AW: Critcizing Barks

[Cord Wiljes]

Klartekst wrote: 

> BTW, my LEAST favourite Braks story is "Interplanetary Postman". 
> Does anybody else have a nomination for "worst Barks story ever"?

I have a question to our U.S./British list members: Was the expression 

   "Men are from Mars, Women from Venus"

a common saying even prior to John Grays enormously successful
international bestseller of the same title (which was published a few
years ago)? 

Or could Barks' Interplanetary Mailman story have influenced this? Here
in Germany there is at least one common saying which can be traced back
to a Barks story (or better: its translation by Dr. Erika Fuchs): "Dem
Ingeniör ist nichts zu schwör!" ("There is nothing too complicated for
the engineer" - funny rhyme not translatable *g*)

Did Disney Comics create commonly known phrases in any other languages?

Cord