What's the original name of Goofy's parrot
Søren Krarup Olesen
sko at inducks.org
Mon Sep 11 10:05:17 CEST 2006
KJELL to OLA:
>> In Kalle Anka & C:o no 26 1964 the name of the parrot
>> that Goofy has is "Kapten Knark".
>> Maybe it didn't mean narcotics in 1964.
>> I was only three years old then so I don't know.
>
> I'm somewhat older than you, but not old enough.
> In about 1968, I know "knark" meant "drugs",
> but it probably meant something else (or nothing at all) in 1964.
As you know Swedish and Danish are very related, and in Danish "knark"
has the meaning as in "gammel knark" = "old buffer". No "knarkotics"
involved here :-)
Søren
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