Douglas McDuck

[M.J. Prior]

To Lars Jensen and Gilles Maurice:

Wow! I never realised the writer of "Gall in the family"
could also be on this mailinglist and yet there you are,
Lars! Thanks for your explanation.

It's a pity your editor wouldn't allow your homage to Hergé
to be shown more explicitly (i.e. show a Tintin album in the
artwork) but I still like it! :)

> in the story (at least in the french version), Douglas 
> tells "the McDucks 
> have always been the most intelligent in the family"... 
> so it implied that he wasn't a Mcduck...

In the Dutch version it's only "your side of the family", so
this could be only a matter of translation. Douglas could
have meant "Scrooge's father's side" as opposed to "Douglas'
father's side". Their fathers could still be brothers, so
Douglas could still be a McDuck.

Perhaps it's a suggestion to take Scrooge's 'Scottish'
cousins as sons of Jake McDuck, and his 'American' cousins
as sons of Pothole?

Michiel Prior.