Post by crazycatlord on Dec 12, 2021 16:47:15 GMT
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(How they wouldn't have realized this is anybody's guess! How does one change one's name, present oneself as a different person, and still get accepted by relatives as their relative without their catching on? There's a slight flaw in the logic of this story... the McDucks clearly knew both McBuckle and McGiver as relatives, but somehow didn't know one had become the other...)
Scrooge doesn't seem to have known the old guy personally as McBuckle; only as McGiver, for whatever it's worth. Maybe he resurfaced as McGiver in Scotland, when Scrooge was young; but now I'm speculating about something the story doesn't make clear.
Look Jean Laffite; look also the novel "High Wind in Jamaica" (placed after 1834 and, afaik, nobody complained of irrealism about that, meaning that probably was indeed some residual piracy after that).