Topic: MAD (Read 1294 times)

bk · « **on:** July 21, 2025, 12:05:09 AM »

Well, you've read the notes, the notes were MAD, and now it is time for you to post until the MAD cows come home, hopefully without MAD cow disease.

bk · « **Reply #1 on:** July 21, 2025, 12:06:22 AM »

And the word of the day is: PIQUANCY!

elmore3003 · « **Reply #2 on:** July 21, 2025, 04:01:53 AM »

Good morning, all!

elmore3003 · « **Reply #3 on:** July 21, 2025, 04:02:37 AM »

BK, I'm sorry to read about the health setback.

elmore3003 · « **Reply #4 on:** July 21, 2025, 04:05:06 AM »

I'm very sleepy this morning and I would love an excuse to go back to bed. YHesterday, by the time I finished putting away the Amazon Fresh order, chasing Stella down, and carting the garbage to the basement, it was nearly 1:00, and I was in no mood to get back to the orchestration work, So, hopefully, I will finish that first cue today.

Freddie · « **Reply #5 on:** July 21, 2025, 04:55:15 AM »

TOD: My memory is that I was aware of off-Broadway's "The MAD Show" before ever having a copy of MAD Magazine, probably from numbers that were appearing on local TV shows, or when the actors in the show were interviewed.

Looking at the date for "The MAD Show" being 1966, that makes sense that I wouldn't have bought a copy of the magazine before I was six years old.

Freddie · « **Reply #6 on:** July 21, 2025, 04:56:05 AM »

More and more health vibes for BK!

ChasSmith · « **Reply #7 on:** July 21, 2025, 05:00:53 AM »

Good morning, all.

ChasSmith · « **Reply #8 on:** July 21, 2025, 05:02:45 AM »

Monday.

And we get two (2) whole days of relief between these two heat and humidity hells.

ChasSmith · « **Reply #9 on:** July 21, 2025, 05:05:21 AM »

Today I MUST bring the musical gear in and get it set back up. Then there are two errands to run, an ugly bill to pay, and I will finish scanning those slides.

ChasSmith · « **Reply #10 on:** July 21, 2025, 05:09:41 AM »

Two insane crazy dreams through the night -- both on familiar themes, but always in new variations. It would take way too much effort (and ink) to find a way to describe either of them, so I'm afraid y'all will just have to go on being depraved on account of being deprived.

Rodzinski · « **Reply #11 on:** July 21, 2025, 05:28:20 AM »

Notes distributed. Dispersed.

Rodzinski · « **Reply #12 on:** July 21, 2025, 05:33:08 AM »

I had an older brother who loved MAD, and we had some great 1970s issues. I can recall the Grease movie parody, but we surely had some earlier ones.

We got the MAD board game when it came out, which was fun.

And several paperbacks like the advertising parody, MAD looks at MADison Ave. And Silly Answers to Stupid Questions by Al Jaffe.

singdaw · « **Reply #13 on:** July 21, 2025, 05:37:16 AM »

Good morning, friends.

singdaw · « **Reply #14 on:** July 21, 2025, 05:37:24 AM »

And others.

singdaw · « **Reply #15 on:** July 21, 2025, 05:37:36 AM »

Things that go bump in the night.

Michael · « **Reply #16 on:** July 21, 2025, 05:39:19 AM »

Good morning to all

ChasSmith · « **Reply #17 on:** July 21, 2025, 05:40:11 AM »

I never collected MAD except for holding on to maybe half a dozen favorite issues for a while in the 1970s, mostly because of favorite movie parodies. I also had a few of the paperbacks, probably Don Martin compilations because I always loved his stuff.

singdaw · « **Reply #18 on:** July 21, 2025, 05:41:50 AM »

~~~CONTINUED ULTRA-STRENGTH HEALTH VIBES~~~ for BK!!!!!

John G. · « **Reply #19 on:** July 21, 2025, 05:43:25 AM »

Good morning, all.

John G. · « **Reply #20 on:** July 21, 2025, 05:45:19 AM »

I never bought a magazine as a kid. But I loved every copy of MAD I got my hands on. The Sound of Money was my favorite parody and I still love these lyrics:

DOUGH means cash for all of us
HooRAY for musicals like this
ME a star so big that by
FAR it really couldn't miss
SO insipid is the plot
LA dee dah, although we know
TEdious it is a lot
It will bring us back much
DOUGH, dough, dough, dough

John G. · « **Reply #21 on:** July 21, 2025, 05:45:48 AM »

Quote from: singdaw on July 21, 2025, 05:41:50 AM

~~~CONTINUED ULTRA-STRENGTH HEALTH VIBES~~~ for BK!!!!!

A double dose!

Freddie · « **Reply #22 on:** July 21, 2025, 05:48:53 AM »

I remember in school (before a math class) sitting around and several kids reading MAD's LEAST HORIZON out loud, with the immortal

The world is a rhomboid
Without a circumference
And nobody knows what this simile means.

Michael · « **Reply #23 on:** July 21, 2025, 05:49:07 AM »

My first Mad magazine was by accident. I was with my grandfather and we stopped at a magazine store (Remember them?) That issue they were parodying the TV show Batman. Batman was on the cover and I was big fan of the show. I thought it was a Batman comic book.
Years later my cousin worked as one of the usual gang of idiots. He gifted me with the set of cd-Ron’s of every issue of Mad up to the time it was made. The was a lot of interactive features including the folding cover.
As a bonus they gave you a roll of Mad magazine toilet paper which I still have in the original packaging

Freddie · « **Reply #24 on:** July 21, 2025, 05:49:26 AM »

Quote from: John G. on July 21, 2025, 05:45:19 AM

I never bought a magazine as a kid. But I loved every copy of MAD I got my hands on. The Sound of Money was my favorite parody and I still love these lyrics:

DOUGH means cash for all of us
HooRAY for musicals like this
ME a star so big that by
FAR it really couldn't miss
SO insipid is the plot
LA dee dah, although we know
TEdious it is a lot
It will bring us back much
DOUGH, dough, dough, dough

LOL!

singdaw · « **Reply #25 on:** July 21, 2025, 05:49:31 AM »

Same. The few issues of MAD I read, I loved. But I never collected.

Freddie · « **Reply #26 on:** July 21, 2025, 05:51:51 AM »

Quote from: Michael on July 21, 2025, 05:39:19 AM

Good morning to all

Hi Michael! Good to see you here.

Freddie · « **Reply #27 on:** July 21, 2025, 06:02:38 AM »

When I did my "Book of More Money" parody, IIRC, I'd mentioned in the YouTube notes that the parody title was in tribute to "The Sound of Money."

Something at some point got somebody at the Scott Rudin office upset with me. From the timing of when my online parodies started getting really targeted, I've wondered if the title "Book of More Money" was the one - though the parody was actually celebrating how much money they were raking in.

elmore3003 · « **Reply #28 on:** July 21, 2025, 06:38:28 AM »

Today's Jeffrey Epstein post, an interview with the reporter who got the ball rolling on Epstein's re-arrest:
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/07/19/opinion/interesting-times-julie-k-brown-epstein.html?unlocked_article_code=1.X08.v-JS.cj8hoF1Ta1uc&smid=fb-share&fbclid=IwY2xjawLrG7hleHRuA2FlbQIxMQABHgr-lG3nvHCTGiUvPmzey7QK5nkKdz19cdvOmQzy_c7ik_re_sf44IWPbjVM_aem_jZ10MLZXYCHmrCmGx742pw

ChasSmith · « **Reply #29 on:** July 21, 2025, 06:54:53 AM »

Damn. Thinking about my day, I also have to schlep to Walmart to pick up a prescription, get the trash and recycling ready to take down to the road tonight (I skipped last week, so it has to be done today), and something else I remembered five minutes ago - whatever in the HELL it was. I'd best get moving on these things.

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