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I wound up swapping this week's video and the next .5 video because I think this will work as a better lead-in (as opposed to lead-out) to next week's OA (one of my history lessons, if you're curious).  


As for this week, it's just another one of my leisurely rambles--see if you can pick out what next week's video will be on because it's not obvious.

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Oddity Archive: Episode 259.5 – Ben’s Junk: Ben’s Mad Magazine Stash

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Mark Hesse

There must be something about preteen/early teen boys that makes them particularly susceptible to the charms of Mad Magazine. This brings back some fond memories and makes me wish I'd kept those magazines and paperbacks. My Mad era was back in the early 70s and I'd guess that I'd moved on to National Lampoon by 1980. Now I'm old and no longer have a sense of humor.😁😒

John Holton

If the late '90's-early 2000's were the slow-march-to- death of MAD, the late '60's-to-mid '70's were its heyday. Those were the years I was reading. my junior high to high school years and even into my college days. There were plenty of Nixon and Agnew jokes, but there was one feature they did where they were picking the President like they pick Miss America that was funny. The parodies of movies were often better than the movies themselves, as were the TV show parodies. There was a record in the issue with the "All In The Family" parody that was okay (nothing more than a direct reading of the feature). There was also a recurring feature called the MAD used-to-be-white paper (where, for example, it was now the brown paper because someone spilled coffee on it, or the green paper because someone left it under a pile of grass trimmings) that were hosted by parodies of actual news personalities (such as Walter Krankheit, krankheit being the German word for stomachache)... Now you've got me started...