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[ChasSmith]

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

Thank you. I have a digital subscription to the Times but sometimes a few days go by when I don't keep up with at least the headlines (they are so wearying these days), and then I miss an occasional thing like this.

[ChasSmith]

Oh. I know what it was. There's a reminder right there on my screen! I have to run a Time Machine backup. I don't do those automatically, just every few days when I feel like it's a good time. But I was lax for a while during the past few months, and I'm making an effort to get back into the habit like a good nun.

[Jrand74]

HA!  Thanks for the photo DR FREDDIE!

[Jrand74]

Things are moving along. More rain predicted for today....we shall see.

[Jrand74]

My uncle had a MAD magazine when he was a teenager.

It had one of the fold up back covers that was very funny.

I bought it sometimes when I liked the cover. The movie parodies were my favorite!

The only thing I hated Hated HATED was Spy vs. Spy which I thought was stupid.

[Freddie]

HA!  Thanks for the photo DR FREDDIE!

Thank YOU!  I wouldn't have thought to ask about it if you hadn't mentioned it. 

[ChasSmith]

DR Jrand74, funny that you should mention Spy vs. Spy. I honestly don't remember if I liked it all that miuch, or just read it dutifully, but I will say that it's one of the most memorable things I (and I think many people) think of when MAD Magazine is mentioned.

[ChasSmith]

I just read the Wiki page on Don Martin, about whom I really knew nothing.

He had a bit of a rocky life in a few respects, and I didn't know about the eventual falling out with MAD publisher William Gaines. I only vaguely remember CRACKED, but I don't think I ever looked at it enough to know that he had contributed to it for several years after leaving MAD.

[singdaw]

The Selfish Shellfish would be a great title for a children's book.

[Rodzinski]

Dave Berg’s The Lighter Side was always fun.

I remember one where a dad was proudly outside in the driveway showing his son, “See this house? This car? This property? Someday this will all be…”
(Arrives at mailbox full of bills)
“Mine!”

[Freddie]

A favorite MAD parody was their "On a Clear Day You Can See a Funny Girl Singing Hello Dolly Forever"

The cover is shown here
https://mikeshouseofwhacks.blogspot.com/2011/04/mad-on-clear-day-you-can-see-funny-girl.html

[Jane]

GET WELL VIBES FOR BRUCE!

[Jane]

I have never been able to get past that nightmare inducing face to have any desire to go near a MAD magazine.

[Freddie]

I just read the Wiki page on Don Martin, about whom I really knew nothing.

He had a bit of a rocky life in a few respects, and I didn't know about the eventual falling out with MAD publisher William Gaines. I only vaguely remember CRACKED, but I don't think I ever looked at it enough to know that he had contributed to it for several years after leaving MAD.

Thanks for mentioning that wiki page.  Fascinating reading!

[George]

More and more health vibes for BK!

~~~DITTO!!~~~

[George]

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[George]

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

Very funny!

[George]

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

That's very cool, Michael!

[George]

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

Ditto and Ditto.

[George]

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

Thanks for the link, Freddie Larry!

SPOO!!

[elmore3003]

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

Thanks for the link, Freddie.

Freddie? Call me Ishmael.

[KevinH]

Good afternoon!

[KevinH]

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Me too, DR George!

[KevinH]

Vibes for BK

[KevinH]

A favorite MAD parody was their "On a Clear Day You Can See a Funny Girl Singing Hello Dolly Forever"

The cover is shown here
https://mikeshouseofwhacks.blogspot.com/2011/04/mad-on-clear-day-you-can-see-funny-girl.html

I remember that one well, DR Freddie!

[John G.]

A favorite MAD parody was their "On a Clear Day You Can See a Funny Girl Singing Hello Dolly Forever"

The cover is shown here
https://mikeshouseofwhacks.blogspot.com/2011/04/mad-on-clear-day-you-can-see-funny-girl.html

I remember that one well, DR Freddie!

I had forgotten it, but it was a classic.

[John G.]

Malcolm Jamal Warner has apparently died.

[Jane]

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Me too, DR George!

Good for both of you

[Jane]

Malcolm Jamal Warner has apparently died.

This is sad. 

[Freddie]

Malcolm Jamal Warner has apparently died.

Terribly sad.