Talk:Uncle Duke

What does this mean?
What in the world does this mean in the first section? "Some people regard Uncle Duke, a rabid controlled-substances buff, as 'the High Lord of Inner Space,' but he is really a hard-working individual with a love of people and a dry wit." This seems to be a complete (and probably intentional) misinterpretation of Uncle Duke's character. If anything, he's the most misanthropic, cynical character in the entire Doonesbury pantheon -- which is undoubtedly part of his long-lasting appeal. Anyway, if there aren't any objections in the next few days, I think it should be deleted. --Chris Hall 22:51, 25 October 2005 (UTC)

No continuity error
The first paragraph says that there is a continuity error as to whether Duke is Zonker's uncle by actual family relationship or just a family friend. However, the first time he is referenced in the strips appearing in The Doonesbury Chronicles, the following exchange occurs:
 * Zonker: Joanie, before I help you with the apartment hunting, I gotta go check in with my Uncle Duke.
 * Joanie: I didn't know you had an Uncle Duke.
 * Zonker: Well, he's not really my uncle -- he's an old family friend. He writes for "Rolling Stone" magazine.

If this is indeed the first reference to Duke to appear in the strip, then it seems that there never was a continuity error here, and Duke is just an "uncle by courtesy". --Metropolitan90 06:22, 5 May 2006 (UTC)

Duke doesn't age?
The paragraph about Duke being the only Doonesbury character who doesn't age is very odd. The aberrant chronology of Doonesbury is well-known and often alluded to in the strip itself, e.g. Zonker spending over a decade in college. In any case, Duke does age. When Donald Trump hired him to threaten restaurant-owners, Duke's reply was the he was getting "too old for muscle jobs". And who on earth came up with a theory about Duke being mummified? Thermaland 22:20, 18 June 2006 (UTC)

Dancing Duke
The Flash animation of Uncle Duke has been a fixture at www.doonesbury.com for some years. How often do the quotes change? Who voices them? Any known repository of the quotes? ---Ransom (--69.111.111.184 04:40, 15 November 2006 (UTC))

Edit Conflict
Sorry to whomever was editing at the same time I was. My changes were very small but I spent a long time on them so I did a page replace on the old version, not your version. This was not intentionally meant to affect your edits. No offense meant. ParvatiBai 07:25, 30 January 2007 (UTC)

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BetacommandBot (talk) 02:37, 12 February 2008 (UTC)

Governor of American Samoa referenced by Thompson
In Chapter 3 of The Curse of Lono, Hunter S. Thompson recounts telling a Samoan bartender at the Kahala Hilton that he used to be Governor of American Samoa long ago, and a friend of his says he was governor for "ten, maybe twenty years", and then laughingly admits they're lying. The book was written in 1981, which I'm pretty sure was after that Uncle Duke-American Samoa storyline. Do you think the real-life guy was referencing his comic strip likeness? VolatileChemical (talk) 05:52, 14 February 2008 (UTC)


 * Well, in Fear and Loathing on the Campaign Trail of '72, Thompson talks about how he was promised the guvornership of American Samoa in the mid sixties, only to learn that he had been strung on Larry O'Brien. Lordz (talk) 15:04, 22 April 2008 (UTC)

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Havoc
What is the origin of this term vis-a-vis Duke? Is it his codename, or what?98.14.203.31 (talk) 10:43, 31 March 2009 (UTC)
 * Havoc is a separate character. There is a vague resemblance. Mezigue (talk) 09:12, 16 June 2009 (UTC)

Categories
I edited the categories for this article, including removing Category:Fictional members of the United States House of Representatives. There's nothing mentioned in this article about Duke having been a member of the House of Representatives, and I don't recall ever reading about him doing so. (I would have added Category:Fictional lobbyists if that category existed, to reflect Duke's occupation in recent years.) --Metropolitan90 (talk) 04:10, 21 May 2016 (UTC)

Additional Topic to Add
It would complete the story to add a summary of Duke's Colorado residence and feud with his neighbor John Denver 184.149.31.19 (talk) 11:33, 16 July 2024 (UTC)