# Don Martin R.I.P.

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/don-martin-r-i-p/12585>\
**Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\
**Created:** [January 8, 2000, 5:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/don-martin-r-i-p/12585 "2000-01-08T17:02:00Z")\
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**Author:** ![RealityChuck](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/realitychuck/32/195_2.png) [@RealityChuck](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RealityChuck)\
**Post date:** [January 8, 2000, 5:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/don-martin-r-i-p/12585/1 "2000-01-08T17:02:00Z")

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It was announced yesterday that Mad’s maddest artist died.

## buka buka buka! Pflapf! Sfloop! kishplapf! gwoyyoin! Fak thack splak-hak! Foing!

“East is east and west is west and if you take cranberries and stew them like applesauce they taste much more like prunes than rhubarb does.” – Marx

Read “Sundials” in the new issue of Aboriginal Science Fiction. [www.sff.net/people/rothman](http://www.sff.net/people/rothman)

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**Author:** ![the\_Scarlet\_Pimpernel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/f1d935/32.png) [@the\_Scarlet\_Pimpernel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/the_Scarlet_Pimpernel)\
**Post date:** [January 8, 2000, 5:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/don-martin-r-i-p/12585/2 "2000-01-08T17:04:00Z")

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Aagh! No! How will I survive?  
The guy was a GENIUS.  
There is an empty space in bizarre humor without him.

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It does not matter that we are descended from the apes; the important thing is not to go back. – Richard Wagner

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**Author:** ![Ursa\_Major](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/a88e57/32.png) [@Ursa\_Major](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ursa_Major)\
**Post date:** [January 8, 2000, 5:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/don-martin-r-i-p/12585/3 "2000-01-08T17:26:00Z")

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As a kid, I used to buy Mad’s paperback compilations of Don Martin’s one pagers. A 150 page book would only take about five minutes to read, but I’d read it 10 of 15 times before putting it down.  
[http://www.straightdope.com/ubb/Forum4/HTML/003889.html](http://www.straightdope.com/ubb/Forum4/HTML/003889.html)