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Hey Cord, I can no longer get into DCML-Talk.org, due to the change in format.
All I get is a blank page with a red X in the upper left corner after a one-
sentence message (in German) that the website's format has been changed.

Was gibt?

I hope we haven't abandoned the site due to lack of interest. By the way, all
you regular DCML members....why have you NOT been bringing your off-topic
discussions there???

Rob
Klein

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So the last (3rd) part of Don Rosa's "old castle's new secret"
was printed in here too.

But somehow I'm a bit disappointed about the the story, or should
I say: the Rosa-version of the castle itself.

Where as in Barks' "Old Castle's Secret" the ducks are solving
the Mystery in a gloomy medieval castle, in the new Rosa story
the castle's athmospere resembles more like an roomy apartment
flat constructed of beton elements. Everything is bit too pure
clinical, vast spacious & squareangeled. Barks' dark and gloomy
moods over the places are gone! I expected more about the title:
"old castle's ..."

BTW, did anyone else got the feeling the castle's layout in the
Rosa story is loaned from some old western movie - a cavalry fort
with tall wooden polewalls around the living quarters? (and
tresspassing indians spying/listening under the general's window)
(??)

But one thing in the Rosa story I wondered was that all the
castle's *huge* stone walls and barriers are just so *thin*. The
builders must have used some superglue to keep all the building
stones together through all the centuries? When I raided some old
Finnish castles in the 1980's (as a tourist) one thing I remember
was that the outside walls in every place were meters and meters
thick.

With Rosa's Castle McDuck the invaders would not have a need to
use any sling shots or wall breakers(?) to break the walls down.
They could have stick brand new entry doors with a pencil!

And - Let's really hope Don Rosa will find some new solutions for
his becoming stories, or else from the next Rosa story we'll find
out that in a huge cave under Donald Duck's house there's a totally
secret, hidden and forgotten ancient margarine factory! (or so)

- Simo

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Dear Don: Well done.
Nils Lid Hjort

Test Testen wrote:
> Don Rosa, "A Letter from Home" was a great story!
>
> I'll just say: The end was MOVING!

Perhaps a bit too "moving". Well, not if it was an American TV series or
something...but it isn't.

S?ren

> > Don Rosa, "A Letter from Home" was a great story!
> > I'll just say: The end was MOVING!

Could you say a bit more under a big spoiler space? :D

Mickey

Olaf Solstrand wrote:

> (I wrote an article for the Romano Scarpa book which the editor asked
> me to translate into English afterwards so that it could be used by
> those publishers which does not understand Norwegian, as an example
> she mentioned Poland).

What did you write about?

Lars

Olaf Solstrand wrote:

> What if Gyro really _IS_ 55? [...] OK, we would then have to disregard
> all modern stories showing Gyro dating girls/women _my_ age (OK, a
> little older, I'm 21).

Why would one part of a couple have to have approximately the same age
as the other?

Lars