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Sigvald wrote:

> In the last panel on page 14 in Norwegian Doanld Duck & Co 13/1991 there is
> a sign saying "Langtvekkistan, 99950 km". Using such a number in that
> context seems ridiculous to me, because that distance is close to 2.5 times
> the distance around the globe at equator.

Well, if this is a road sign, it will usually *not* give the air-line
distance. So where's the contradiction? ;-)

Gerd

Timo:

> As far as I know/remember Murry did only pencilling, inking
> just at very beginning.

Murry didn't ink his own artwork?
Aren't you mixing him up with Strobl?

--Harry.

In a message dated 5/6/2003 4:37:04 AM Eastern Daylight Time,
timoro at hotmail.com writes:

> >Murry didn't ink his own artwork?
> >Aren't you mixing him up with Strobl?
>
> I do remember so. But I have to check the Murry interview.
>

please do, my memory of that interview is the opposite

sr

Gerd Syllwasschy <gerd.syllwasschy at web.de> wrote:

Til: dcml at stp.ling.uu.se <dcml at stp.ling.uu.se>
Emne: Re: Geographic inaccuracies found in DD&Co
Dato: 06/05/03 07:57

> In the last panel on page 14 in Norwegian
> Doanld Duck & Co 13/1991 there is a sign
> saying "Langtvekkistan, 99950 km". Using such
> a number in that context seems ridiculous to
> me, because that distance is close to 2.5 times
> the distance around the globe at equator.
>
>> Well, if this is a road sign, it will usually
>> *not* give the air-line distance. So where's
>> the contradiction? ;-)

1)
That distance is still way to long for that to be realistic.

2)
Given that Duckburg is located in the North-American western coast and that
"Langvekkistan" is located in sentral-Asia (that's where countries with
names ending with "-stan" normally are located) the distance would be 9995
km rather than 99950 km. And in that case some of the distance would also be
at sea which indeed means air-line distance for that part of the distance.

Sigvald :-)

Sigvald:

>>2) Given that Duckburg is located in the North-American western coast and
that "Langvekkistan" is located in sentral-Asia (that's where countries
with names ending with "-stan" normally are located) the distance would be
9995 km rather than 99950 km.

Ahem... Could it be a quiiiiiiite curve-full way? ;-)

Santiago.

I'm happy to inform you that FINALLY Editora Abril will began to publish the
autor's credits this year!!!

They've informed us that this will began in the new foreing stories, and on
the republished foreing stories, if posssible to recover the names (let see
a way...Inducks!). About the brazilian stories, Abril can decide if they
want to publish or not the credits (off course we'll atack the publisher if
they don't do that! ;-).

Abril are just now REprinting brazilian stories (Grrrr!), but most of this
B-Coded information are collected by Arthur and me on the Inducks. I hope
this will open new ways to us, brazilian indexers, to collect the brazilian
creators'infos!

Fernando! :o)

Blair Frodelius wrote:

> My kids are hooked on the Barks Disney comics, and we often
> test each other's knowledge of Bark's stories. Can anyone
> tell me if there are any online trivia questions for these
> stories? I'm running out of good questions. :)

We used to have a few quote quizzes, a decade ago.
I planned to revive this habit, but I'm still lacking the time...

Here's an old quote quiz, just for fun.
It was posted by Per Starb?ck on August 5, 1992.

Anyone: please *don't* answer on the mailing list! This will
spoil the fun for others.
I'll mail the answers next week or so.

All you have to do is to identify the stories the following thirteen
quotes are from.
Note that all quotes are from stories by Carl Barks:

1. "Calling all cars! Calling all cars! Angry duck wrecking
dining car at sixth and `D' streets! That is all!"

2. "Down with H'America!"

3. "I demand that you give a *billion dollars* to the L.T.A.B.!"

4. "Life won't be worth *living* without my starfish!"

5. "Notice the powerful action of the ejector! Yet see how
gently it places decorations on the frosting!"

6. "Now I'll grind up the *rabbit*!"

7. "Plinky plinky --- feep week --- womp bomp --- squeek squeek"

8. "Regional artifacts of the early rhubarbian era contain the
most interesting worm holes --- blah --- blah!"

9. "Tantalium! Youguessium! Nosuchium!"

10. "That's it! Jump in the ocean and swim back to Japan!"

11. "Two hundred cawrs, ninety kerwawks, four thousand tweets,
eight tillion twitters, and sixty chuk chuks south by
southeast!"

12. "Waitah, what's the swankiest dish your cook can sling
together?"

13. "You'd be a pip on my radar --- A wow on the video! ---
We could sing bebop in a helicop' --- on our way to a movie show!"

--Harry.
(I was the winner at the time - but only 4 people attended...)
[M10]

Rick Engle asked:

> Anyone know the relation of
> Gemstone to Bruce Hamilton/Gladstone?

There is no formal relation. Three of the people working for Gladstone
now work for Gemstone. And Gemstone took over all subscriptions from
Gladstone. That's about it, I think.

--Harry.