<HTML><BODY style="word-wrap: break-word; -khtml-nbsp-mode: space; -khtml-line-break: after-white-space; "><DIV><BLOCKQUOTE type="cite"></BLOCKQUOTE><DIV><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#0000DD"> Rich,</FONT></DIV><DIV><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#0000DD"><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></FONT></DIV><BLOCKQUOTE type="cite"><DIV>as I recall Oswald, while under Disney original creatorship, had a regular gal-pal whose name escapes me at the moment. Honey? Nah!<BR></DIV></BLOCKQUOTE><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV> Nope! Honey is Bosko's sweetie.</DIV><DIV><BR><BLOCKQUOTE type="cite"><DIV> Maybe she was nameless... and a cat ta'boot!<BR></DIV></BLOCKQUOTE><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV> Oswald did often date a girl cat. Her name was Sadie in her Disney days. At Lantz, she was later renamed Kitty.</DIV><DIV> Oswald also had a rabbit girlfriend named Fanny in the early days. Later, in the mid-1930s, Lantz retconned Fanny into Oswald's sister.</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV><BLOCKQUOTE type="cite"><DIV>How will Oswald's luck compare to that of Gladstone's? ;-)</DIV></BLOCKQUOTE><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV> The reports of Oswald's luck have been greatly exaggerated. (-:</DIV><DIV> I think it's more apt, given the Disney Oswald cartoons, to say that Oswald thinks of himself as lucky, not to mention full of charm and savoir faire. But in practice, he tends to trip over his feet.</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV><BLOCKQUOTE type="cite"><DIV>The name Oswald sounds a bit "off"<BR></DIV></BLOCKQUOTE><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV> It works for me. It's certainly unusual, but it's also not a name you forget easily.</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV> David</DIV></BODY></HTML>