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04 Dec 2010 15:10

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Culture: Here’s a photo of Ducktales because we wanted to post one

  • Last night we read about this utterly bizarre idea to have people change their Facebook profile pictures to those of cartoon characters … to help speak out against child abuse. Now, the connection there is tenuous at best, so we ignored it … until we realized we could post a picture of Scrooge McDuck on the site for no apparent reason other to amuse ourselves. So here it is. Ducktales! A whoo-hoo! Tomorrow, Chip ‘N’ Dale’s Rescue Rangers. (OK, ok, because we know that there are hardcore types out there, we’ll note that this image predates Ducktales by a few years, and that the history of the Scrooge McDuck character is utterly fascinating.) source

13 Oct 2009 11:21

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Culture: Ducktales sounds funnier when it’s translated into Arabic

  • It’s bizarre to think, being kids of the ’80s, that cartoon theme songs came in anything but English, but they did; and they got translated into all sorts of bizarre languages. Like this Ducktales theme song redux, which sounds hilarious. Holy Taco as a bunch more lost-in-translation moments where this came from. source