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Did MAD magazine play an important roll in your childhood?

I loved MAD back then.
- 17 (70.8%)
I loved it then, I love it now.
- 3 (12.5%)
No, I was more into CRACKED
- 0 (0%)
No, I didn't read MAD or CRACKED
- 4 (16.7%)

Total Members Voted: 23

Voting closed: January 31, 2008, 07:27:29 pm


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KeithHernandez

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Re: MAD
« Reply #30 on: January 22, 2008, 12:23:52 am »
See, I have this thing were I can only watch documentaries and the best of the best comedies.  Everything else just makes me lose interest almost immediately.  I tried to watch the newest batman the other day (well, I was playing dominoes at a friends at it was on) and I could not watch it at all.

I don't think it is a add thing either, I mean I can concentrate on music or books or years of achewood strips or the Big Lebowski or early Woody Allen films or like whole seasons of the wire or arrested development or seinfeld at once, just, besides that, I can't do it.  Something about the movie format really turns me off I guess.

If Star Wars was like a bad ass hbo special I might be able to watch.

I have horrible eyes?  maybe this has something to do with it.  I don't really dig to hard on video games either, except Mario and early games.  The only games I have ever beaten are the first three Marios and the original Contra.


Yeah, so to make this more focused, I have very, very little knowledge of Batman, Superman or Star Wars.  I know shit tons about the Ottoman Empire though!

Oh, and I like a lot of movies I didn't list here, just to be clear, but mainly the basics; your Life of Brian's and Spinal Taps.
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Re: MAD
« Reply #31 on: January 22, 2008, 12:38:02 am »
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Re: MAD
« Reply #32 on: January 22, 2008, 01:24:36 am »
I have just discovered that Keith and I have a lot in common. Except for the video games and the ottoman empire.

Do you find this frightening too, Keith? I am sorry.
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Re: MAD
« Reply #33 on: January 22, 2008, 02:19:53 am »
Sorry?

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Re: MAD
« Reply #34 on: January 22, 2008, 02:28:58 am »
It's okay, Keith.

50 "Hail Yodas" on my desk Wednesday morning is all.

In cursive, mind you.
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Re: MAD
« Reply #35 on: January 22, 2008, 02:45:30 am »
Quote from: theinevitable on January 21, 2008, 11:44:52 pm
Batman, Superman, and Star Wars.
Those are the things you need to know about.

Wait, so it's a bat, and also a man? That's crazy talk.
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Re: MAD
« Reply #36 on: January 22, 2008, 03:02:47 am »
Quote from: KeithHernandez on January 22, 2008, 12:23:52 am
Yeah, so to make this more focused, I have very, very little knowledge of Batman, Superman or Star Wars.  I know shit tons about the Ottoman Empire though!

Hell and yes. The Ottoman Empire owns Superman.
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Re: MAD
« Reply #37 on: January 22, 2008, 03:32:15 am »
I too have never see the original Star Wars trilogy, nor have I wished to see it.  I genuinely don't like sci-fi of any variety, and I've seen more than enough referential information about Star Wars, (even of a non parody based ilk via the comic shop) to know it it not my thing.  I was physically dragged into the theatre to see the first of the new trilogy and slept through most of it.
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Re: MAD
« Reply #38 on: January 22, 2008, 03:35:10 am »
Quote from: Golfhaus on January 22, 2008, 12:38:02 am
Ol' George Jefferson has company.

What I like about this article is that it acts like stupid laws are something that the liberals communists (this is Townhall.com we're talking about here) invented in the last few years, along with the nanny state. This is just today's version of those old laws still on the books in some places that say you can't ride your donkey into city hall wearing bloomers on a Friday.

Quote from: side_show on January 22, 2008, 03:32:15 am
I too have never see the original Star Wars trilogy, nor have I wished to see it.  I genuinely don't like sci-fi of any variety, and I've seen more than enough referential information about Star Wars, (even of a non parody based ilk via the comic shop) to know it it not my thing.  I was physically dragged into the theatre to see the first of the new trilogy and slept through most of it.

Wow, I'm going to go out on a limb here and say that might put you into a pretty small minority among the denizens of this here board, not to mention the internet.
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Re: MAD
« Reply #39 on: January 22, 2008, 03:40:43 am »
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I was physically dragged into the theatre to see the first of the new trilogy and slept through most of it.

This was how most people who LOVE "Star Wars" reacted to that movie, though.

...except that when we woke up, we were seething with rage, is all.
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« Reply #40 on: January 22, 2008, 04:27:20 am »
Quote from: lprkn on January 22, 2008, 03:35:10 am
Wow, I'm going to go out on a limb here and say that might put you into a pretty small minority among the denizens of this here board, not to mention the internet.

Yeah factor in the fact that I spent several years working at a comic book shop and I'm a rare breed indeed.  I have a really clear memory of being really young and taking an Elfquest graphic novel out of the library and that this was somehow the thing that turned me off to sci-fi for life.
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Re: MAD
« Reply #41 on: January 22, 2008, 04:43:56 am »
But Smells... I mean... you still like Asimov right? Heinlen?
Please, baby, say it ain't so.
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« Reply #42 on: January 22, 2008, 05:00:55 am »
Okay, so I'm not familiar at all with Elfquest, so I just went to the official website. Based on the main page, that shit looks pretty obnoxious, but seems to be a lot more oriented toward fantasy? I guess...I'm just wondering how it's possible to categorically dismiss sci-fi. As a genre, maybe, but science fiction is everywhere you look these days to the point where you can't avoid it. For me, it's hard to believe that there is not one thing out there with science fiction in it that you don't like.

But I'm a lazy, comics-reading college student and you are successful and work in theatre, which is something I could never see myself doing well at, so...we probably don't really live in the same mental spaces. So I still think you're cool.



*edit* Yes, I judged a book by its website. Hooray internet!
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Re: MAD
« Reply #43 on: January 22, 2008, 05:17:16 am »
Oh man.

Souring on sci-fi because of Elfquest is like souring on handjobs because you got punched in the nuts.

Both are examples of things that could've been awesome but someone chose to be an asshole to you instead.
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Re: MAD
« Reply #44 on: January 22, 2008, 05:18:40 am »
...that isn't what handjobs are?


shit, no wonder I have so many problems going after girls. My heart just wasn't in it, you know.
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