way off topic Mad Magazine

[pegasus1300]

I used to read this magazine a lot. One of the parodies I remember was a take off on Winken, Blinken, and Nod. I think it was called Melvin, Norman, and Fred. The opening line was
"Melvin, Norman, and Fred one night sailed off in a garbage Scow on a river of slime."...... and that's all I remember. Does anybody else remember this? can post (or PM me) a copy? Thanks.

[wyliec]

There are some Mad magazine spoofs here. I don't know whether what you're looking for is within.

https://www.google.com/search?rls=en&source=univ&tbm=isch&q=Mad+magazine+poetry+spoofs&client=safari&fir=ZjEszJDr62owfM%252CAUPHD2FJknw0eM%252C_%253BSu 4Xe1OyjvuB3M%252Cyt6dxIyxphJ8uM%252C_%253BGw0HakV3 aTsxKM%252C3xiQGjGISzM0uM%252C_%253BkFkNScYWvYXngM %252C252Bkkrdc0BikM%252C_%253BqOq_LNmSAvTNoM%252CA UPHD2FJknw0eM%252C_%253BcBO1s_Zsu0-JgM%252CAUPHD2FJknw0eM%252C_%253BR9RKHDSeUPlorM%25 2C3oxbLooPDVoD9M%252C_%253B6TI_GeirVUdqxM%252CAUPH D2FJknw0eM%252C_%253B-8lp2ENbLCb8bM%252C3h383RAljQK-5M%252C_%253BpcfVNDOY2aWbzM%252CAUPHD2FJknw0eM%252 C_&usg=AI4_-kSNMN_MuX_p45DOblg-qo7l0wmXDQ&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwiGvuesmfr1AhUrjokEHRTTCWAQjJkEegQIAxAC&biw=1679&bih=977&dpr=1&safari_group=9

[ARtraveler]

That was one of my monthly reads way back when. Some good stuff then.

As Alfred E. Newman would say, "what, me worry?"

PS. I don't have a reference for the poem you mentioned. :bowdown:

[jmnels]

I still get a Mad for Christmas every year. And stuff one in my son's stocking too.
A friend was an artist and writer there for years before passing. He always made a panel for my son when he was growing up and signed the mag.

[MudBug]

I found it here: https://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2014/05/links-may-day-2014.html

[pegasus1300]

Thanks Mudbug, I got your PM. I had gone there earlier but couldn't find it.

[Saluda]

Used to love that mag.