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Harry said:
> Yes. It was introduced a few years ago when Daisy got
> her own magazine in Holland.
> The cat's name was subject to a contest. The winning
> name is Minet, a female name...
> Minet is a silent animal. I believe she doesn't even
> think (as Tabby [Donald's cat] does).

Ah. O.K. She probably is just used as an emotional
amplifier: Reacting to situations around her to give
visual emphasis for the comic story. Her name is French,
which, ironically, means "Pussy" or "Kitty." In Russian,
it means "it will pass." I'm not sure what help any of
that is, but I found it interesting.

In some older USA storybooks featuring a pre-teen Minnie
and Daisy, Minnie had her Pekingese puppy, Fifi (same from
the early cartoons) and Daisy had a little gray kitten
named Trixie. It's doubtful Minet has anything to do with
Trixie, but it does show that cats are among Daisy's choice
of pets. In the animated series QUACK PACK, the very assertive
Daisy had a pet iguana named Knuckles, but that has nothing to
do with anything. :-)

Evenso, I do see a possible contrast. Maybe it isn't
intended, but, in Mickey & Minnie's world, typically, Minnie
has a cat (Figaro) and Mickey has a dog (Pluto). So too,
in Daisy & Donald's world, Minnie has her cat (Minet) and
Donald has his dog (Bolivar). These seem to be the most
typical depictions of pets for these characters at this
time in comics.

Still, since Minet is a female, and I'm fairly certain
Tabby is a male (as is Figaro), I would assume there is
room for romance in Minet's life if creators decided to
look in that direction. :-)

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Hi friends
And as you know, I mean that word - friends. Some of you have been here
since 1998 8and beyond) and you've been some of the best friends I've ever
had. I wasn't very popular in high school you see. But where I am now, I
feel good. I'm studying for one of the things I want to become - namely
teacher. I'm studying at a place (teacher's college and high school
combined) where 650 people study. Fewer and fewer live here all week, but
I know most of these, and call them all my friends. Some of them are my
best friends today - And I have often been thinking more about them than
you here, in the latest time. But that's how it goes sometimes.

I've just finsihed a turn-in on 20 pages for my final exam in danish. I'll
defend it on june 27th. (just had to check - could have been fun if it was
june 29th, eh Rosa-fans?)
It'?s about Comics - the things that make them comics, and educating
students in this. It's been extremely interesting to write it - it makes
you think about the media in a very different way - much more analyzing
than usual.
As i am a Rosa-fan i've been using Don's stories a lot for the story - as
they give some nice examples for the things I wanted to describe. E.g
close-ups of charecters, frames that move on a metha-plan (with little
marples on top - Beagle Boys that move inbetween the frames as in those
tubes in the bin, and frames that disappear because... well, there's a
spoiler there.
But i think youy get the idea - i also used barks who started out making 6
panel-pages, then 8, but as time went by he made the pictures decide the
number of panels - i've used Big-top-bedlam as an example for that. Also
things/charecters that are bigger than the panel move outside the panels.
I've tried to show these and many other things, so you can imagine there
are many picture examples in the turn-in - and you can imagine that i had
to put the the exact source on for every scan I've made, can't you? :-)
The result is simply so brilliant, and even grammatically corrected 8which
is important when it's for the exam in danish). For once in my life i
think I'm not even going to bed this night. It's simply too late for that.
Tomorrow I'll go to our local off-set-lady to have it printed on her
color-printer. (She's such a lovable old lady, Sigvald you remember her).

Now, for something a bit diferent (allthough i haven't avoided mentioning
the existance of our society in the turn-in) - danish Donaldist Society is
1 ? years this summer. Members here, put crosses in the calendar now. june
28th to 31th is the meeting. (new members would be welcome - you're all
welcome, as long as you pay the fee and get our publications for a year.
At this meeting we'll start in Odense, Funen and continue in Aalborg in
Jutland.
Let me say that all the times I've meet with fellow comics-fans, from here
or other places, I've enjoyed myself big time - it's always great, because
we have the same background about this subject - we love comics, with
ducks, mice or other charecters.

I also have to express my pride that i'm cofounder of this danish
donaldist society - we've been covered in the local press, in the biggest
danish weekly magazine, we've had meetings etc. etc. - the honnor is
actually yours, S?ren Haagerup .-9 It was you who asked me "Do we have a
donaldist society here in DK? No, i replied - then lets make one, S?ren
said. I'm in on it! - and thanks to the network I've become a part of we
fastly grew to the size we have now. More than 50 members. - as said
you're welcome too, some of you are already in it.

One comes in the nostalgic corner when one hasn't been to bed for a day,
huh? Well, I'll end this mail before I start crying or something... Haha...

Hilsen/Yours
Anders Christian Siveb?k
Donaldist