Today (August 26 2016) on Huffington Post:
Mad Magazine #142 cover, April 1971:
Not to mention this from the Mad website on October 1 2013:
And these other-country variations:
Today (August 26 2016) on Huffington Post:
Mad Magazine #142 cover, April 1971:
Not to mention this from the Mad website on October 1 2013:
And these other-country variations:
It became so common for reality to catch up to Mad’s craziest satires - many foolish products and advertising campaigns they parodied later came to exist - that there’s a whole term for it: “Blindsided by Reality.”
aka “MAD ESP”
SNL - “The Triple-Trac. Because you’ll believe anything.”
The Onion does it too:
Fuck Everything, We’re Doing Five Blades
And most famously: Bush: ‘Our Long National Nightmare Of Peace And Prosperity Is Finally Over’