In a message dated 11/16/00 5:06:41 PM Pacific Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: << My history teacher (a Catholic priest) at school recommended Mad as a good form of satire, although they went downhill after the mid-80's. Or maybe I just got older and more discerning! >> It did go downhill in the 80's, but the older ones, oh my! I still hum many of the parodies from their takes on popular musicals. One of my favorites was the parody of "Fiddler on the Roof" which in Mad centered on a father in the 60's with three daughters: To the tune of "Matchmaker:" "I'm Shelia a sexfiend fanatic, I'm Nancy, a speed freak right now, I'm Gail who makes bombs in the attic and answers the phone with quotations from Mao!" Love it, love it, love it. MG
