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Gilles wrote:

> and happy Euro-year to the Europeans!!!

Yeah, especially to those Europeans who don't use the euro (Swiss, Swedes,
Norwegians, Danes, Icelanders, British, Eastern Europeans): they'll have to
deal with it anyway, sooner or later. 8-)

To make this mail a bit on-topic: Scrooge McDuck has changed all his money
from guilders to euros, in this week's Dutch weekly. Except a small portion
that stayed in guilders, so Scrooge still has his favourite money smell when
he swims in his money. (A smart move: now the editors can always explain
stories where Scrooge talks about old currency...)

--Harry.

Really dozens! & may new ones in English and Danish.
By S & P Haag.

This site will produce lots of pop-ups (but no ads on the
page itself). Advice: just let them appear, put them inb
the background and don't close them, you won't be annyed
then.

http://www.gizba.com/x/dcomics/

Favio

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HAARY in 789

>To make this mail a bit on-topic: Scrooge McDuck has changed all his
money
>from guilders to euros, in this week's Dutch weekly. Except a small
portion
>that stayed in guilders, so Scrooge still has his favourite money
smell when
>he swims in his money. (A smart move: now the editors can always
explain
>stories where Scrooge talks about old currency...)
Yes, that is a smart move, except the Scrooge I know would replace one
of the coins in the
bin with Euroes. But good that he's allowed to keep eg. the
Geluksdubbeltje (first dime).
But he will be sorry to part with all the other coins - as he knows
them all as friends - even
if they were originally Dollars (but that's the dutch way, to have them
in guilders, the dansih
publisher does that too).

WE dicussed this a bit on the duckhunt-mallist - I'll make a summary
here if wanted. -
we came up to thinking that the ducth publisher thinks more of their
readers than of
the fans. And after all, shouldn't they do exactly that?

A. C. Sivebaek
acsive at mail.mira.dk

HARRY:

> To make this mail a bit on-topic: Scrooge McDuck has changed all his money
> from guilders to euros, in this week's Dutch weekly. Except a small portion
> that stayed in guilders, so Scrooge still has his favourite money smell when
> he swims in his money. (A smart move: now the editors can always explain
> stories where Scrooge talks about old currency...)

I've converted all my money to Euros, apart from a very small amount
which I may convert or keep as a souvenir. However, given that I am not
particularly excited about doing the latter, as even that small amount
is worth something, I can't imagine Scrooge letting part of his money
become useless piles of paper in 2012 (or whenever the deadline for
converting guilders is in Holland).

The truth is, however, that Scrooge doesn't have guilders or Euros in
his money bin, but dollars, which are never withdrawn from circulation.
Speaking of which, I recently read that as much as 30% of the dollar
bills in circulation may be counterfeit. Does this mean that 30% of uncle
Scrooge's money could be counterfeit? Ye cats and little kittens!

Kriton (e-mail: kyrimis at cti.gr)
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> The truth is, however, that Scrooge doesn't have guilders or Euros in
> his money bin, but dollars, which are never withdrawn from circulation.
> Speaking of which, I recently read that as much as 30% of the dollar
> bills in circulation may be counterfeit. Does this mean that 30% of
> uncle Scrooge's money could be counterfeit? Ye cats and little kittens!

Well, every time cash goes through the federal reserve stations (all
banks send their money there) it is sorted and the counterfeit bills are
automatically removed and sent to the secret service. Mangled/mutilated
bills are also removed and shredded. Older money is automatically
recognized and shredded. They destroy millions and millions of dollars
at each station each day! You can even buy some shredded money bricks as
souveniers (although trying to reassemble is fruitless...after 20 hours
of effort, a friend of mine realized that his ONE shredded bill in an
envelope had "VOID" stamped over it.) When I visited there back in high
school, the box they had with counterfeit bills was tiny--any most of
them were either blatant photocopies or people doing stupid things such
as cutting the corners off a 10 dollar bill and pasting them over the 1's
on a one dollar bill.

I can't believe with Scrooge's nature he wouldn't check his money ^_^
And any money received from a bank wouldn't be counterfeit...

Greg

>Really dozens! & may new ones in English and Danish.
>By S & P Haag.
>
>http://www.gizba.com/x/dcomics/

Site itself seems great but I can't get almost none of the stories to
work. When I click the link, the page that appears just says "File Not
Found" and "The requested URL was not found on this server.". From the ones
I tried only some Barks-stories worked. Does anyone else have the
same problem?

Arttu Salminen
http://go.to/donrosa --(hopefully) soon to be updated!--

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At 12:03, 5-1-02 Thierry Fernand wrote:

>Really dozens! & many new ones in English and Danish. By S & P Haag.
>This site will produce lots of pop-ups (but no ads on the
>page itself). Advice: just let them appear, put them into
>the background and don't close them, you won't be annoyed then.

I'm afraid I am. Every attempt to use a story link gets stuck on a
"not found on this server" error. What's wrong? Is it the site's fault, am
I forbidden to use them in my place of the world (the new trend to cut
off some countries), or what?
Greetings, Henri