Grandma's aunt Klazien

[Lars Jensen]

Sigvald Grøsfjeld jr. wrote:

> > Grandma's aunt was Klazien. She
> > searched, when she was young, a job and finally
> > came by the farm of the family Trouwhart
> > (Goodheart).
[snip]
>
> IMO this looks like fiction.
>
> Let's instead look at the present known facts:
> Grandma Duck is a Coot. Her family came to Duckburg in 1818. She's
> born in Duckburg. So however she ended up in her farm, she didn't have
> to travel far to get there.
>
> When i did my WEB-page about Grandma's husband Humperdink Duck
> C:\Duckman\characters\humperd.html
> I asked Don Rosa about this. He then said that it was Grandma Duck's
> family, the Coots, who owned the farm before Humperdink and Grandma
> took over -as the Coots owned most of the farmlands around Duckburg
> before Scrooge's appearance in 1902.

(Sigh!)

I almost can't be bothered to reply to this posting, but...

Sigvald, you're right that the Klazien story sounds like fiction. That's
because it *is* fiction. Just like every other Duck story ever made.

The "facts" you mention are not hard facts. It is a fact that, say, Bill
Clinton is a former president of the US. It is *not* necessarily a fact
that Grandma Duck is a Coot. In fact, the only place where the latter
could possibly *be* a fact is in those stories where it doesn't
contradict the goings-on. If Grandma being a Coot doesn't fit with the
Klazien happenings, then obviously Grandma is *not* a Coot in that
story.

As I've told you before: An opinion, however well-informed, is not a
fact. It's an opinion.

Lars