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S?ren wrote:

>>>>>>
> Note the major difference between "27,000 every year" and 1,000,000 every
> *WEEK*!

You see?! Something is wrong. What does 1 million every *week* mean, does
it mean 52 million people in Finland read this every *year*? :-) If not,
why state the "every week" or "every year" then?

I think a similar mistake was made when the "two billion" figure was
calculated; some numbers was multiplied wrongly, like number of weeks times
number of published issues times whatever.

The number of people who reads Disney comics (not per year, not per anything!)
is probably much lower, I'm afraid.
<<<<<<<<
Agreed, two billion sounds a bit high. Perhaps the reference has been to
copies sold or something like that. For example, there are not 52 million
finns who could read Aku Ankka but there is a difference between "27000
a year" and "1 million a week". I could easily imagine 1 million finns
read Aku Ankka each week. They might not have bought it themselves but they
might be reading a copy bought by their friend, son, cousin, Santa Claus
etc.
Now what was my point? Sorry, I lost my trail of now. I guess I was saying
that the one-third of world's population picks up and reads some sorta disney
product during a year doesn't sound funny to me.
Did I understand that 2 billion bit wrong? If so I apologize; I been working
the graveyard shift last two weeks. It's starting to make me dizzy.

Merry Xmas and Happy Year,
Teemu

The first Christmas without Carl Barks !
He, who gave us so many lovely Christmas stories !
Who will ever forget " Christmas in Shacktown " ?
All that is left to us now is to hope that he will be writing a new story :
" Christmas in Heaven " !
Wherever you are now, Carl, a Merry Christmas to you !

And a Merry Christmas to all of you in DCML, too !
Feliz Natal, from Brazil !

luisfelipepires at uol.com.br

It's still Christmas Day, so it's not too late to wish everyone here (except
Dan and Rodney) a MERRY CHRISTMAS! (To Dan and Rodney I say HAVE A NICE
DAY!) I just returned to my lodge room and my laptop in time to type this
today. For the past 5 days I have been canoeing in the Everglades -- for
anyone who doesn't know, that's the maze of mangrove islands at the SW tip
of Florida, where you could canoe for a lifetime and never go through every
channel and find every hidden lagoon or bay. We followed the marked maze of
channels to various "chickees" (wooden decks built above the water where you
can pitch a tent since there's actually no solid ground in the Everglades),
but I also used a detailed map and wandered among many remote channels and
lagoons which I could imagine have not been visited for years or centuries
or since Tuesday. Sadly, even though you might imagine that the Everglades
is like the place depicted in old movies and documentaries, it's nothing
like that anymore. There are no billions of flamingos filling remote bays,
or trees white with a thousand exotic birds which take flight en masse, or
pools of manatees or bays choked with alligators or crocodiles, or anything
like that. It's almost desolate. We never saw a fish in the water, no
manatees, hardly any birds, and just a few alligators. Miami has pretty much
wrecked the Everglades by siphoning off most of the water and polluting what
was left. And when they opened a channel to the sea for powerboaters, the
seawater killed the grasses that fed all those birds or the fish that fed
the birds. The only think left is the mangove trees and the incredible maze
they make. There could easily be a bay full of Barks' Gneezles back some
sleepy little channel that has not been explored. And since it's impossible
to travel overland (since the land is made of mangrove roots and trunks too
thick to get through and offering nowhere to stand), if a lost civilization
simply blocked the channel that lead to its bay of residence with some
transplanted mangoves, no one would ever know they were there unless a
low-flying helicopter chanced upon them for some odd reason. (But, they
wouldn't last long, since the fish are too infected with mercury from Miami
to be eaten safely.)
Anyway, that's where I was for the past 5 days, including Christmas Eve
(which I spent in a tent on a "chickee" in a place called "Hell's Bay" since
it's so big and difficult to paddle across in the wind). But I hope all of
you were warmer and more comfortable than I was last night in that cold gale
that was blowing across the 'glades! Tonight -- a warm lodge bed!!! Hoo-hah!

Marc Ponto wrote:
> However, the inspiration for The Screaming Cowboy may have been more
immediate. At the time the story was written (early 1951), it would have
been nearly impossible to avoid exposure to the popular yodeling style of
Hank Williams. His recent #1 hits- Lovesick Blues (March 1949), Lone Gone
Lonesome Blues (March 1950), and Moanin? the Blues (November 1950) no doubt
elicited a mixed reaction from the general radio audience, and could have
been the stimuli for this creative response of Carl Barks.

It's worth noticing that also Bill Walsh & Floyd Gottfredson's Mickey Mouse
daily strip probably used the same source of inspiration. In the continuity
"Mickey Mouse and Dry Gulch Goofy" (March to June 1951) Goofy performs as a
singing (moanin' ;-)) cowboy.
And Goofy had been a singin' cowboy ("Goofy the Kid") also in the 1946 short
continuity "Goofy the Crooner"... probably Bill Walsh found that Western
music genre very amusing ;-)

Ciao,
Armando

TEEMU:

> You see?! Something is wrong. What does 1 million every *week* mean, does
> it mean 52 million people in Finland read this every *year*? :-) If not,
> why state the "every week" or "every year" then?

> Now what was my point? Sorry, I lost my trail of now. I guess I was saying
> that the one-third of world's population picks up and reads some sorta disney
> product during a year doesn't sound funny to me.

Funny? :-) Well, no, but it's probably wrong. Who would they be? Chinese, Indian,
African? (just to mention continents and countries with high polulations). Don't
think so. IMO it all corresponds to saying that my light bulb uses 100W per week
but yours uses 25W per year. Such statements are both wrong and very misleading.

If someone said, that last year the "Anders And & Co." (Danish) was read and
bought by say 100000 people, I wouldn't disagree, although I don't know the
exact figures of course. However, this is not the same as "100000 people in
Denmark read AA&Co. every year" or (worse) "AA&Co. is read by 100000 Danes
per year".

> Did I understand that 2 billion bit wrong? If so I apologize; I been working
> the graveyard shift last two weeks. It's starting to make me dizzy.

:-) 2 billions is 2000 millions, and I still wonder who actually publishes those
many issues. Let's just assume for fun that Egmont publishes one tenth of that
worldwide, which brings us down to 200 million issues. I think Egmont would be
more than happy to do so (or to have done so), but it is not a realistic figure.

I wonder how many issues have been published worldwide in total during the last
fifty years. Probably not even 1 billion, so...you see, we have a problem.

Søren