Keskustelujen arkisto

Talking about european shopping, some more details about the german Mickey
Mouse Magazine Anniversary (what number?).

I need a description,worth a suscription?
sorry for the rime :)

Fabio
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longtom at oeste.com.ar

Paolo Castagno:

Thanks for your scans of L'inferno di Topolino at:
http://digilander.iol.it/inducks/appo/inferno1.jpg
http://digilander.iol.it/inducks/appo/inferno2.jpg

I compared them with the German edition. But only the two last panels of
your second scan are cut in the German version.

When I read the story, I was quite shocked to see heads cut off in the
Barber-shop, as can be seen in your first scan. This is something
extraordinary in a Disney Comic!

Best wishes,
Jan

Attitude, ignorance and off-topic

----- Original Message -----
From: "Andy Row" <andytlrow at yahoo.com>
To: <dcml at stp.ling.uu.se>
Sent: Friday, August 31, 2001 11:19 AM
Subject: OF COURSE FRENCH AND SPANISH PEOPLE ARE JUST A BUNCH OF SAVAGES !! (AND PROUD OF IT)

> As an American, I don't give a piece of shit of their
> European union.
>
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Hi Theresa!
>> Ok, I'm going on-topic again. just wanted to tell you some good news! I'm
>> going to subscribe to Kalle Anka myself now! As a student, I haven't
>> afforded it, but I earned some money this summer, and Hooray!!! :) Of
>> course I haven't been entirely duckless all the time, my family have
>> subscribed for a long time, so I only have to go home to get to read the
>> magasines. But still - It's coming to *my* mailbox now!!! :)
>> (feeling a bit silly, but happy... QUACK!!!!)

Why "silly"? I'm glad for you.
Just when I could afford subscribing to Gladstone's comics (the wonderful
prestige WDC&S & U$ in particular)-- they had to stop! : (

Olivier

A DUMB AMERICAN WROTE:

----- Original Message -----
From: "Andy Row" <andytlrow at yahoo.com>
To: <dcml at stp.ling.uu.se>
Sent: Friday, August 31, 2001 5:19 AM
Subject: OF COURSE FRENCH AND SPANISH PEOPLE ARE JUST A BUNCH OF SAVAGES !!
(AND PROUD OF IT)

> As an American, I don't give a piece of **** of their
> European union.

AND I COMMENT (but I don't reply directly):

This is not a newsgroup; it is a privately monitored and maintained mailing
list. Trolls are neither welcome nor tolerated here. Opinions such as
those above are not typical of Americans, though there are plenty of idiots
in any country. We have just met one from the US. One can only hope we
will not have to endure his presence much longer.

In any case, PLEASE!!!! do not reply directly to anything this nut has to
say unless he is ready to eat his humble pie. He needs no encouragement or
acknowledgement of his puny existence. He has succeeded in entertaining
himself by means of a simple hit-and-run post, complete with 3rd grade,
monosyllabic vocabulary.

Such self-gratification equates with a similar pursuit that one would NEVER
see portrayed in a Disney comic.

Enough said.

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

Um... I will hafta admit that there may very well be (or not be) a less
precise way to interpret "great uncle". For example, "cousin" is always
assumed to mean the child of one of your parent's siblings, however it also
has a less used definition as being *any* distant relative.
But anyway, the assumptions that Olaf was making that were causing him to
*not* want Quagmire to be the brother of $crooge's grandfather were
incorrect, so that was my main point.

> From: Ola Martinsson <Ola.Martinsson at uab.ericsson.se>
> > 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.
> Thanks a lot, that I never would have thought of. The letters are so far
> apart. How on earth did you find that ?

The letters are not so far apart, being on the same tiny greenback, but
there *are* other lines between the letters. So, let me describe my own
rules for hiding the dedication: I must make each letter stand completely
apart (not touching) from all other lines. Each letter must have a "."
associated with it... it's never "DUCK", it's always "D.U.C.K.". There can
never be any other lines in between the letters -- *except* in the case
where I place each letter in the 4 corners of a single item, or on any
matching 4 elements of something-or-other. F'rinstance, I once put each
letter in one of the 4 knobby, closely-grouped knees of a camel, and
another time at the tips of the arms of a Gaelic cross, and recently on the
4 fingernails of a Beagle Boy's 4-fingered hand... and in this instance in
the 4 corners of a greenback. But I would never put 3 of the letters in the
corners of one greenback and the 4th on the corner of a separate bill. See?

> From: "Olaf Solstrand" <harryklein at hotmail.com>
>>>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?

We know it was *not* Quagmire since we know that the watch had been in the
McDuck family for "two hundred years". All we know is that it's from
several generations before Quagmire. When, in the "Lo$" chapter 1, I showed
the watch as being one of the only items that $crooge carried to America
(with his shoeshine kit and the golden false teeth), I'm not sure, I
*might* have said it was Quagmire's... which might be true... but it had
still been some other McDuck's before he inherited it.

> 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.

Ah, but yes, he certainly was! He was used in one single 1-page gag cartoon
in U$ comics in 1961. Now, you are still free to eliminate him from your
Family Tree, of course, but be sure you know that Barks *did* use him once.

> From: "Fabio Blanco" <longtom at oeste.com.ar>
> The reasons I will do a Family tree:
> 1) To eliminate Fethry
>
> Why?

Well, speaking as an American, I can tell you why I don't like the
character. He has never been seen in American Duck comics... or *virtually*
never, I think he might have popped up once or twice in some incredibly
obscure MOBY DUCK story, unless I'm thinking of Dimwitty Duck, another one
I'd be glad to see eliminated. So, we have never grown up with a stupid,
idiot sidekick Duck character hanging around. Now, we have grown up with
Goofy as the sidekick of Mickey. But I can imagine that if I were a huge
Mickey Mouse fan, and for 60 years Mickey Mouse comics had always involved
a solo Mickey solving crimes and having adventures... and suddenly he was
burdened with a tall moron who would inexplicably be his constant
companion... I would find that very annoying. So, picture how we feel when
we see a story where Donald or $crooge, who always have intelligent
adventures wherein their errors are based on their emotional foibles rather
than a lack of brainpower, are suddenly teamed up with some idiot Duck
character. Not being familiar with Fethry's "finer points", I'm sure I
don't appreciate him (?!), but I know I'm not at all fond of
idiot-sidekicks in general, and losing Fethry would seem very pleasant to
me.

And speaking of idiots, please ignore "message #10" in Digest #650 -- this
was obviously a troll (and I hope we now understand the meaning of that
Internet word). If anyone replies to such a childish message, you'll be
falling into a trap by taking the bait that's being trolled past you.

Dan:

> Donald and Daisy's relationship is
> internationally known, but of US origin. To force any story
> writer in one
> country to divorce himself of perfectly normal and regular
> customs for the
> sake of another seems restrictive in the extreme.

The US origin is irrelevant, at least to the people who are currently
producing Disney comic stories. The various editors are "forced" to make
stories in such a way that they can be published in many countries. So these
editors "force" their writers into that. Regardless of which country these
writers come from.
And of course, the term "perfectly normal and regular customs" is very
subjective.

--Harry.