Astute readers (you, you, and most certainly, you) will remember that, according to the Potrzebie System of Weights and Measures one potrzebie equals the thickness of Mad Magazine issue #26, or 2.263348517438173216473 mm.
Fershlugginer is an exclamation equivalent to, oh, say, “ding-donged” or thereabouts. As in, “I can’t get the fershlugginer thingamajig to line up with the doohickey!”
And a veeblefetzer is a complicated piece of machinery or gadget.
Anyway, now you know where Stephanie will be while Edison and Larry enjoy their date. As much as they’re going to enjoy it. You’ll see on Wednesday.
And a big thank you to everyone who went over to Tapastic and viewed GK. I’m trying to reach 50,000 views by the end of the month, so you’ve been a great help.
mad magazine, and its early beginnings was part of my youth, along with a pretty blonde named cathy. remember “bumble, you fumbled!” and the pivnick university fight song, “dig a hole old pivnick.” “dig a hole old pivnick dig a hole, dig to china pivnick, all the way, dig a hole old pivnick and you’ll save the day. they are here to win, and to do you in, but they can’t begin if you will only dig a hole.”
I feel bad that the name Hindenburger’s makes me giggle so much.
hmmm…Anya’s car… must be that new-fangled metric system or sumthin’
This was all set in motion by a cruel mistress. I fear for them.
Fear is raef spelled backwards.
I remember Melvin. I remember buying MAD No. 1 at the corner ‘drug store’. I was born with what is now recognized as Bi-polar disorder. Mad became my drug of choice. I looked at the world and saw the absurd. I liked it!
I still tempt the world with nonsense, and am still disappointed.
It was my first reading of ‘We Were Gay’, a short work by Gertrude Stein. Suddenly the words began to sing like an absurd ‘patter’ song. I started giggling then gasping for breath as tears began. My mother heard me from the next room and came to see if I was ‘all right’. I handed the book to her. Waiting, waiting . . .
“I can’t read this, it’s nonsense!”
“That’s because you tried to read it!” Whereupon I burst into laughter.
“The Sun came out last night. It sang to me.” (‘Close Encounters of the Third Kind’ – I love that movie)
One of the many great things MAD Magazine did for me while I was growing up-besides showing me satires of movies I was too young to see-was to teach me to question everything.
Heh! When I first read MAD it was a comic book and I had a whole collection of them in a bureau drawer. I wish I had them now. That VW air cooled flat four the girls are tinkering with was about as easy an engine to work on as you’ll ever find, but I’m sure they’ll find some way to rewire it so it’ll do wheel spins in all three gears.
I had a ’67 Beetle (the year before they had back-up lights) with the engine held on by three bolts, ’cause we lost one. The gas pedal broke, so I put a screwdriver in the gas cable and used it like that for a month or two. I loved that car.
@ xminus one, charlie.
my favourite in that size was a morris minor 1000 convertible. i discovered it could be hotrodded with mk1 sprite bits and got it up to an honest 90 mph clocked by a buddy on the local p.d. with a radar gun up on rt.24, that was the honeymoon car when i got married. later a ’57 tr3 that took my wife to the hospital for her first baby. the latest was an ’88 crown vic unmarked with the full police package, including the 351 c.i.d. “high output” engine. we won’t discuss how fast that was, but i’ve gone by some fancier names on the highway and made them like it. never got a ticket driving that car.
(no, i am not, and never have been a police officer.)
“gunner”
Yanks seem to reference “Mad Magazine” a lot… but I have no idea what that is, and probably wouldn’t want to know anyway.
“Mad” Magazine is the funniest, most influential humor publication ever, with razor-sharp wit and some of the greatest black and white cartooning you could imagine. Especially in the early years.
One of the many great things about Mad was that it made fun of everyone, no matter who they were. It taught me to question everything.
I think you would really love some of the old issues.