Secret message in Stranger Than Fiction?

[SRoweCanoe@aol.com]

In a message dated 7/23/2003 9:21:49 AM Eastern Standard Time, dve at kabelfoon.nl writes:

> In panel 1.1 of Barks's "Stranger Than Fiction" (WDC 249), 
> Donald
> reads a comic book titled "RIP ROARING COMICS".
> 
> Could "RIP" be a pun on the abbreviation "R.I.P."?

  No it isnt. 

"rip roaring" is  (or was) slang for something exciting or thrilling or adventuresome.  


Steven Rowe
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