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hifiguy

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12. When I was a kid back in the 1960s, MAD was the only thing

Reply to Mme. Defarge (Reply #1)

Mon Nov 12, 2012, 04:17 PM

Nov 2012

around that wised kids up to the fact that they were being lied to by adults, by the teevee and bty advertising. MAD was a very important part of the education of several generations of American kids.

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