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I just watched the latest(?) Simpsons episode, in which
Bart had a stop-watch just like the one the Beagle Boys
had in Rosa's "On Stolen Time". He and Milhous could
click the stopwatch once to stop time for everyone
except themselves, then click it again to resume real
time for all. Did the Simpson creators steal this idea
from Don's story?

Larry Giver wrote:
> I just watched the latest(?) Simpsons episode, in which
> Bart had a stop-watch just like the one the Beagle Boys
> had in Rosa's "On Stolen Time". He and Milhous could
> click the stopwatch once to stop time for everyone
> except themselves, then click it again to resume real
> time for all. Did the Simpson creators steal this idea
> from Don's story?

In DuckTales' episode "Time Teasers" from 1988 (written by Anthony Adams)
Beagle Boys also used a stop-watch to steal $crooge's cash. They had stolen
the stop-watch from Gyro, like in Don's story.

Best wishes,
Mateusz Lis

> In DuckTales' episode "Time Teasers" from 1988 (written by Anthony Adams)
> Beagle Boys also used a stop-watch to steal $crooge's cash. They had
stolen
> the stop-watch from Gyro, like in Don's story.

I olsow remember a movie obaut a boy who olsow had a Time stoping stop-watch
(I don't remembr did hi steal it from Gyro :-) ).

Your's
Maciek

>In the description of the globe: "Plays the Donald Duck
theme song." I
>didn't know there *was* one.

The classic DD cartoons had a theme song. The lyrics can be
found at

http://www.culttelly.co.uk/lyrics/dd.html

I believe the song was written by one of the animators.
Anybody else know more about it?

Nils Smeby

Oh, ok, thanks Nils and Frank!

I've heard that song before (it's been a long time), I never thought of it
as his theme song! Well, you learn new things everyday...^_^*

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Everyone was talking about how much Scrooge enjoyed nutmeg tea; so, me being
an avid tea drinker decide to make myself a cup. Mm, it's not exactly a
taste sensation, but it doesn't taste bad...

http://www.holistic-online.com/Herbal-Med/_Herbs/h156.htm <READ

After I drank a few sips I looked to see whether I should be drinking the
entire cup. It's seems nutmeg has some "interesting" properties. I can see
it now, some rabid Food & Drug Administration person telling Disney to ban
all mention of nutmeg tea from their comics...Disney is a "family" company
after all...
;-p

Boy howdy, there's a lot of room innuendo.

~~~~~~I don't think I would recommend a person drinking straight nutmeg tea.
I just wanted to see what it *tasted* like. So, PLEASE, as with any herb, do
extensive research *before* you eat or drink a particular herb.~~~~~~~

~~~~~~ Nutmeg WARNING page; READ:
http://www.personalhealthzone.com/herbal_medicine/side_effects/nutmeg_side_effects.html

I'm sorry if this is too off topic!

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
~*OchaGirl*~ Only serving as a warning others..... Run! Run AWAY!

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Madame82 wrote:

> ~~~~~~ Nutmeg WARNING page; READ:
> http://www.personalhealthzone.com/herbal_medicine/side_effects/nutmeg_side_ef
> fects.html
>
> I'm sorry if this is too off topic!

Interesting! I was never much of a tea fan, but I should try a batch of
nutmeg tea just to experience its plethora of potentially damaging side effects.
Maybe it explains a lot of Scrooge's behavior and/or money-related neurosis?

According to the mentioned Web site:

"Taking too much nutmeg can cause hallucinations."

It's official: All that money ISN'T REALLY THERE.

"High dosage can cause bizarre behavior and visual, auditory, and tactile
hallucinations along with nausea, gagging, hot/cold sensations, and blurred
vision followed by numbness, double, and 'triple' vision, headache, and
drowsiness."

That would explain the large batch of "mischaracterized" Scrooge incidents in
"DuckTales."

"An overdose of nutmeg can be fatal."

The REAL reason a "Death of Scrooge" story will never see print!

"High dosage can cause bizarre behavior and visual, auditory, and tactile
hallucinations along with nausea, gagging, hot/cold sensations, and blurred
vision followed by numbness, double, and 'triple' vision, headache, and
drowsiness."

Ye cats and little kittens!

"Nutmeg contains several compounds with structural similarities to substances
with known central nervous system neuromodulatory activity."

Ah-HA!

"A case of acute anticholinergic hyperstimulation in a pregnant woman was
associated with excessive ingestion of nutmeg."

Does nutmeg-addiction run in the family? Does this have "HDL explanation"
written all over it?

> ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
> ~*OchaGirl*~

Ocha wa dame desu-yo! <== Most likely horribly wrong.

Please don't hate me for this ultimately pointless addition to DCML.
--
Dane

Cord wrote:

> There already was a "Twilight Zone" episode called "A Kind
> of Stop Watch" filmed back in 1963 which featured a stopwatch
> which could stop time.

And there's John D. MacDonald's 1962 novel "The Girl, The Gold Watch,
and Everything," which centered on a watch that could stop time for
everyone except the person holding it. (Made into a TV movie in 1980
starring Robert Hays and Pam Dawber.)

Gary