Around the world… with PHINEAS / PHILEAS Fogg?
“The following day Fogg and Passepartout learn that they are mistaken in the date — it is not 22 December, but instead 21 December. Because the party had travelled eastward, they gained one day upon crossing the International Date Line. Passepartout informs Fogg of his mistake, and PHILEAS hurries to the Reform Club just in time to meet his deadline and win the wager…”
Wait… I always knew the British gentleman who goes off to adventure “Around the World in Eighty Days” as PHINEAS Fogg. Though, according to history, it’s been “PHILEAS” all this time!
This change is a bit personal, as I used to post on Facebook as PHINEAS before switching to my actual name. I had picked Phineas after Jules Verne’s character, and always felt it was the quintessential Victorian gentleman’s name.
Interestingly, PHINEAS is improbably kept in various adaptations of the original. Hanna Barbera had a show in the early 70s, Cattanooga Cats, that featured a PHINEAS Fogg, Jr. The creators of Disney’s “Phineas and Ferb” have gone on record to say they named Phineas Flynn after Jules Verne’s protagonist. There even exists a series of books and puzzles, “Around the World With PHINEAS Frog”.
Combing through old archives, there’s plenty of articles and references to PHINEAS Fogg like many remember.
Who do you recall accompanied the intrepid Passepartout on their worldly adventures?
See more PHINEAS Fogg news clips:
https://flic.kr/s/aHsmb6avCw
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