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>    1. SV: The second-biggest frog
> (Bror.Hellman at partena.se)
>    2. VB: SV: Aku Ankka postage stamps
> (Bror.Hellman at partena.se)
>    3. Re: digest #408 (Don Rosa)
>    4. Non-English Rosa Comics Wanted (Steve @ Atomik
> Pop!)
>    5. Re: The second-biggest frog (Eric Chun)
>    6. Don Markstein's Toonopedia(tm) (Donald
> Markstein)
>    7. Re: Barrier book (Frank Stajano)
>    8. Websites, Frogs et al (RMorris306 at aol.com)
>    9. RE: The second-biggest frog (Fabio Blanco)
>   10. Re: SV: The second-biggest frog (Frank
> Stajano)
> 

> ATTACHMENT part 3.1 message/rfc822 
> From: Bror.Hellman at partena.se
> To: dcomics at stp.ling.uu.se
> Subject: SV: The second-biggest frog
> Date:   Tue, 13 Feb 2001 13:44:39 +0100
> 
> > The gags are not for everyone, just the 1 or 2
> people on earth who spot 
> > it. That makes it worthwhile. Even more worthwhile
> than if everyone caught
> it.
> 
> 
> Darn!  I should have spotted that joke myself.. but
> i didn't even THINK of
> "Get Smart".
> the series aired here in Scandinavia too, and in
> Sweden it even ran om one
> commercial 
> channel in the 1990's...  And guess... I watched
> it.. ;-)  But I didn't get
> that 
> in-joke.. *grmrbl*  *rogntudjuu*
> 
> 
> 
> 
> // Steamboat Willie
> 

> ATTACHMENT part 3.2 message/rfc822 
> From: Bror.Hellman at partena.se
> To: dcomics at stp.ling.uu.se
> Subject: VB: SV: Aku Ankka postage stamps
> Date:   Tue, 13 Feb 2001 13:45:55 +0100
> 
> 
> This was from Timo and was supposed to go to the
> list,
> he asked me to forward it:
> 
> ---
> 
> 
> > > All they say in Finnish Post´s website is
> > > that they got the permission, and that most of
> the stamps
> >published
> > > around the world are illegal (?).
>    >Well, most Issued stamps were indeed LEGAL.
> 
> I meant that they are unlicensed. Done without
> permission. Certainly they 
> are valid as postage stamps.
> 
> >I don't know if they pay royalties for the stamps
> to Disney
> >or not.  Would be interesting to know.
> 
> I think they are. Designers of the stamp gets money,
> Disney gets money, but 
> not Rosa.
> 
> Timo Ronkainen
> 
> 
> .................................
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> Go sit on cowslip - far from me!"
> 
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> ATTACHMENT part 3.3 message/rfc822 
> From: "Don Rosa" <donrosa at iglou.com>
> To: <dcml at stp.ling.uu.se>
> Subject: Re: digest #408
> Date:   Tue, 13 Feb 2001 09:22:13 -0500
> 
> From: "qwerty asdfg" <jlbovet at hotmail.com>
> >>>So I can't find the reference for the first
> biggest frog: is it a
> reference
> to a Bark's story ?
> 
> (Thanks to Harry for saving me a lot of typing!)
> 
> >>>Thanks for the last chapter of the LoS. That's a
> great strory. I have
> see
> a small "Bug" in this story: At page 3, panel 3
> Teddy has a white jacket
> with a POCKET . This pocket appear only once.
> So what is append: is it a magic pocket or a mistake
> 
> (sigh) No, you have a MAGIC copy of PICSOU! That
> pocket only appears in
> YOUR copy!
> Ah... I see what you mean. The breast hanky-pocket.
> I had that penciled
> throughout the story and later decided to not bother
> with it. But I had not
> decided that when I inked that one panel. Yep,
> that's a goof!
> The reason I can see this is that my copies of
> PICSOU arrived yesterday.
> Wow! This is probably the NICEST presentation of one
> of my stories I've
> ever seen! That's the best coloring job that I think
> I've ever enjoyed on
> one of my stories -- I hope any other publishers who
> decide to use this
> story can obtain that coloring! And there are so
> many other flattering
> aspects of the issue -- they use my pin-up on the
> double-cover (it appears
> as a pseudo-front cover on the back so that the
> magazine can be displayed
> two different ways on a newsstand), and lots of
> interior stuff like an
> overview of the "Lo$" with illustrations and covers
> from around the world
> and texts. And there's even a presentation of the
> portion of the
> story-board script I rewrote because I decided
> against having the villain
> buried alive to die a horrible lingering death...
> but here's that version
> of the original story published also! Ha! And they
> print the pin-up that
> was supposed to appear in the previous issue (with
> Barks' "Mystery of the
> Swamp") as a centerfold poster.
> I sure am proud of this issue of PICSOU -- but a
> warning to other PICSOU
> subscribers who like my pin-ups... there won't be
> anymore for at least a
> few months. I have lost contact with the editor. He
> recently took over the
> editorship of LE JOURNAL DE MICKY due to how well he
> had done improving the
> sales of PICSOU, and I assume he's inundated with
> work. It might be a while
> before we get back up to speed.
> 
> From: "David" <daveheart at optushome.com.au>
> >>>So I would like to ask Don what have been the new
> additions to the
> original
> 12 chapters?
> 
> "The Vigilante of Pizen Bluff" 6B
> "The Cowboy Captain of the Cutty Sark" 3B
> "The Sharpie of the Culebra Cut" 10B
> 
> >>>and also....Are the 2 stories "Hearts Of The
> Yukon" and "Of Ducks, Dimes
> And
> Destinies" considered in your eyes, part of the LO$
> saga?
> 
> Yes and no. They were originally not done as part of
> the series, but I now
> am agreeable to anyone who likes to list them that
> way, they are *very*
> closely related. But some publishers like to say
> that "Last Sled to Dawson"
> and even "The Dutchman's Secret" are part of the
> series, and this baffles
> me totally, especially the latter -- the flashbacks
> in that story have
> nothing to do with $crooge!
> 
> From: "Gary Pantzer" <gpantzer at ny.tds.net>
> >>>Don, might you consider using Ebay as a marketing
> and sales tool
> I wish you would also consider this for your 2 HC
> books being
> released soon.
> 
> I am not directly involved in the production and
> marketing of these books,
> though I certainly help the publishers in any way
> they request. I'm sure
> they plan to find a way to market these books so
> everyone who wants one can
> buy a set, and surely that will include the
> Internet.
> 
> 
> 

> ATTACHMENT part 3.4 message/rfc822 
> From: "Steve @ Atomik Pop!" <srichter at atomikpop.com>
> To: "'Disney Comics Mailing List'"
> <dcml at stp.ling.uu.se>
> Subject: Non-English Rosa Comics Wanted
> Date:   Tue, 13 Feb 2001 07:15:47 -0600
> 
> Can anybody give me a reliable source (for example,
> a comics shop that does 
> mail order) for foreign (non-English) editions of
> Don Rosa's Disney 
> stories?
> 
> I've been told Fleetway (England) prints Rosa's
> stories in English; is this 
> correct?
> 
> Rosa's new duck stories are not published in the
> USA.
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Steve
> Norman OK (USA)
> steve at atomikpop.com
> 

> ATTACHMENT part 3.5 message/rfc822 
> From: "Eric Chun" <ericchun at hotmail.com>
> To: dcml at stp.ling.uu.se
> Subject: Re: The second-biggest frog
> Date:   Tue, 13 Feb 2001 22:30:53 
> 
> Hi Harry,
> 
> >The gags are not for everyone, just the
> >1 or 2 people on earth who spot it.
> 
> I guess I'm the 2nd person.  (I have 7
> Get Smart paperback books on my desk.)
> 
> Eric
> :)
>
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> ATTACHMENT part 3.6 message/rfc822 
> Reply-to: "Donald Markstein"
> <dmarkstein at earthlink.net>
> From: "Donald Markstein" <dmarkstein at earthlink.net>
> To: <dcml at stp.ling.uu.se>
> Subject: Don Markstein's Toonopedia(tm)
> Date:   Tue, 13 Feb 2001 17:02:24 -0700
> 
> I hate to disappear for months and return only when
> I've got something to promote, but -- well, I'm
> doing it anyway.
> 
> A project I've been working on for over a year has
> finally gone public. Don Markstein's Toonopedia(tm)
> is now open, with over 300 articles covering all
> areas of the U.S. comics and animation scene. You'll
> find it at http://www.toonopedia.com
> 
> One little part of it that I'm especially promoting
> is "Today in Toons". Every day's an anniversary, and
> this is where you go to find out what today is the
> anniversary of. That one's at
> http://www.toonopedia.com/today.htm
> 
> Disney articles in it include (but are not limited
> to) Ludwig von Drake
> (http://www.toonopedia.com/vondrake.htm), Li'l Bad
> Wolf (http://www.toonopedia.com/lilbad.htm), Bucky
> Bug (http://www.toonopedia.com/buckybug.htm), Silly
> Symphonies (http://www.toonopedia.com/sillysym.htm)
> and Jiminy Cricket
> (http://www.toonopedia.com/jiminy.htm).
> 
> Oh yeah. Donald, Mickey, Goofy and Pluto are there
> too.
> 
> Go over and take a look. Browse around. Read up on
> toons you never heard of. Link to it. Run barefoot
> through it and feel the li'l kilobytes crinkle
> between your toes. Enjoy!
> 
> Quack, Don
> 

> ATTACHMENT part 3.7 message/rfc822 
> Date:   Tue, 13 Feb 2001 22:19:04 +0900
> To: dcml at stp.ling.uu.se
> From: Frank Stajano <fstajano at uk.research.att.com>
> Subject: Re: Barrier book
> 
> At 2001-02-11 09:21 -0500, Jmbarrier at aol.com wrote:
> >and typographical errors (for instance, the printer
> insisted on spelling
> >"Atalanta" as "Atlanta" on page 199, even though
> the spelling was correct in
> >my manuscript).
> 
> 
> A textbook example of the "lectio facilior"
> phenomenon at which Marco was 
> hinting recently. Leonardo Gori and I had the same
> problem with the Moook 
> of our Gottfredson book, which the printers insisted
> on "correcting" to 
> Mook. We managed to counter-correct some of the
> occurrences, but not all.
> 
> By the way, what is Atalanta for an American? To me
> it's the name of an 
> Italian football team I heard when I was in primary
> school -- no idea if 
> they still exist. However I suspect it might be
> something different in the 
> context of the Barks book.
> 
>   Frank (filologo disneyano) 
> http://www.uk.research.att.com/~fms/
> 
> 

> ATTACHMENT part 3.8 message/rfc822 
> From: RMorris306 at aol.com
> Date:   Tue, 13 Feb 2001 21:51:56 EST
> Subject: Websites, Frogs et al
> To: dcml at stp.ling.uu.se
> 
>     I confess I find myself largely in agreement
> with Don about some of the 
> truly bad writing I've seen around the Internet. I
> regret that I won't have 
> the chance to read most of his stories unless
> they're translated, since I'm 
> illiterate in everything but English...but some
> people on various boards 
> especially (Americans, not those for whom English is
> a second language) seem 
> to be illiterate in everything INCLUDING English...
> 
>     I was also a big GET SMART fan, so I guessed the
> derivation of Don's 
> line...though it also occurred to me that he may
> have been referring to a 
> Barks story. Wasn't there one in the early '60's
> where Gyro invented a 
> machine that could create what we now know as
> virtual reality...and Donald 
> used it to show how fascinating a world just like
> their own, except that 
> everything (except the ducks) was ten, then a
> hundred, then a thousand times 
> larger, could be. I'm almost positive they saw some
> giant (comparatively) 
> frogs during that story...
> 
> 
> Rich
> 

> ATTACHMENT part 3.9 message/rfc822 
> Reply-to: "Fabio Blanco" <longtom at oeste.com.ar>
> From: "Fabio Blanco" <longtom at oeste.com.ar>
> To: "DCML" <dcml at stp.ling.uu.se>
> Subject: RE: The second-biggest frog
> Date:   Tue, 13 Feb 2001 08:19:03 -0300
> 
> I keep thinking that he is talking about Reptilicus,
> 99... <G>
> 
> Fabio Blanco
> 
> 
> > But while I was saying that, the words were
> >appearing on the monitor, a response from the
> chat-caller, saying "I
> >thought maybe it was a Maxwell Smart joke." And
> that was the single
> >happiest instant of my whole trip to Finland -- I
> exploded! To think
> >someone waaaay over in Finland in 1999 would spot a
> personal in-joke I made
> >to my own TV viewing of 35 years earlier!!! THIS is
> why I'll never stop
> >putting in obscure in-gags that practically no one
> will catch. The gags are
> >not for everyone, just the 1 or 2 people on earth
> who spot it. That makes
> >it worthwhile. Even more worthwhile than if
> everyone caught it.
> 
> 
> 

> ATTACHMENT part 3.10 message/rfc822 
> Date:   Wed, 14 Feb 2001 10:54:16 +0900
> To: Bror.Hellman at partena.se, dcomics at stp.ling.uu.se
> From: Frank Stajano <fstajano at uk.research.att.com>
> Subject: Re: SV: The second-biggest frog
> 
> At 2001-02-13 13:44 +0100, Bror.Hellman at partena.se
> wrote:
> >But I didn't get that in-joke.. *grmrbl* 
> *rogntudjuu*
> 
> ROFL! ;-)))
> Where did you learn the last word above? Franquin's
> Gaston perhaps? Do you 
> know what it means?
> 
> 
> 
>   Frank (filologo disneyano) 
> http://www.uk.research.att.com/~fms/
> 
> 
> 
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