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> From: Kriton Kyrimis <kyrimis at cti.gr>
> According to a booklet distributed with yesterday's newspapers here
> in Greece, starting from 2003, EU countries will be allowed to produce
> commemorative coins in non-standard denominations, which will be legal
> currency in the country in which they were issued. I suspect that it will
> only be a matter of time before uncle Scrooge coins are produced in,
> say, Italy or Finland.

Don't hold your breath. You might see Bugs Bunny or Asterix or Superman
coins, but for there to be a government-issue $crooge coin, there is a
certain corporation who will demand a monstrous up-front fee based on the
current and projected size of the nation's treasury, a royalty on a
nation's gross national product once such a coin becomes legal tender, and
then a controlling voice in the government to force the nation to conduct
itself it a politically correct manner. Unlicensed globe makers would then
be compelled to leave those spots blank until they pay for a license and
agree to make all the colors and shapes on the entire globe to strict
specifications. And if that country did not continue to increase its gross
national product and pay a larger royalty share year by year, there'd be no
choice but to put it out of business. (Perhaps it would become a vacation
estate in Mr. Eisner's retirement package?)

Please ask John Garvin to contact me at gwtank at atiinternet.com re cells.

DON:

> Don't hold your breath. You might see Bugs Bunny or Asterix or Superman
> coins, but for there to be a government-issue $crooge coin, there is a
> certain corporation who will demand a monstrous up-front fee

I'm sure it's not quite that dramatic. Remember that we are talking about
commemorative, not regular coins. These coins will probably be sold
at "collector" prices, and Disney's cut will only act as an excuse to
raise the final price to lots more than the sum of their face value plus
Disney's cut. (I can see it now: get your exclusive, limited edition,
commemorative 3 Eurocent Uncle Scrooge coins for only 3 Euros each!)

Kriton (e-mail: kyrimis at cti.gr)
(WWW: http://dias.cti.gr/~kyrimis)
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>I got my first taste of Duck Tales when I
>was a kid in the 40's and some older friends had a copy of the one where
>they go off to the Andes or some such place and find those chickens that
>laid the cubical eggs. I couldn't stop thinking about those eggs and
>wondering what they tasted like. It seemed so real to me then.

As I recall from the "Plain Awful" story, square eggs have been known to
cause "ptomaine ptosis of the ptummy -- a condition in which the gastric
ducts die themselves into square knots." I don't remember, however, the
eggs' flavor quality. Anyone else recollect?
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Georgios wrote:

> Another topic is that we should report and list the
> Special Comic Editions
> dedicated to Carl Barks 100th Birthday ,in each >
country ,starting with the
> current issue of KOMIX (#153)

Very nice idea.
I think Anders C. Sivebaek told me that there will be
no special "dedicated to Carl Barks" issues in Denmark
:-(
Best Wishes

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>>As I recall from the "Plain Awful" story, square eggs have been known to
>>cause "ptomaine ptosis of the ptummy -- a condition in which the gastric
>>ducts die themselves into square knots."
What a great memory!

>> I don't remember, however, the eggs' flavor quality. Anyone else recollect?
It's awful, I remember.

Back to the story for more details (pp 4-5):

(Donald) " *Gah* !....!!! Very odd flavor!
But maybe the professor will like it!"
(2nd Assistant, Mr Womsley) "Arrr-rrgh!!! Ghastly flavor,
but maybe the professor will like it!"
(1st Assistant, Mr Tombsbury) "Yoops! Rather a *mellow* sort of thing!
But maybe the professor will like
it!"
(Professor Artefact McArchives) No comment, he's too sick--
so he must not have liked it!

But once the ducks are in Plain Awful, there are no such comments,
just variations on the way you can cook eggs (pp 21-3):
poached eggs
scrambled eggs
boiled eggs
"fried aigs"

So it seems the boys just did not know how to do them right.
Or they were simply spoilt-- p 4: "These things may *thousands* of years old!"
After all, these are the same eggs the old man says "[he] saw when
[he] was a muchacho" (p 13) and his father gave "to the padre in Cuzco",
who in turn gave them to "Professah Rhutt Betlah", which means they must be,
say, about 60 years old!

Olivier
off to sleep;
per chance, to dream--

not of eggs, I hope...

I have 2 spare copies of Picsou 350.

Georges

Fran?ois Willot wrote:

> Special Carl Barks issue. The Duck Man would be 100 years this month!
>
> - City of the Golden Roofs by Carl Barks
> - 8 pager in WDC 59 (Barks)
> - 10 pager in WDC 73 (Barks)
> - Hommages to Barks by Pirus, Lazoo, Mezzo, Trondheim
> - About 30 reproductions of Barks' oils
> - A Donald gag page by Kim Weston
> - Miscellaneous works by Carl Barks, covers & sketches
> - The land of no return, in US 57
> - A Campaign of note (US 8)
> - The Ten-pager in WDC 132
> - Taliaferro gag-a-day strips
> - The Many faces of the Pig Villain (article and drawings by Barks)
>
> Francois
>
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