Drakes and Coots and Farbackistan

DGE@ECN.egmont.com DGE at ECN.egmont.com
Wed Jun 20 09:02:55 CEST 2001


	Hey Harry!

>Maybe someone can prove, someday, that the Barks stories *are* the origin
of
>the word "Verweggistan".

	There's a Barks piece with the name "Farbackishan": the Gyro
Gearloose story "Buffaloed by Buffalos". The use of "-shan" rather than
"-stan" makes it uncertain, though.
	More likely is another Barks story where the name "Faroffistan"
appears - but I don't remember which one this *is*! Still, it's out there,
and I'm willing to bet it's the origin of the (in)famous place-name.

	David



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