[HN Gopher] The Mad Files
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       The Mad Files
        
       Author : prismatic
       Score  : 21 points
       Date   : 2024-10-20 05:16 UTC (2 days ago)
        
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 (TXT) w3m dump (www.tabletmag.com)
        
       | eludwig wrote:
       | Lovely excerpt that gives a good general overview of Mad history
       | and highlights!
       | 
       | I was an avid reader as a child in the late 60s to early 70s. I
       | eventually moved on to National Lampoon as a teen, but Mad will
       | always glow in my childhood memory heart.
       | 
       | I still have a decent-sized collection of Mad paperbacks. Many
       | (most, all?) were written by a single Mad artist/writer. My
       | favorites of these were ones written by Don Martin and Al Jaffee.
        
         | kstrauser wrote:
         | I learned to read by sitting on my dad's lap and sounding out
         | the effects from "Don Martin Drops 13 Stories". Thought I
         | didn't understand what I was looking at, the sounds were the
         | funniest thing ever to little me. I had to track down a copy of
         | my own to show my kids when they were little, and they felt the
         | same way.
         | 
         | I (dis)credit Mad for developing a lifelong mix of sarcasm with
         | sincerity, skepticism with optimism. It was exactly the right
         | food for my young brain.
        
           | eludwig wrote:
           | >> lifelong mix of sarcasm with sincerity, skepticism with
           | optimism
           | 
           | Love this, perfectly said. Or, in the words of Don Martin,
           | Thook Zak Splak KWOP!
        
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