# Any Mad magazine readers out there? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [May 5, 2012, 7:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/any-mad-magazine-readers-out-there/620966 "2012-05-05T07:19:33Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Lust4Life](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/ecc23a/32.png) [@Lust4Life](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lust4Life)\ **Post date:** [May 5, 2012, 11:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/any-mad-magazine-readers-out-there/620966/21 "2012-05-05T23:01:19Z")
I loved Mad when I was younger, thought that it was totally wrong when Family Guy started mocking it, and I’m a total FG fan. ---
**Author:** ![Sam\_A.Robrin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sam_a.robrin/32/14497_2.png) [@Sam\_A.Robrin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sam_A.Robrin)\ **Post date:** [May 6, 2012, 12:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/any-mad-magazine-readers-out-there/620966/22 "2012-05-06T00:07:16Z")
Mr. Shakespeare (F. U., not the other one) pretty well said what I was going to. For a mid-range Baby Boomer, _Mad_ was absolutely the only venue available in the early '60s that taught genuine critical thinking. Alfred E. Neuman remains the most valuable spiritual guru of my life. It sometimes seems _Mad_ did its job a little _too_ well, unfortunately, making us all so distrustful of hypocrisy that we fail to recognize genuine honor on the rare occasions that we find it. But that beats the obsequious obeisance toward public institutions that perpetually puzzled me through childhood. ---
**Author:** ![Labdad](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/439d5e/32.png) [@Labdad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Labdad)\ **Post date:** [May 6, 2012, 12:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/any-mad-magazine-readers-out-there/620966/23 "2012-05-06T00:09:15Z")
> [@Eve](#): > > I read it faithfully from about 1962-69, and can still sing by heart many of the parody musical numbers. “How come I’m alone, and there’s so much music? High up on a hill with no one in viiieeww . . .” From “South Chicago:” (sung to the tune of “There is Nothing Like a Dame”) We got tommy guns that fire Ninety bullets at a clip We got blackjacks and brass knuckles And a shotgun that’s a pip We got telescopic rifles That we hardly gotta aim But now and then, we try a frame! ---
**Author:** ![dropzone](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dropzone/32/7515_2.png) [@dropzone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dropzone)\ **Post date:** [May 6, 2012, 12:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/any-mad-magazine-readers-out-there/620966/24 "2012-05-06T00:12:39Z")
> [@RealityChuck](#): > > [My favorite article](http://www.madcoversite.com/quiz_olympics.html) of all time. I said to myself, I said, “He better mean _43-Man Squamish_.” My first sentence in Spanish was _,¡Mi tio es enfermo, pero la carretera es verde!’_ ---
**Author:** ![Labdad](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/439d5e/32.png) [@Labdad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Labdad)\ **Post date:** [May 6, 2012, 12:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/any-mad-magazine-readers-out-there/620966/25 "2012-05-06T00:28:29Z")
> [@Doug\_K](#): > > I was (and still am) a big fan, but as far as I’m concerned Mad died with William Gaines. To be more accurate, it started dying with him. The whole tone of the magazine just started changing. The last gasp was when they started accepting advertising. It’s a shame, because Dick DeBartolo is still as funny as ever, but there was something about Gaines’ leadership that defined the magazine, and it’s just not there anymore. It’s kind of like when Lt. Hauk took over Cronauer’s broadcast in _Good Morning Vietnam._ Did you ever see the “Mad” parody in “National Lampoon,” around 1970/71? It was called “Citizen Gaines?” it was brilliant! (It may have even been drawn by Mort Drucker) Instead of “Rosebud,” Gaines’s final word was “satire,” and the reporter went all over trying to find out what he meant! Gaines was very much alive at the time, but by '71, “Mad” had lost much of its edge! ---
**Author:** ![Bryan\_Ekers](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bryan_ekers/32/183_2.png) [@Bryan\_Ekers](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bryan_Ekers)\ **Post date:** [May 6, 2012, 1:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/any-mad-magazine-readers-out-there/620966/26 "2012-05-06T01:47:07Z")
It stinks. The whole thing stinks. You stink. ---
**Author:** ![Doug\_K](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b5ac83/32.png) [@Doug\_K](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Doug_K)\ **Post date:** [May 6, 2012, 2:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/any-mad-magazine-readers-out-there/620966/27 "2012-05-06T02:14:57Z")
Some of my favorite moments: Woodman, Spare That Tree illustrated by Don Martin. Don Martin in general. Even though I have both of the computer collections, I had to buy the 40 pound 2 volume set “The Completely MAD Don Martin” From Dave Berg’s Lighter Side Of… : “When she said I have 20/20 hindsight I should have said…” The Dulltons: “Since visitors always end up sharing our bed, I hope next time instead of a smelly old tramp we get a purdy lady” “John-Mop! We Dulltons don’t think like that!” “Wul then how come there’s so many of us?” ---
**Author:** ![Mean\_Mr.Mustard](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mean_mr.mustard/32/3865_2.png) [@Mean\_Mr.Mustard](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mean_Mr.Mustard)\ **Post date:** [May 6, 2012, 2:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/any-mad-magazine-readers-out-there/620966/28 "2012-05-06T02:42:41Z")
My prime Mad period was from 1970 to around 1980, although my older cousin had all the issues from the 60s and I pored over them whenever I was at his house. He had a huge stack on the floor of his walk-in closet, just to the left of the door. That’s where I sat. I knew the approximate day of the month the new issue would arrive at the local drugstore each month, and I’d bike there in great anticipation. There were times I made the trip four or five days straight before the new issue had finally arrived. For a time this monthly trek was a huge event in my life. It’s incredible how much of Mad has stayed with me. Especially the movie and TV parodies whose titles I can recite with ease (Movies: Catch-All-22, Botch Casually and the Somedunce Kid, Boob and Carnal and Tad and Alas, The Oddfather, The Great Gasbag, Five Easy Pages…and Two Hard Ones; The TV shows: Makeus Sickby, M.D., Blarney Miller, How Are Ya Five O, Gall in the Family Fare, The Mary Tailor-Made Show, and Clodumbo). I remember buying an issue of Cracked now and then, and finding it a very lame imitation of Mad. There was another imitator…anyone remember Sick? It was actually a tier above Cracked, in my opinion, but miles below Mad. And yes, I still have all my original issues. mmm ---
**Author:** ![F.U.Shakespeare](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/aca169/32.png) [@F.U.Shakespeare](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/F.U.Shakespeare)\ **Post date:** [May 6, 2012, 2:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/any-mad-magazine-readers-out-there/620966/29 "2012-05-06T02:45:48Z")
> [@Doug\_K](#): > > Some of my favorite moments: > > Woodman, Spare That Tree illustrated by Don Martin. > > Don Martin in general. Even though I have both of the computer collections, I had to buy the 40 pound 2 volume set “The Completely MAD Don Martin” > > From Dave Berg’s Lighter Side Of… : “When she said I have 20/20 hindsight I should have said…” > > The Dulltons: > > “Since visitors always end up sharing our bed, I hope next time instead of a smelly old tramp we get a purdy lady” > > “John-Mop! We Dulltons don’t think like that!” > > “Wul then how come there’s so many of us?” “John-Mop! For thinking those evil thoughts, you go memorize ten verses from the Bible!” “OK Ma. But the Bible’s where I begat them evil thoughts in the first place” ---
**Author:** ![VOW](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/vow/32/3043_2.png) [@VOW](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/VOW)\ **Post date:** [May 6, 2012, 4:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/any-mad-magazine-readers-out-there/620966/30 "2012-05-06T04:12:24Z")
“Voyage to See What’s on the Bottom” ~VOW ---
**Author:** ![Rick](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/9f8e36/32.png) [@Rick](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rick)\ **Post date:** [May 6, 2012, 4:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/any-mad-magazine-readers-out-there/620966/31 "2012-05-06T04:33:05Z")
> [@VOW](#): > > “Voyage to See What’s on the Bottom” > ~VOW From that spoof: The captain wants full atomic power, you know what that means. Yes chief two hamsters in each cage, but you remember what happened the last time we did that. Yeah we wound up with hundreds of hamsters, so this time we put boy hamsters with boy hamsters, and girl hamsters with girl hamsters. ---
**Author:** ![lawoot](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/35a633/32.png) [@lawoot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lawoot)\ **Post date:** [May 6, 2012, 8:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/any-mad-magazine-readers-out-there/620966/32 "2012-05-06T08:25:27Z")
“We Three Slobs from Omaha are Spending Christmas Eve in a car. Driving, drinking, Glasses clinking Who needs a lousy bar?” ---
**Author:** ![Siam\_Sam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/d78d45/32.png) [@Siam\_Sam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Siam_Sam)\ **Post date:** [May 6, 2012, 8:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/any-mad-magazine-readers-out-there/620966/33 "2012-05-06T08:42:26Z")
My father had a couple of old issues from the 1950s that I thought were pretty funny as a kid. I read _Mad_ regularly in the 1960s, and there were definite stylistic differnces from the 1950s editions. Those 1950s ones seemed better for the most part. ---
**Author:** ![Musicat](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/musicat/32/20189_2.png) [@Musicat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Musicat)\ **Post date:** [May 6, 2012, 1:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/any-mad-magazine-readers-out-there/620966/34 "2012-05-06T13:24:44Z")
I collected MADs in the 1950’s, but they were absolutely forbidden in my household, along with Playboys, The Realist, Rock & Roll, Jazz, and anything else that smacked of _The Devil,_ who we all know is lurking _everywhere_ to corrupt the flower of our nation’s youth. So I had to hide my record and magazine collection from parental eyes. So far, so good. But years later when my parents moved from our homestead, and I wasn’t around, my uncle, a fundamentalist from the same cloth, found my stash and helpfully tossed everything, probably using surgical gloves to avoid dangerous moral contamination. When I found out later, and pointed out that he had tossed a few thousand dollars of saleable collectibles, it didn’t bother him in the least. He was doing the Lord’s work. ---
**Author:** ![Eve](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/9e8a1a/32.png) [@Eve](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eve)\ **Post date:** [May 6, 2012, 2:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/any-mad-magazine-readers-out-there/620966/35 "2012-05-06T14:40:19Z")
> [@lawoot](#): > > “We Three Slobs from Omaha are > Spending Christmas Eve in a car. > Driving, drinking, > Glasses clinking > Who needs a lousy bar?” Charlie, the milkman Is the biggest slob in town! Never leaves the quarts you’ve ask him for, When he does, they’re upside-down! ---
**Author:** ![Zeldar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/b77776/32.png) [@Zeldar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zeldar)\ **Post date:** [May 6, 2012, 2:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/any-mad-magazine-readers-out-there/620966/36 "2012-05-06T14:46:12Z")
My memory is fuzzy on where I first encountered this amazing parody, either Pogo or MAD, but in any case: [Deck Us All With Boston Charlie](http://www.songmeanings.net/songs/view/3530822107858625456/) ---
**Author:** ![Siam\_Sam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/d78d45/32.png) [@Siam\_Sam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Siam_Sam)\ **Post date:** [May 6, 2012, 3:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/any-mad-magazine-readers-out-there/620966/37 "2012-05-06T15:00:41Z")
> [@Zeldar](#): > > My memory is fuzzy on where I first encountered this amazing parody, either Pogo or MAD, but in any case: [Deck Us All With Boston Charlie](http://www.songmeanings.net/songs/view/3530822107858625456/) [Pogo](http://www.straightdope.com/columns/read/458/what-are-the-lyrics-to-walt-kellys-classic-carol-deck-us-all-with-boston-charlie) ---
**Author:** ![Zeldar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/b77776/32.png) [@Zeldar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zeldar)\ **Post date:** [May 6, 2012, 3:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/any-mad-magazine-readers-out-there/620966/38 "2012-05-06T15:17:37Z")
> [@Siam\_Sam](#): > > [Pogo](http://www.straightdope.com/columns/read/458/what-are-the-lyrics-to-walt-kellys-classic-carol-deck-us-all-with-boston-charlie) Gracias! ---
**Author:** ![BMalion](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/e274bd/32.png) [@BMalion](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BMalion)\ **Post date:** [May 6, 2012, 3:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/any-mad-magazine-readers-out-there/620966/39 "2012-05-06T15:51:23Z")
This thread composed by the usual gang of idiots. ---
**Author:** ![Zeldar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/b77776/32.png) [@Zeldar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zeldar)\ **Post date:** [May 6, 2012, 3:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/any-mad-magazine-readers-out-there/620966/40 "2012-05-06T15:55:59Z")
> [@BMalion](#): > > This thread composed > by the > usual gang of idiots. I’ll drink a Moxie for that! Aside from the self-serving aspect of it, y’all might enjoy [Favorite "Far Side" Memories (MAD, too) - Cafe Society - Straight Dope Message Board](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=192208) Favorite “Far Side” Memories (MAD, too) – one of my first “successful” threads! [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/any-mad-magazine-readers-out-there/620966.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/any-mad-magazine-readers-out-there/620966.md?page=3)