Reply on Rosa's Re: Digest #24

[Harry Fluks]

I really messed things up yesterday, sending public mail privately, and
private mail to the list. 

I sent a mail to Don privately, then directly after that I found out my 
mistake and sent it to the list as well.
Then I got a private answer from Don to that mail. There were two
possibilities:

1. Don sent the message to me, because he didn't mean the list to read it;
2. Don just "replied" to my message, but actually meant it to be for the list.

Though possibility 2 seemed most likely, I just waited for Don's next mail
to see what he wanted. I could have asked him by private mail, but that would
co$t 2 extra mails, and I want to avoid that.

So, after all this (boring) explanation, here is Don Rosa's reply.
--Harry.

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Date: 24 May 1993 10:19:07 -0400 (EDT)
From: Don Rosa <72260.2635 at compuserve.com>
Subject: Re: Reply on Rosa's Re: Digest #24

Harry...
	I used poor wording if I said somewhere that I hoped Gladstone would be less narrow-minded than Disney. I knew Gladstone would never 
be such. But I was hoping that Disney would allow Gladstone to do something that they were afraid to do themselves. However, no 
such luck. Gladstone has begged for permission to use my Peeweegah tale, and Disney has flatly refused. Unless they start firing and 
hiring people inside Disney (which does happen constantly) there is NO chance that the Peeweegah tale will be printed in America.

	Why did Gutenberghus change its name to Egmont after 125+ years of
 business? I'm not sure. I think that the founder, Egmont Peterson, was such a humble altuist that he named his company after the 
inventor of the printing press rather than himself. Gutenberhus ("House of Gutenberg") finally must have gotten tired of that sort 
of name and decided to honor its illustrious founder. However, (and I'm sure they conducted a long, expensive investigation before 
deciding this) they determined that "Peterson" was difficult to pronounce in certain languages (this being a global company), but 
"Egmont" did not present that problem. I would assume that "Egmont" is only a funny sounding name in ENGLISH, which shouldn't 
bother Egmont a bit, America being such a poor market for reading material.

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