I love this car!

HEY!!!! I hit post #111 and I didn’t know it!!! (That’s the liscene # on Scrooge’s 1936 Dusy)….

ain’t it a beauty though?????

1971 MTD MudBug

Okay,

It’s been raining for three days, the snow is almost gone (finally) and I can see my MudBug again. Now I’ve got spring fever I want to drive it through the woods, but it’ ain’t running, and I have no idea what is wrong with it.

(It’s an ATV) Years ago, before they started production, my Grandmother (Helen Ricker-Allen) won a 1971 MTD 3-Wheel MudBug in Apricot Fizz Metal Flake. I am told that this model was a “proto-type” and the very first MudBug ever made (#1).

She gave it to my father, and he gave it to me. It’s a special item that our family is very proud to own and it’s treated like an heirloom. I still have this MudBug, but it is no longer running. I would like to restore it, but I know nothing about mechanics.

The problem is, I have looked high and low for parts and can’t even find anyone who has ever heard of this ATV. I tried looking it up on some web sites and only found one site that mentioned it and found out that it was made from 1971-1973 and came in 2 colors, oragne like mine or lime green. It says that production was stopped because ATV’s where not thought to be something anyone would ever use! (If only they had held out for a few more years!) The web site showed pictures of MudBugs, showing all of the models done each year…and not a one of them looked like mine. Mine is more square, has a more upright back, and is much larger than the ones shown.

I don’t know if any of you guys here know anything about ATV’s or not, but I figure it can’t hurt to ask. My question is, since I was told mine was a “proto-type” made before production started for sale to the public, is it possible that I have the only one like it? Is that why mine looks differant from the others? If this is so, how would I go about restoring it?

Does anyone out there have an MTD MudBug…a year, any model?

Any info anyone could give me would help greatly. Thanks!

P.S.

Does anyone know the value of an MTD MudBug, how many where made, and where I could get some more of them? (I would like to collect them—but, they seem to be quite rare and hard to track down. I’ve yet to find one for sale anywhere.)

Scrooge McDuck’s Will

eamesforme of eBay asked:

Is there a will?

a will?.. for Scrooge?… yep

the McDuck Empire will be inherited by Huey, Dewy, and Luey, after Scrooge’s death in 1967; H, D, & L will be 23 +/- years old in 1967

Pidgie Helping Again

my refresh button is slow tonight, I think it’s all these pics I’ve added, my computer needs more memory or something.

I am happy as a lark surrounded by stacks and stacks of Scrooge, but Pidgie doen’t like it, he’s running back and forth and chattering because I’m on one side of the stack and he’s on the other and he can’t see me. Poor Pidg, I’ll have to move the comics so he can stop swearing at me.

#1 Dime Part 4

The “lesson”…Scrooge’s family had no money, life was hard on them, and Fergus didn’t believe in getting anything “the easy way”, he preached hard work, hard work, and more hard work…in a panel not shown hear is what Fergus said…

“I want him to earn his first pay on a tough job, so he’ll learn a lesson about hard work! When burt pays him that useless American dime, he’ll learn to no be so trutin’!”

Apearently, unlike the old Scrooge who trusts no one, the young Scrooge trusted everyone, and his father believed that to be a bad thing. Also it must be remembered that the whole history of the dime was written by Don Rosa, based on the notes and stories of Carl Barks…Barks never explained how Scrooge became so mean and untrusting of people, although, from many flashbacks when Scrooge talked of his past, he had a very hard life, and was basicly alone thoughout nearly 70 years of his life…When chonicalizing Carl Barks facts, Don Rosa, realized that Scrooge didn’t always tell the truth, he made things far better or far worse than they where, and when it can to his childhood, he would rarely speak of it at all, changing the subject instead, saying he wanted to forget it. It was also known that he got the dime at age ten from a shoe-shinning job, and that that one event had such an effect on his mind that he never was able to get over it. And so it seemed logical that it was Scrooge’s own father that had been harsh and cynical, and the #1 dime was a lesson to trust no one and look at the darker side of people.

“The Life and Times of Scrooge McDuck” has been discribed as a “dark story”, it is very unlike other stories by Disney, in that it is rarely cheerful, and takes you throught life as it is, as it was seen first by a small boy sent out to work to support his family, and teenager who left home because a father had dreams of wealth and put that burden on his son, a young man who wanted to return home and clung dearly to letters from his mother, letters that where than stolen buy a criminal—and the story of “The King of The Klondike” is where we see a major turn in Scrooge…a mean streak that never went away after…one the way home from the post office he was captured and beaten by Soapy Slick, a friend of Goldie’s (as I said–Goldie started out a villian), the letter that Scrooge never read, was read to the town by Slick—the first and only letter from his father, saying simply that Scrooge’s mother was dead. A casino full of ridicul at the death of his beloved mother, who he haddn’t seen since his childhood, turned Scrooge into a very mean and hateful wild-fire. From that point on we see an end of the young Scrooge full of joy and happiness, and we see a progressivly meaner Scrooge as the book goes on. He has learned his father’s lesson all to well—to trust no one, but Scrooge is pushed beyond that, to hate everyone, and he holds on the the dime as a reminder of that.

For a short while, Scrooge’s atitude changes—he falls in love with Goldie, and intends to marry her, but Goldie is ever the wild-cat and she and Scrooge have one last fight that results in the town being set on fire and the police chaseing down Scrooge, who flees the Yukon territory…now also hateing the only person he ever loved–Goldie, and vowing to never love anyone again as long as he lives…saying that the only constant thing in life in gold/money, and sets out to prove that he is better that the lot of them, by building an empire like nothing the world has ever seen, and not caring who he trampled to do it. The one thing he still had going for him was his 2 sisters, who after their father’s death, moved to America to live with Scrooge. But a trip to Africa with Scrooge setting fire to a village and burning hundreds of families out of their homes resulted in a feud between Scrooge and his sister’s and even they would have nothing to do with him. Years of more thing happening, each making Scrooge hate everyone even more, go by, until final in his late 60’s he retuns home to live with his money. The sister’s are there to great him, one of who intoduces Scrooge to her som Donald (about 4 or 5 years old), Scrooge by this time is so full of hate that he acusses them of being their to ask for money (which was the only time family ever talked to Scrooge–when they needed money), they tried to end the fued, but Scrooge refussed to listen and set them away, saying he never wanted to see family again. They left and never came back. And the next 15 or so years Scrooge spend alone, looked up in a house near the Money Bin, refussing to speak to anyone.

For people used to reading Disney’s traditional “fluff and pixie dust” Scrooge stories—”Life and Times” is a real eye-opener. What it amounts to is 211 pages of sheer hell and heartbreak, and explains the reason why Scrooge is Scrooge. It is not your typical Uncle Scrooge story.

howd the nick get in the dime?

It is said that Scrooge can identify his #1 dime by it’s sharp edge on one side, however it appears that Don Rosa made a mistake here because Scrooge also said that the edge got worn by his always carrying it with him.

#1 Dime Part 3

history of the #1 dime cont…

Magica, having seen the coin a hundred times before recognizes it as Scrooge’s dime an chases the girl, than tries to steal the coin from the girl’s father…big mistake…

The girl turns out to be Scrooge’s sister Matilda, she gives the dime to her father Fergus McDuck, who comes up with a scheme to have a ditch-digger pay the dime to Scrooge…a lesson in being careful with business deals…but Magica, takes the dime first, resulting in a chase across town…once Fergus gets the dime back, he than gives it to a ditch digger who is to give it to Scrooge for having his shoes-shined…Scrooge always had a temper and angry at the man, vowed to never be cheated again, and to himself all ways do business honestly (sadly as he got older, he forgot this vow and turned to cruel and hateful means of getting wealth–which resulted in a fight with his family, and his disowning to whole lot of them in a spiteful rage)

There is a combination of 4 pictures here (I edited out “un-nessacary” panels, for the sake of clarity)

We see Magica, taken the dime from Matilda, who takes it back, and in turn gives it to her father. A 2 page chase/fight is not shown here, which is followed by Fergus taking the dime back. More panels are edited out, and than Fergug gived the dime to the ditch-digger, telling him to get his shoes shined and use the dime as payment.

Than the final 2 panels, I took from the first chapter of “Life & Times”, which is when we see the 10 year old Scrooge the first time he sees the dime.

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Three years later, Scrooge leaves for America, and then from America the teenaged Scrooge goes on to Australia…where we see for the first time, a true parinoia connected with the dime, that would later result in a crazed maddness…(to be continued)

#1 Dime continued…

back again…I’ll continue the story of the #1 dime….I left off with…

Unknown to both Scrooge and John Rockerduck, the #1 dime was once part of the Rockerduck estate…

Howard Rockerduck is the wealthy American who came to Scotland in 1877 and threw a handful of coins from the window of his buggy to a group of children playing in the streets—one of those coins was a 1875 American dime, that was about to make history when it would change hands two more times, and become forever known as the #1 dime…

Here we see that event unfold…this is the only story in which we ever see John Rockerduck’s father, Howard Rockerduck…Magica de Spell, has cast a spell taking her back in time to Scrooge’s childhood, in hopes of stealing the dime, before he became obsessed with keeping it…in this picture she and another tourist take a taxi cab to Glasgow, when she spies a group of small children playing, she asks the cab to stop in hopes that the young Scrooge is one of those children. While stopped the rich American wishing to impress Magica, throws a handful of coins out the window to the children. One of those coins is picked up by a little girl who in turn runs to give it to her father…

Magica, having seen the coin a hundred times before recognizes it as Scrooge’s dime an chases the girl, than tries to steal the coin from the girl’s father…big mistake… (to be continued)

 

#1 Dime and More

Okay–

Time to answer questions… (I get them via email, im pm, and comments of several forums, I answer them there and here…)

first, a question I was asked weeks ago and never got back to…

How do the ducks get their feet in those tiny Disney heels?

I’ve solved the problem of how the girls get their feet into those horrid tiny Disney shoes. A real duck has feet like any other bird, with seperate toes, the differance is, a delicate and easily damaged webbing that connects each toe. It helps to keep the duck afloat when swimming. While walking or swimming the toes are spread out and the webbing lays flat, but when resting (our if you pick a duck up) their toes come together and the webbing is no longer seen. Now this fact translated into Disney ducks, actually makes the tiny shoes a required thing, as a duck’s feet are actually quite small, much smaller than the webbing make them appear.

And so one mystery solved…

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Next—

At the request of another collector, I’ve undertaken an ongoing project, which has taken longer than expected… I am hunting down stories featureing “cross-dressing” ducks. So far, I’ve found stories of Scrooge, Donald, Gladstone, Von Drake, and the Beagle Boys. I will over the next week or so, be posting pictures and info on these stories.

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Third…

A second ongoing project, is coming up with a list of all the girl ducks, esp. those who’ve won the heart of my fave duck Scrooge, at one time or another. So, pictures and info on these will be showing up as well.

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And finally, starting with this post here, I will also be tracing down the history of the #1 dime and the many troubles it has caused for poor old Scrooge over the years.

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but first, here is an odd picture…not like anything I’ve ever seen in a Scrooge story before…

I once said that one of the things I liked about Disney comics was the continuum of it—you know the characters, you know what they’ll do and say, how they act and think…it’s not like super-hero comics where today your hero breathes fire and than in the next story he never did, or in one story he is from earth and the next he’s from Mars…I came right out and said...”At least you can be sure your hero ain’t gonna sprout wings and fly in the next story…”…OH MY stars and little commets! I stand corrected…today I just came across a story in which one of the Beagle Boys does just that…he sprouts wings and flies away! All I can say is…there ain’t nothing like the French Scrooge stories…I can’t get enough of them!

(this picture didn’t scan clear due to the fact that the comic is 300 pages long and I didn’t want to damage the spine)

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Alright…John Rockerduck and the history of Scrooge’s #1 dime, I’m gonna kill two birds with one stone on this, cause the two go hand in hand…

Now, here’s a guy that Scrooge has no idea, is in any way connected to his beloved #1 dime. And also a character you don’t see in America often…he was created by Carl Barks, and he was only been used once in America….however, in Europe, esp. Italy and France, John Rockerduck is Scrooge’s #1 enemy, and he is used in more stories than the Beagle Boys are. In America he is thought of as the world’s third richest duck, an oil tycoon that inherited all of his wealth, from his rich father Howard Rockerduck (only ever used once). Unknown to both Scrooge and John Rockerduck, the #1 dime was once part of the Rockerduck estate…(to be continued…)

Here we see a typical scene of Scrooge and (John) Rockerduck fighting it out.

 

Don Rosa

I figure since I talk aout him so much, I might as well post a picture of him too…

 

#1 Dime and Third Richest Duck

from ant on eBay:

I found the string part very interesting, as of course
you’d have to explain #1 dime more…do you remember
that old movie used cars where they said they had
to have a mile of used cars and they only won when
the license plate popped out there…its just neat
when you find an older source of that idea, ya know?
–
im assuming #1 dime is his 1st saved dime?

my answer:

oh boy! one of my fave topics—the #1 dime! I’ll write up a sermon on that and post it, prob’ly tommrow, but real quickly, at age 10, Scrooge set out to working to raise money for his very poor family, the first job he had was a shoe-shine boy, and his first customer paid him with a 1875 American dime, which in Scotland was usuless too him—his first time being swindled and he never forgot it. The dime later inspired him to leave home at age 13 and go to America…Scrooge suffers from mental illness and over the years his mind slowly gets worse, to the extent that he begins to see the #1 dime has the secret of his success, and goes into hysterics when ever the dime is stolen.

finding Rockerduck, may take a day or two–there aren’t as many stories about him, but I’ll get him on this thread either later today or the next few days.

Richest Duck

ant of eBay asked:

is scrooge the richest duck of all? I mean does he
have competition to his fortune? and if so who?

my answer:

Hi Ant,

I’m back Flintheart Glomgold pictus found….will get to Rockerduck in a minute…

Flinty is introduced in “Second Richest Duck” 1956 by Carl Barks.

In this story, Scrooge hears that he is no longer the
wolrd’s richest man, and sets out to Africa, to
challenge the new holder of that title. Once there he
finds a duck equal to him in every way…right down to
the Money Bin and the #1 rand (African dime). The 2 of them battle it out comparing everything they own, and
everything is equal…same amount of money in the bin,
same amount of jewels in the vaults, same amount of oil
wells, same amount of gold and diamond mines, every business Scrooge owns–Flinty owns one just like it.
Finally it comes down to a string collection, and 2
enormous balls of string are brought out, which they unroll across Africa for days and miles…and in the end, even that comes out the same, however, Scrooge has
his #1 dime tied to him by a string, and unties the dime adds the string to the end of his string, and wins as
the world’s richest man, by 5″ of string.

In every story since than when Flinty appears, he and Scrooge are at war for the title of world’s richest tycoon, and both have spies watching the other, when one
buys something, the other buys the same thing only
better. The only real differance between them is that
Scrooge tries to live by honesty (not always easy for
him…he’d like to forget he’s an honest man), while Flinty will stop at nothing and often steals, cheats,
and lies to gain his wealth.

These 2 pictures comes form Flinty’s first story…the
coloring is differant here, because this is from a rare
book and not a comic book…Flinty does not normaly have red hair. One shows his money bin, the other shows them
at the end of the race with their string. On first
appearances it would seem that this is the first time the 2 ever met….however, it must also be remembered that 85 year old Scrooge suffers from “Blinkus of the Thinkus” (alzhimers) and remembers very little of his past or even the past few days…

…and as we see here, the 2 ducks had meet many years earlier, in their mid-twenties, and were fighting even back then…you’ll notice that Flinty only gets away
because Scrooge ran out of bullets, and is picking up
the used bullets to reload his gun with—Scrooge always
carries a gun and Bowie knife, (young Scrooge and old Scrooge), but he will never shoot at a person or animal,
because bullets cost money so he only shoots at things
he can pull the bullets out of, so he can reuse them…

This picture shows them once again fighting over the
string…and the rights to own the only poultry farm
that has square eggs., land by square chickens…
(note…this panel was edited for use in an article I wrote, so you can’t read it straight though as several
panels are missing)

 

The McDuck Family Tree

Question from ant of eBay-

Scrooge is related to donald duck how??

My answer:

Yep, Donald is the son of Scrooge’s sister, Huey, Dewy, and Louie are the sons of Donald’s twin sister Della.

Now, I was asked a simalar question on a differant message board (not eBay), so I’ll copy the question and the answer here for you.

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the original question…

Thought I’d ask our duck expert if you had a copy of the family tree Barks was supposed to have made up?
Its supposed to have explained how both Donald AND his nephews had Scrooge as an uncle.

As far as I know there is only one copy of the Carl Barks Duck family tree and last I heard Don Rosa had it. However, Don Rosa did use it make a version of it that has been published and I do have a copy of that.

To answer your question. Donald has a twin sister, Della and she is H, D, + L’s mother, and Scrooge is their great-uncle, because he is their mother’s uncle. Donald’s mother is Scrooge younger sister Hortense. However, Delle is said to but a bit dumb (thus she is called Dumbdella in some stories), and was not able to raise her three boys herself and one day when their father was in the hospital she sent them to live with her twin brother Donald, but for some unknown reason, she never went back to get them.

It should also be noted that several characters in Duckburg, related or not, call Scrooge “Uncle Scrooge” because he is one of the oldest people in Duckburg as well as the builder and founder of nearly every business in Duckburg, most call him Mr. McDuck though.

Scrooge came from a very poor family and had to go to work at age 10, he left home for America at age 13, thus he was never educated and had little contact with a family of any kind for most of his life. This resulted in his knowing so very much about everything he ever tried, but so very little about anything else, and is why we often see Scrooge dumbfounded by the simpleist of things. But more to the point, it also resulted in a bitter and very unhappy old man who learned that he was uncared for and unloved. Years of supporting his family, with no thanks in return made him feel unwanted and abbandoned by his family, and soon learned to hate everyone–especily family, because he now saw his family as people who only came to him to ask for money, and not people who cared to spend time with him.

Now, why I have said this, is because in one story the 3 boys are seen crying and telling Scrooge that they where abbandoned and that he and Donald are the only family they have. This “The Richest Duck in the World: Part 12 of Life and Times”. This story is the sequal to Carl Barks’ very first Scrooge story “Christmas on Bear Mountain”. It takes place after the 4 nephews have left the cabin, but before they have gone to Scrooge’s mansion for dinner on Christmas Day. In this story we see Scrooge’s first contact with a family member in 25 years, and haveing never seen Donald or the boys he expects them to be like the rest of the family and so is ready to attack at the first mention of money~~~he does not expect to find 3 boys who like himself also feel unloved and unwanted by their own family, nor does he expect to find that Donald cares so much about children that aren’t even his own. At their first meeting Scrooge is very defencive, but once he relizes that his nephew and grand-nephews are not after his money, we see Scrooge warm up to them and go on to become his dearest companions, and invited to travel the world with him. And so begins the adventures that are now classics in both comics and on TV.

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There are 2 pictures here:

The first is from the story mentioned above, “Morning After Bear Mountain”, by Don Rosa, shows Scrooge and the boys when they first meet.

The second is the “Donald Duck Family Tree”, by Don Rosa, based on Carl Barks’ family tree. In Don Rosa’s notes, there are 3 mistakes on the family tree as Disney Corp. published it:

1) is a non-Barks character that Disney Corp required Rosa to add: Fethry Duck (seen next to Gladstone Gander). Don Rosa says that true Duck historians should scratch Fethry’s face off the tree, because according to the Barks Universe, Whitewater was an only child.

2) is a character that Disney Corp. deleated from the family tree, which is Prof. Ludwig Von Drake; according to Don Rosa, Von Drake is married to Scrooge’s sister Matilda and should be shown just to her right (on the left side of the picture, right next to Scrooge)

3) is that Gladstone Gander is not related to Scrooge and calls him Uncle to irritate Scrooge, but he is related to other ducks in the family

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WOW! I’m being long-winded again, but almost done. This picture is quite large and didn’t fit on my scanner, so I had to scan it in sections and than reduce the size and piece them back together on screen, which explains the lines you see on the picture here. By reducing it to fit the screen, you can’t quite see the names, but I can type them up here if you can’t read them and would like to make a record of them.

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Money Church

I just had a wild idea….

You know there isn’t a church in Duckburg…how ’bout we have Scrooge start “The Church of Duckburg”, where he can preach about God VS Mammon (money), but I don’t think there’d be any communion…wine and crackers cost money, you know! Scrooge would expect people to pay tithing…getting money would be the whole motive behind his starting a church. In fact, he’d prob’ly charge people to come in AND expect a 10% tithe. He’d excommunicate all non-tithe payers.

Scrooge would make a GREAT preacher…he could be a TV evangelist and say that he had a revalation that everyone in the world was supposed to send him all of their money so they could be saved. Who wants the guess that I spent the day with a real live Mormon high priest and now I’m protesting?

I need a name for Scrooge’s church now…

I know—

The Church of the 24K Moon

The Everlasting Congregation of the Goose Egg Nugget. 

 The Church of the #1 Dime and the Latter Day Greenbacks

Scrooge’ll have to write The Book of Mammon on gold coins.

…and he won’t have to change the name of The Pearl of Great Price.

 If anyone can think of any others, go ahead and post a comment to share your ideas!

~~EK

Trivia question…

Who knows the name of Scrooge’s God…(hint, Scrooge is NOT a Christian.) (Anyone know what story tells us this?) (I wonder why Disney didn’t cut that panel—they have an anti-religious guideline)

an added note—Because of the religion that Scrooge follows (Scrooge is not a Christian), he believes in re-incarnation and believes himselve to have been Malcome McDuck in a previous life. Does anyone know what religion Scrooge belong’s too and who his God is?

I was just thinking…if Scrooge isn’t a Christian, than a church that he’d start wouldn’t collect tithing would it?

I actually know almost nothing about the religion that Scrooge follows, since most of the religions I’ve studied are the Christian ones.

Well now I’m gonna have to look into this, because I seem to recall that that same religion preaches vegetarianism as well. hhhmmmm….now I have to do a panel by panel search to see if Carl Barks ever drew Scrooge eating meat…I know lots of stories do, but I can’t remember if any of Barks’ did or not. I never noticed. Wow, what a job, I’m already doing a panel by panel search for cross-dressed ducks.

Well, at least it’ll keep me busy. 

 

Cartoon Mental Health

meme—

Hope you don’t mind me stealing your post, but I loved it so much I just had to copy it and ad to my blog!!!

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Carl Barks, declared that Scrooge was manic-depressive and obsesive compulsive, but other charaters it isn’t said what their problem is. My friend meme made up this list of some of the other loonies in the looney toon world…I love it, here it is…

CARTOON CHARACTERS AND THEIR APPARENT DSM-IV-TR DIAGNOSES:

GASTON (BEAUTY AND THE BEAST)/LORD FARQUAAD (SHREK)/LUCY (PEANUTS): NARCISSISTIC PERSONALITY DISORDER

CINDERELLA’S STEPMOTHER: OBSESSIVE COMPULSIVE PERSONALITY DISORDER

DAFFY DUCK/SQUIDWIRD (SPONGEBOB SQUAREPANTS)/GRUMPY (SNOW WHITE)/JUSTUS (COURAGE THE COWARDLY DOG): PARANOID PERSONALITY DISORDER

YOSEMITE SAM/MOJO JOJO (POWERPUFF GIRLS)/BLUTO (POPEYE)/RANDALL (MONSTERS INC): ANTISOCIAL PERSONALITY DISORDER

PEPE LE PEW: DELUSIONAL DISORDER, EROTOMANIC TYPE

BASHFUL (SNOW WHITE): SOCIAL PHOBIA

SLEEPY (SNOW WHITE): NARCOLEPSY

BART SIMPSON: CONDUCT DISORDER

BARNEY (SIMPSON’S): ALCOHOL DEPENDENCE

POPEYE: INTERMITTENT EXPLOSIVE DISORDER, CO-MORBID WITH SUBSTANCE ABUSE (SPINACH MY EYE!)

OLIVE OYL: ANOREXIA NERVOSA

CHARLIE BROWN: DYSTHYMIA/GENERALIZED ANXIETY DISORDER

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Thanks meme…that is sooooo col!

I love this car!

HEY!!!! I hit post #111 and I didn’t know it!!! (That’s the liscene # on Scrooge’s 1936 Dusy)….

ain’t it a beauty though?????

 

My, My, My, Well Aren’t We Educated Now… TSK-TSK!

ooohhh I got someone REALLY REALLY MAAAAAD at me (and I didn’t do it on porpuse either ). Me and another person were just yapping away over at the Padded Cell, since no one else is out tonight, than all of a sudden a third person jumps in with credintials of being a school teacher and starts in bitching how I am a terrible example to the children of the world and no children should be near me—esp, not with my spelling as bad as it is, proof that I am uneducated (she took my lack of spelling as a great threat to humanity! the horror!)….. my, my, my, my, my, my!! Hey I can’t spell worth shit and I know that, I never went to school, I never learned to spell, and I ain’t never made a secret of it either. Well now the 2 of them are over there fighting—I don’t like fighting, so I’m over here until they get done, than I’ll send Scrooge over there and let him attack the teacher—-(it’s a newbie, who has never meet my Scrooge on eBay yet…… I wonder how she’ll like him?)

You know, maybe it’s just me, but if someone is a school teacher, and they are supposed to be setting an example for students, I do have to wounder when they come onto a public forum like eBay’s Padded Cell, and the first time they post they post a flameing troll attack on a 2 long time posters, and than set out to name calling and belittleing, I do gotta wonder at what kind of examlpe that well educated school teacher is setting for her students. personally if I was running a school and I found out that one of my teachers was acting like that on an online forum with over 6 million members, I’d revoke their liscence for setting a bad example.

sence when do school teachers discimanate against someone who was never taught how to spell? what kind of a teacher would do something like that?

seems to me that she was the one who is setting the bad example for children…. just one more example of the corruption of the public school system… people who are that mean unfeeling uncareing foul-mouthed and cruel should not be teaching children.

LA-LA!!!

Where is everyone tonight anyways?

The Soapbox is dead… I killed it, they have all run away. Actually, I think everyone with a brain went to bed hours ago, just us zombies and vampires left now.

I guess I should take a hint and go to bed too.

~~EK out.

P.$.

I like being called EK, I think I’ll keep it.

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Scrooge a Villain?

mordo of eBay wrote–one more question: i noticed Scrooge ended his run as a villain in 1953. did that have anything to do with wertham and the advent of the comics code authority?

Scrooge’s change was a fan request, the result of mountains of fan mail. Scrooge appeared as a one-shot character that would never be used again. Than, when a story of Scotland was commissioned, Scrooge was brought back a second time. Disney Corp was shocked when after just 2 stories, fan mail started pouring in. They commissioned Barks to bring back the character several more times, each time Scrooge got meaner and more ornery—to the point of burning families out of their homes one story (now banned and never released uncut) and leaving the 4 nephews to die in the desert in another (banned, but to be re-released next month).

Before Scrooge, Disney comics where mostly gag stories with little or no connection one to the other. People read them as a passing fancy. Once Scrooge was added, Barks started what is now called the “Duckburg Time Continuum”—it became like a soap-opera, readers wanted to know the family history, and all the hows and whys.

The big change came with WWII when soldiers took cases of WWC&S and DD comics overseas to give to the war orphans. Europeans and not Americans are the ones that wrote the fan mail to Disney. Disney knew they had a good thing, they also knew they needed to change the most popular duck from a villain to a hero.

The result was a trial run with US #1, which sold out. Carl Barks was told to focus his work on making a history for his new character, and start using him as the main character using the old main character–Donald—as the back up. The problem was that Scrooge was a villain and wouldn’t last in the lead unless Barks made some major changes, but Barks created Scrooge as a villain and it was already well established that Scrooge was mean and downright hateful when he wanted to be. Carl Barks couldn’t change Scrooge’s bad temper overnight and so devised a way around it by creating for the first time in comic book history–a past for a character. He had to justify Scrooge’s being mean.

During this same time 2 saloon girls from the Klondike where in the news with a story, that went on to become “Back to the Klondike”—a story that had it been published would have set Scrooge down as a villain, a kidnapper, and a damn mean person. Carl Barks did not know what the editors had done to his story until after it was printed—with the entire bar-room brawl and kidnapping removed, a total of 8 pages. What America saw was a greedy banker, bent on getting more money—and nothing else, until the story was re-released for the first time uncut in 1987.

This raised hell in Europe, because not only did Europe keep Scrooge mean, Europe continued the story for 65 more pages than seen in America—after returning to Duckburg in Back to the Klondike, Scrooge receives a letter from Goldie calling him back—in the European second part of Back to the Klondike a new character Paperetta Ye-Ye, Scrooge and Goldie’s granddaughter was introduced…with Goldie sending the girl to live with Scrooge. In these early stories, he was known as “Grandpapa Scrooge”, not Uncle Scrooge.

The problem was Scrooge and Goldie never married. The whole thing was banned, and all but erased, Disney never allowed these stories in America, very few copies of them exist today, and almost no one even knows they were even written.

Carl Barks and Romana Scarpa tried repeatedly to keep Scrooge the anti-hero…unlike other Disney characters Scrooge was made to “be human”, every flaw that humans had, Scrooge had 10X over. The one flaw Disney did let Barks expand on was greed and money, and so in each story, the money became more and more an issue, until finally Barks declared Scrooge manic-depressive and obsessed with money.

In those first few years Barks wrote a time line, family tree, and history—the guidelines that writers today must adhere to.

Carl Barks did intend Scrooge to be allot meaner than the old guidelines would allow, however once the ban on Goldie was lifted in the 1987, stories of a wilder meaner Scrooge where finally allowed. That same year Don Rosa made his triumphant debut with Son of the Sun—and for the second time in Scrooge history, Disney was swamped with fan mail literally overnight—the result was the commissioning of Don Rosa as the new “Duck Man”, Carl Barks official replacement, and the writing of the first time Carl Barks history of Scrooge—what is now known as Don Rosa’s “Life and Times of Scrooge McDuck”, in which we see the violent, villainous Scrooge that Carl Barks had intended him to be—barroom brawls, burning families out of houses, and all.

Scrooge has never actually lost his villainy. To the followers of the Scrooge history, Scrooge has never been thought of as a hero, the 4 nephews have always stood as the heroes of each story, with Scrooge forever the villain with a sentimental heart—always ready kill, but never able to go through with it. It is rare that a villain is ever made to be meaner than Scrooge—he wins most fights by brut force, cunningness, and trickery. “Smarter than the smarties and tougher than the toughies”. Scrooge is known as Disney’s anti-hero, never total cold-hearted, but never totally heroic either.

~~EK out
 

My, My, My, Well Aren’t We Educated Now… TSK-TSK!

ooohhh I got someone REALLY REALLY MAAAAAD at me (and I didn’t do it on porpuse either ). Me and another person were just yapping away over at the Padded Cell, since no one else is out tonight, than all of a sudden a third person jumps in with credintials of being a school teacher and starts in bitching how I am a terrible example to the children of the world and no children should be near me—esp, not with my spelling as bad as it is, proof that I am uneducated (she took my lack of spelling as a great threat to humanity! the horror!)….. my, my, my, my, my, my!! Hey I can’t spell worth shit and I know that, I never went to school, I never learned to spell, and I ain’t never made a secret of it either. Well now the 2 of them are over there fighting—I don’t like fighting, so I’m over here until they get done, than I’ll send Scrooge over there and let him attack the teacher—-(it’s a newbie, who has never meet my Scrooge on eBay yet…… I wonder how she’ll like him?)

You know, maybe it’s just me, but if someone is a school teacher, and they are supposed to be setting an example for students, I do have to wounder when they come onto a public forum like eBay’s Padded Cell, and the first time they post they post a flameing troll attack on a 2 long time posters, and than set out to name calling and belittleing, I do gotta wonder at what kind of examlpe that well educated school teacher is setting for her students. personally if I was running a school and I found out that one of my teachers was acting like that on an online forum with over 6 million members, I’d revoke their liscence for setting a bad example.

sence when do school teachers discimanate against someone who was never taught how to spell? what kind of a teacher would do something like that?

seems to me that she was the one who is setting the bad example for children…. just one more example of the corruption of the public school system… people who are that mean unfeeling uncareing foul-mouthed and cruel should not be teaching children.

LA-LA!!!

Where is everyone tonight anyways?

The Soapbox is dead… I killed it, they have all run away. Actually, I think everyone with a brain went to bed hours ago, just us zombies and vampires left now.

I guess I should take a hint and go to bed too.

~~EK out.

P.$.

I like being called EK, I think I’ll keep it.

What’s your take on this? I’d love to hear what you have to say about this post. Leave a comment and share your views!

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My, My, My, Well Aren’t We Educated Now… TSK-TSK!

ooohhh I got someone REALLY REALLY MAAAAAD at me (and I didn’t do it on porpuse either ). Me and another person were just yapping away over at the Padded Cell, since no one else is out tonight, than all of a sudden a third person jumps in with credintials of being a school teacher and starts in bitching how I am a terrible example to the children of the world and no children should be near me—esp, not with my spelling as bad as it is, proof that I am uneducated (she took my lack of spelling as a great threat to humanity! the horror!)….. my, my, my, my, my, my!! Hey I can’t spell worth shit and I know that, I never went to school, I never learned to spell, and I ain’t never made a secret of it either. Well now the 2 of them are over there fighting—I don’t like fighting, so I’m over here until they get done, than I’ll send Scrooge over there and let him attack the teacher—-(it’s a newbie, who has never meet my Scrooge on eBay yet…… I wonder how she’ll like him?)

You know, maybe it’s just me, but if someone is a school teacher, and they are supposed to be setting an example for students, I do have to wounder when they come onto a public forum like eBay’s Padded Cell, and the first time they post they post a flameing troll attack on a 2 long time posters, and than set out to name calling and belittleing, I do gotta wonder at what kind of examlpe that well educated school teacher is setting for her students. personally if I was running a school and I found out that one of my teachers was acting like that on an online forum with over 6 million members, I’d revoke their liscence for setting a bad example.

sence when do school teachers discimanate against someone who was never taught how to spell? what kind of a teacher would do something like that?

seems to me that she was the one who is setting the bad example for children…. just one more example of the corruption of the public school system… people who are that mean unfeeling uncareing foul-mouthed and cruel should not be teaching children.

LA-LA!!!

Where is everyone tonight anyways?

The Soapbox is dead… I killed it, they have all run away. Actually, I think everyone with a brain went to bed hours ago, just us zombies and vampires left now.

I guess I should take a hint and go to bed too.

~~EK out.

P.$.

I like being called EK, I think I’ll keep it.

What’s your take on this? I’d love to hear what you have to say about this post. Leave a comment and share your views!

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Copper Cockeral
Publishing Your NaNo Novel?
Do You and I Read the Same Books?
Want to Give Me a Reward for Reaching 50k?
*I Love Phookas!*

My, My, My, Well Aren’t We Educated Now… TSK-TSK!

ooohhh I got someone REALLY REALLY MAAAAAD at me (and I didn’t do it on porpuse either ). Me and another person were just yapping away over at the Padded Cell, since no one else is out tonight, than all of a sudden a third person jumps in with credintials of being a school teacher and starts in bitching how I am a terrible example to the children of the world and no children should be near me—esp, not with my spelling as bad as it is, proof that I am uneducated (she took my lack of spelling as a great threat to humanity! the horror!)….. my, my, my, my, my, my!! Hey I can’t spell worth shit and I know that, I never went to school, I never learned to spell, and I ain’t never made a secret of it either. Well now the 2 of them are over there fighting—I don’t like fighting, so I’m over here until they get done, than I’ll send Scrooge over there and let him attack the teacher—-(it’s a newbie, who has never meet my Scrooge on eBay yet…… I wonder how she’ll like him?)

You know, maybe it’s just me, but if someone is a school teacher, and they are supposed to be setting an example for students, I do have to wounder when they come onto a public forum like eBay’s Padded Cell, and the first time they post they post a flameing troll attack on a 2 long time posters, and than set out to name calling and belittleing, I do gotta wonder at what kind of examlpe that well educated school teacher is setting for her students. personally if I was running a school and I found out that one of my teachers was acting like that on an online forum with over 6 million members, I’d revoke their liscence for setting a bad example.

sence when do school teachers discimanate against someone who was never taught how to spell? what kind of a teacher would do something like that?

seems to me that she was the one who is setting the bad example for children…. just one more example of the corruption of the public school system… people who are that mean unfeeling uncareing foul-mouthed and cruel should not be teaching children.

LA-LA!!!

Where is everyone tonight anyways?

The Soapbox is dead… I killed it, they have all run away. Actually, I think everyone with a brain went to bed hours ago, just us zombies and vampires left now.

I guess I should take a hint and go to bed too.

~~EK out.

P.$.

I like being called EK, I think I’ll keep it.

What’s your take on this? I’d love to hear what you have to say about this post. Leave a comment and share your views!

————-
Copper Cockeral
Publishing Your NaNo Novel?
Do You and I Read the Same Books?
Want to Give Me a Reward for Reaching 50k?
*I Love Phookas!*

My, My, My, Well Aren’t We Educated Now… TSK-TSK!

ooohhh I got someone REALLY REALLY MAAAAAD at me (and I didn’t do it on porpuse either ). Me and another person were just yapping away over at the Padded Cell, since no one else is out tonight, than all of a sudden a third person jumps in with credintials of being a school teacher and starts in bitching how I am a terrible example to the children of the world and no children should be near me—esp, not with my spelling as bad as it is, proof that I am uneducated (she took my lack of spelling as a great threat to humanity! the horror!)….. my, my, my, my, my, my!! Hey I can’t spell worth shit and I know that, I never went to school, I never learned to spell, and I ain’t never made a secret of it either. Well now the 2 of them are over there fighting—I don’t like fighting, so I’m over here until they get done, than I’ll send Scrooge over there and let him attack the teacher—-(it’s a newbie, who has never meet my Scrooge on eBay yet…… I wonder how she’ll like him?)

You know, maybe it’s just me, but if someone is a school teacher, and they are supposed to be setting an example for students, I do have to wounder when they come onto a public forum like eBay’s Padded Cell, and the first time they post they post a flameing troll attack on a 2 long time posters, and than set out to name calling and belittleing, I do gotta wonder at what kind of examlpe that well educated school teacher is setting for her students. personally if I was running a school and I found out that one of my teachers was acting like that on an online forum with over 6 million members, I’d revoke their liscence for setting a bad example.

sence when do school teachers discimanate against someone who was never taught how to spell? what kind of a teacher would do something like that?

seems to me that she was the one who is setting the bad example for children…. just one more example of the corruption of the public school system… people who are that mean unfeeling uncareing foul-mouthed and cruel should not be teaching children.

LA-LA!!!

Where is everyone tonight anyways?

The Soapbox is dead… I killed it, they have all run away. Actually, I think everyone with a brain went to bed hours ago, just us zombies and vampires left now.

I guess I should take a hint and go to bed too.

~~EK out.

P.$.

I like being called EK, I think I’ll keep it.

What’s your take on this? I’d love to hear what you have to say about this post. Leave a comment and share your views!

————-
Copper Cockeral
Publishing Your NaNo Novel?
Do You and I Read the Same Books?
Want to Give Me a Reward for Reaching 50k?
*I Love Phookas!*

My, My, My, Well Aren’t We Educated Now… TSK-TSK!

ooohhh I got someone REALLY REALLY MAAAAAD at me (and I didn’t do it on porpuse either ). Me and another person were just yapping away over at the Padded Cell, since no one else is out tonight, than all of a sudden a third person jumps in with credintials of being a school teacher and starts in bitching how I am a terrible example to the children of the world and no children should be near me—esp, not with my spelling as bad as it is, proof that I am uneducated (she took my lack of spelling as a great threat to humanity! the horror!)….. my, my, my, my, my, my!! Hey I can’t spell worth shit and I know that, I never went to school, I never learned to spell, and I ain’t never made a secret of it either. Well now the 2 of them are over there fighting—I don’t like fighting, so I’m over here until they get done, than I’ll send Scrooge over there and let him attack the teacher—-(it’s a newbie, who has never meet my Scrooge on eBay yet…… I wonder how she’ll like him?)

You know, maybe it’s just me, but if someone is a school teacher, and they are supposed to be setting an example for students, I do have to wounder when they come onto a public forum like eBay’s Padded Cell, and the first time they post they post a flameing troll attack on a 2 long time posters, and than set out to name calling and belittleing, I do gotta wonder at what kind of examlpe that well educated school teacher is setting for her students. personally if I was running a school and I found out that one of my teachers was acting like that on an online forum with over 6 million members, I’d revoke their liscence for setting a bad example.

sence when do school teachers discimanate against someone who was never taught how to spell? what kind of a teacher would do something like that?

seems to me that she was the one who is setting the bad example for children…. just one more example of the corruption of the public school system… people who are that mean unfeeling uncareing foul-mouthed and cruel should not be teaching children.

LA-LA!!!

Where is everyone tonight anyways?

The Soapbox is dead… I killed it, they have all run away. Actually, I think everyone with a brain went to bed hours ago, just us zombies and vampires left now.

I guess I should take a hint and go to bed too.

~~EK out.

P.$.

I like being called EK, I think I’ll keep it.

What’s your take on this? I’d love to hear what you have to say about this post. Leave a comment and share your views!

————-
Copper Cockeral
Publishing Your NaNo Novel?
Do You and I Read the Same Books?
Want to Give Me a Reward for Reaching 50k?
*I Love Phookas!*

My, My, My, Well Aren’t We Educated Now… TSK-TSK!

ooohhh I got someone REALLY REALLY MAAAAAD at me (and I didn’t do it on porpuse either ). Me and another person were just yapping away over at the Padded Cell, since no one else is out tonight, than all of a sudden a third person jumps in with credintials of being a school teacher and starts in bitching how I am a terrible example to the children of the world and no children should be near me—esp, not with my spelling as bad as it is, proof that I am uneducated (she took my lack of spelling as a great threat to humanity! the horror!)….. my, my, my, my, my, my!! Hey I can’t spell worth shit and I know that, I never went to school, I never learned to spell, and I ain’t never made a secret of it either. Well now the 2 of them are over there fighting—I don’t like fighting, so I’m over here until they get done, than I’ll send Scrooge over there and let him attack the teacher—-(it’s a newbie, who has never meet my Scrooge on eBay yet…… I wonder how she’ll like him?)

You know, maybe it’s just me, but if someone is a school teacher, and they are supposed to be setting an example for students, I do have to wounder when they come onto a public forum like eBay’s Padded Cell, and the first time they post they post a flameing troll attack on a 2 long time posters, and than set out to name calling and belittleing, I do gotta wonder at what kind of examlpe that well educated school teacher is setting for her students. personally if I was running a school and I found out that one of my teachers was acting like that on an online forum with over 6 million members, I’d revoke their liscence for setting a bad example.

sence when do school teachers discimanate against someone who was never taught how to spell? what kind of a teacher would do something like that?

seems to me that she was the one who is setting the bad example for children…. just one more example of the corruption of the public school system… people who are that mean unfeeling uncareing foul-mouthed and cruel should not be teaching children.

LA-LA!!!

Where is everyone tonight anyways?

The Soapbox is dead… I killed it, they have all run away. Actually, I think everyone with a brain went to bed hours ago, just us zombies and vampires left now.

I guess I should take a hint and go to bed too.

~~EK out.

P.$.

I like being called EK, I think I’ll keep it.

What’s your take on this? I’d love to hear what you have to say about this post. Leave a comment and share your views!

————-
Copper Cockeral
Publishing Your NaNo Novel?
Do You and I Read the Same Books?
Want to Give Me a Reward for Reaching 50k?
*I Love Phookas!*

My, My, My, Well Aren’t We Educated Now… TSK-TSK!

ooohhh I got someone REALLY REALLY MAAAAAD at me (and I didn’t do it on porpuse either ). Me and another person were just yapping away over at the Padded Cell, since no one else is out tonight, than all of a sudden a third person jumps in with credintials of being a school teacher and starts in bitching how I am a terrible example to the children of the world and no children should be near me—esp, not with my spelling as bad as it is, proof that I am uneducated (she took my lack of spelling as a great threat to humanity! the horror!)….. my, my, my, my, my, my!! Hey I can’t spell worth shit and I know that, I never went to school, I never learned to spell, and I ain’t never made a secret of it either. Well now the 2 of them are over there fighting—I don’t like fighting, so I’m over here until they get done, than I’ll send Scrooge over there and let him attack the teacher—-(it’s a newbie, who has never meet my Scrooge on eBay yet…… I wonder how she’ll like him?)

You know, maybe it’s just me, but if someone is a school teacher, and they are supposed to be setting an example for students, I do have to wounder when they come onto a public forum like eBay’s Padded Cell, and the first time they post they post a flameing troll attack on a 2 long time posters, and than set out to name calling and belittleing, I do gotta wonder at what kind of examlpe that well educated school teacher is setting for her students. personally if I was running a school and I found out that one of my teachers was acting like that on an online forum with over 6 million members, I’d revoke their liscence for setting a bad example.

sence when do school teachers discimanate against someone who was never taught how to spell? what kind of a teacher would do something like that?

seems to me that she was the one who is setting the bad example for children…. just one more example of the corruption of the public school system… people who are that mean unfeeling uncareing foul-mouthed and cruel should not be teaching children.

LA-LA!!!

Where is everyone tonight anyways?

The Soapbox is dead… I killed it, they have all run away. Actually, I think everyone with a brain went to bed hours ago, just us zombies and vampires left now.

I guess I should take a hint and go to bed too.

~~EK out.

P.$.

I like being called EK, I think I’ll keep it.

What’s your take on this? I’d love to hear what you have to say about this post. Leave a comment and share your views!

————-
Copper Cockeral
Publishing Your NaNo Novel?
Do You and I Read the Same Books?
Want to Give Me a Reward for Reaching 50k?
*I Love Phookas!*

My, My, My, Well Aren’t We Educated Now… TSK-TSK!

ooohhh I got someone REALLY REALLY MAAAAAD at me (and I didn’t do it on porpuse either ). Me and another person were just yapping away over at the Padded Cell, since no one else is out tonight, than all of a sudden a third person jumps in with credintials of being a school teacher and starts in bitching how I am a terrible example to the children of the world and no children should be near me—esp, not with my spelling as bad as it is, proof that I am uneducated (she took my lack of spelling as a great threat to humanity! the horror!)….. my, my, my, my, my, my!! Hey I can’t spell worth shit and I know that, I never went to school, I never learned to spell, and I ain’t never made a secret of it either. Well now the 2 of them are over there fighting—I don’t like fighting, so I’m over here until they get done, than I’ll send Scrooge over there and let him attack the teacher—-(it’s a newbie, who has never meet my Scrooge on eBay yet…… I wonder how she’ll like him?)

You know, maybe it’s just me, but if someone is a school teacher, and they are supposed to be setting an example for students, I do have to wounder when they come onto a public forum like eBay’s Padded Cell, and the first time they post they post a flameing troll attack on a 2 long time posters, and than set out to name calling and belittleing, I do gotta wonder at what kind of examlpe that well educated school teacher is setting for her students. personally if I was running a school and I found out that one of my teachers was acting like that on an online forum with over 6 million members, I’d revoke their liscence for setting a bad example.

sence when do school teachers discimanate against someone who was never taught how to spell? what kind of a teacher would do something like that?

seems to me that she was the one who is setting the bad example for children…. just one more example of the corruption of the public school system… people who are that mean unfeeling uncareing foul-mouthed and cruel should not be teaching children.

LA-LA!!!

Where is everyone tonight anyways?

The Soapbox is dead… I killed it, they have all run away. Actually, I think everyone with a brain went to bed hours ago, just us zombies and vampires left now.

I guess I should take a hint and go to bed too.

~~EK out.

P.$.

I like being called EK, I think I’ll keep it.

What’s your take on this? I’d love to hear what you have to say about this post. Leave a comment and share your views!

————-
Copper Cockeral
Publishing Your NaNo Novel?
Do You and I Read the Same Books?
Want to Give Me a Reward for Reaching 50k?
*I Love Phookas!*

My, My, My, Well Aren’t We Educated Now… TSK-TSK!

ooohhh I got someone REALLY REALLY MAAAAAD at me (and I didn’t do it on porpuse either ). Me and another person were just yapping away over at the Padded Cell, since no one else is out tonight, than all of a sudden a third person jumps in with credintials of being a school teacher and starts in bitching how I am a terrible example to the children of the world and no children should be near me—esp, not with my spelling as bad as it is, proof that I am uneducated (she took my lack of spelling as a great threat to humanity! the horror!)….. my, my, my, my, my, my!! Hey I can’t spell worth shit and I know that, I never went to school, I never learned to spell, and I ain’t never made a secret of it either. Well now the 2 of them are over there fighting—I don’t like fighting, so I’m over here until they get done, than I’ll send Scrooge over there and let him attack the teacher—-(it’s a newbie, who has never meet my Scrooge on eBay yet…… I wonder how she’ll like him?)

You know, maybe it’s just me, but if someone is a school teacher, and they are supposed to be setting an example for students, I do have to wounder when they come onto a public forum like eBay’s Padded Cell, and the first time they post they post a flameing troll attack on a 2 long time posters, and than set out to name calling and belittleing, I do gotta wonder at what kind of examlpe that well educated school teacher is setting for her students. personally if I was running a school and I found out that one of my teachers was acting like that on an online forum with over 6 million members, I’d revoke their liscence for setting a bad example.

sence when do school teachers discimanate against someone who was never taught how to spell? what kind of a teacher would do something like that?

seems to me that she was the one who is setting the bad example for children…. just one more example of the corruption of the public school system… people who are that mean unfeeling uncareing foul-mouthed and cruel should not be teaching children.

LA-LA!!!

Where is everyone tonight anyways?

The Soapbox is dead… I killed it, they have all run away. Actually, I think everyone with a brain went to bed hours ago, just us zombies and vampires left now.

I guess I should take a hint and go to bed too.

~~EK out.

P.$.

I like being called EK, I think I’ll keep it.

What’s your take on this? I’d love to hear what you have to say about this post. Leave a comment and share your views!

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My, My, My, Well Aren’t We Educated Now… TSK-TSK!

ooohhh I got someone REALLY REALLY MAAAAAD at me (and I didn’t do it on porpuse either ).  Me and another person were just yapping away over at the Padded Cell, since no one else is out tonight, than all of a sudden a third person jumps in with credintials of being a school teacher and starts in bitching how I am a terrible example to the children of the world and no children should be near me—esp, not with my spelling as bad as it is, proof that I am uneducated (she took my lack of spelling as a great threat to humanity! the horror!)….. my, my, my, my, my, my!! Hey I can’t spell worth shit and I know that, I never went to school, I never learned to spell, and I ain’t never made a secret of it either. Well now the 2 of them are over there fighting—I don’t like fighting, so I’m over here until they get done, than I’ll send Scrooge over there and let him attack the teacher—-(it’s a newbie, who has never meet my Scrooge on eBay yet…… I wonder how she’ll like him?)

You know, maybe it’s just me, but if someone is a school teacher, and they are supposed to be setting an example for students, I do have to wounder when they come onto a public forum like eBay’s Padded Cell,  and the first time they post they post a flameing troll attack on a 2 long time posters, and than set out to name calling and belittleing, I do gotta wonder at what kind of examlpe that well educated school teacher is setting for her students. personally if I was running a school and I found out that one of my teachers was acting like that on an online forum with over 6 million members, I’d revoke their liscence for setting a bad  example.

sence when do school teachers discimanate against someone who was never taught how to spell? what kind of a teacher would do something like that?

seems to me that she was the one who is  setting the bad example for children…. just one more example of the corruption of the public school system… people who are that mean unfeeling uncareing foul-mouthed and cruel should not be teaching children.

LA-LA!!! 

 Where is everyone tonight anyways?

The Soapbox is dead… I killed it, they have all run away. Actually, I think everyone with a brain went to bed hours ago, just us zombies and vampires left now. 

 I guess I should take a hint and go to bed too.

~~EK out.

P.$.

I like being called EK, I think I’ll keep it.

 

Maine… Why I Love It Here…

I feel like talking about Maine today…

I love Moxie

I love the Thunder Hole

I love Longfellow’s House

I love Stephen King

I love blueberries

I love lobster

I love moose

I love chickadees

I love great white pines

I love The Pier

I love Rapid Ray’s

I love Pier Fries

I love Bill’s Pizza

I love Palace Playland

I love East Surf Drive

I don’t love King Realty

I’m going to miss the Dream Machine

I love Maine!!!!!!

1971 MTD MudBug

Okay,

It’s been raining for three days, the snow is almost gone (finally) and I can see my MudBug again. Now I’ve got spring fever I want to drive it through the woods, but it’ ain’t running, and I have no idea what is wrong with it.

(It’s an ATV) Years ago, before they started production, my Grandmother (Helen Ricker-Allen) won a 1971 MTD 3-Wheel MudBug in Apricot Fizz Metal Flake. I am told that this model was a “proto-type” and the very first MudBug ever made (#1).

She gave it to my father, and he gave it to me. It’s a special item that our family is very proud to own and it’s treated like an heirloom. I still have this MudBug, but it is no longer running. I would like to restore it, but I know nothing about mechanics.

The problem is, I have looked high and low for parts and can’t even find anyone who has ever heard of this ATV. I tried looking it up on some web sites and only found one site that mentioned it and found out that it was made from 1971-1973 and came in 2 colors, oragne like mine or lime green. It says that production was stopped because ATV’s where not thought to be something anyone would ever use! (If only they had held out for a few more years!) The web site showed pictures of MudBugs, showing all of the models done each year…and not a one of them looked like mine. Mine is more square, has a more upright back, and is much larger than the ones shown.

I don’t know if any of you guys here know anything about ATV’s or not, but I figure it can’t hurt to ask. My question is, since I was told mine was a “proto-type” made before production started for sale to the public, is it possible that I have the only one like it? Is that why mine looks differant from the others? If this is so, how would I go about restoring it?

Does anyone out there have an MTD MudBug…a year, any model?

Any info anyone could give me would help greatly. Thanks!

P.S.

Does anyone know the value of an MTD MudBug, how many where made, and where I could get some more of them? (I would like to collect them—but, they seem to be quite rare and hard to track down. I’ve yet to find one for sale anywhere.)
 

Life in Maine

First we were snowed in, and now this….

Maine had 2 blizzards back to back—we got a total of 102 in….I’ve spent 2 months with no sunlight because the snow went over the tops of our windows….in places where it drifted it went over the roof…

The past 3 days it warmed up and has rained non-stop. The combination of 102 inches of snow being melted by heavy rain has resulted in massive flooding. The bridge on our road has washed out, and the bridges on the 2 roads crossing ours have washed out too, leaving only one road open.

Maine…The way life should be???? 

My Extended Family is Insane

Grandpa became an American citizen at age 98 (he’d been here since age 2!). He was the biggest nut our family had—super mundo freaky, Maine had him to blame for getting the Mormon church here. He went blind real young (age 12 I think) and the only color he could remember was pink, so it’s the only color he would wear—he looked like Vincent Price’s twin brother in a pink ganster’s suit. He was a wizard too, named one of his 8 sons Merlin. Besides being a super high ranking Mormon, he was also a Mason and a Occultist—even had a crystal ball and everything.

He died last year at 100 years and 14 days…the family had his body flown back to Maine from Utah so he could be buried with the rest of the family here. We must have looked a sight at the funeral—everyone dressed in pink, he had a bright pink coffin, an American and Scottish flag, bagpipers, and we all (all 264 of showed up too!!!) sang Scottish ballards with the pipers. The Mormon High Priests all got together and sermonized about temples and celestial kingdoms, and than handed out B of M’s to all the non-Mormons at the funeral. After the funeral we all set out to our usual family feuding—Mormons against the non-Mormons—the funeral directors said it was “the most interesting funeral” they’d ever done. I think they thought we were all crazy.

Ducks in Kilts

I found the picture of the Pekin in a kilt—I love a guy who can wear a kilt…hey, this picture has 2 guys in kilts and bagpipe to boot! Oh how I want to go to the homelands…