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I inherited my Dad's Mad magazines which covered the mid 60s to the early 70s, and my Uncle's, which covered the early 70s to the early 80s, and my collection,
by Fricken 7y ago
I inherited my Dad's Mad magazines which covered the mid 60s to the early 70s, and my Uncle's, which covered the early 70s to the early 80s, and my collection, which began in 1984 and ran to 1993. I read them all over and over. I learned about the world through the spectre of Mad, it was my primary education.
Of course, it ain't what it used to be and hasn't been for a long time, so I guess I'm not that sad to see it go. It was a different era.
- kstrauser 7y agoSame. It's not exaggerating to say that it taught me a healthy distrust of authority and corporate America. RIP, gang. You showed me a great many new ideas.
- klenwell 7y agoAlso gave Donald Knuth his first big break: > At age 19, Dr. Knuth published his first technical paper, “The Potrzebie System of Weights and Measures,” in Mad magazine. https://www.nytimes.com/2018/12/17/science/donald-knuth-computers-algorithms-programming.html https://www.nytimes.com/2018/12/17/science/donald-knuth-comp... I shudder to think where computer science would be today were it not for the sage foresight and mature discrimination of Mad magazine.
- knopkop_ 7y agoI inherited a pile of Mad magazines as a kid in South Africa. Some of the content was confusing to me as I had little concept of some US terms, i.e. I had no idea which season 'Fall' is, or that a character complains about the temperature being in the eighties (celcius vs fahrenheit). Just yesterday I recalled an old joke in an old copy of Mad. It was a top ten list of songs that are about violence. One of the songs listed was Sting and the Police, "Don't stab so close to me". Still laughing about that now.