What's the original name of Goofy's parrot

[Michael Schartau]

The word goes back to 1953 concerning drugs and ment originally "a shot (of
alcohol)".
Befor that (back to the 16th century) the word was related to the word
"knarr" meaning "creak" or "squek".

/Michael


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Ola Martinsson (AS/EAB)" <ola.martinsson at ericsson.com>
To: <dcml at nafsk.se>
Sent: Thursday, September 07, 2006 5:42 PM
Subject: What's the original name of Goofy's parrot


> In the Swedish printing of the story
>
> W DDBP  6-04 The Golden Sea Shell
>
> In Kalle Anka & C:o no 26 1964 the name of the parrot that Goofy has is
> "Kapten Knark". Now that is at least nowadays a strange name because it
> means Captain narcotics. Knark is common phrase for "narkotika" that is
> narcotics in English.
> Maybe it didn't mean narcotics in 1964. I was only three years old then
> so I don't know. Any Swedes here that can enlighten us on this ?
>
> So can anyone tell me the original name of the parrot ? It would be fun
> to know.
>
> Ola in cloudy and a little rainy Stockholm
>
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