The Beatles song you're thinking about right now thread

[weller259]

Furthermore …

OK, this is frigging hilarious! I used to love MAD magazine. I had never seen this cover before though, i'm still laughing. Awesomesauce.

[Wolter]

God, old mad magazine was so great

Roughly til Reagan took office. Weird that it's snarky attitude should have been right in the Xer wheelhouse, but it crapped out when most Xers hit adolescence.

But we did get 4 super specials a year that mostly did 70s (and sometimes 60s) classics which in a very real way (along with a diet of syndicated sitcoms from then) made me surprisingly adept with events and pop culture from my infancy and earlier.

[Dr. Medulla]

God, old mad magazine was so great

Roughly til Reagan took office. Weird that it's snarky attitude should have been right in the Xer wheelhouse, but it crapped out when most Xers hit adolescence.

But we did get 4 super specials a year that mostly did 70s (and sometimes 60s) classics which in a very real way (along with a diet of syndicated sitcoms from then) made me surprisingly adept with events and pop culture from my infancy and earlier.

That was my exact experience. I got Mad in real time in the late 70s and early 80s from new issues, but it was all those Super Specials and paperback compilations that really nourished my budding cynicism and snark. So many movies that I experienced first from the Mad parody, which necessarily framed how I experienced the actual movie often years later. How could a person not be a shithead smartass with that kind of upbringing?

[WestwayKid]

God, old mad magazine was so great

Roughly til Reagan took office. Weird that it's snarky attitude should have been right in the Xer wheelhouse, but it crapped out when most Xers hit adolescence.

As an Xer... I dug Mad magazine as a kid. I'd check it out from the library on a regular basis, but yeah - at some point around adolesence it dropped off my radar.

[Flex]

God, old mad magazine was so great

Roughly til Reagan took office. Weird that it's snarky attitude should have been right in the Xer wheelhouse, but it crapped out when most Xers hit adolescence.

As an Xer... I dug Mad magazine as a kid. I'd check it out from the library on a regular basis, but yeah - at some point around adolesence it dropped off my radar.

I'm younger and contemporary mad magazine wasn't nearly as good for me (I mean... 90s) but I used to be gifted subscriptions of it in my adolescence which I still enjoyed. The stuff I really loved, tho, were those collections of older stuff from the heyday of the magazine. Back then they'd still sell that stuff in supermarkets.

My dad also had a collection of the magazines from when he was a kid that I just devoured.

[Dr. Medulla]

I think it was finding this issue as a kid that I learned what "the finger" meant (my sister explained it to me in proper hushed tones). Pretty remarkable that a mainstream magazine could get away with a cover like that, but it's indicative, perhaps, of both the cynical mood of the country at the time and the mainstreaming of the counterculture.

[coffeepotman]

Double post, I got Covid for christmas and can't think straight

[coffeepotman]

Hate to say it but as an early X'er I liked Mad magazine but it seemed old fashioned, even as a little kid. Probably most of it went over my head.
I liked Cracked magazine, I think it was more aimed at kids but I could be completely wrong

[Dr. Medulla]

Hate to say it but as an early X'er I liked Mad magazine but it seemed old fashioned, even as a little kid. Probably most of it went over my head.
I liked Cracked magazine, I think it was more aimed at kids but I could be completely wrong

Cracked never lost the smell of being a lame version of Mad. The few times I read it, there were parts I found amusing, but it always seemed an obvious rip-off, so I didn't want to like it. That said, when Cracked went to an online form in the 00s, it was pretty dang good.

[Sparky]

Double post, I got Covid for christmas and can't think straight

That sucks, hope you're feeling better soon.

[Marky Dread]

Double post, I got Covid for christmas and can't think straight

Get well soon buddy.

[WestwayKid]

Double post, I got Covid for christmas and can't think straight

Me too! We're Christmas COVID twinsies!

[Flex]

Get well soon WWK and cpm!

[WestwayKid]

Get well soon WWK and cpm!

Other than some very slight congestion, I thankfully have zero symptoms. It's kind of crazy. My partner had tested positive last week and I wanted to take a test before spending time with family on Christmas and was surprised to test positive.

[Sparky]

Double post, I got Covid for christmas and can't think straight

Me too! We're Christmas COVID twinsies!

Hope you're over it soon.