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Don Rosa wrote:
> * $crooge swims in his money every day. Perfect.
> * But... why would there be gold dust in the coins more than in other things
> in $crooge's life? Or is that even true? Not important. Irrelevant to the
> plot.

Well, when I read that story the first time, I remember noticing this
too.. However, I quickly read on, thinking that most of $crooge's money
probably *wasn't* gold, but one *has* heard of people collecting gold
coins. And since $crooge is so rich, he probably has *alot* of gold
coins -- probably so many that there's a "special corner" of his bin
with these, that he likes "visiting" every day during his money swims.
(or maybe he even like swimming in the gold coins *more* than in his
regular money, since he actually has his skin pores clogged by gold dust)

That's just the way I like to think of it :-)

Thomas
--
thomas at duckburg.dk
http://www.duckburg.dk/

Arne:

> In Germany they use "Taler" and "Kreuzer"
> I think they decided not to use the German currency when the first
> Disney comics came up here in the Fifties,
> because they wanted to show that "Entenhausen" isn't
> situated in Germany.

The Disney comics in the German language are also sold in Austria and
Switzerland (and Luxemburg etc.). I always thought that was the main reason
for the editors to use Taler in stead of Marks.

--Harry.

Sigvald:

> And is Euro
> now currency in Entenhausen, Donaldville, Paperopoli,
> Duckstad, Ankkalinna, etc.?

In Duckstad (Holland), it is.
This month's Donald Duck Extra prints Don Rosa's "Money bin vs. Beagle Boys"
story. Including Dan Shane's blueprints! The blueprints are dated 4 May 1902
(*exactly* 100 years ago!). But they show big EURO-signs on the outside...

Apparently, the Dutch decided that the currency in Duckburg is euro, and has
always been euro in the past.

--Harry.

Apostolis:

> > "Nton Rosa" (which should have been "Nton R[omega]
> > sa", actually).
>
> Omega? You mean the second "o" we have in Greek? Nop,
> Don Rosa is spelled Nton Rosa in Greek

Yes, but that spelling suggests that his name is pronounced like "Don
Rossa", with a "short" o. While it is in fact with a long o (Don Row-za),
that's why an omega would have been better.

--Harry.

HARRY
>
>> "Nton Rosa" (which should have been "Nton R[omega]
>> sa", actually).

APSTOLIS
>
>Omega? You mean the second "o" we have in Greek? Nop,
>Don Rosa is spelled Nton Rosa in Greek (???? ????, if
>you have a greek font), with the normal "o".
>The second Greek "o" is like "w". "W" is like 2 vv
>together. The Greek one is like 2 uu together.

We talked about this before -
when I was in Greece october 1999 Dyonysis and I confronted the editors
with the spelling-mistake or whatever it is. I think the case is that Rosa
in Komix is spelled with the one s (sigma) whereas it should be a zeta, or
the other way around. What the editors took to defend themselves with was
the fact that the other s would make Don's last name sound like the girl's
name Rosa. - But hmmm... isn't that the same - aren't both the girls name
and the last name originating in the italian word for the flower rose? -
Another thing we talked about then was the spelling of Barks - becoming
Mparks, which could have been Mparx (?) - but that would have caused to
much confusion...

But as it said in a danish book about Barks (Peter Hartung, manden og
Anden) - Barks won over Marx. - And I'm just quoting that - I'm not saying
it is right nor that Barks was a capitalist - in many of his stories I get
tears in my eyes because it's so social and shows the Duckburg socity as
it is some places.

Well...
BTW I thought Entenhausen was situated exactly in germany - only
Entenhausen, the german version. But many german donaldists don't agree,
do they? - The name-giving was made as to show it was situated some place
in Germany, or Austria or Switzerland. Maybe Taler and Kreuzer to not
remind too much about the inflation of the 20'es and the things that
followed - sorry.

Hilsen/Yours
Anders Christian Siveb?k
Donaldist

Don Rosa:

Some time ago I received a mail from someone who thinks he has found the
D.U.C.K. dedication in "The Universal Solvent". However I not sure
whether this is it or not. According to this person it should be placed
in the shadow from the box with Abandoned Projects. Some darker parts in
the shadow should make out the D.U.C.K.

However the only thing I can see that *might* be it is the thin
horizontal lines that make the right side of the box darker, but this is
not normally a place you'd hide a D.U.C.K. and (and I think this is a
more important reason) I can't locate the periods that normally seperate
the four letters. I am able to locate something that more or less
resembles the four letters, but I tend to think this is not intentional.

Maybe you could clear things up on this?

Thanks,
Thomas

----- Original Message -----
From: "RBidner" <rbidner at bglgroup.com>
To: <dcml at stp.ling.uu.se>
Sent: den 6 maj 2002 02:19
Subject: der furher mpg

> I saw this in a message about a week ago - watched it and thought I saved
> the address but didn't.
> Would someone be so kind as to repost the address again .

Original message quoted below:

Barry Branvold writes:

> With no new Rosa comics being produced in English, The sketches are
> all I have. Count yourselves (Europeans) fortunate to be getting new
> Don Rosa stories. If anyone wants to help me get Rosa comics of his
> last 12 stories (in any language) I would be interested in them.

I second that request!!

And thank you, Don, for the autographs you've very kindly given to me at
cons here in the states.

- Mark Semich
mas at nic.nu