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37. Me too. I picked up my first MAD at 8 or 9 in the mid 1960s

Reply to Brother Buzz (Reply #36)

Wed Dec 19, 2012, 07:00 PM

Dec 2012

and my first Lampoon at 15 or 16 in the very early 1970s. Even read them both for a while.

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