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Swimming in gold
> Batman has the Batcave, Superman has his Fortress of Solitude, and Scrooge
> McDuck has his money bin. For 70 years, the maternal uncle of Disney’s
> Donald Duck has been portrayed as a thrifty—some might say miserly presence
> in cartoons and comics, a waterfowl who has such deep affection for his
> fortune that he enjoys diving into his piles of gold and luxuriating in
> them.
>
> It’s a rather gross display of money worship, but is it practical? Can
> anyone, including an anthropomorphic Pekin duck, actually swim in their own
> money, or would diving headfirst into a pile of metal result only in
> catastrophic injury?
>
Via GoogleMyFacePlusSpaceBook, “Fact Check: A Physicist Weighs In On Whether
Scrooge McDuck Could Actually Swim in a Pool of Gold Coins | Mental Floss
[1]”
Sadly, no. Even Carl Barks knew this and on several occasions had Scrooge
mention it was a trick.
[“Unca Scrooge, how come you dived all the way from that bluff, and you
didn't get hurt?”—Huey, Dewey and Louie] [2] [“Well, I'll admit—it's a
trick!”—Uncle Scrooge] [3]
But it's still fun to fantasize about swimming in three cubic acres of gold
coins though.
[1]
http://mentalfloss.com/article/500940/fact-check-physicist-weighs-
[2]
gopher://gopher.conman.org/IPhlog:2017/05/18/panel1.jpg
[3]
gopher://gopher.conman.org/IPhlog:2017/05/18/panel2.jpg
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