I thought I knew my toons....

..until I was involved in a conversation the other day. In my day, when we had one station (KBC) that started its transmissions at 5.00pm and if you switched on the tv any earlier, you got this annoying tiiiiiiiii sound and then as it got closer that turned into some random music e.t.c. e.t.c. Any Kenyan reading this will relate so I move on.

So the discussion starts between with a how kool Donald Duck was and his nephews Huwy, Luey and Duey were the koolest.Irene beb asks arent those guys called Kwik, Kwek and Kwak. Heheheh Jeff and I proceed to laugh all the way home at how ridiculous that sounds (well because in our worlds there was no indicator that there would be another name for the patitos).
In a bid to proove Irene wrong, I table the motion at the next dinner with a mix of nationals at the table and get the shock of my life. Not only are there other names for the duckies in other languages but most of them sound nothing like the original ...
American: Huey, Dewey and Louie
So go nuts, find yours:)!

Belgian (Flemish): Loekie, Joost en Viktor
Danish: Rip, Rap og Rup
German: Tick, Trick und Track
English: Huey or Huebert , Dewey or Deuteronomy , and Louie or Louis
Finnish: Tupu, Hupu ja Lupu
French: Riri, Fifi et Loulou
Icelandic: Ripp, Rapp og Rupp
Italian: Qui, Quo e Qua
Kroatian: Hinko, Dinko i Vinko
Malaysian: Hama, Bama i Sana
Norwegian: Ole, Dole og Doffen
Polish: Hyzio, Dyzio i Zyzio
Portugese: Huguinho, Zezinho e Luisinho
Russian: Billy, Villy i Dilly
Serbian: Raja, Gaja i Vlaja (cyr: Раја, Гаја и Влаја)
Slovenian: Pak, Žak in Mak
Slovakian:Hui, Dui, Lui
Spanish: Hugo, Paco y Luis
Czech: Bubík, Dulík a Kulík
Turkish: Cin, Can ve Cem
Indonesian: Kwik, Kwek dan Kwak --> Dutch colony, hence the resemblance
Swedish: Knatte, Fnatte och Tjatte

..and then we move on to the smurfs and I almost have mini-seizures at the names that go round the table.
Die Schlümpfe(German), Els Barrufets (Catalan),Hupikék Törpikék (Hongarian) and more Smurf talk ...arrrmmmh hello! talk about having to readjust the paradigm.

You grow up watching Walt Disney stuff and one day, you realise that you are not alone.There are others out there! Incredible!
Nacho has a similar posting ...good to know I'm not alone:) Support group anyone?