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From: mdumas <>
Subject: Re: Comics Update: The Yellowed Pages/Open De Box
Date: Thu, 22 Jul 1999 20:58:54 -0700


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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