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Hi

OLA:
The dedication is actually visible in the online version of the story.
It's in the lower part, next to what Donald says, on a greenback. D U C
and K are in the 4 corners of the note.
Moreover duckburg should in the future show a bigger scan of the actual
dedication.

You are right, the story is not yet out in the scandinavian weeklies but
I'm still hoping, though not wanting to hold my breath while waiting.
As told, it will come out in Germany next year. It wouldn't surprise me if
Finland, Holland, Italy and Greece eventually publishes it too.
The original reason Don made the story for France is that Egmont doesn't
want anymore Lo$-chapters. (Baflles...)

DON:
About the prequel for a story you will do in a year or so -
Great stuff! I had beern wondering about where those sisters were, myself.

Hilsen/Yours
Anders Christian Siveb?k
Donaldist

Wow. That's had be the favorite song of Marquis De Sade !!!!

http://www.wwco.com/gean/grandpa/

I'm My Own Grandpa
by Dwight Latham and Moe Jaffe

From: "Kriton Kyrimis" <kyrimis at cti.gr>

> which is thinly disguised as an article about said cards. [Is Harry
> Potter a Disney property, in which case this article is the usual
> homage to the Dark Empire, or should I stop being merely bitter and
> become furious?]

Harry Potter is Warner Bros.' if I'm not mistaken. It doesn't even seem to
be distributed by Buena Vista (or how they're called lately)...

--
Francesco

DON:

> The story states that Quagmire was $crooge's "great uncle" -- this means
> his grandfather's brother.

As a non-native English speaker, I confess I interpretted "great uncle"
as "distant uncle", i.e., something like his father's cousin, several
times removed. I suspect that Olaf made the same mistake.

MITCHELL:

> Many, many years ago, when I was twenty-three
> I was married to a widow who was pretty as can be
> This widow had a grown-up daughter who had hair of red
> My father fell in love with her, and soon they, too, were wed

This is exactly the kind of mess from which Greek law protects you.
If you marry a widow, her daughter becomes your own daughter, and hence
your father's grand-daughter, whom Greek law prohibits him from marrying,
even though they are not related by blood. Considering that Mark Twain's
story (e.g., http://www.rit.edu/~cjh4090/text/FAMILY.txt) is supposed
to have been taken from a suicide note, this is probably a good thing!

BTW, another appropriate title for the song would be "my father married
his own granddaughter"!

Kriton (e-mail: kyrimis at cti.gr)
(WWW: http://dias.cti.gr/~kyrimis)
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"Absolute power never appealed to me either. Fine for the first couple of
weeks, but then there's all that tedious paperwork."
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Don Rosa:
>The story states that Quagmire was $crooge's "great uncle" -- this
>means his grandfather's brother.
>...
>However, nowhere in the "Heirloom Watch" story is it stated that
>Quagmire is wealthy. Quite the contrary -- all $crooge recalls of
>him is that he never spent any money, and he (rather illogically?)
>*hopes* that he was rich. But it's ultimately demonstrated
>that he was poor since his entire estate consisted of one tiny
>unexpensive ruby chip.

Good point. I will take him back. It's been a while since I read the story,
but I recalled Quagmire to be very rich... By the way, do we know who was
the first owner of the watch? Was it Quagmire? Or was he just one of the
owners in the line?

>So, if you do a Family Tree, it will be nice to see Fethry
>eliminated... but if you don't have Quagmire McDuck as the
>brother of $crooge's grandfather, it will be not be correct
>(if you want it to agree with "Barksian facts").

The reasons I will do a Family tree:
1) To eliminate Fethry
2) To get it in Norwegian
3) Because the Don Rosa family tree is too big. I need a tree that can fit
into the width of the screen and still be able to read.

But the family tree will contain the same information as the Don Rosa tree,
exept that I removed Fethry. (or, as they say in Kentucky; eliminated) I
thought about including Ludwig (as a date of Matilda, not neccessarrily...
<-- I hate that word... her husband), but after some thinking, I discover
that I have the same relation to Ludwig as I have to Fethry. I don't really
like him, and he was never used by Barks. He is almost never in ANY stories!
I also will remove the ancestors of Scrooge / Humperdink - not because I
don't accept them, but because it's not room enough for them. But they will
be described on my page, just not in the family tree...

I could have written more, but I'm out of time...

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In Barks' 'A Christmas for Shacktown' (1952) Donald disguises
himself as his great uncle Jake, hoping to soften his uncle
Scrooge's heart.
It isn't actually mentioned in this story that Jake McDuck at that
time lived in the United States, but as Scrooge isn't surprised to
find him living in America instead of having died somewhere in
Scotland, it could be assumed that Jake McDuck once moved to
the States. Maybe this happened between 1896 (Lo$ 7) and 1902
(Lo$ 9), as Jake doesn't appear in 'The Billionaire of Dismal
Downs'. It's also possible he left Scotland after the death of his
brother Fergus. (Jake must have become incredibly old, for both
Donald and Scrooge don't consider him as being dead in 1952.)

As mr. Don Rosa is the man that revived uncle Jake, it might be
interesting to read his opinion on this particular subject.

Some more hair-splittery to come: If Donald and Della are born
somewhere in the 1920's, their mother Hortense must have been at
least forty-three years old when she gave birth to them. It sure DID
take some time before she and Quackmore, with whom she fell in
love at her twenty-fifth (?), decided to have children.

Annoying detail: In Dutch translations, Matilda McDuck is named
Dora Duck, which is also the name of our Dutch Grandma Duck.
Especially in those Lo$ episodes wherein it's not made clear that
Hortense is the one to become Donald's mother, it might occur to
Dutch readers that Grandma Duck is Scrooge's sister.

Finally, it might be right to shortly introduce myself, as it is the first
time that I write a contribution to the Disney Comics Mailing List.
(I considered it right to start the message with the interesting part.)
My name is Michiel Prior and I'm a Dutch student, I frequently
check the DCML Archives and I'm fond of pondering about
annoying little details to be discovered in Duck stories, for instance
such stupid facts about Donald's family as mentioned above.

(As this Introduction is placed at the end of the letter, it might,
according to mr. Milne's (not Disney's) character Owl, rather be
called a Contradiction, which is, of course, the opposite of an
Introduction.)

Michiel Prior.

Hi,

We're going to drive around Europe next week and are planning to go to
Prague, Vienna and Milan. Does anybody know any really good comic shops
there to get (cheap) Disney comics? Also, isn't the pizza/comic place in
Genova? Does anybody have the address for that?

Please reply to private email.

Kind regards,

Arthur de Wolf
DCW: http://www.wolfstad.com/dcw