DCML digest #827

[Don Rosa]

From: "Fluks, H.W." <H.W.Fluks at kpn.com>
>>>I think you were the second mailer to DCML, Per being the first. In the
first DCML week, you and Per had a discussion about characters (your
"DISNEY
Toon Character List",

Okay, Mr. Know-It-All, when did I pop in? As I recall, my early messages
were not posted directly to the ML as I did not have Internet access until
about 1995 or so. At first I was simply replying to e-mails containing the
ML messages sent to me by Per (?) at my Compuserve address. As I recall, I
had to pay extra for each non-Compuserve message I received, and receiving
the long DCML e-mails would cost me a significant amount each month at
those old slow download speeds (which are still not much better, way out
here in the hills). But later I got rid of Compuserve and obtained a
regular Internet access.
Do you know when that first DCML e-mail was sent to me? I guess about 1993?

From: Petri Kanninen <pkannine at cc.hut.fi>
To: dcml at stp.ling.uu.se
Subject: Scrooge drinking booze
>>>This kind of behaviour has been depicted in some old Italian stories
(why
I'm not suprised?).

I'm "not surprised" in a sense because of how bars and drinking are treated
in Italy -- this was one of the most interesting sights I recall from my
visits. In America, generally speaking, bars have a seedy sort of
quality... dark, semi-dirty, tiny or no windows, looking like they harbor
all manner of shady activities within (and probably many do). There are
certainly many very nice bars, usually attached to nice restaurants (like
the one you see on TV in "Cheers"). But most are sorta sordid, sorta
illegal lookin' places.
But in Italy as we walked around I noticed these happy, bright, colorful,
festive lil' open-air shops on virtually every street corner that at first
I thought were candy stores or something for kids. And it turns out they
are bars serving likker and probably sandwiches and snacks and candy and...
not just nice looking, but the nicest, most wholesome looking shops on the
street. I recall asking my Italian friends what stops kids from ordering a
drink of hard likker at such a place, and they said there is no law against
it, but... it just doesn't happen. I don't know if this sort of attitude
has detrimental social effects... I've never heard that the Italians have
drinking problems like people tell me they do up in the Scandinavian
countries. Hm?
So, it seems like it would be nice to show that sort of thing if I were,
f'rinstance, doing a story about $crooge in the Blackjack Ballroom or some
cowman's saloon in Montana and not have anyone get all bent outta shape...
but I don't guess it impedes telling a good story without worrying about
it.

>>>>>http://www.hut.fi/~pkannine/roopejuo2.jpg
This Chierchini's story "Paperino e il ciclaliante sperimentale"
(I TL  371-A). I think the pictures are quite self-evident. In the first
panel US says that he drank this drink, "The smell of firestone", when he
was in Alaska.

You mean "brimstone"? But I don't know how "self-evident" this sequence
is... what's with Donald in those panels? His facial expression looks like
he's already stoned on something. Just a drawing style? Instead of my
"needless and irritating detail", this style is "stoned Ducks"?