Keskustelujen arkisto

DON:
You actually hid some names in a panel of The Ten Avatars? I
went through that story quite a number of times trying to find them,
but didn't find any. So how about a tip? A splash panel? In the beginning,
middle or end of the story?

about GENERAL SNOZZIE or however the name's supposed to be spelled:

Is the panel with the dog thinking/talking actually this one:
HUEY: "The /eye/, you mean?"
FRIAR: "No. The nose."
SCROOGE: "It was the way of the spirits to tell other people to leave the
job for Scrooge McDuck!"
ÄSnozzie collapsesÅ
SCROOGE: "Up, Snozzie!"

(translated back to English from Finnish by me)

Now, how could a fainting dog be thinking about anything? Boy,
this editor surely must be if-not-evil-then-atleast-not-entirely-mentally-
stable...

--

Mike - The Finnish Trekkie

I wonder if I ever will catch up on this list... Here are some
replies to things where I was addressed or mentioned in the first half
of October last year:

Steven Rowe wrote:
> Per:
> I hope someone explained to [someone who had sent lots of
> unsubscription requests to the whole list] how to "unsubscribe"; or at
> least how to read the instructions.

I didn't anyway. As the BLAFH (Bastard List Administrator From Hell)
I am I ignore those missent messages. If you see missent messages and
want to educate or help the senders, feel free! Don't think I will
do it anyway.

Harry wrote:
> Now Per has built a feature "look up a story by its code". In the case of
> old Western stories, when you type "W WDC 123", you get a list of all
> story codes starting with that. Then you can choose the story you want,
> and get detailed information of that.
> That's why I said the story code was *something like* W DG 33. Typing in
> this will lead you to the right story, eventually.
>
> (I haven't tried this particular example. If it doesn't work this way, please
> excuse and/or correct me.)

That will work, but the intention is that should be able to enter
codes in many formats there, not just the canonicalized codes for the
the Disney comics Database. That is "GIANT 33" would work just as
well, for instance.

The goal is that any unique code actually found in a book that isn't
in error (ignoring Gary's decree that those errors aren't errors :-)
would work. That is not so, but a lot works anyway. (Like "us3" and
KFS codes for instance.)

Arthur wrote:
> I can't un-g-zip half of the archive-files on your FTP-site.
> My un-g-zip program tells me that the files are corrupt. Do you think
> you can compress these files again? Or maybe you can put the files
> uncompressed on-line? I've heard that other people of this list have
> the same problems!!

I've checked them again now, and they are not corrupt. Maybe you
have an old version of gunzip. New version of compress programs
should be able to uncompress files compressed by older versions, but
not necessarily the other way around.

(Hm, I have dim memories of your problem being fixed later on?)

Anyway, you can retrieve the files uncompress, just by requesting the
base file name. So just request 1995-03 (for example) to get
1995-03.gz automatically unzipped before sent off to you, in case you
have problems with gunzipped files. (This is explained in the README
file in that directory.) (You may have problems doing this depending
on what program you are using for ftp -- some won't let you try to
retrieve a file it can't find in the directory listing.)

Marco wrote:
> Per, couldn't we have a Web page called "addendum to Becattini's index", and
> collect there any information which list members may give?
> I mean, Steven should have no problems in posting the errors he found, and
> so might the others. This would be a useful service at no cost; it would not
> substitute the "Index" but rather stimulate people to buy it, so even
> Becattini should be happy ;-)

I think the most important thing is to keep our own indexes up to date
with the most correct information, whether that agrees with Becattini
or not. But an extended errata to Becattini's Disney Index would also
be useful to users of that index, so if anyone collects such info I'd sure
be happy to include it.

Jonathan wrote:
> Harry and Per wondered if many list members frequently check out the
> website. I'm constantly doing that, often for hours at a time! (Actually,
> most of that is surfing the ftp database.)

Yes, I know you do, as you contribute so much! Jonathan sends me lots
of tidbits for the Disney comics pages, especially the character
pages. He is always quick to note when I've misspelt something or
something is malfunctioning. He doesn't seem to give up just because
it takes weeks (or months!) before I do something about what he sent
me. Neither that I sometimes rather curtly dismiss his comments
when I think they are irrelevant (most of the time I don't think so!).
Thanks Jonathan! Keep it coming!

/Per

On Jan 13, 11:07am, Gary Leach wrote:
> Subject: On a lark...
> On the subject of Larkies/Harpies: I think of them as Larkies. I've
always
> thought of them as Larkies. Larkies, Harpies...Harpies,
Larkies...let's
> call the whole thing off (tra la!).
>
Darn...just when I could add one more reason to the case:
As somebody just pointed out, Disney's own adaptation of
that story for Duck Tales used harpies instead of "larkies."

--Dwight Decker

GEIR:
Now that you mentioned Don's email address' appearance in the
last page of the Vigilante, I looked for it, too, and found it. And the
place wasn't even very hard! I wonder if someone who doesn't know Don's
address already will actually spot it and send him email...

DON:
People have been nitpicking about your Vigilante of Pizen Bluff
not being 100% accurate with the actual history of this planet. I dare to
state that it isn't 100% accurate with Scrooge's history as shown in
Lo$. In The New Laird of Castle McDuck (Lo$#5) Scrooge says: "Buffalo Bill
HIMSELF taught me how to knife-fight Injun style and after the last match
I had with Sitting Bull at the Wild West Show, he stopped SITTING for a
month!" Now, this would imply that Scrooge had already had a part in the
Wild West show in 1890. Yet, the dialogue in the Vigilante would imply
that Scrooge merely suggested the idea of a Wild West Show to Bill boy,
never actually took part in it.
(yes, I know this is again one of the questions you can answer
with 'maybe BB forgot Scrooge took part in the Show' or sumpin, and
your own stories are so full of references to Scrooges past anyway, that
I wouldn't be surprised if someone would begin doing "Lo$ - The Untold
Adventures" in 2037...)

--

Mike - The Finnish Trekkie

Hello, since this is the the first time I write to this list I'd better
introduce myself like everybody else does. My name is Daniel Ferm, I'm
15 years old (Not too young I hope!) and live in Sweden. And of course I
really like Disney comics a lot like most of the members here.
Ole R. Nielsen wondered how the new 64 page Kalle Anka & C:o look.
Well, it looks good (They keep repeating it's 64 pages every week) and
as far as I can see there are more stories.
And BTW, can anyone tell me something about this Barks vs. Rosa stuff?
Has Barks said that Don's stories aren't good or is it his agent who
claims that, to make Don Rosa impopular, and make Barks more popular?
(so that he can make more money)
--
<<==-- Daniel Ferm --==>>
(Email removed)

RICH M:
>I've long thought that the [Pluto] was named after the planet, which
>had been discovered only a couple of years before and must have been on
>everyone's minds at the time.
This may be true, but there is another theory.
I read in some Disney-history book that it was Pluto's low bark and
voice in the earliest cartoons that gave him his name. "Since his voice
comes from the depths," one animator suggested, "why not call him Pluto" --
because Pluto, the God of the Underworld, comes from the depths (Hades) in
old myths.
Pluto's bark (and his voice, when he actually speaks in THE MOOSE
HUNT and MICKEY STEPS OUT and when he thinks in MICKEY'S KANGAROO) is
indeed quite unique and certainly very low. In the first few appearances,
it almost has some apelike qualities. Gottfredson would also seem to add
credence to this "from-the-depths" story, by featuring a confusion between
underworld-god and dog in his "The Miracle Master" (1939).

DANIEL K:
You're right about Gyro's Helper being in DuckTales. The episode
you recall is "The Money Vanishes". Helper is also in the show's opening
titles during a brief outer-space scene with Gyro (which was done just for
the opening; it's not also in an episode). I can only imagine that some
restriction on using the character came into play early on in the series'
production -- perhaps animating him running around in all of Gyro's scenes
was considered an unnecessary drain on production costs (the same reason
Mickey Mouse lost his tail in some later cartoons).
Still, "The Money Vanishes" is a very nice effort to use him (with
a very nice buzzing-machinery sound providing his 'voice'). I don't care
for the name Li'l Bulb, but at least at Egmont, "Helper" or "Little Helper"
remains the standard name.

David Gerstein

<(Email removed)>

Nils:

> circulation of 70 million(?). Hmmm... Also, the sad case of the
> well-known non-support of Barks for Rosa's work was commented on.

What do you mean? Could you comment on this a bit further, please?
Well-known, yes... but not for me (-:

# Cristian Lucas
# From Buenos Aires, Argentina