ANDERS SIVEBAEK, 16 August 1998:
> How many money does $crooge Mc Duck own according to the american
> comics made by Barks or Rosa?
In Carl Barks' 1950 story "The Magic Hourglass", the exact total amount
of Scrooge's money can be calculated from Scrooge's comment: "I can't
go on like this - losing a billion dollars a minute! I'll be *broke* in
600 years!"
I think that must be (60 x 24 x 365 x 600) billion dollars. To be exact:
315,360,000 billion dollars. (As you can see, I ignored leap-years. How
much leap years does 600 years have?)
For a picture of the total heap of Scrooge's money, take a look at "The
Money Champ" in US 27.
Greetings,
--- Daniel
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Daniel Van Eijmeren
Calculation of Scrooge's money
Message 376 -
1998-08-21 at 11:50:31
SSchridde
Disney comics Digest V98 #203
Message 377 -
1998-08-21 at 12:32:36
> Anders:
> >In t[w]o of Barks' stories he mentioned the
> >country Brutopia: In the first of the
> >stories (Cold bargain, US 17), it is
> >mentioned that the country owns 5 Bath Tubs
>
> Bath tubs? In the Dutch translation (from 1983) the country has 5 colour
> TVs. What does the original English say?
Though this doesn't answer your question...
In German it's 5 TVs as well.
Soeren Schridde
> >In t[w]o of Barks' stories he mentioned the
> >country Brutopia: In the first of the
> >stories (Cold bargain, US 17), it is
> >mentioned that the country owns 5 Bath Tubs
>
> Bath tubs? In the Dutch translation (from 1983) the country has 5 colour
> TVs. What does the original English say?
Though this doesn't answer your question...
In German it's 5 TVs as well.
Soeren Schridde
Daniel Van Eijmeren
*More* unpublished Barks?
Message 378 -
1998-08-21 at 12:48:43
JOAKIM GUNNARSSON to me, 16 August 1998:
> Check CBL set III, book, page 84 (Back to the Klondike), the two
> panels at the bottom of the page. Take a close look at the panel
> borders. And notice that one wordballoon has ben cut off in the second
> panel! Not a very good paste-up work by the Western staff when they
> butchered Barks story...
Thanks, but that one was already included. :-)
But what still *isn't* included is that the nephews' dialogue in the last
panel of "Back to the Klondike" appears to be retouched. Maybe originally
they only said "Well, whaddaya know!"? The second sentence "Good old unca
Scrooge!" appears to be added, because the lettering looks different. The
editor's work? Does the dialogue still look complete without this second
sentence, or may there have been a different one in the original version?
Another story which seems to be altered is the tenpager in which Donald
tries to grow a tree in his garden (WDC 189). As published, the splash-
panel of this story seems to have had some remainings left of music-notes
in/around Donald's dialogue. The Carl Barks Library, the only (American)
source for me of this story, doesn't contain them, but this might be
because of retouching of the art. (If someone has a version with the
music notes, please let me know!)
Donald's dialogue in the first two panels looks different and he appears
to be *singing* (at least in the first panel) instead of just being
poetic. When talking with Harry Fluks about this story, he guessed that
the original dialogue may have been written in a very curly "handwritten"
style, of which the editors may have thought it was too difficult to read
(especially as the opening dialogue of the story?) and so they relettered
it. My guess is that the words itself still are as Barks originally wrote
them, but I'm very curious what other people think of it (see my quote at
the end of this message).
Thanks to David Gerstein, who - as far as I know - discovered the above
mentioned changes.
Greetings,
--- Daniel "Under this mighty tree of shade -
I'll sit and sip my lemonade -"
A Guidebook to the Carl Barks Universe
http://www.caiw.nl/~dve/barks/index.html
> Check CBL set III, book, page 84 (Back to the Klondike), the two
> panels at the bottom of the page. Take a close look at the panel
> borders. And notice that one wordballoon has ben cut off in the second
> panel! Not a very good paste-up work by the Western staff when they
> butchered Barks story...
Thanks, but that one was already included. :-)
But what still *isn't* included is that the nephews' dialogue in the last
panel of "Back to the Klondike" appears to be retouched. Maybe originally
they only said "Well, whaddaya know!"? The second sentence "Good old unca
Scrooge!" appears to be added, because the lettering looks different. The
editor's work? Does the dialogue still look complete without this second
sentence, or may there have been a different one in the original version?
Another story which seems to be altered is the tenpager in which Donald
tries to grow a tree in his garden (WDC 189). As published, the splash-
panel of this story seems to have had some remainings left of music-notes
in/around Donald's dialogue. The Carl Barks Library, the only (American)
source for me of this story, doesn't contain them, but this might be
because of retouching of the art. (If someone has a version with the
music notes, please let me know!)
Donald's dialogue in the first two panels looks different and he appears
to be *singing* (at least in the first panel) instead of just being
poetic. When talking with Harry Fluks about this story, he guessed that
the original dialogue may have been written in a very curly "handwritten"
style, of which the editors may have thought it was too difficult to read
(especially as the opening dialogue of the story?) and so they relettered
it. My guess is that the words itself still are as Barks originally wrote
them, but I'm very curious what other people think of it (see my quote at
the end of this message).
Thanks to David Gerstein, who - as far as I know - discovered the above
mentioned changes.
Greetings,
--- Daniel "Under this mighty tree of shade -
I'll sit and sip my lemonade -"
A Guidebook to the Carl Barks Universe
http://www.caiw.nl/~dve/barks/index.html
Dr. Archontis Pantsios
Picsou, ZP, Komix
Message 379 -
1998-08-21 at 12:55:36
FRANCOIS to ANDERS:
>What do you want to know? Yes issue #319 of "Picsou" is the last one, it
>was published the 29th of July. The editors mad a great work coloring
>Don's drawing: the lines of the drawing of the Gilded Man are in yellow,
>and all other colors are carefully added and all. It's not published on
>the cover (you know, there are many advertisements today on the covers
>of Europpean magazines, and it would destroy Rosa's work).
I think that Francois is confusing here PICSOU #'s 318 & 319. Yes, PICSOU
#319 is the last issue published, but Rosa's drawing for the "Eldorado"
story therein had appeared in PICSOU #318. The pin-up Rosa art in PICSOU
#319 is a rendition of the old Gladstone cover for "Cash Flow" that is the
leading story for PICSOU #319 as Francois also mentioned.
Don's drawings for PICSOU Mag haven't been discussed and analyzed much on
this List. I think they are (mostly) great work! They are usually complex
and rich in detail and tell a whole story on their own! The move by PICSOU's
editors to print them on the INSIDE front cover in the last 4 issues was
smart: the coloring now comes out alive, something I can't say for the rest
of PICSOU's paper and color quality.
FRANCESCO:
>This morning I went buy Zio Paperone #107 and I knew I'd find "Zio Paperone
e il
>deposito oceanico" (U$ The Money Ocean) in it.
>BTW, how's this story been treated out of Italy? The database tells me it's
been
>published in USA on U$ 266-267, in Netherlands in DA.06 and OD.50, and maybe in
>Germany too (can't find where, sorry:-)
And let me add that it was also printed in the Greek KOMIX #113, November
1997--with also great coloring.
"Il Deposito Oceanico" is indeed a GREAT story--when I had first read it in
its Gladstone edition a few years back, I was SO much impressed by it, that
I instantly bacame a Marco Rota fan, and sought out more stories by him. The
main reason I subscribe to the great "ZIO PAPERONE" is his marvelous covers
for that comic.
KOMIX announced last month that it'll soon print (October?) Rota's "Paperino
Pendolare", another all-time Rota masterwork! It's Donald Duck at his best
(worst?) as he becomes a commuter! Really good stuff!
Cheers,
Archontis
>What do you want to know? Yes issue #319 of "Picsou" is the last one, it
>was published the 29th of July. The editors mad a great work coloring
>Don's drawing: the lines of the drawing of the Gilded Man are in yellow,
>and all other colors are carefully added and all. It's not published on
>the cover (you know, there are many advertisements today on the covers
>of Europpean magazines, and it would destroy Rosa's work).
I think that Francois is confusing here PICSOU #'s 318 & 319. Yes, PICSOU
#319 is the last issue published, but Rosa's drawing for the "Eldorado"
story therein had appeared in PICSOU #318. The pin-up Rosa art in PICSOU
#319 is a rendition of the old Gladstone cover for "Cash Flow" that is the
leading story for PICSOU #319 as Francois also mentioned.
Don's drawings for PICSOU Mag haven't been discussed and analyzed much on
this List. I think they are (mostly) great work! They are usually complex
and rich in detail and tell a whole story on their own! The move by PICSOU's
editors to print them on the INSIDE front cover in the last 4 issues was
smart: the coloring now comes out alive, something I can't say for the rest
of PICSOU's paper and color quality.
FRANCESCO:
>This morning I went buy Zio Paperone #107 and I knew I'd find "Zio Paperone
e il
>deposito oceanico" (U$ The Money Ocean) in it.
>BTW, how's this story been treated out of Italy? The database tells me it's
been
>published in USA on U$ 266-267, in Netherlands in DA.06 and OD.50, and maybe in
>Germany too (can't find where, sorry:-)
And let me add that it was also printed in the Greek KOMIX #113, November
1997--with also great coloring.
"Il Deposito Oceanico" is indeed a GREAT story--when I had first read it in
its Gladstone edition a few years back, I was SO much impressed by it, that
I instantly bacame a Marco Rota fan, and sought out more stories by him. The
main reason I subscribe to the great "ZIO PAPERONE" is his marvelous covers
for that comic.
KOMIX announced last month that it'll soon print (October?) Rota's "Paperino
Pendolare", another all-time Rota masterwork! It's Donald Duck at his best
(worst?) as he becomes a commuter! Really good stuff!
Cheers,
Archontis
Daniel Van Eijmeren
Butchered Barks and his possible workaround
Message 380 -
1998-08-21 at 13:04:20
Somewhere in The Carl Barks Library in Color series it is mentioned that
Barks contained a 'blank' page of art in his later stories, so that they
wouldn't be harmed too much if the editor decided to cut one or more pages
of art (as happened with "How Green Was My Lettuce", "Mythtic Mystery"
and "Rug Riders in the Sky") to make room for ads.
I still haven't looked for proofs of such 'blank pages', but what I did
notice some time ago is that Barks' later stories contain some panels
that have *exactly* the same size. Maybe Barks tried to 'help' the
editor by making such panels, so that the story wouldn't be harmed too
much if these were cut? Maybe that's why (IMO) the story "Stranger than
Fiction" doesn't look very incomplete, even though one page is gone?
This is brainstorming. I am very curious what other people think.
Greetings,
--- Daniel
A Guidebook to the Carl Barks Universe
http://www.caiw.nl/~dve/barks/index.html
Barks contained a 'blank' page of art in his later stories, so that they
wouldn't be harmed too much if the editor decided to cut one or more pages
of art (as happened with "How Green Was My Lettuce", "Mythtic Mystery"
and "Rug Riders in the Sky") to make room for ads.
I still haven't looked for proofs of such 'blank pages', but what I did
notice some time ago is that Barks' later stories contain some panels
that have *exactly* the same size. Maybe Barks tried to 'help' the
editor by making such panels, so that the story wouldn't be harmed too
much if these were cut? Maybe that's why (IMO) the story "Stranger than
Fiction" doesn't look very incomplete, even though one page is gone?
This is brainstorming. I am very curious what other people think.
Greetings,
--- Daniel
A Guidebook to the Carl Barks Universe
http://www.caiw.nl/~dve/barks/index.html
Vidar Svendsen
Picsou, ZP, Komix
Message 381 -
1998-08-21 at 14:26:11
Archontis
>KOMIX announced last month that it'll soon print (October?) Rota's "Paperino
>Pendolare", another all-time Rota masterwork! It's Donald Duck at his best
>(worst?) as he becomes a commuter! Really good stuff!
Oh, yes! That's a lovely story. I has something Barks-like to it.
----------------------------------------------------------------------------
Vidar Svendsen http://home.sol.no/~vidasven
And he said all those numbers
made him numb,
which (he thinks) is why
they're called numbers
>KOMIX announced last month that it'll soon print (October?) Rota's "Paperino
>Pendolare", another all-time Rota masterwork! It's Donald Duck at his best
>(worst?) as he becomes a commuter! Really good stuff!
Oh, yes! That's a lovely story. I has something Barks-like to it.
----------------------------------------------------------------------------
Vidar Svendsen http://home.sol.no/~vidasven
And he said all those numbers
made him numb,
which (he thinks) is why
they're called numbers
Alf Gaba
Which story is your favorite
Message 382 -
1998-08-21 at 15:00:35
>Hello all
>
>Which Disney-comics-story is your favorite?
>I would like to ask you all this question new,
>old, young and elder members among eachother.
>Please tell why it is exactly that one.
>(I'll have to find out about the question myself, too!
My favourite story is without comparison "A matter of some gravity" by Don
Rosa. That story really resparked my interest in reading Donald Duck.
In my youth (the 70'ies) I read the weekly Donald every week, but I kinda
lost interest during the 80'ies. When I got children I started buying DD
again, but wasn't really hooked on it UNTIL... the Don Rosa stories started
coming. Then I was hooked. Now every Thursday I fight a hard fight with the
kids upon reading the magazine first (they usually win :).
Back to lurking :)
Alf
PS My (and my kids) favourite "moment" in Disney is the scene in a recent
DR-story where Donald Duck touches all U$'s things that are labelled "Do
Not Touch". Whenever one of my kids are crying or are mad I pat them on the
head and say "r=F8re, r=F8re, r=F8re" as it is translated to in Danish. 9=
out of
10 times they can't avoid smiling. So thanks for that one, Don :)
>
>Which Disney-comics-story is your favorite?
>I would like to ask you all this question new,
>old, young and elder members among eachother.
>Please tell why it is exactly that one.
>(I'll have to find out about the question myself, too!
My favourite story is without comparison "A matter of some gravity" by Don
Rosa. That story really resparked my interest in reading Donald Duck.
In my youth (the 70'ies) I read the weekly Donald every week, but I kinda
lost interest during the 80'ies. When I got children I started buying DD
again, but wasn't really hooked on it UNTIL... the Don Rosa stories started
coming. Then I was hooked. Now every Thursday I fight a hard fight with the
kids upon reading the magazine first (they usually win :).
Back to lurking :)
Alf
PS My (and my kids) favourite "moment" in Disney is the scene in a recent
DR-story where Donald Duck touches all U$'s things that are labelled "Do
Not Touch". Whenever one of my kids are crying or are mad I pat them on the
head and say "r=F8re, r=F8re, r=F8re" as it is translated to in Danish. 9=
out of
10 times they can't avoid smiling. So thanks for that one, Don :)
Daniel Van Eijmeren
Religion in Duckburg: santa's and saints
Message 383 -
1998-08-21 at 15:22:24
VIDAR SVENDSEN to HALSTEN AASTEB, 18 August 1998:
>> Regarding religion in Duckburg, there is also of course the stories
>> dealing with the celebration of different holidays. This would be:
>> - Christmas (innummerable stories) Lots of references to Santa Claus
> I don't look at Santa Claus as a religious icon
As far as I know, Santa Claus found some of his origin in the Dutch
"Sinterklaas", who also gives presents to children (while sending the
bill to their parents).
Sinterklaas originated from Sint Nicolaas (Saint Nicolaas), who is/was a
Catholic saint whose birthday is celebrated on the 5th (or 6th) of
December. Saint Nicolaas lived around the year 300 and one of the
legends is that his grave is a well of holy oil.
So, if there really is a connection between Santa Claus and Saint
Nicolaas, I think that Santa Claus - even though not being a religious
icon himself - deserves a place in your (very interesting) list.
Greetings,
--- Daniel
A Guidebook to the Carl Barks Universe
http://www.caiw.nl/~dve/barks/index.html
>> Regarding religion in Duckburg, there is also of course the stories
>> dealing with the celebration of different holidays. This would be:
>> - Christmas (innummerable stories) Lots of references to Santa Claus
> I don't look at Santa Claus as a religious icon
As far as I know, Santa Claus found some of his origin in the Dutch
"Sinterklaas", who also gives presents to children (while sending the
bill to their parents).
Sinterklaas originated from Sint Nicolaas (Saint Nicolaas), who is/was a
Catholic saint whose birthday is celebrated on the 5th (or 6th) of
December. Saint Nicolaas lived around the year 300 and one of the
legends is that his grave is a well of holy oil.
So, if there really is a connection between Santa Claus and Saint
Nicolaas, I think that Santa Claus - even though not being a religious
icon himself - deserves a place in your (very interesting) list.
Greetings,
--- Daniel
A Guidebook to the Carl Barks Universe
http://www.caiw.nl/~dve/barks/index.html
Daniel Van Eijmeren
'Genetic' Gyro-story
Message 384 -
1998-08-21 at 15:30:52
MAXI SAALFRANK, 20 August 1998:
> I'd like to know whether there are any Disney comics (US classics
> preferred) focussing on genetics or genetic engineering.
There is very obvious short Barks story called "Krankenstein Gyro"
(US 26). The words "genetic" are not mentioned, but in this story
Gyro tries to build life from molecules after seeing the movie
"Dr. Krankenstein!".
Intestingly, in this story a female Helper is shown in a thought-balloon.
Also, Gyro appears to have a chicken, called "Old Cluckery Cluck".
Greetings,
--- Daniel
A Guidebook to the Carl Barks Universe
http://www.caiw.nl/~dve/barks/index.html
> I'd like to know whether there are any Disney comics (US classics
> preferred) focussing on genetics or genetic engineering.
There is very obvious short Barks story called "Krankenstein Gyro"
(US 26). The words "genetic" are not mentioned, but in this story
Gyro tries to build life from molecules after seeing the movie
"Dr. Krankenstein!".
Intestingly, in this story a female Helper is shown in a thought-balloon.
Also, Gyro appears to have a chicken, called "Old Cluckery Cluck".
Greetings,
--- Daniel
A Guidebook to the Carl Barks Universe
http://www.caiw.nl/~dve/barks/index.html
Daniel Van Eijmeren
Scrooge, richest *man*?
Message 385 -
1998-08-21 at 16:06:14
HALSTEN AASTEB to HARRY FLUKS:
>> Just curious: where is [Scrooge] referred to as the richest *man*?
> Without having the possibility to check the story right now, I would
> suggest "Foxy Relations" WDC 98. I'm sure this story has the first
> reference to Scrooge as the richest something in the world. I don't
> think it was the richest duck.
In panel 2 of page 1, Donald refers to Scrooge as "the richest old coot
in the world". If I remember well, this is the first time that Scrooge
was identified as the richest 'something' in the world.
> I think "Christmas on Bear Mountain" refers to Scrooge as the richest
> something in town.
On panel 5 of page 1, the nephews refer to him as "rich old uncle
Scrooge".
BTW. For the Scrooge history-fans this must be a very interesting
comment, since the nephews ask themselves if Scrooge will "remember"
them. Does this mean they have met/seen Scrooge *before*?
Personally, of all Barks' characters, I find Scrooge having the most
interesting and biggest evolution of character. Especially in the first
years after 1947 it is very noticeable how Barks was experimating with
this new character. In one story he even he has a derby hat!
(Gladstone Gander is the second, he changed from just an irritating
person to a lucky one and then - in Barks last ten-pager - into what
very much looks like a hippy!)
Greetings, "Uncle Scrooge is a swell old Duck!
A swell old duck is he!"
--- Daniel (OS 178 - Christmas on Bear Mountain)
A Guidebook to the Carl Barks Universe
http://www.caiw.nl/~dve/barks/index.html
>> Just curious: where is [Scrooge] referred to as the richest *man*?
> Without having the possibility to check the story right now, I would
> suggest "Foxy Relations" WDC 98. I'm sure this story has the first
> reference to Scrooge as the richest something in the world. I don't
> think it was the richest duck.
In panel 2 of page 1, Donald refers to Scrooge as "the richest old coot
in the world". If I remember well, this is the first time that Scrooge
was identified as the richest 'something' in the world.
> I think "Christmas on Bear Mountain" refers to Scrooge as the richest
> something in town.
On panel 5 of page 1, the nephews refer to him as "rich old uncle
Scrooge".
BTW. For the Scrooge history-fans this must be a very interesting
comment, since the nephews ask themselves if Scrooge will "remember"
them. Does this mean they have met/seen Scrooge *before*?
Personally, of all Barks' characters, I find Scrooge having the most
interesting and biggest evolution of character. Especially in the first
years after 1947 it is very noticeable how Barks was experimating with
this new character. In one story he even he has a derby hat!
(Gladstone Gander is the second, he changed from just an irritating
person to a lucky one and then - in Barks last ten-pager - into what
very much looks like a hippy!)
Greetings, "Uncle Scrooge is a swell old Duck!
A swell old duck is he!"
--- Daniel (OS 178 - Christmas on Bear Mountain)
A Guidebook to the Carl Barks Universe
http://www.caiw.nl/~dve/barks/index.html
Halsten Aastebøl
Scrooge, richest *man*?
Message 386 -
1998-08-21 at 16:24:23
At 09:27 21.08.98 +0100, Fluks, H.W. wrote:
>Good morning, Katie!
>> Scrooge is referred to as both the richest duck and the richest "man" in
the
>> world.
>
>Just curious: where is he referred to as the richest *man*?
>
>--Harry.
>
Without having the possibility to check the story right now, I would
suggest "Foxy Relations" WDC 98. I'm sure this story has the first
reference to Scrooge as the richest something in the world. I don't think
it was the richest duck. But was it the richest *man*? Or maybe it was the
richest tycoon?
I think "Christmas on Bear Mountain" refers to Scrooge as the richest
something in town.
Halsten
>Good morning, Katie!
>> Scrooge is referred to as both the richest duck and the richest "man" in
the
>> world.
>
>Just curious: where is he referred to as the richest *man*?
>
>--Harry.
>
Without having the possibility to check the story right now, I would
suggest "Foxy Relations" WDC 98. I'm sure this story has the first
reference to Scrooge as the richest something in the world. I don't think
it was the richest duck. But was it the richest *man*? Or maybe it was the
richest tycoon?
I think "Christmas on Bear Mountain" refers to Scrooge as the richest
something in town.
Halsten
Tarjei Kidd Olsen
Don Rosa
Message 387 -
1998-08-21 at 16:28:50
Hi,
>Long message.... but stay tuned for the surprise ending...
>
Wow!
I'm celebrating my 18th birthday today, so this kind of amazing news re=
ally
couldn't have come at a better time :))
-- |Tarjei - Kidd - Olsen|=20
-- Home:=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0 (Email removed)=20
-- Work:=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0 (Email removed)=
a.norgesnett.no
-- Website:=A0=A0 http://home.sol.no/~kidd/index.html=20
-- Panacea:=A0 http://panacea.norgesnett.no/
>Long message.... but stay tuned for the surprise ending...
>
Wow!
I'm celebrating my 18th birthday today, so this kind of amazing news re=
ally
couldn't have come at a better time :))
-- |Tarjei - Kidd - Olsen|=20
-- Home:=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0 (Email removed)=20
-- Work:=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0 (Email removed)=
a.norgesnett.no
-- Website:=A0=A0 http://home.sol.no/~kidd/index.html=20
-- Panacea:=A0 http://panacea.norgesnett.no/
Halsten Aastebøl
Calculation of Scrooge's money
Message 388 -
1998-08-21 at 16:45:02
Daniel van Eijmeren wrote:
>In Carl Barks' 1950 story "The Magic Hourglass", the exact total amount
>of Scrooge's money can be calculated from Scrooge's comment: "I can't
>go on like this - losing a billion dollars a minute! I'll be *broke* in
>600 years!"
>
>I think that must be (60 x 24 x 365 x 600) billion dollars. To be exact:
>315,360,000 billion dollars. (As you can see, I ignored leap-years. How
>much leap years does 600 years have?)
>
One leap year every fourth year except every 100th year. As an exception
from the exception, every 400th year is a leap year! So that the year
2000 will be a leap year like 1600, whereas 1900, 1800 and 1700 were
not.
That should give 24 leap years in a century. 6 X 24 is 144, and then you
have to count one or two of the 400 year type in addition. 600 years from
1950 will include two such (2000 and 2400). So the answer is
<bold>146</bold>.
Halsten
--------------------------------
End of Disney comics Digest V98 Issue #205
******************************************
>In Carl Barks' 1950 story "The Magic Hourglass", the exact total amount
>of Scrooge's money can be calculated from Scrooge's comment: "I can't
>go on like this - losing a billion dollars a minute! I'll be *broke* in
>600 years!"
>
>I think that must be (60 x 24 x 365 x 600) billion dollars. To be exact:
>315,360,000 billion dollars. (As you can see, I ignored leap-years. How
>much leap years does 600 years have?)
>
One leap year every fourth year except every 100th year. As an exception
from the exception, every 400th year is a leap year! So that the year
2000 will be a leap year like 1600, whereas 1900, 1800 and 1700 were
not.
That should give 24 leap years in a century. 6 X 24 is 144, and then you
have to count one or two of the 400 year type in addition. 600 years from
1950 will include two such (2000 and 2400). So the answer is
<bold>146</bold>.
Halsten
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Soeren Krarup Olesen
Disney comics Digest V98 #203
Message 389 -
1998-08-21 at 17:38:04
Kriton wrote:
> The reference to kitchen sinks refers to the American idiom
"everything
> including the kitchen sink", which means "everything", in an emphatic
> way.
That reminds me of a parody of "Return of the Jedi", a comic in an
old Mad Magazine of mine (thus a bit off topic, I'm afraid). At the
end they are about to make the final attack against the Death Planet
(as usual), and one of the characters says "Everything
participates in this battle including a kitchen sink", and in the
background one can actually spot a flying kitchen sink firing at the
Death Planet through it's tube. :-)
Soeren
> The reference to kitchen sinks refers to the American idiom
"everything
> including the kitchen sink", which means "everything", in an emphatic
> way.
That reminds me of a parody of "Return of the Jedi", a comic in an
old Mad Magazine of mine (thus a bit off topic, I'm afraid). At the
end they are about to make the final attack against the Death Planet
(as usual), and one of the characters says "Everything
participates in this battle including a kitchen sink", and in the
background one can actually spot a flying kitchen sink firing at the
Death Planet through it's tube. :-)
Soeren
Don Rosa
Digest #205
Message 390 -
1998-08-21 at 18:52:37
From: Vidar Svendsen
>What about my having Donald beating up a nun in "Last Lord of Eldorado"?
>Actually, I have never hesitated in putting Christian symbols in my stories
>when historical accuracy or background details demanded or suggested it.
>>>>I thought Donald understood who the "nun" was?
Why would that matter to a mindless censor? Did they care that the
Peeweegahs were the heroes of "War of the Wendigo"?
>>>I didn't say you hesitate in putting Christian symbols in your stories,
or did I?
No. You didn't say I did. Did I say you said I did? Don't say I said you
said I did or I'll did you said I say you..... uh...... I'll
said you did I say..... er......
From: Paolo Castagno:
>>>I'm feeling a lot like Oliver Twist, since I'm gonna asking for MORE!
I'd like to know even the most insane detail you noticed in your visit at
Barks'!!
Well... I need to respond to a more specific question or topic or I can't
write anything else.
>>>>BTW, I think that could be interesting to read from you, or from someone
else on
this list, a reportage on the San Diego Comics Convention: what was it
about,
how are structured events like this in the USA,
This is too vast a topic!
>>>>>how much relevance is given to Disney comics?
Oh, that's *much* easier to answer:
None, whatsoever. As if they did not exist. (Except in the backstock brought
by the "Golden & Silver Age" comic dealers...)
From: "Ole Reichstein Nielsen" :
>>>>>Specific questions about something you didn't mention?
That's a tough one, but here are some questions which must be asked:
What does Barks *really* think of your work?
That wasn't something that we discussed. Like I said, we just made
smalltalk.
>>>>Did the two of you talk about working together on a story?
No, no, no! That's not why I was there or what we talked about! Besides, the
alterior motive$ for those sorts of projects are gone with them.
>>>Will Barks join this list?
Okay -- should I say this?
He won't join the List... but all that we say here is shown to him on
print-outs by Gerry Tank. Now, don't start "talking" directly to him or
anything like that... that would be rude... but you can be happy (I assume)
to know that he sees all the praise of him and his work that appears on
these pages every day. Nice to know, eh? What a new Age of Enlightenment has
dawned, now that they have left and taken their Dark Age with them!
By the way, he read the discussion... and he says Gyro is a *chicken*!
(grumble)
From: Katie Sullivan :
>>>>Thanks for sharing that *wonderful* experience with us! I'm so happy
for you.
What a special thing to hold in your memory! Wow. Just...wow. At the risk
of
sounding like a drooling obsessed fan (again?), no one deserves a day with
the
Duck Man as much as you.
One question you don't have to answer if you don't want to, but which I am
curious
about... Did the D.U.C.K. dedication come up at all? I think that's so
clever.
I hope Barks likes it.
Actually, Gerry brought it up at some point, I forget in what context. But
Mr.Barks has been aware of it since I wrote and told him about it (before
his mail began to be intercepted) back in 1987. And at the time he told me
that I shouldn't put such a dedication in the work (as would any modest
person). But see -- such as me don't give such as him a choice in having
work dedicated to such as him. He'll "take it and like it", as Bogart might
say.
From: Alf Gaba :
>>>>>>>>>My favourite story is without comparison "A matter of some gravity"
by Don
Rosa. That story really resparked my interest in reading Donald Duck.
PS My (and my kids) favourite "moment" in Disney is the scene in a recent
DR-story where Donald Duck touches all U$'s things that are labelled "Do
Not Touch". Whenever one of my kids are crying or are mad I pat them on the
head and say "r=F8re, r=F8re, r=F8re" as it is translated to in Danish.
9 out of 10 times they can't avoid smiling. So thanks for that one, Don :)
You're welcome. But can you please tell me how to pronounce "r=F8re, r=F8re,
r=F8re"? I've tried it several times, and I think I may have hurt myself.
>What about my having Donald beating up a nun in "Last Lord of Eldorado"?
>Actually, I have never hesitated in putting Christian symbols in my stories
>when historical accuracy or background details demanded or suggested it.
>>>>I thought Donald understood who the "nun" was?
Why would that matter to a mindless censor? Did they care that the
Peeweegahs were the heroes of "War of the Wendigo"?
>>>I didn't say you hesitate in putting Christian symbols in your stories,
or did I?
No. You didn't say I did. Did I say you said I did? Don't say I said you
said I did or I'll did you said I say you..... uh...... I'll
said you did I say..... er......
From: Paolo Castagno:
>>>I'm feeling a lot like Oliver Twist, since I'm gonna asking for MORE!
I'd like to know even the most insane detail you noticed in your visit at
Barks'!!
Well... I need to respond to a more specific question or topic or I can't
write anything else.
>>>>BTW, I think that could be interesting to read from you, or from someone
else on
this list, a reportage on the San Diego Comics Convention: what was it
about,
how are structured events like this in the USA,
This is too vast a topic!
>>>>>how much relevance is given to Disney comics?
Oh, that's *much* easier to answer:
None, whatsoever. As if they did not exist. (Except in the backstock brought
by the "Golden & Silver Age" comic dealers...)
From: "Ole Reichstein Nielsen" :
>>>>>Specific questions about something you didn't mention?
That's a tough one, but here are some questions which must be asked:
What does Barks *really* think of your work?
That wasn't something that we discussed. Like I said, we just made
smalltalk.
>>>>Did the two of you talk about working together on a story?
No, no, no! That's not why I was there or what we talked about! Besides, the
alterior motive$ for those sorts of projects are gone with them.
>>>Will Barks join this list?
Okay -- should I say this?
He won't join the List... but all that we say here is shown to him on
print-outs by Gerry Tank. Now, don't start "talking" directly to him or
anything like that... that would be rude... but you can be happy (I assume)
to know that he sees all the praise of him and his work that appears on
these pages every day. Nice to know, eh? What a new Age of Enlightenment has
dawned, now that they have left and taken their Dark Age with them!
By the way, he read the discussion... and he says Gyro is a *chicken*!
(grumble)
From: Katie Sullivan :
>>>>Thanks for sharing that *wonderful* experience with us! I'm so happy
for you.
What a special thing to hold in your memory! Wow. Just...wow. At the risk
of
sounding like a drooling obsessed fan (again?), no one deserves a day with
the
Duck Man as much as you.
One question you don't have to answer if you don't want to, but which I am
curious
about... Did the D.U.C.K. dedication come up at all? I think that's so
clever.
I hope Barks likes it.
Actually, Gerry brought it up at some point, I forget in what context. But
Mr.Barks has been aware of it since I wrote and told him about it (before
his mail began to be intercepted) back in 1987. And at the time he told me
that I shouldn't put such a dedication in the work (as would any modest
person). But see -- such as me don't give such as him a choice in having
work dedicated to such as him. He'll "take it and like it", as Bogart might
say.
From: Alf Gaba :
>>>>>>>>>My favourite story is without comparison "A matter of some gravity"
by Don
Rosa. That story really resparked my interest in reading Donald Duck.
PS My (and my kids) favourite "moment" in Disney is the scene in a recent
DR-story where Donald Duck touches all U$'s things that are labelled "Do
Not Touch". Whenever one of my kids are crying or are mad I pat them on the
head and say "r=F8re, r=F8re, r=F8re" as it is translated to in Danish.
9 out of 10 times they can't avoid smiling. So thanks for that one, Don :)
You're welcome. But can you please tell me how to pronounce "r=F8re, r=F8re,
r=F8re"? I've tried it several times, and I think I may have hurt myself.