Real Life Copies Mad cover

Today (August 26 2016) on Huffington Post:

Mad Magazine #142 cover, April 1971:

https://www.google.com/search?q="Mad+Magazine"+poster+"closed+for+repairs"&biw=1280&bih=822&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwjbwob-ot_OAhWJGB4KHQV0A_AQ_AUIBigB&dpr=1#tbm=isch&q="Mad+Magazine"+posters+"this+country+is+out+of+order"&imgrc=Mzg02XbGg4_zqM%3A

https://www.google.com/search?q="Mad+Magazine"+142+cover&biw=1280&bih=822&tbm=isch&tbo=u&source=univ&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwjlvLOnpN_OAhXMqB4KHbqmBCoQsAQIGw#imgrc=XzisIHElwJ5DoM%3A

Not to mention this from the Mad website on October 1 2013:

https://www.google.com/search?q="Mad+Magazine"+142+cover&biw=1280&bih=822&tbm=isch&tbo=u&source=univ&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwjlvLOnpN_OAhXMqB4KHbqmBCoQsAQIGw#imgrc=M7m8vcuG7J2pHM%3A

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” :slight_smile:

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’