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Classic Post: One of my all time favorite magazine covers


I originally posted this in September, 2007. And I think of this cover every time I'm somewhere where there's a new cashier who couldn't scan a UPC symbol if their life depended on it.

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Pigeon said…
I still love mad magazine. I had a subscription as a kid and I also had one for my kids when they were growing up. Your post brings back some good memories.
May 21, 2009 3:19 PM
Mike Golch said…
I still enjoy reading this one from time to time.I don't follow it as regulary as I did when I was a teen.
May 21, 2009 9:13 PM
Leesa said…
There was a popular sit-com (when there were only three or four stations on the airways) that had someone trying to decipher the symbols at the supermarket. I can't remember the show, but when I think of the symbol, I think of the show. Perhaps All in the Family.
May 22, 2009 7:09 AM
Busy Bee Suz said…
This is just TOO funny!!!
May 22, 2009 9:21 AM
Advizor54 said…
The thing to remember is that the first, last, and middle double-stripe combination, represent the number 6, so every UPC code as 666 embedded in it!!

Oooooh, spooky.....

:-)
May 22, 2009 12:06 PM
clean and crazy said…
i never read mad magazine. does that make me strange?
May 22, 2009 2:17 PM
Advizor54 said…
I was squarely in the MAD magazine demographic when it was at it's best. I saved my allowance money and combined it with my brothers and bought every copy, some we had to hide from our mother.

Does not reading it make you strange? No, just culturally ill-informed. How does one go through life not understanding Spy-vs.Spy references or not knowing when to say, "What, me worry?"

But we'll forgive you.... :-)
May 22, 2009 2:21 PM
Michelle said…
I used to love Mad magazines when I was a teenager.

:-)
May 22, 2009 6:48 PM
Pat Jenkins said…
well by the sounds of it since mad has scaled back its "monthlys" they ain't got to worry about jamming any computer!!!
May 24, 2009 8:34 AM
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