I recognize the face but not the name
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Me too.
i'm two years older than that pod person and i totally know. i think mad magazine was something kids who went to convenience stores in the late 80s/early 90s unsupervised would know about. pete seems like his entire existence before the age of 20 was some kind of daily stage-managed romp through political career incubators and society tutelage before retiring to a special bath where a silent old woman would bath him in buttermilk for 45 minutes and then lay out cheese cubes for him to snack on while watching taped interviews with Henry Kissenger.
i don't think pete knows what anything is, except as it can be handed to him on an index card by a bodyman.
These are the same people who don’t know what woods porn is.
For zoomers like me who were like "I mean, I don't know what that is, but I don't want to look like I'm not in the know afront my venerable elders":
woods porn = porn you find or keep in the woods. It's that simple.
Youngsters had more woods to explore and more freedom to explore them, and porno was at this time mainly sold as physical magazines — so, if you didn't want your mags caught, you would keep them (or specific pages) in various locations "off the beaten path", so to speak. Other youngsters might stumble upon each others' caches while exploring the great outdoors, and this was naturally seen as quite a valuable and cool find.
This is at least how I understand it from a quick Web search.
It took me like 20 seconds to remember it's the mad magazine kid. I saw plenty of those magazines but people never really said the name Alfred E. Neuman
I read all of the mental illness themed humor magazines
Did you know Cracked's archive was destroyed because of the 2001 anthrax letters?
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Zoomer who knows him but I'm a bit of an esoteriphile
who need they obscurussy ate?
You ever heard of Seymour Butts?
Yeah he's friends with Hugh Jass
Yes, but my grandparents had a collection of Mad Magazines at their house.
Older millennial - don't know.
I saw like two Mad Magazines ever when I was a kid. I got the impression they were more of a Gen X thing.
You are not alone. Pete definitely knows who that is
What, me worry?
“What kind of slime would I marry?”
never heard of him
oh it's the MAD guy? didn't know he had a name
Yup, but through the Simpsons
Nope, never heard of him in my life. My mom knows who he is and told me when I asked her just now, but she's a boomer*, so that doesn't really answer your question.
*She insists that I refer to her as a "late boomer".
Edit: If you'd shown me a picture I would say "the Mad Magazine kid" but I don't know him by name because I never read Mad Magazine.
I don't know him but I'm not an anglo.
Yes i used to read mad magazine in the store while my mom shopped
Elder Millennial, I guess. He's the guy with no worries.
I know him from the mad covers when I was a kid and used to browse video game magazines in the grocery store. Anyone remember trading card game magazines? They'd have cool fantasy covers by artists like Keith Parkinson and would cover games like mtg or pokemon.
Was Wizards of the Coast one of those?
Wizard magazine, yes
Was all about the nerdy collectible shit like comics and tabletop games
Why back in '08 I drove down to Wizard World in Chicago to heckle the EIC of Marvel Comivs
I want to say yes but my memory is fuzzy without googling.
I had to think of it for a second and still wasn't 100% sure he was the mad magazine mascot guy.
it's the mad magazine guy
but I'm past 30 years old which is normal for millennials
I have no idea who that is, honestly even with the body text as context
E: yeah, I've seen this picture before. Never knew the character's name though
I thought mad magazine stopped being published in like the 90s or something. I'm pretty sure most people my age don't even know what that is. I just know because I used to read cracked and they had some sort of rivalry going on. Also why the fuck would I know off the top of my head what their fucked up looking mascot boy's name is lmao.
I only know it's the Mad Magazine cartoon mascot guy (or whatever) because of a podcast that riffed on it. Otherwise, never heard of him. How does anyone even know his name? It's not like the cover of Mad Magazine explains his backstory or something.
Yeah it's the cover guy from mad magazine. I'm an early millenial
Library had Mad Mag growing up so yes.
Why should I know? I'm not even American...
Your post made me dig up this Trump bit:
Trump calls Pete Buttigieg's name 'unpronounceable'
Honestly some of his best material from the 2020 campaign, no notes.
Im 20 and idk who he is, also british so if he was just an american thing that might be why.
Edit: i looked him up and yeah i recognise him, i just didnt know he was called that, also he really does like Booty-judger lol
I have no idea who that is upon hearing the name
I recognize the name but couldn't place it until I looked it up.
Neuman was (and still is?) a Mad Magazine fixture and I can't believe Mayo Pete never looked at the magazine and he never learned who Neuman was. If I'm right - he lied and it was a win-win. He got to do some pushback to Trump with zero effort and he pretended not to be the nerd that he actually is.
Who?
yes, I liked the M.A.D. magazines when I was a kid
What, me worry?
Isn’t that the guy who invented time and space
I would not worry
Of course. 'You Got A Friend In Me' gets me every time.
Zoomer here, had no idea, but I'm not American
Was more of a Dennis the Menace kid
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