Grandma's car, gz archives

[Tryg Helseth]

On Thu, 23 Dec 1993 14:44:55 +0100, Mattias Hallin wrote:

>     About where/with whom Grandma's car originated, I'm pretty confident it
>was with Taliaferro - at least I seem to recall her driving a car similar to
>the one she has in Barks' episodes in a fairly early Taliaferro strip... but I
>might be wrong?! Any one else has any ideas about this?

I remember a serailized Mickey Mouse story in WDC&S that had Grandma 
Duck's electric car sitting on a flat bed rail car.  Since many of those
stories were redrawn "modern" versions of Gottfredson stories, I wonder 
if this could be one of those?   Naw!

>Now, about that car being an electric, and recharging it's batteries and so
>on...  well, there's is at least one story I can remember offhand: a Gyro story
>(incidentally the one where Mickey's nephews appear) where Gyro traps lightning
>in a box, by way of a kite a la Franklin, in order to get inexpensive eltric
>power. Which indeed he does... and how! Among other gags, he recharges
>Grandma's car (she just happens to drive by, it seems) from this lightning box,
>and it takes off at break-neck speed! I don't know off-hand whether or not
>Barks himself wrote this particular story, but it would least seem to indicate
>that the car in question is indeed electric, and that it does need recharging
>occasionally...

Thanks!  Yes, I believe that one is a Barks Gyro from Uncle Scrooge #13.  
(How could I forget a Gyro story?)  The reason for Morty and Ferdie being 
there instead of HD&L had something to do with getting a 2nd class mailing 
permit for Uncle $crooge.  Apparenty the US post office required at least 
two separate stories with totally different characters.  So the Gyro story 
was added but HD&L had to go because they were in the US story, "Land 
Beneath the Ground!"  (As I write this, I can't help but think that this 
has probably common knowledge here.  I guess I better start reading those 
digest archives. <g>)

>...which just might be a problem of it's own - I also seem to recall something
>somewhere that says that Grandma's farm doesn't have electricity - but on the
>other hand there IS (and of this I'm sure) the Grandma story where HD$L comes
>for a visit and Grandma says about the TV-set Donald has given her that "she

I do remember the that TV gag, but I also don't remeber there being 
electricity on the farm.  What a paradox!  Maybe grandma had a wind-powered 
generator for charging the car?

>Also, Tryg: I don't see no reason for you to go lurking again, just because
>we've had some subjects under discussion before;

Well, I haven't been here long enough (two weeks) to have been lurking for
long.  (I only lurked for about 3 days...)

>you nice but shy lurkers out there to come out of your closets, and play a
>nice round of golf with the rest of us - I'm absolutely POSITIVE Gladstone
>Gander won't show up to spoil our fun!

With my skill at golf, I'll need Gladstone's luck!

Torsten:

>To uncompress ".gz" files, type "gunzip [filename]" at the UNIX command
>line.  There should be a gunzip program somewhere at U.Minnesota.

Thanks for the tip.  I couldn't find "gunzip," but I found "gzip" which
would do the decompression after a bit of coaxing.  Anyhow, I unziped and 
all the archived digests and downloaded them to my PC.  Now all I have to 
do is find time to read them...  :)

Tryg Heseth  <tryve at maroon.tc.umn.edu>

"I wish the all could be Calisota Ducks!" -The Beach Drakes