Remember When
August 12th, 2018 at 1:00:11 PM permalink | |
Evenbob Member since: Oct 24, 2012 Threads: 146 Posts: 25010 | This is the kind of August day that would have me take a brown bag lunch and find a tree in the woods to sit under and read a stack of comic books in 1958. I loved them when I was in grade school. By 7th grade I'd moved onto Cracked and Mad Magazine. If you take a risk, you may lose. If you never take a risk, you will always lose. |
August 12th, 2018 at 9:29:18 PM permalink | |
zippyboy Member since: Oct 24, 2012 Threads: 2 Posts: 665 | Cracked was a Mad rip-off, and never as good as Mad. History will never remember Cracked, I'm surprised you even mention it. |
August 12th, 2018 at 9:38:42 PM permalink | |
Evenbob Member since: Oct 24, 2012 Threads: 146 Posts: 25010 |
When I was 11 years old, what did I know from what was good or better. It made fun of stuff, that's all I cared about. It was around for 50 years, enough people were buying it to keep it going. 1957-2007 If you take a risk, you may lose. If you never take a risk, you will always lose. |
August 13th, 2018 at 1:13:13 PM permalink | |
rxwine Member since: Oct 24, 2012 Threads: 188 Posts: 18633 |
I remember reading it once in awhile and thinking the same thing. In fact, the publisher of Cracked apparently did several low-ball imitations of other popular genre magazines besides Mad. When I stopped reading Mad, I started reading National Lampoon. You believe in an invisible god, and dismiss people who say they are trans? Really? |
August 13th, 2018 at 9:01:15 PM permalink | |
zippyboy Member since: Oct 24, 2012 Threads: 2 Posts: 665 | Mad was for kids (introduced me to politics, world events, social topics, satire, etc), but National Lampoon was for college and adults. I found a stack in a dumpster in 1980 or so, loved the nudity (duh) but the politics and social aspect took it up a notch from Mad. |
August 18th, 2018 at 1:58:37 AM permalink | |
Evenbob Member since: Oct 24, 2012 Threads: 146 Posts: 25010 | Remember Christmas Club savings accounts? Every week when you cashed your check at the bank, you put a dollar or two into a passbook Xmas savings account. When Xmas arrived, you had $50 or $100 plus interest. No credit cards in the 50's and 60's, it was all cash at Xmas. My mom did this every year. $50 plus interest was $400 in todays money. We always had a good Xmas because of it. We make fun of our parents in the other thread, but money was more dear and harder to get in the 50's and 60's. Lower middle class people had none to squander if they wanted a decnt life. If you take a risk, you may lose. If you never take a risk, you will always lose. |
August 18th, 2018 at 6:38:16 PM permalink | |
Wizard Administrator Member since: Oct 23, 2012 Threads: 239 Posts: 6095 |
I just had one go bad. Anyone want it? I think it is just a circuit board, but I don't have the ability or patience to fix it. Knowledge is Good -- Emil Faber |
August 18th, 2018 at 6:41:49 PM permalink | |
Evenbob Member since: Oct 24, 2012 Threads: 146 Posts: 25010 |
It's not like we could come and pick it up. How big is it. If you take a risk, you may lose. If you never take a risk, you will always lose. |
August 18th, 2018 at 6:50:03 PM permalink | |
petroglyph Member since: Aug 3, 2014 Threads: 25 Posts: 6227 | I was telling someone a couple days ago about how there used to be tv tube testers and replacement tubes at the supermarkets when I was a kid. An owner could change about any tube except the big one. The last official act of any government is to loot the treasury. GW |
August 18th, 2018 at 6:52:53 PM permalink | |
rxwine Member since: Oct 24, 2012 Threads: 188 Posts: 18633 |
Does it have this? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XFw7U7V1Hok You believe in an invisible god, and dismiss people who say they are trans? Really? |