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Hi!
Can you help me find the English words for some characters?

In the weekly, we sometimes can read a Kari Korhonen-comic which in Norway
has the title "Donald Rakker-Duck". These are stories about Donald's
childhood at Grandma's farm.

What's the name of these stories in English (American)? "Rakker" is a
Norwegian word, so I guess that is replaced with something else...

In this comic, he also has some friends. And they're not Gyro or Mickey or
Goofy or Gladstone, but brand new figures only used by Kari. What are their
names?
I'm thinking of:
- Donald's best friend, "Ronny" in Norwegian, which Donald loves to play
sheriff with. His father is a shop-owner.
- Donald's and "Ronny"'s female friend, "Pia" in Norwegian, a bright girl
which I think Donald has a little crush on... Her mother owns a cafeteria on
a boat.
- The big bully often mobbing Donald (as someone just said "mob" is not the
right word, but...), "Kjartan" or "Kjakan" (I'm not 100% sure of the
Norwegian name either here...)
- And, if you know it, the name of Grandma's neighbor. Thanks!

(Although I love Barks, I'm not 100% barksist. Kari Korhonen is one of my
favourites, behind Don Rosa... As a script writer, of course, I don't think
he is a too good drawer. I would say he draws ducks in the same way that
Noel Van Horn draws mice...)

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And now, a question for you barksists; In the hypnotizer gun story, where
Donald is hypnotized by that toy gun, he goes to get some money from a big
bully. What's HIS name in English / American? In Norway it was Sterke-Jens
or Sterke-Lars, I'm not 100% sure. ("sterk" means strong, Jens/Lars is a
typical Norwegian first name)

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BTW:
In the Donald strips in the Norwegian weekly magazine "Hjemmet", I often
reacted that they called Donald's girlfriend Dolly "Daisy". Now I've
realized that Daisy IS the original name. When you've always heard "Dolly"
used, "Daisy" seems strange! I don't know why Hjemmet used another
translation than the "official" Norwegian word "Dolly", but it was really
weird to understand that they actually was right.

Where did the word "Dolly" come from? Maybe it has the same origin as from
the Aqua song "Barbie Girl":

"I'm a blonde little girl, in my fantasy world
Dress me up, make it tight, I'm your dolly"

:) :) :) :) :) :) :)

-olaf- ( http://home.no.net/treaa/ )
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I have to jump in here, and relinquish lurker status for a moment. All
this talk of Heinlein and
sci-fi in general is interesting. Heinlein is the first sci-fi writer I
cut my teeth on way back when
I was in grade school, and that led to Arthur C. Clarke, Frank Herbert
(Dune rules!), Tolkien,
Asimov, and others. This also fit in with my love of early Superman/Batman
comics. So why,
I wonder, did I buy so many Disney comics as a kid, especially Uncle
Scrooge and Donald Duck?
And WDCD? US comics represented the majority of my Disney
purchases. Despite the occasional
sci-fi or space theme in Disney comics (loved how they can just jump in a
backyard rocket and be in
space or at the moon in a few minutes), the Disney world is much different
from your typical sci-fi
universe. I guess it just says something about the pull of good stories
and artistry... much of which
was coming from Barks, even though at the time I had no idea who he was.

At 02:16 PM 06/18/2001 +0200, you wrote:
>"Shelley Hanson/KlezmerAllThatJazz":
>
> > By the way, I hate the stuff Heinlein wrote at the end of his career. In
>my
> > opinion, the first half of "Stranger in a Strange Land" was vintage
> > Heinlein, which took a weird turn halfway through, and I never really
>liked
> > anything he wrote afterward.
>
>Weird, I agree on everything you write, but this, I love every single word
>he wrote, especially the ones after Stranger :-)

I thought SIASL was a fascinating book when I read it, but I think I was too
young to really appreciate what was going on. I'm not sure I would enjoy it
as much now, as an adult, and have resisted the temptation to do a re-read
on the expanded edition. This book showed what was ahead... as Heinlein's
later works, beginning with the dreadful "I Will Fear No Evil," (clearly
some of
us differ over that one), seemed to become obsessed with adult themes. Still,
I thought "Time Enough for Love" was a very good read. I must admit I
haven't read
any of the later ones, although I keep thinking I should give them a try.

>Kriton:
> >Although I've read "Stranger in a Strange Land", I can't say I was
> >particularly impressed. On the other hand, I'd recommend two of his later
> >books "Time Enough For Love" and "I Will Fear No Evil". I'd even go as far
> >as claiming that "Time Enough For Love" is one of the best SF books ever.
>
>That's where I got my nickname ("Lazarus Long", I don't use here) from,
>that's my favourite novel:-)

It's a shame they haven't done any good film adaptations of Heinlein's work.
"The Puppet Masters" lacked something, even though it followed the book.
I have yet to see "Starship Troopers," because it sounds like the gore and
special effects hijacked the story.

David Fenske

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In a message dated 6/20/2001 6:11:02 AM Eastern Daylight Time,
dcml-request at stp.ling.uu.se writes:

don Rosa wrote
> Here in Kentucky we call them "soft drinks"...

we also call them soft drinks here in the Carolinas (where we are the world's
highest per-capta of Pepsi drinkers!)

and hey, speaking of KY, what about them Louisville Sluggers!?!

Rob wrote

>Much of the science fiction of the 1930s - 1950s is now science fact.

Actually no; some of the sf of the 30s-50s is now science fact; much of it
remains fiction (or even science fantasy). ((I used to collect sf beatnick
stories ))

Steven Rowe

Kjell Crone:
> The word "l?skeblask" is used by lots of people, including
> "normal" people.
> Many of them probably don't know the origin of the word.

Ha! I remember when I was younger - I was convinced that "l?skeblask" was
the right word for it in swedish - we never drank soft drinks at home,
so I hadn't heard any other word for it. But oh, what kids in school
thought that was laughable when I used it... So for a while I was quite
embarrased. That's a reason to why names shouldn't be altered concerning
old historical figures, like Leonardo da Vinci, someone mentioned
before. If you don't know the story, it might turn out wrong if you are a
young reader. I've learnt tremendously much history from duck-stories, but
it might get confusing sometimes. But L?skeblask should remain! It's a
wonderful word.
I remember a story when Donald works someplace making this L?skeblask
(from Kalle Anka, about 10-15 years ago), and everything goes a bit as it
usually does when Donald is around, and he drinks far too much and gets
all swollen, and the drink is extremely pink.... :) I think tha factory
exploded or something like that. Does anyone remember?

--
/Theresa, getting thirsty...

Hi Rob,

>Eta, I was very surprised to hear YOU only want a limited amount of sci-fi
>in Disney comics. I would have guessed you would like all those
>Gottfredson sci-fi stories (especially those of Eega Beeva); not so???

Well, I said it's a bit difficult to explain... :-)

Gottfredson stuff, whatever it is, is just plain brilliant...
I love "Mickey in Sky Island", "World of Tomorrow", "Be-Junior and
the Aints" as well as, say, "Magic Shoe" or other "Fantasy" stuff
but, you see, that's what I consider "limited amount"... :-)

Cheers

Eta Beta

Eta:

GARY

>Pohl Anderson

I guess that was a momentary lapse in writing, and you might have
meant Frederik Pohl and Poul Anderson... :-)

I also forgot to mention the one, the only, Cordwainer Bird!

Gary Leach

All this talk about flying carpets made me reread Chendi/Bottaro's
wonderful "Paperin Babà" (I TL 273-A) which features a very amusing
flying carpet. Now, on page 24 Gladstone holds a coin with the portrait
of Scrooge, however this portrait looks like (re)drawn by Perego.

Any idea of why this was done. Could it be that Bottaro simply drew a
blank coin or...?

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