Most of the primary characters in Carl Barks' duck universe act dishonestly from time to time. From the relatively innocent digressions to the severely premeditated cheating. On this page you are presented to a few of the characters' dishonesties...
| DONALD | ||
Donald is running a carnival game where the nephews try to win prizes by hitting targets with baseballs. The nephews are good but the game is rigged... |
Donald wants to out-swim his better trained nephews so he stoops to a great many varieties of cheating... |
Donald is inexcusably dishonest towards the nephews, when he peeks at their secret New Year's resolution so he will come out a winner. |
| THE NEPHEWS | ||
The nephews are reluctant caddies for Donald on a golf course and they decide to manoeuvre him through the course in order to get off quickly. |
Donald wants to catch pricey frogs and the nephews trick him into believing that he has been surrounded by oversized specimens. |
The nephews want to skate but Donald makes them go down south with him. There they pull a trick on their uncle making him believe that he slept for twenty years! |
| DONALD AND THE NEPHEWS | ||
Scrooge persuades Donald to participate in a fox hunt but the fox is rather sly, so Donald and the nephews decide to cheat by catching a tame fox so that Scrooge can win a business contract. |
Scrooge is looking for some land with an echo. Donald tries to sell him some land with no echo at all - but he makes the nephews act as convincing echoes... |
Donald and the nephews are racing each other swimming with Donald as the constant winner. The nephews then decide to cheat, but - unknown to the nephews - he decides to cheat, too... |
| SCROOGE | ||
Scrooge tells that he once wanted some land in Africa for a rubber plantation, but the owners, a tribe of savages, wouldn't sell. So he hired a mob of thugs to chase the tribe into the jungle. |
Donald bets that he can beat Scrooge at any odd job. Scrooge accepts and they arrange to start out with no funds. But Donald discovers Scrooge has hidden funds in his top hat and inside his cane. |
Duckburg and Goosetown are having a football match but Duckburg is not doing well because the guests are cheating. Scrooge saves the day by smuggling the ball inside his hat to the touchdown line! |
| OTHER PERSONS | ||
The ducks encounter a cheating manager of a turkey shoot. He has fixed the metal turkeys so that they will not fall. |
Donald is cheated in a land deal by a highly dubious real estate agent who sells him a worthless piece of property. |
Donald takes on a new job as border patrolman but the devious smugglers outwit him using several inventive tricks. |
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| http://www.cbarks.dk/THEDISHONESTIES.htm | Date 2006-05-04 |
