Gosh, but it looks exciting.
(It really did arrive in my mailbox … inside the pages of Mad magazine.)
A new magazine arrived in my mailbox today!
Pharyngula
Evolution, development, and random biological ejaculations from a godless liberal
Gosh, but it looks exciting.
(It really did arrive in my mailbox … inside the pages of Mad magazine.)
You have a subscription to MAD Magazine? Euch…I’ve never been a fan.
Then again, if it has things like that, maybe the quality has improved…
“Heh Fritz, pull my finger.”
Ahhhhhhhh, good times.
I want a “tear out Darwin dartboard” too!
HAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHHAA!
> You have a subscription to MAD Magazine? Euch…I’ve never been a fan.
I believe the proper expression is (or used to be) “Blechhhhhhh”
Are there any actual ‘articles’ inside that?
I’ve got the old Mad Magazines on CD. You know, that came in the big box with the Mad Magazine toilet roll. It was actually a pretty neat way to read them (on the CD, not the toilet roll).
50 years’ worth gets a bit daunting, though the reading software was actually pretty good: you could magnify the page, and hitting the space bar would take you between the frames logically. That must have been a labor of love.
There’s something just not right about having the software do the fold-ins for you :)
It’s not everyone’s cup of tea all the time, but there’s almost always a bright spark hiding behind some of the satire.
Still beats reading New Yorker cartoons, as far as I know :)
That’s real good. And they could use the tear-out Dawkin’s dartboard–it’d teach them how to aim.
The Family Circus beats reading the New Yorker cartoons, for that matter.
I haven’t read MAD in many a year — I think William Gaines might still have been alive last time I bought a copy. (My parents actually discouraged me from reading it, so I only ever bought a few copies.) Honestly, I always found their humor a bit forced and juvenile (although I did like Don Martin’s stuff — “Why, Dr. Bonji! I didn’t know you could play the organ!”).
Maybe it’s gotten better?
The old stalwart of American pop-culture satire proves it’s still plenty current!
Last issue of Mad I recall was January 1961 — the whole magazine was designed to be read in either direction (after an appropriate flip) in honor of the new “upside-down year.”
(“First upside-down year since 1881! Last upside-down year ’til 6009!”)
I would have been 6-1/2 at the time. (I’m not saying it’s the last MAD magazine I ever saw, just the last one I recall. It was my older brother’s.)
Now, how would they do that on a CDROM?
Some of us, even in the UK prefer:
Fat Freddy’s Cat and The Fabulous Furry Frek Brothers
If only, because there’s a cat (Hexadecimal) sitting on my mouse-hand (left) as I try to type this ……
This reminds me of an excellent “This Modern World” comic.
http://dir.salon.com/story/comics/tomo/2005/05/16/tomo/index.html
I love Mad Magazine. I’m running out and buying a copy!
Maybe in celebration of the Dover decision anniversary I’ll dig through my pile of old Mads to see how they lampooned previous creationist attempts.
I haven’t read MAD in years (okay, decades). Thinks for the tip-off. I just might have to stop by the newsstand on my way home tonight.
What’s wrong with this picture…anyone? Anyone?
Fat Freddy’s Cat is the ultimate! I’d forgotten about that one…
Quite amusing.
yeah fat freddy scat the cat, cool
>> You have a subscription to MAD Magazine? Euch…I’ve never been a fan.
>I believe the proper expression is (or used to be) “Blechhhhhhh”
It was “Yechhh”.. when I was a kid I used to say it as it was written, “Yetch”, not knowing any other way.
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