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What a beautifully written and moving story! I felt like I was right there with you. Thanks for sharing!

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What a nice comment — thank you, Joan!

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Before Monty Python or The Kids in the Hall, MAD, Cracked, and Wacky Packages were foundational to my sense of humor and worldview. Thanks for the memories.

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Oh how I loved those Wacky Packages! A parody master class in every package.

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I was so very upset after I spilled dinner spaghetti sauce all over a "Quincy" TV show spoof in a Mad mag when I was just a lad. The page was all greasy... and unreadable. Yuck! So very upset.

I put it aside for a week...came back and the stain was magically gone and the Mad hijinks ensued...

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It was a spaghetti sauce miracle!

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Crushing!!!

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Yes indeed! lol

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Heartbreaking!

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haha - yes!

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It did say the price was "cheap" on the front cover of the magazine issues....

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They absolutely did — I was deluded!

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Not only the MAD Magazine throw back but the “tough skin” jean detail !!! If you know (knew!) you … Thanks for this & your great work Scott

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You are welcome!

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THE RECYCLED MAD is the greatest collection of all times.

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