've learned. But, I thought it might be funny to read about real-World learning done through reading Disney Comics. Probably the most real-World facts which could be learnt from Disney Comics would come from Don Rosa stories.
So, in the spirit this thread intended:
I have learnt that Hentown is on the road from Duckburg to Catville, Pickleburg is downriver from Duckburg to The Ocean, Donald Duck has lived on Oak Street, Quack Street, and Webfoot Walk, Scrooge McDuck attended Webfoot Tech(nical) University, Angina Arthritis lives (or lived) on Dreary Street, The Duckburg River flows through Duckburg, Great Head Park, with the cliff sculpture of Senator Snoggin's head, lies on the road between Duckburg and Swanville. There is a dam in the hills above Goosetown, Goosetown is the main rival city of Duckburg, The Mad Duke of Duckburg had a castle near Duckburg, The Notre Duck Cathedral near the centre of Duckburg had a "phantom" living in it for many years. I have learnt that many of the cities and countries in our own World, exist also in The Ducks' and Mice's alternate Universes, and also that the laws of chemistry and physics that operate in our World and Universe are somewhat different in the comic book universes.
I have also learnt that I know a much larger percentage of what there is to know about the comic book universes than I do about our World and Universe. I also know that I seem to be able to affect what happens in "The Duck Universe" much moreso than I can affect what happens in our World and Universe (To wit: Sadstone Gander, Vitriola Vultuur, Clementine Cadiddlehopper.....etc.
Robb, I'm afraid you're missing the point. This is a joke-thread (which is why I suggested it be moved to "Lounge") about the nonsensical things in Disney comics.
NO. I fully understood that this thread was intended to bring out funny "other universe facts" we've learned. But, I thought it might be funny to read about real-World learning done through reading Disney Comics. Probably the most real-World facts which could be learnt from Disney Comics would come from Don Rosa stories.
So, in the spirit this thread intended:
I have learnt that Hentown is on the road from Duckburg to Catville, Pickleburg is downriver from Duckburg to The Ocean, Donald Duck has lived on Oak Street, Quack Street, and Webfoot Walk, Scrooge McDuck attended Webfoot Tech(nical) University, Angina Arthritis lives (or lived) on Dreary Street, The Duckburg River flows through Duckburg, Great Head Park, with the cliff sculpture of Senator Snoggin's head, lies on the road between Duckburg and Swanville. There is a dam in the hills above Goosetown, Goosetown is the main rival city of Duckburg, The Mad Duke of Duckburg had a castle near Duckburg, The Notre Duck Cathedral near the centre of Duckburg had a "phantom" living in it for many years. I have learnt that many of the cities and countries in our own World, exist also in The Ducks' and Mice's alternate Universes, and also that the laws of chemistry and physics that operate in our World and Universe are somewhat different in the comic book universes.
I have also learnt that I know a much larger percentage of what there is to know about the comic book universes than I do about our World and Universe. I also know that I seem to be able to affect what happens in "The Duck Universe" much moreso than I can affect what happens in our World and Universe (To wit: Sadstone Gander, Vitriola Vultuur, Clementine Cadiddlehopper.....etc.
Lol, okay, let's examine how ''real world'' Rosa's physical laws are... Cash Flow: When the coins lose their friction, normally, one should go all the way to the bottom of the money bin once he dived in there. Yet, the coins magically got water's buoyancy, so a boat or a person can float on them.
Disney comics have taught me that going to space is actually very easy, and that people with half a brain have been able to make perfectly fine rocket ships. They've also taught me that you can swim through money, and that 30 cents per hour is a legally, if not socially acceptable wage.
- It is legal and socially accepted to go outside with your lower body naked, if you're a duck. (I guess it is because of the feather layer?)
- Being the richest man in the world and keeping ancient coins worth billions of dollars does not mean you should have a decent security system: installing wooden signs with "Go away" written on them is fine, too. Just having an underpaid overworked lazy nephew, an elderly secretary and a skinny butler are good enough personnel for all those valuable riches and such an important and influent businessman.
- Just because you are the nephew of the richest man in the world does not mean you will be famous for that; most people will act like they have never heard of you in your life. Not even if you were several times a national celebrity, accomplished incredible feats in front of the whole world to see or accidentally destroyed the city and annoyed its inhabitants enough times that you were forced to hide in a foreign country.
- There are no social services in Duckburg. Why would three small children still be in the care of an irresponsible, unstable man who can barely sustain himself and who has major anger issues?
- If you are a lazy, clumsy and unstable guy, you will somehow be motivated enough to be focused, clever and responsible when assuming the double identity of a masked vigilante.
- You may be a powerful witch with many magical powers, but it's apparently too complicated to teleport inside a room to retrieve a coin, or just having the coin be teleported at your home.
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- It is legal and socially accepted to go outside with your lower body naked, if you're a duck. (I guess it is because of the feather layer?)
- Being the richest man in the world and keeping ancient coins worth billions of dollars does not mean you should have a decent security system: installing wooden signs with "Go away" written on them is fine, too. Just having an underpaid overworked lazy nephew, an elderly secretary and a skinny butler are good enough personnel for all those valuable riches and such an important and influent businessman.
- Just because you are the nephew of the richest man in the world does not mean you will be famous for that; most people will act like they have never heard of you in your life. Not even if you were several times a national celebrity, accomplished incredible feats in front of the whole world to see or accidentally destroyed the city and annoyed its inhabitants enough times that you were forced to hide in a foreign country.
- There are no social services in Duckburg. Why would three small children still be in the care of an irresponsible, unstable man who can barely sustain himself and who has major anger issues?
- If you are a lazy, clumsy and unstable guy, you will somehow be motivated enough to be focused, clever and responsible when assuming the double identity of a masked vigilante.
- You may be a powerful witch with many magical powers, but it's apparently too complicated to teleport inside a room to retrieve a coin, or just having the coin be teleported at your home.
Canon Magica De Spell is not a true witch. She used explosive bombs, guns that shot rays etc
Post by Scrooge MacDuck on Aug 1, 2016 8:10:41 GMT
Indeed -- or it is the vague continuity in which every new story is supposed to be set by default unless otherwise noted, and that would include stories where she IS a witch. You seem to be thinking of Don Rosa's canon, which is only one possible continuity that is not any more plausible than, say, Guido Martina's.
I remember the story A Most Persuasive Duck where Donald manages to steal Magica's wand and he hypnotizes her with it; under his command, she says that he can ask ANYTHING from the wand and that the spell would only be broken with cold water. So Donald turns Magica into an eagle and orders her to fly to the Gobi Desert, and decides to use the magic wand to hypnotize everyone into being his slaves. (a funny moment where a policeman is about to give a fine to Donald... Donald orders with the wand "You are going to EAT IT!!" and the cop, becoming blank-minded, eats the fine, with a really goofy face afterwards, his mouth full of munched paper)
So, I am like "If your wand can do ANYTHING, why haven't you used it for that yet? Why haven't you gotten the Number One Dime yet?"
That's a problem when creating magic-using characters. It seems they can only use/remember their magic if it's convenient to the story.
Yeah, even in her very first story, Magica hardly seems to have any magic. She takes the plane to go back to Italy!!
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