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Ah, National Lampoon. My brother bought those, and mom had conniptions. MAD was bad enough, but NL had naked people and many dirty words. I used to sneak into my brother's room to read them when he wasn't around. Those definitely had an effect on my world view, for better or worse.
I currently have every issue of MAD from its inception in 1955 to about 1998, all on CD-ROM. It's a great "time machine" - I can look back at an issue and immediately remember where I lived and what I was up to at the time it came out. Much of the artwork of older issues acts as a sort of Proustian memory-jarring device, so I really do treasure those CD's. ("A la recherche du stupidite perdue")
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