Potrzebie

[dhermann1]

Potrzebie. The word just suddenly popped into my fevered brain a moment ago. Mad magazine 1954.
Here's more about Potrzebie than you ever wanted to know:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Potrzebie
I invite fellow Loungers either to participate in a rational sensible discussion of what a jolly fun read good old Mad Magazine was, or, on the other hand, to launch into one of those spectacularly idiotic nonsense threads that have erupted here from time to time.
Or both.

 

[Doctor Strange]

Don't forget Veeblefetzer too!

I had a subscription to Mad for around a decade as a kid (circa 1963-1972), and was given the paperback reprints of the old 50s classics by an older friend. Fantastic stuff, and the true fountainhead of most modern humor.

I also have a potted plant at my job that I think of as Arthur...

 

[dhermann1]

The "Starchy" issue gave me nightmares! lol

 

[Dixon Cannon]

And who can forget the famed 'Poiuyt'?! [huh]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blivet

-dixon cannon

 

["Skeet" McD]

Don't forget Veeblefetzer too!

I had a subscription to Mad for around a decade as a kid (circa 1963-1972), and was given the paperback reprints of the old 50s classics by an older friend. Fantastic stuff, and the true fountainhead of most modern humor.

Another Westchester lad of the same vintage here, who was also exposed to MAD back in the early 60s...pretty amazing stuff. An interesting twist was meeting and getting to know the MAD artist, George Woodbridge, under rather different circumstances 15 years further on...

Many who know his MAD work may not know of his other passion (and somewhat separate career) as a military historian and artist. He was one of the founding members and leading lights of the Brigade of the American Revolution, one of the first reenactment groups to stress authenticity. George's (unfunny) work dominates the earlier volumes of the Company of Military Historians. He was a charming man; was always magnificently turned out, usually as an 18C American Light-infantry officer; and now, sadly, has gone to his reward after many years of chronic emphysema. R.I.P.

"Skeet"

 

[Bassman]

Hey! Whattaya say we get a 43 Man Squamish team together?

 

[dr greg]

Mad about the boy

I used to love MAD when I was a kid in the early 60's but it was very much a 50's thing for my money, they started to get tired after a couple of years bashing hippiedom. Dave Berg was always good value though.

 

[Fletch]

Hmph, I credit Berg with part of MAD's downward slide. It was at about that time that it gave up being zany and surrealistic and became more ethnic and regional, meant to make you chortle knowingly rather than bust a gut (or just puzzle over what "Brioschi" was or why servicepeople needed tipping at Christmas). Altho there is something universal about the way Roger Kaputnik bites the stem off his pipe in every fourth panel, basically The Lighter Side got its name from the fact that it was a light kind of tragicomedy.

 

[Talbot]

Years later

and I'm still trying to figure out if 'fershlugginer' is a real word.

I seem to recall the really old mags were in a pocketbook size. This was in the early 60's and was a hand down from my parents. Can anyone enlighten me?

Talbot

 

[Doctor Strange]

Those were the reprints of the early 50s issues as rack-size paperbacks. I've got a bunch, dating from the late 50s to the late 60s (by which time they were reprinting early 60s material).

 

[Fletch]

They used to do pocket size anthologies.

I dunno, maybe the whole magazine was pocket size over there.

 

[John in Covina]

Fester Bestertester and his Protege Carbuncle.

Anybody ever own the album or now cd of "The Mad Show" out there?

 

[Bassman]

Fester Bestertester and his Protege Carbuncle.

Anybody ever own the album or now cd of "The Mad Show" out there?

No, but I still have my cardboard record of Alfred E. Newman singing "It's A Gas"!

 

[Viola]

"Ferschlugginer" or "fershlugginer," is a Yiddish word meaning "danged" or similar. "That ferschlugginer cat is eating all the balloon streamers again even though they make him sick!" etc.

 

[Warbaby]

I was a big fan of Mad in my highschool days back in the late 50s. A couple of lines I still remember as being popular catchphrases among my classmates were, "I had one grunch but the eggplant over there" and "Which reminds me, Ed, how's yer mom". I still have a copy of issue #7.

 

[LizzieMaine]

"Don't plague us with Kogen and Coker,
Don't ruin our day with Stan Hart.
Don Martin's at best mediocre.
And Drucker needs courses in art."

-- Random lines from a MAD song self-parody, recalled for no good reason at all from an issue found at my cousin's house when I was ten years old.

 

[carouselvic]

Al Jaffee was good. I liked Snappy Answers to Stupid Questions.

 

[Fletch]

Wally Wood was my favorite MAD artist by far - the things he snuck into each story added so much.

MAD #4, April, 1953.

 

[BegintheBeguine]

CHEAP

When people ask me if I've seen a particular movie I say, "No, I don't have to. I've read the Mad magazine parody of it." Shmoe is a favorite, I like it better than Joe, which is disturbing although I like it.
We had the Mad Show record from the public library but my dad made us return it. I liked the jab at Bob Dylan types in Well It Ain't.
One of my fiances and I spent many an agreeable evening playing the reissue of the Mad board game, purchased at Toys 'R Us in the 80s.
You know you've really made it when you get a New Year's Eve party invitation in June.
The branch library where I work subscribes to Mad.

 

[Doctor Strange]

The Mad Show

I actually saw The Mad Show! My family took me in celebration of my eleventh birthday. It was my first trip to the theater in NYC.

I wish I could claim that I recall it vividly, but I don't. Just isolated bits of business. (However, we also saw the original production of Man of La Mancha soon after, and THAT I remember!)