Fellow Quackeroos:
I had originally sent this in early July, just before I had to go off-line
for a few weeks. Part II, follows in a separate posting.
Here's my pick for this edition of "Story of the Week":
"Il Tiranno del Nord", I-TL #1236-1237, 1979. Art & Story: Romano Scarpa.
Originally printed in two parts; Part I, 33 pages, and Part II, 33 pages.
Greek re-print: "Miky Maous" #1409-1410, 1993.
*Story's Synopsis*: The story begins with U$, Donald, and the kids aboard a
boat made out of ice, somewhere in the frozen Arctic northern seas. The kids
are busy throwing the water off the boat, Donald is busy giving orders,
while Scrooge is busy wallowing in a bunch of golden artifacts. All of a
sudden, they all simultaneously have a sudden lapse of memory. They can't
understand what on earth they're doing on that boat, and how they got hold
of the gold. They all have around their necks a stone amulet that adds to
the enigma. As they slowly reach warmer climates, their ice-boat is starting
to melt, and the kids construct a raft out of the wooden sails and mast.
Scrooge refuses to the very end to abandon the golden artifacts, until a
passing ship picks them up in the nick of time. What's the deal here? What
have our heroes being doing so far away from Duckburg? Why did they all of a
sudden lose their memory?
Return back a few weeks prior to the current events, as scienstists at
Scrooge's research center are busy trying to come up with a new form of
fusion energy out of polar ice. Scrooge has been transporting huge chunks of
polar ice to his labs for experiments hopefully leading to this new energy
source. However, while the experiments prove futile, the chief scientist
locates a strange object encrusted in one of the huge ice chunks. As the
objects is being chipped off the ice, it turns out to be a golden amphora.
Scrooge and the kids retreat to Scrooge's library to examine the artifact
more carefully. The kids reason that since it was lodged 5 meters inside the
ice, it must have been there for many centuries. Scrooge replies that no
known civilization flourished in that latitude, and that obviously it was
left there by someone. Looking more carefully at the amphora, Scrooge gets
the feeling that he has seen it before, as part of a larger treasure. He
resorts to a volume on ancient world treasures, and pretty soon he hits the
jack pot: the amphora is part of the great treasure of...Genghis Khan! As
the kids wonder how on earth it managed to get so far away from Mongolia,
Scrooge starts to read from the book: it seems that in 1206 AC, when Genghis
had succeeded in uniting all of the Mongol tribes north of the Great Wall of
China, his brother Gengiv rebelled and fled along with his followers towards
the coast. Gengiv managed to get a hold of a major part of his brother's
treasure, and upon reaching the coast, he boarded along with the treasure a
fleet of ships waiting for him. According to the legend, no one ever heard
again of Gengiv's whereabouts. Scrooge reasons that Gengiv had obviously
reached the frozen lands of the north, never managed to make it back, and
left the treasure there that noboby recovered yet.
Scrooge, convinced that the cup he found by accident will lead him to the
treasure of Genghis Khan, decides to organize an expedition to the arctic
north. He calls Donald and asks him to meet them at the docks, where they a
board a boat specially designed to crush ice, equipped with an ice-borer.
Days later they reach the arctic ice, and head towards the exact place where
Scrooge's crews had taken the ice chunks. A special ray-machine reveals
nothing in the surrounding ice banks, and as Scrooge starts to gets testy,
he inadvertendly pushes the button that puts the ice-borer into action.
Unfortunately, the ice borer, bores a hole into their boat, that they are
now forced to abandon. They throw a dinghy into the drink, and jump in
there. All of a sudden, out of the fog, there appears an ice-boat, boarded
by threatening Mongol-looking people carrying bows and arrows. Who are
they...where did they come from?....
...To be *CONTINUED* in Part II of "Il mistero del Nord"!
Cheers,
Archontis
Author
Topic: 199908
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Dr. Archontis Pantsios
Story of the "Week" (5a)
Message 121 -
1999-08-30 at 14:06:25
Dr. Archontis Pantsios
Story of the Week (5b)
Message 122 -
1999-08-30 at 14:06:43
Fellow Quackeroos:
This is Part II of Romano Scarpa's "Il Titanno del Nord", I-TL 1236-1237, 1979.
*Story's Synopsis*: At the end of Part One, the Ducks were attacked by a
bunch of Mongol-looking people boarding an ice-boat. They are captured,
pulled on to the ice-boat, and led thru a secret entrance, to the inside of
an iceberg that's hollow and forms a huge cavern. The sight is reminiscent
of Barks' "Tralla La" with "milk and honey" flowing down its cliffs. Life in
"Weng Wong", however, is not as idyllic as its picturesque surroundings
would suggest: the place is governed by a Papper Khan, who immediately
orders that the Ducks be thrown into a pit full of boiled ice! They are
saved in the nick of time only because the Khan's daughter, Kay-Lin, falls
for Donald's beautiful eyes, and asks her father to spare the Ducks lives.
The Ducks soon learn that life in Weng Wong is nothing to write home about:
that's especially true for Donald who soon learns that he must be Kay-Lin's
servant by carrying out (literally!) all kinds of chores for her!
Papper Khan leads the Ducks to his palace and shows them what must be part
of Genghis Khan's treasure. The Khan doesn't seem to appreciate the
treasure's value the way Scrooge does and asserts that these artifacts are
simply a symbol of command. Papper them goes on to recount to Scrooge how
his predecessor, Gengiv, ended up here and made this place his new home,
with the following generations being totally isolated from the outside
world. The iceberg's fertility is attributed to a huge meteorite wedged into
the iceberg's side.
Papper Khan is running Weng Wong like a true despot and tyrant and a series
of "accidents" turn out to be attempts at his life! Papper has most of his
men working at producing a special juice from some fruit capable of
rejuvenating the men working at producing that juice (!), so that the
remaining juice will rejuvenate and pump up the Khan who's small and
fragile! Of course, the men who labor to constantly produce the juice by
turning a huge "wheel", are not exactly enthusiastic about that arrangement
and hence have reverted to extreme means of getting rid of their suppressor.
Uncle Scrooge, himslef a "tyrant of money", advises the Khan to reward the
laboring men with some kind of recompense, if he wishes to continue being
the Khan.
Just as they speak, the laboring men revolt, brake the "wheel", and march
towards the Khan's palace. At Scrooge's advice, the Khan offers to share
Genghis' treasure (and command) with them, open up the palace's doors to
everyone, and do his part of turning the juice-producing wheel. Hence, the
Khan regains his subjects' esteem and confidence, and realizes that they
were his true treasure all along. In appreciation for the Ducks' help, the
Khan decides to let them return to their country (to Donald's true delight!)
after giving them a stone amulet, a drink, and a sample of Genghis' treasure.
For the end of the story, refer back to the beginning of Part I: the Ducks's
sudden memory loss is due to that drink, and the passing ship that rescues
them takes them back to Duckburg...
*Observations*: This is Scarpa as we had come to know him from his early
classic stories: the story is rich in both text and art, and the synopses
above can only do very little justice to it. The story was published back in
1979, and it was only four years or so that Scarpa had started to write
again many stories by himself, and especially some 2-parters reminiscent of
his grand masterpieces of the late 50s-early 60s. That string of new
2-parters included stories like "La Magnon 777", TL-1027-28, "L'acqua
quietante", TL-1189-90, "Il tiranno del Nord", "La febbre del rodio",
TL-1270-71, and last but not least "Lo straordinario 'Stravigarius'",
TL-1281-82.
It'd take me for ever to cite worthy scenes and phrases from this story.
Someone would just have to get a copy of it and read it. I should add that
the story pays a clear hommage to Barks' "Trala La", but it also adds new
dimensions by showing that not everything is idyllic in this land of "milk
and honey". I should also add that Scarpa had created much earlier another
version of a "Tralla-lalian" utopia, by sending the Mouse to Shan-Grilla,
back in 1961, in "Topolino nel favoloso regno di Shan-Grilla", TL-288-89,
another masterpiece of a story.
Till the next edition of "Story of the 'Week'",
Archontis
This is Part II of Romano Scarpa's "Il Titanno del Nord", I-TL 1236-1237, 1979.
*Story's Synopsis*: At the end of Part One, the Ducks were attacked by a
bunch of Mongol-looking people boarding an ice-boat. They are captured,
pulled on to the ice-boat, and led thru a secret entrance, to the inside of
an iceberg that's hollow and forms a huge cavern. The sight is reminiscent
of Barks' "Tralla La" with "milk and honey" flowing down its cliffs. Life in
"Weng Wong", however, is not as idyllic as its picturesque surroundings
would suggest: the place is governed by a Papper Khan, who immediately
orders that the Ducks be thrown into a pit full of boiled ice! They are
saved in the nick of time only because the Khan's daughter, Kay-Lin, falls
for Donald's beautiful eyes, and asks her father to spare the Ducks lives.
The Ducks soon learn that life in Weng Wong is nothing to write home about:
that's especially true for Donald who soon learns that he must be Kay-Lin's
servant by carrying out (literally!) all kinds of chores for her!
Papper Khan leads the Ducks to his palace and shows them what must be part
of Genghis Khan's treasure. The Khan doesn't seem to appreciate the
treasure's value the way Scrooge does and asserts that these artifacts are
simply a symbol of command. Papper them goes on to recount to Scrooge how
his predecessor, Gengiv, ended up here and made this place his new home,
with the following generations being totally isolated from the outside
world. The iceberg's fertility is attributed to a huge meteorite wedged into
the iceberg's side.
Papper Khan is running Weng Wong like a true despot and tyrant and a series
of "accidents" turn out to be attempts at his life! Papper has most of his
men working at producing a special juice from some fruit capable of
rejuvenating the men working at producing that juice (!), so that the
remaining juice will rejuvenate and pump up the Khan who's small and
fragile! Of course, the men who labor to constantly produce the juice by
turning a huge "wheel", are not exactly enthusiastic about that arrangement
and hence have reverted to extreme means of getting rid of their suppressor.
Uncle Scrooge, himslef a "tyrant of money", advises the Khan to reward the
laboring men with some kind of recompense, if he wishes to continue being
the Khan.
Just as they speak, the laboring men revolt, brake the "wheel", and march
towards the Khan's palace. At Scrooge's advice, the Khan offers to share
Genghis' treasure (and command) with them, open up the palace's doors to
everyone, and do his part of turning the juice-producing wheel. Hence, the
Khan regains his subjects' esteem and confidence, and realizes that they
were his true treasure all along. In appreciation for the Ducks' help, the
Khan decides to let them return to their country (to Donald's true delight!)
after giving them a stone amulet, a drink, and a sample of Genghis' treasure.
For the end of the story, refer back to the beginning of Part I: the Ducks's
sudden memory loss is due to that drink, and the passing ship that rescues
them takes them back to Duckburg...
*Observations*: This is Scarpa as we had come to know him from his early
classic stories: the story is rich in both text and art, and the synopses
above can only do very little justice to it. The story was published back in
1979, and it was only four years or so that Scarpa had started to write
again many stories by himself, and especially some 2-parters reminiscent of
his grand masterpieces of the late 50s-early 60s. That string of new
2-parters included stories like "La Magnon 777", TL-1027-28, "L'acqua
quietante", TL-1189-90, "Il tiranno del Nord", "La febbre del rodio",
TL-1270-71, and last but not least "Lo straordinario 'Stravigarius'",
TL-1281-82.
It'd take me for ever to cite worthy scenes and phrases from this story.
Someone would just have to get a copy of it and read it. I should add that
the story pays a clear hommage to Barks' "Trala La", but it also adds new
dimensions by showing that not everything is idyllic in this land of "milk
and honey". I should also add that Scarpa had created much earlier another
version of a "Tralla-lalian" utopia, by sending the Mouse to Shan-Grilla,
back in 1961, in "Topolino nel favoloso regno di Shan-Grilla", TL-288-89,
another masterpiece of a story.
Till the next edition of "Story of the 'Week'",
Archontis
Daniel Van Eijmeren
Bobsled race
Message 123 -
1999-08-30 at 14:43:36
JOAKIM GUNNARSSON, 28-08-1999:
> Interesting theory about the Bobsled race story. The only problem
> with it, as I see it, is that they were submitted so close to each
> other. First the story had to reach the editors and then they
> would have to make the decision to reject the story. And that would
> have had taken a *minimum* of two - three days. If the editor then
> gave Barks a phonecall he would have four days to come up with the
> snow sculpture story - drawing it and ink it.
What I meant is that Barks used the art of the bobsled story *itself* to make the snow statue story. This means that only *parts* of the snow statue story had to be drawn.
> And also thinking of how good the snow sculpture story is I don't
> think it was done in a hurry.
There are at least two strange points in it: The nephews first say that there isn't enough snow, while later in the story they use lots of snow to cover Donald with. It's also strange that Donald manages to melt a huge snow statue by placing a candle in it. Such situations remind me of the cut-down "Land Beneath the Ground" in which a camera and a telephone are mentioned without being used. I think it's safe to say that everything in a Barks story has a reason and/or is defendable, and whenever this isn't case there's a huge chance something has happened with the story.
When (if!) being changed from a bobsled race to a snow statue story, the basic story itself seems to have remained as it was: there's rivalry between Donald and the nephews, at the end of the story they realize it was caused by not minding their own business. No change in that, only in the way the story is told.
Especially given the short time Barks must have had, reworking the story must have been a very heavy task. So, if my theory is right, the snow statue story is a little masterpiece of storystelling in itself!
> (Especially the ending is *very* good. One of my favorite endings
> in a Barks ten pager actually.)
I think the ending (at least the last half page) is almost exactly as in the bobsled race story, only Donald may have been retouched to remove physical damage.
Greetings,
--- Daniel
http://www.acciom.se/barks/index.html
> Interesting theory about the Bobsled race story. The only problem
> with it, as I see it, is that they were submitted so close to each
> other. First the story had to reach the editors and then they
> would have to make the decision to reject the story. And that would
> have had taken a *minimum* of two - three days. If the editor then
> gave Barks a phonecall he would have four days to come up with the
> snow sculpture story - drawing it and ink it.
What I meant is that Barks used the art of the bobsled story *itself* to make the snow statue story. This means that only *parts* of the snow statue story had to be drawn.
> And also thinking of how good the snow sculpture story is I don't
> think it was done in a hurry.
There are at least two strange points in it: The nephews first say that there isn't enough snow, while later in the story they use lots of snow to cover Donald with. It's also strange that Donald manages to melt a huge snow statue by placing a candle in it. Such situations remind me of the cut-down "Land Beneath the Ground" in which a camera and a telephone are mentioned without being used. I think it's safe to say that everything in a Barks story has a reason and/or is defendable, and whenever this isn't case there's a huge chance something has happened with the story.
When (if!) being changed from a bobsled race to a snow statue story, the basic story itself seems to have remained as it was: there's rivalry between Donald and the nephews, at the end of the story they realize it was caused by not minding their own business. No change in that, only in the way the story is told.
Especially given the short time Barks must have had, reworking the story must have been a very heavy task. So, if my theory is right, the snow statue story is a little masterpiece of storystelling in itself!
> (Especially the ending is *very* good. One of my favorite endings
> in a Barks ten pager actually.)
I think the ending (at least the last half page) is almost exactly as in the bobsled race story, only Donald may have been retouched to remove physical damage.
Greetings,
--- Daniel
http://www.acciom.se/barks/index.html
Joakim Gunnarsson
Homey Rainbow (There's always another...)
Message 124 -
1999-08-30 at 22:08:53
Daniel wrote:
> Michael Barrier already suggests that the undated "The Homey Touch"
> (US 32) may have been one of them, which means that this gag was > cut up
because it was published as a half pager. Looking at the gag
> I think I see traces of cuts.
>
> Looking at the Huey, Dewey and Louie "Rainbow's End" gag (DD 71),
> I also think I see traces of cuts. Maybe this gag was another one
> of these three Uncle Scrooge gags?
I agree! Even if the gag works very well as a three panel gag!
(Here is my idea of what *might* have been in the original version:
"The Homey Touch" probably had a separate U$ logotype panel with a
moneybag. Followed by a panel where we see Scrooge entering the library, or
more likely asking for some kind of books. Then followed by the two first
panels of the published version. And then a sequence where we see Scrooge
buying the stuff (Probably with Donald and the boys seeing Scrooge buying
it, looking confused.) Then followed by the last panel of the published
version.)
"Rainbow's End" Is * definitely* cut! And I dare to say that Scrooges body
in the last panel has been so heavily redrawn that what is left of what
Barks once drew is the head of Scrooge wich as been cut out (maybe from
another panel) and pasted on to the new body.
I find this *very* interesting! (And fun!)
Thanks for sharing your theorys, Daniel.
/Joakim Gunnarsson,
Malmo, Sweden.
> Michael Barrier already suggests that the undated "The Homey Touch"
> (US 32) may have been one of them, which means that this gag was > cut up
because it was published as a half pager. Looking at the gag
> I think I see traces of cuts.
>
> Looking at the Huey, Dewey and Louie "Rainbow's End" gag (DD 71),
> I also think I see traces of cuts. Maybe this gag was another one
> of these three Uncle Scrooge gags?
I agree! Even if the gag works very well as a three panel gag!
(Here is my idea of what *might* have been in the original version:
"The Homey Touch" probably had a separate U$ logotype panel with a
moneybag. Followed by a panel where we see Scrooge entering the library, or
more likely asking for some kind of books. Then followed by the two first
panels of the published version. And then a sequence where we see Scrooge
buying the stuff (Probably with Donald and the boys seeing Scrooge buying
it, looking confused.) Then followed by the last panel of the published
version.)
"Rainbow's End" Is * definitely* cut! And I dare to say that Scrooges body
in the last panel has been so heavily redrawn that what is left of what
Barks once drew is the head of Scrooge wich as been cut out (maybe from
another panel) and pasted on to the new body.
I find this *very* interesting! (And fun!)
Thanks for sharing your theorys, Daniel.
/Joakim Gunnarsson,
Malmo, Sweden.
Halsten =?iso-8859-1?Q?Aastebøl?=
Barks' bobsled race forever lost, but partly found?
Message 125 -
1999-08-31 at 12:45:45
Daniel van Eijmeren:
>Because, what I think is that the bobsled race tenpager will never be
>found again because it was cut up into an almost completely new
>story about snow statues. (Within one week!!!)
>
Very interesting theory! But I have to say this rewriting process sounds
like something Barks should have been able to remember if it ever happened.
Halsten
>Because, what I think is that the bobsled race tenpager will never be
>found again because it was cut up into an almost completely new
>story about snow statues. (Within one week!!!)
>
Very interesting theory! But I have to say this rewriting process sounds
like something Barks should have been able to remember if it ever happened.
Halsten
Daniel Van Eijmeren
Barks' bobsled race forever lost, but partly found?
Message 126 -
1999-08-31 at 13:20:34
HALSTEN AASTEBOL, 31-08-1999:
>> Because, what I think is that the bobsled race tenpager will never
>> be found again because it was cut up into an almost completely new
>> story about snow statues. (Within one week!!!)
> Very interesting theory! But I have to say this rewriting process
> sounds like something Barks should have been able to remember if it
> ever happened.
Maybe if he was reminded about it? He must have seen the bobsled race story only for a few days or even less before changing it into another one with almost the same subject.
Thanks to Geoffrey Blum it was only in the late 1980s that Carl Barks reminded what happened in "Mythtic Mystery". So, I guess one has to ask Carl Barks specificly about a story before he will know what to remember. Not strange when having made (what was it?) about 6000 pages. I would be very surprised if he would remember the changes off-hand.
With the high production he has done, I'm already very surprised that he can remember so much. During at least 1942 to 1958 he did not expect that people would value his work so much, and he must have been thinking more about the work he still had to make than about the work that he had already done.
(Only in his retirement he had the time to make a list of all his work based on the vouchers he kept, used by Michael Barrier. I hope he kept the vouchers after that time, btw. Is there someone here who knows?)
Greetings,
--- Daniel
http://www.acciom.se/barks/index.html
>> Because, what I think is that the bobsled race tenpager will never
>> be found again because it was cut up into an almost completely new
>> story about snow statues. (Within one week!!!)
> Very interesting theory! But I have to say this rewriting process
> sounds like something Barks should have been able to remember if it
> ever happened.
Maybe if he was reminded about it? He must have seen the bobsled race story only for a few days or even less before changing it into another one with almost the same subject.
Thanks to Geoffrey Blum it was only in the late 1980s that Carl Barks reminded what happened in "Mythtic Mystery". So, I guess one has to ask Carl Barks specificly about a story before he will know what to remember. Not strange when having made (what was it?) about 6000 pages. I would be very surprised if he would remember the changes off-hand.
With the high production he has done, I'm already very surprised that he can remember so much. During at least 1942 to 1958 he did not expect that people would value his work so much, and he must have been thinking more about the work he still had to make than about the work that he had already done.
(Only in his retirement he had the time to make a list of all his work based on the vouchers he kept, used by Michael Barrier. I hope he kept the vouchers after that time, btw. Is there someone here who knows?)
Greetings,
--- Daniel
http://www.acciom.se/barks/index.html
PSFr
Bobsled race story
Message 127 -
1999-08-31 at 13:44:32
Joakim Gunnarson wrote:
>Interesting theory about the Bobsled race story.
>The only problem with it, as I see it, is that they were submitted
>so close to each other.
As I see things that is excactly the *reason* why it was probably re-used.
I can't remember reading much about Barks' working habits in the 50ies but
it is my idea that he worked very systematically. That means that he would
not be working on several ten-pagers at the same time. My idea is that he
by the most would have a few rough story lines, ready for new stories. When
he took off from there he would go all the way. Next project would then
again start off from a rough plot. (*Very* unlike my own working habits ;-)
)
If this is correct I see no *other* possible way he could have done a
"brand new" ten-pager in a few days other than reusing the existing main
story line and parts of the art.
Also Barks was very consious about not using the same plot/setting in
stories that were to be published too closely. Remember that he abandonned
the "Aswan Dam Story" (sceduled for US 34) because recently he had done
"Pipeline to Danger". As I could imagine the "Bob-sled race" it would
include a competition between Donald and the boys in winter surroundings.
This is the same set-up as for the *printed* story in WDCS 196. I conclude
that if Barks really thought at the time he did the snow-contest story,
that the Race-story was going to be published in #196, he would not have
made a story with such a similar plot for an up-comming issue! On the other
hand if he *knew* that the story had been rejected and deadline was around
the corner, why should he not reuse the main part and skip what was
disliked by the editors?
In my eyes there is little doubt that this is a mystery that has now been
solved. Thanks Daniel.
Best
Poul Frokjar, Denmark
>Interesting theory about the Bobsled race story.
>The only problem with it, as I see it, is that they were submitted
>so close to each other.
As I see things that is excactly the *reason* why it was probably re-used.
I can't remember reading much about Barks' working habits in the 50ies but
it is my idea that he worked very systematically. That means that he would
not be working on several ten-pagers at the same time. My idea is that he
by the most would have a few rough story lines, ready for new stories. When
he took off from there he would go all the way. Next project would then
again start off from a rough plot. (*Very* unlike my own working habits ;-)
)
If this is correct I see no *other* possible way he could have done a
"brand new" ten-pager in a few days other than reusing the existing main
story line and parts of the art.
Also Barks was very consious about not using the same plot/setting in
stories that were to be published too closely. Remember that he abandonned
the "Aswan Dam Story" (sceduled for US 34) because recently he had done
"Pipeline to Danger". As I could imagine the "Bob-sled race" it would
include a competition between Donald and the boys in winter surroundings.
This is the same set-up as for the *printed* story in WDCS 196. I conclude
that if Barks really thought at the time he did the snow-contest story,
that the Race-story was going to be published in #196, he would not have
made a story with such a similar plot for an up-comming issue! On the other
hand if he *knew* that the story had been rejected and deadline was around
the corner, why should he not reuse the main part and skip what was
disliked by the editors?
In my eyes there is little doubt that this is a mystery that has now been
solved. Thanks Daniel.
Best
Poul Frokjar, Denmark
Ken
Don Rosa in Aku Ankka 33/99
Message 128 -
1999-08-31 at 16:05:26
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Message 129 -
1999-08-31 at 20:08:17
Top 10 Reasons NOT to Work
10. They can't garnish what you don't make.
9. Your life no longer compares to those annoying Dilbert
cartoons.
8. Chance to meet exotic male dancers in unemployment line
(and do the Full Monty).
7. Sleep all night . . . Sleep all day!
6. Much like a Carnival cruise, every day is a holiday!
5. If you push its buttons the wrong way, the remote won't cry
sexual harassment.
4. Underwear and a pair of Birkenstocks becomes your
"Professional Attire".
3. Reruns of Chips only shown during regular working hours.
2. It really pisses off the in-laws.
1. The only glass ceiling is the mirror over your bed!
10. They can't garnish what you don't make.
9. Your life no longer compares to those annoying Dilbert
cartoons.
8. Chance to meet exotic male dancers in unemployment line
(and do the Full Monty).
7. Sleep all night . . . Sleep all day!
6. Much like a Carnival cruise, every day is a holiday!
5. If you push its buttons the wrong way, the remote won't cry
sexual harassment.
4. Underwear and a pair of Birkenstocks becomes your
"Professional Attire".
3. Reruns of Chips only shown during regular working hours.
2. It really pisses off the in-laws.
1. The only glass ceiling is the mirror over your bed!