n+1 once said McSweeny's (https://www.mcsweeneys.net/) is just Mad Magazine for the literary set, and today is the right time to share that.
What, Me Worry? The Art and Humor of Mad Magazine
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#42“What Simple Pastime is Becoming a Luxury that Many Americans Can No Longer Afford?” Anyone have the “after” of the fold-in image?
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#43If anyone is interested why there is "Potrzebie" above "what, me worry?" on the drum: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Potrzebie
I don't remember whether it was Potrzebie or one of the other classic MAD nonsense words, but one day I was amazed to see it as a town name on a sign in the Czech Republic. With a couple of accents.
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#44I remember, as a child, attempting to reproduce the BASIC program in one of the MAD magazine issues. Somewhere, I had made a typo, which completely screwed the output. I guessed that the tediousness of the whole exercise was part of the joke, shrugged, and moved on. Luckily, someone else succeeded: https://meatfighter.com/mad/
dedication to create an svg version...
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#45I once worked with the Normal Rockwell Estate and their letterhead used Comic Sans.
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#46I remember, as a child, attempting to reproduce the BASIC program in one of the MAD magazine issues. Somewhere, I had made a typo, which completely screwed the output. I guessed that the tediousness of the whole exercise was part of the joke, shrugged, and moved on. Luckily, someone else succeeded: https://meatfighter.com/mad/
It was pretty common to distribute code as "listing" like this. Typically it came with a checksum for every line and a small program to compute and print that for your own program that you had typed over, which you could then use to fairly quickly(-ish) spot any typos.
All of this is how I learned to program by the way. Kids these days don't know how easy they have it.
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#47n+1 once said McSweeny's ( https://www.mcsweeneys.net/ ) is just Mad Magazine for the literary set, and today is the right time to share that.
The whole take-down is great: https://www.nplusonemag.com/issue-1/the-intellectual-situati...
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#48I still have an Alfred E. Neuman for President bumper sticker somewhere IIRC.
When I was much younger, an older relative was overseas for a year, I used to trace some of the marginal humor (little funny drawings literally in the margin of the magazine pages) on "onion skin" airmail sheets (a thin piece of paper, to minimize weight, that you wrote your message on one side, then folded up into an envelope-size document with Airmail/Par Avion printed on the outside where you wrote the address, can't remember if postage was prepaid or you had to affix stamps). Because it was onion skin, it was semi-transparent which allowed for tracing. He appreciated the effort.
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#49Are there any Mad Magazines of today? Are there some publications that we'll look back on in 20 years and say "that really shaped humor and it's crazy how many interesting people seem to have all read this when they were young?" Are they online?
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#50I remember, as a child, attempting to reproduce the BASIC program in one of the MAD magazine issues. Somewhere, I had made a typo, which completely screwed the output. I guessed that the tediousness of the whole exercise was part of the joke, shrugged, and moved on. Luckily, someone else succeeded: https://meatfighter.com/mad/
It was pretty common to distribute code as "listing" like this. Typically it came with a checksum for every line and a small program to compute and print that for your own program that you had typed over, which you could then use to fairly quickly(-ish) spot any typos. All of this is how I learned to program by the way. Kids these days don't know how easy they have it.
Checksums! Bah, I used to have to code uphill both ways in the snow, and I liked it!