Natasha?.....
She was not always in black....
Posted on 05/05/2019 1:08:15 PM PDT by Sean_Anthony
Reading MAD is one thing, allowing yourself to live in it is quite another
I admit, I occasionally read Mad magazine as a kid. Every feature in it was strange and weird. I was transported to a parallel world of the absurd, the nonsensical. That was, I suppose, part of the attraction. I know I didn’t join their ranks because, in spite of the entertainment value, I still, even now, think it was weird. Not so for millions of others.
I scan about 50 or 60 news articles a week, mostly to keep in touch with what is going on in order to sound intelligent when I write my own articles. The problem today is I sometimes feel like I’m living in a Mad magazine.
OK, quick,
Who are the 3 spies today?
Black=?
White=?
Gray=?
With the Dems in charge, yes, big time!!!
No names; they are the man in black, the man in white, and the woman in grey.
I never imagined back in the day that Alfred E. Nueman would be elected President in 2008 and 2012.
Living in a SPAM magazine.
Natasha?.....
She was not always in black....
I started reading it around 1957. I thought it was funny. Also learned a lot of Jewish expressions I had never heard of before. There were only a handful of Jews in my home town and they had been assimilated. Attended First Baptist Church etc.
It was a bit unusual in that it poked fun at everyone, not just Conservatives. For some reason Don Martin’s cartoons of a guy with hinged feet always struck me as amusing.
Party Down Wednesdays.
AE0bama never worried until he saw it on the news.
And we dont even get the benefit of the back page fold-in.
Nerd!
way back when my mother wouldnt let us read MAD,think it was early 60’s
No margin cartoons by Sergio Aragones?
Gesh forgot about that.It was great
MAD generally spoke to me, perhaps telling as some teacher in Upper El or JR High advised me to be less of a cynic.
I liked the alternative lyrics to songs and the ads in the back (e.g. "Where's the Fire, Chief?" [Texaco] and "Our Majag's a workin' 'still!...." [Matag]) though the movie "reviews" were classic.
Those mags were FULL of content.
Author writes:...”The problem today is I sometimes feel like I’m living in a Mad magazine.”......
Is he just waking up to realize Washington politics operate on another entirely different plain than the one he operates on?
Silly fool!
Haven’t looked at MAD since Dave Berg died.
I occasionally see current Mad magazine, which I believe is a DC publication. Based on the covers, it’s a Hate Trump mag now.
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