MooPig Brinkmanship Department :: "What me Party?"

Happy Ste Patrick's Day, Ya'll 
Martial Mixed Articles by Pat Darnell  |  Mar 17, 2015  |  Bryan TX

Will the Ghosted spirit of Saint Patrick should raise him up from his deep sleep, and animate him that he blew his whistle to gather all the broods of vipers to be slewed by hymn in perfect balance with nature? Ah, ye can only wish. If'n Ste Pat could eradicate all the gossip that there is a two party system in the US by slewing their ranks, and shew there is an indentured slavery system to which justice must be served; Hear ye, hear ye, button up your over coats, for the cold chill of ineptitude covers the young buds with frost. Faeries dance about the tall hats of government imbeciles, and broadens their noses. What me Party? [what_me_ party.com does not come up on Google, ha ha!]

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Neither Major Party Cracks 40% Favorability in Latest Poll: "Bottom Line For some time, numerous Gallup trends have been showing Americans largely displeased with government's performance and leadership. Through it all, at least one political party was reviewed well, but now -- perhaps because of the constant brinkmanship going on between Obama and the Republican Congress, but maybe for other reasons -- both parties are floundering."
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CONCLUSION
And here we have yet another day that as a retail flurry in eating and drinking opportunity dawns on March 17, 2015. GALLUP polls tends their lines to find out that nobody likes any of the politicians in the USA. Over 60% of the citizenry thinks unfavorably of the Democrats and the Republicans. We only say: "We told ya' so."


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http://www.gallup.com/poll/181985/neither-major-party-cracks-favorability-latest-poll.aspx
https://twitter.com/MADmagazine
http://www.madmagazine.com/blog/2015/03/17/mads-tips-on-how-to-better-enjoy-the-st-patricks-day-parade-2015-edition
http://www.history.com/topics/st-patricks-day
http://www.st-patricks-day.com/
whatmeparty.com   ... this web page does not exist

MooPig's Vacation Like the Kennedy's :: "Carnival Cruise 'Dream'"

Re-hashed by Pat Darnell  |  Mar 15, 2013  |  Bryan TX

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New Ad Reflects the Reality of a Carnival Cruise | Mad Magazine: "For the second time in a month, a Carnival Cruise ship — this one called “The Dream” and henceforth known as “The Nightmare” — is suffering power outages and pesky plumbing problems.

Note: by “pesky plumbing problems,” we mean what passengers call “large amount of human waste all over the floor in bathrooms and staterooms.” On the positive side, we hear the view from the stench-ridden cabins is lovely this time of year. "

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http://www.madmagazine.com/blog/2013/03/14/new-ad-reflects-the-reality-of-a-carnival-cruise
http://www.popfunk.com/mens-tees/warner-bros-television/mad-magazine.html
http://www.heavy.com/regions/2013/03/carnival-cruise-dream-sewage-disaster/
http://www.wbay.com/story/21641409/2013/03/14/stranded-carnival-dream-passengers-flying-home

MooPig Food Recalls Department :: "Bumble Bee Tuna"

The Real Reason For the Bumble Bee Tuna Recall | Mad Magazine: "SEAFOOD FOR THOUGHT DEPT. Yesterday, Bumble Bee announced that they are recalling some of their cans of tuna because the seals were not tight enough and the contents could spoil.

Sounds like a perfectly logical explanation. A little TOO logical, if you ask us! All you have to do is take a closer look at a can to see…"

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http://www.madmagazine.com/blog/2013/03/07/the-real-reason-for-the-bumble-bee-tuna-recall
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/03/08/bumble-been-tuna-recall_n_2838668.html
http://abcnews.go.com/blogs/health/2013/03/08/bumble-bee-expands-tuna-recall/
http://www.bumblebee.com/
http://www.fda.gov/safety/recalls/ucm342851.htm

MooPig Home School Department :: "Houston's Best High School"

Catholic Case for Home Schooling
Collected by Pat Darnell  |  Mar 6, 2013  |  Bryan TX

These Kids Go to the Best Public High School in Houston - Page 1 - News - Houston - Houston Press: "The Michael E. DeBakey High School for Health Professions is this area's best public high school. It produces studious, high-achieving, self-assured brainiacs. The student body is a model of diversity: half the kids come from poor families, and students are evenly divided among African-Americans, Asians and Hispanics." (Todd Spivak. Thursday, Mar 2 2006)

We at MooPig Home School Department chose this article because of the author of the piece: Todd Spivak. Reference needed to MAD Magazine, required for disambiguation of that remark.

" ... MADtv (season 4) Pat Kilbane appeared as the Coffee Guy and the spokesman for Spishak, and performed his Howard Stern impersonation; (wiki. Mad magazine. LINK)

You see, SPIVAK sounds like SPISHAK ...
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" ... In 2010, the magazine's oldest and longest-running contributor, Al Jaffee, told an interviewer, "Mad was designed to corrupt the minds of children. And from what I'm gathering from the minds of people all over, we succeeded." (Michael Mechanic | Fri Sep. 24, 2010. LINK)

So, whatever Houston's finest high school does for students, MAD un-does it.

This post makes no sense. And that's all the News when you don't want it.

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http://www.houstonpress.com/2006-03-02/news/these-kids-go-to-the-best-public-high-school-in-houston/
http://www.motherjones.com/media/2010/09/interview-al-jaffee-mad-life-snappy-answers

MooPig Presents "MAD's People Events and Things"

MAD Mag is MooPig Model
Retrieved by Pat Darnell | Dec 21, 2011 | Bryan TX

Written and illustrated by THE USUAL GANG OF IDIOTS

As 2011 comes to an end, we dive right into the deep end with the MAD 20 – our annual wrap-up of the dumbest people, events and things of the year! From Kim Kardashian to Penn State! Charlie Sheen to Casey Anthony! Herman Cain to Netflix! Tiger Moms to the Spider-Man Musical! It's all there – plus a ton of stupidity in between! And as if that weren't already more than you could handle, there's also The MAD Strip Club, Planet Tad, Sergio Aragones' MAD Look at Protests, The Fold-In and even more! So end the year on a truly dumb note – buy an issue!
MAD 56pg. Color $5.99 US (LINK)

Whoa: Mad Magazine’s Latest Cover - Big Journalism:

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http://bigjournalism.com/pjsalvatore/2011/12/19/whoa-mad-magazines-latest-cover/
http://images.wikia.com/maditsmadfunny/images/f/f9/MAd_Magazine_Issue_501.jpg

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What it means to think like a postmodernist :: Bill Gaines

Above: a 1963 photo of Bill Gaines entering the MAD offices. Poking their heads out of the door are (from top to bottom): Nick Meglin, John Putnam, Al Feldstein, Leonard Brenner, Nelson Tirado, and Jerry De Fuccio.

MooPig's Favorite Post-Modernist is Bill Gaines
by Pat Darnell | June 16, 2011 | Bryan TX

What it means to think like a postmodernist - National cognitive science | Examiner.com: "Godel’s incompleteness theorem)."

1952

Bill Gaines knew that the man who would edit MAD had to have a brilliant sense of humor as well as a groundbreaking visual sense. He had to be a man who could see through the phoniness of popular culture. And he had to be a man who could take a little 10-cent comic book and transform it into the premiere satirical force of the 20th century.

Unfortunately, that man was busy, so Gaines hired Harvey Kurtzman.

Also, in 1952...

The second issue of MAD goes on sale on December 9, 1952. On December 11, the first-ever letter complaining that MAD "just isn't as funny and original like it used to be" arrives.

1954

The storybook marriage of baseball legend Joe DiMaggio and tinseltown bombshell Marilyn Monroe soon goes sour due to MAD's corrosive influence. Joe becomes enraged as he watches Marilyn film a movie scene standing over a subway grating, her dress flying high in the breeze. Insiders assume DiMaggio is outraged because hundreds of drooling onlookers are ogling his wife's exposed thighs and buttocks. But what REALLY infuriates the Yankee Clipper is that his wife would debase herself in public by reading MAD.

July 1955

MAD Magazine is born (#24). Gaines and Kurtzman turn MAD into a bi-monthly, black-and-white magazine. More importantly, they get to raise the price from 10-cents to a quarter! Although it will be another year before he's named and adopted as MAD's official mascot, Alfred E. Neuman makes his first appearance on the border of MAD (#24) as the "What, Me Worry" Kid

Also, in 1955...

Not all the legal news is good for Bill Gaines and MAD. Without video games or rap music to pick on, Congress is forced to hold hearings on the dangers of comic books. This poses a direct threat to Gaines' varied line of titles: Tales from the Crypt, Crypt of Terror, The Terrible Crypt, The Terrorizingly Terrible Crypt Tales, and MAD. Gaines volunteers to testify before a Senate committee. It does not go well:

Also in 1955, MooPig's Founder, Pat Darnell, is Born in Ft Worth, TX ... June 4th .... during a tornadic thunderstorm.

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http://www.examiner.com/cognitive-science-in-national/what-it-means-to-think-like-a-postmodernist
http://www.dccomics.com/mad/about/?action=about1

http://mikelynchcartoons.blogspot.com/2010/02/from-1977-25-years-of-mad-magazine.html