STATEMENTS

Barks was a master in dreaming up very special and surprising statements which he lay in the mouths' of his primary characters. Here are some of the more amusing ones.

 

 


U$27


FC0367

A pound of white feathers is lighter than a pound of dark feathers! WDCS099: Said by Donald. This surprising statement can actually be seen as absolutely correct! Think about it!!!
Life is but a gamble.
Let
Flipism chart your ramble.
WDCS149: Donald discovers Flipism, a life style in which all questions in life are decided by the toss of a coin!
The barometer - is falling, - Unca' Donald! - Well, nail it up! I can't do everything around here! WDCS053: Rookie sea captain Donald answers his more experienced shipmate nephews
I never saw anything disappear so fast since I missed a payment on my TV! U$27: Donald is sitting in a rapidly shrinking truck which has been squirted with jivaro juice by Flintheart Glomgold...
Out there? This is the thirteenth floor! - This is no time to get superstitious! Get out there! FC0282: Donald refuses to climb onto a flagpole outside the window in order to catch a parrot. Scrooge is not impressed...
This morning I got my tongue caught in the cake mixer, and before that, the soap powder fell in my scrambled eggs, and before that - WDCS131: Donald after yet another clash with Gladstone who, as usual, is unfairly lucky...
Doggone sow bugs and leaf hoppers! I spend half my time spraying! And the other half of my time swatting cabbage moths! And the other half of my time cutting weeds! WDCS129: Donald is 'relaxing' in the garden. Mathematics buffs will soon spot what is wrong with Donald's arithmetic...
Here where man's eyes have never set foot... U$48: Scrooge has arrived at an uncharted island
Mister, would you like to donate to a Christmas party for poor kids? - Sure! How many kids yuh want? FC0367: Donald is collecting funds for the poor children of Shacktown. A tired looking man with eleven children responds!
I've got rheumatism, Donald! - That's a pain in the neck! U$28: Scrooge and Donald are conversing...

 

 

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http://www.cbarks.dk/thelanguagemasterc.htm   Date 2007-04-29