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From: "ALEX MAGDALENO" <>
Subject: Re: Comics Update: The Yellowed Pages/Open De Box
Date: Thu, 22 Jul 1999 21:15:02 -0500


I remember the one about the ping pong balls but not the song. I seem to
recall that someone was inpired to actually try that idea out on a sunken
ship about twenty years ago. I don't remember whether it actualy worked or
not.
Alex M
----- Original Message -----
From: mdumas <>
To: <>
Sent: Thursday, July 22, 1999 10:58 PM
Subject: Re: Comics Update: The Yellowed Pages/Open De Box

> Yeah! I can't believe you remembered that! It was new to me all over again
when
> I checked the comic. Donald overdoes the cloud-seeding and it gets too
cold and
> the clouds freeze. The Idle Dandies have to hightail it down the (also
frozen)
> river to avoid being crushed when the clouds collapse, a great indignity
because
> it's not a leisure-time activity ("Maybe people will just think we're
skating,"
> one gal says.).
> Another one that seems to have missed the cut (I thought sure it would
be in
> the box) was the story where the ducks raise a sunken boat by pumping it
full of
> ping-pong balls. All I remember is someone singing "Yo ho ho and a bottle
of
> ping-pong balls!" Ring a bell?? -- mike
>
> ALEX MAGDALENO wrote:
>
> > That was a great story. Now I remember the frilly dress cutout. Didn't
one
> > of the stories have a part where the giant rain cloud froze into a huge
> > chunk of ice and fell down?
> > Alex M
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: mike dumas <>
> > To: <>
> > Sent: Thursday, July 22, 1999 10:01 AM
> > Subject: Re: Comics Update: The Yellowed Pages/Open De Box
> >
> > > Hey Al! --I got all confused thinking about this, so I went and
checked in
> > the
> > > box, and, sure enough, you're right. In that story, he cuts the clouds
so
> > the
> > > raindrops fall around the farmer's clothesline (and even around the
> > ruffles on
> > > his wife's dress!). But I was wrong about the flooded-out picnic. That
was
> > > another story. In this one, Donald arranges a blizzard with his cloud
> > duster,
> > > and that's what breaks up the Idle Dandy picnic. Gladstone rats on him
and
> > he
> > > has to take a sabbatical in Timbuktu. --mike
> > >
> > > ALEX MAGDALENO wrote:
> > >
> > > > I remember
> > > > the cloud seeding incident. Sometimes the memories run together. Was
> > that
> > > > also the one where Donald was in competiton with another cloud
seeder? I
> > > > seem to remember a scene where he would cut the clouds to shape.
Like a
> > > > cutout so the rain wouldn't fall on a clothsline full of clothes. I
> > might be
> > > > mixing it up with a TV cartoon on the same subject.
> > >
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