# Real Life Copies Mad cover

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**Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\
**Created:** [August 26, 2016, 2:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/real-life-copies-mad-cover/764013 "2016-08-26T14:25:36Z")\
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**Author:** ![CalMeacham](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/calmeacham/32/35_2.png) [@CalMeacham](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CalMeacham)\
**Post date:** [August 26, 2016, 2:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/real-life-copies-mad-cover/764013/1 "2016-08-26T14:25:36Z")

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Today (August 26 2016) on Huffington Post:

> **[Happy 100th Birthday, National Parks! Sorry You're Falling Apart.](https://www.huffpost.com/entry/national-parks-maintenance-backlog-centennial_n_57bf245ee4b02673444ee24e?section=)**
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> The parks enter their second century with a $12 billion backlog of repairs.

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=%22Mad+Magazine%22+poster+%22closed+for+repairs%22&biw=1280&bih=822&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwjbwob-ot_OAhWJGB4KHQV0A_AQ_AUIBigB&dpr=1#tbm=isch&q=%22Mad+Magazine%22+posters+%22this+country+is+out+of+order%22&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](https://www.google.com/search?q=%22Mad+Magazine%22+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](https://www.google.com/search?q=%22Mad+Magazine%22+142+cover&biw=1280&bih=822&tbm=isch&tbo=u&source=univ&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwjlvLOnpN_OAhXMqB4KHbqmBCoQsAQIGw#imgrc=M7m8vcuG7J2pHM%3A)

> **[Government Shutdown Prompts MAD Cover Update](https://www.madmagazine.com/blog/2013/10/01/government-shutdown-prompts-mad-cover-update)**
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> FURLOUGH DOWN DIRTY SHAME DEPT.

And these other-country variations:

> **[MAD Magazine #142 • USA • 1st Edition - New York | MADtrash.com-](https://madtrash.com/item/012510142/)**
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> View information about MAD Magazine #142 • USA • 1st Edition - New York on MADtrash.com. The largest MAD Magazine database, providing tons of useless information for MAD enthusiats.-

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**Author:** ![Amateur\_Barbarian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/59ef9b/32.png) [@Amateur\_Barbarian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Amateur_Barbarian)\
**Post date:** [August 26, 2016, 2:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/real-life-copies-mad-cover/764013/2 "2016-08-26T14:31:03Z")

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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.”

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**Author:** ![Leo\_Krupe](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/ebca7d/32.png) [@Leo\_Krupe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Leo_Krupe)\
**Post date:** [August 26, 2016, 3:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/real-life-copies-mad-cover/764013/3 "2016-08-26T15:08:39Z")

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> [@Amateur\_Barbarian](#):
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> 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” 🙂

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**Author:** ![Punoqllads](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/d2c977/32.png) [@Punoqllads](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Punoqllads)\
**Post date:** [August 26, 2016, 6:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/real-life-copies-mad-cover/764013/4 "2016-08-26T18:46:32Z")

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SNL - “The Triple-Trac. Because you’ll believe anything.”

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**Author:** ![Snowboarder\_Bo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/snowboarder_bo/32/229_2.png) [@Snowboarder\_Bo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Snowboarder_Bo)\
**Post date:** [August 26, 2016, 9:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/real-life-copies-mad-cover/764013/5 "2016-08-26T21:14:14Z")

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[The Onion](http://www.theonion.com) does it too:

[Fuck Everything, We’re Doing Five Blades](http://www.theonion.com/blogpost/fuck-everything-were-doing-five-blades-11056)

And most famously: [Bush: ‘Our Long National Nightmare Of Peace And Prosperity Is Finally Over’](http://www.theonion.com/article/bush-our-long-national-nightmare-of-peace-and-pros-464)