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From: "Fluks, H.W." <H.W.Fluks at kpn.com>
>>>I'm having trouble interpreting "Mr. Know-It-All" in a positive way.

Why? I meant it as a funny compliment -- you can answer any question about
stuff in the archives or inDUCKs. It's amazing!

>>>Per Starb?ck announced you as a member on April 15, 1993

Ah. Then I made a good guess!
But I wonder if you can tell when I first started sending messages directly
to the group rather than as an e-mail reply from Compuserve? I guess that
would be when my address changed to the iglou.com suffix. Yeah, I guess
that'd be too tough to bother to track down, but the reason it would
interest me is that I got that address and that Internet access when I
bought my new computer. And yesterday, Feb. 5, 2002, at about 1 PM, that
computer "crashed"... I'm on my emergency laptop back-up with a new 'puter
on order.
I hope I can rescue all my old e-mail files. There were lots of really
memorable messages that I'd saved over the years. But I can start a new
"keeper" file with the message at the end of yesterday's Digest #828 --
another amazing interpretation.

From: "Cord Wiljes" <cord.wiljes at post.uni-bielefeld.de>
>>>Well, I surely don't know, what it does mean "on earth", but on a distant
planet, home of the space traveller Klaatu from the classic Science Fiction
movie "The Day the Earth Stood Still" I grok it has to have some meaning
like "Gort, wait until I come back!" (Gort was a robot)

I guess we've done this phrase to death, but that's about the one thing it
*couldn't* have meant. Klaatu was just shot and died a moment later. And
Gort's instructions were to destroy the earth if something should happen to
Klaatu, which is what he was just starting to do when Patricia Neal
delivered the message (apparently to NOT destroy Earth but to come and steal
Klaatu's body and resuscitate him).
S'funny... last night I was watching a new DVD of TRON, and on one of the
computer company's office cubicles was a big poster saying "GORT, KLAATU
BARADA NIKTO". Heh.
Now, enough about Klaatu! It's bad enough he later lost his starfleet
ambassadorship and ended his days as "The Keeper" who visited the Robinson's
Planet. What a come-down.

Gary --
Thanks for the straight info on that rumor I heard about Disney negotiating
with other publishers. Naturally, I'm glad to know there's still
a chance Diamond will get the license.

As a minorly sarcastic note, I hope all the people who couldn't wait
for Gladstone to get out of the Disney comics business are happy
with the current situation. Or have they lost interest by now, and
gone off to complain about something else they don't know a thing
about?

Harry --
"Mr. Know-It-All" was a minor segment on the old "Rocky & Bullwinkle"
TV show. Most U.S. cartoon fans recognize the reference, but I can
see where someone who isn't familiar with that show might take it
in a negative way.

Concerning religious populations: I have an impression Islam is a
religion in the sense that Christianity is a religion -- i.e., it's
not so much a unified belief system, as a collection of sects that
fall into a general category. To compare the size of Catholicism,
a sect of Christianity, with Islam as a whole, would be kind of
like asking which is larger, Gotham City or Calisota. Is there any
single sect of Islam that's larger than the Catholic Church?

Quack, Don

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Today in Toons: Every day's an anniversary

Kenneth Glendinning wrote, in response to Don Rosa:

> Can I ask do you feel happy making fun of other people with remarks like
> this?

There has been a tendency lately for some on this mailing list to play
amateur psychologist. I hope this trend winds down very soon. E-mail at best
is a very tricky medium in which to express oneself, and there's just no
point in trying to turn an e-mail list into an analyst's office.

But, hey, it's the first Thursday in February, so I'll don the Freudian slip
and offer this: Carl Barks was a bit of a curmudgeon, his greatest creation,
Scrooge McDuck, is a Class A curmudgeon of the first water, and Don Rosa is
a dyed-in-the-wool acolyte of Carl Barks and one of the biggest Scrooge
McDuck fans breathing. This leads me to determine, after much deep musings
upon the facts at had, that Don Rosa may be a bit of a curmudgeon himself.

To quote Donald Duck wholly out of context: "Holy Cow!"

Gary

>I know very few people who wanted Gladstone to get out of business.
I *did*
>have my criticism about the things they published, but I hope you
didn't
>imply that that's the same thing.

I'm talking about some on this list who vocally wished Gladstone
would get out of the way, so some other publisher, like DC or Archie,
would have a shot at the license. Of course, to you and me, who
have some idea how these things work, this seems sheerest fantasy,
but they couldn't be convinced others weren't tapping their feet,
impatiently waiting for Gladstone to give them a chance.

Quack, Don

From: "Jacob Berget" <jacobberget at hotmail.com>
>>>Can anybody tell me something anout the story, that Don Rosa have drawn =
because og Gyro's 50-years birthday?
And, when will it be published?

Maybe I can help with that.
I don't want to tell you the whole plot -- it's a sequel to "Christmas for
Shacktown" as well as a 50th anniversary also for that story (which appeared
dated Jan-Feb 1952, just before Gyro's first appearance), and also acts as a
50th anniversary for the first use of Cornelius Coot by utilizing the famous
giant statue that appeared in March 1952. Norway has asked me for a sequel
to "Shacktown" since I first went to work for Egmont in 1990 -- a story to
explain how $crooge got his money up out of that deep cavern. So, it seemed
to me that an obvious first job for Gyro, as he made his debut just a few
months later, was to find a way to rescue $crooge's $ as his "first
invention". When the story will appear I never know, but I guess it will be
sometime in a May issue as that's the 50th anniversary mark.

From: "Fluks, H.W." <H.W.Fluks at kpn.com>
>>>Your first "iglou" e-mail was sent on Wed, 15 Mar 95 01:15 EST. Before
that,
we had one other "iglou" member on DCML.
Next question please.

Okay, Mr. Wizard (another 1950's-1960's TV answer man), are you saying there
was a ML member before me who was *also* here in Louisville? Or do you mean
he was an eskimo? Did he ever give his name?! What was his address?

Welcom Michiel! For all those who may be reticent to make a comment because
they feel it may not have been "researched" enough (and may not be "accurate"
with respect to the full spectrum of all Disney, Duck, Mouse or other groups of
stories): Do NOT hold back!!! Boldly make your opinions known, - or ask your
questions! Such comments are what make good fodder for discussions. (Zwijgen
is niet best!)

OFF TOPIC: Although the number of Sunni Moslems in the World is not quite as
large as the official total number of Catholics (they are close enough to be
spoken of in the same way), they should not be considered as analogous terms.
The division of the Islamic worshipers into Sunni and Shi'ite groups is not
based upon differences in religious doctrine. It is based on differing views
on the blood line of the Caliphs as derived from Mohammad's family. There are
only very few, minor differences in doctrine and ritual. These are really not
enough to separate "sects". The ways they worship God, and consider the
relationship to Mohammad, Ibrahim, etc. is, for practical purposes, the same.
The differences between the two groups is much, much more political, than
religious.

Rob Klein
"Doe je best!!!"

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Hi!

Does someone knows what kind of stories are published in France?

Only local production; Egmont stories or contributing teams / studios?

Does anyone here know an editor from there?

thanks!

Fellow Quackeroos:

Back in November 1999, in issue #18 of "I Maestri Disney" dedicated to
Giorgio Cavazzano, there appeared an article by Lidia Cannatella titled
"Cavazzano Fantasy". Therein Lidia described a project under work titled
"Huey, Dewey and Louie--World of the Dragonlords" done for Egmont, scripted
by Byron Erickson and drawn by Giorgio Cavazzano.

This project was supposed to be 12 chapters long and was to involve the
Ducks in an adventure though a magic portal that transports them into a
fantasy world full of monsters and dragons, enslaved in a city-fortress and
separated: uncles on one side and nephews on the other.

Cavazzano was supposed to work on that project until ~May of 2000 and the
saga was supposed to reach Italy not before the end of that year. Not having
seen anything in "TOPOLINO" (I guess that's where this series will appear in
Italy) in the past year, I was wondering if the series has been published in
Scandinavia--if not, then I shouldn't be holding my breath to see it any
time soon in Italy. Does anybody know anything on this project?

Cheers,

Archontis

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