"We at MAD were shocked and confused by this entire incident — mainly because we had no idea that Circuit City even sells magazines. Nonetheless, we accept their apology but hold out hope that their gesture of a $20 gift card is only an opening offer."
Har hars all around, yolks.
Circuit City Rethinks MAD Magazine Ban, Apologizes [Newsarama]
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@MrTibbs: Clever, LOL.
]]>What next? I don't find Bugs Bunny funny anymore either. Should we start bashing that as well?
]]>Bart: "My God! The Mad Magazine Special Edition. They only put out seventeen of these a year."
Milhouse: "Boy! They're really sockin' it to that Spiro Agnew guy again! He must work there or something."
Now that's a good comeback. $20 gift card...well they better use it soon before CC folds lol (jk)
]]>And you are right. I guess I couldn't afford a subscription to MAD Magazine, seeing how I had a subscription to Nintendo Power, PC Gamer, GamePro, and Sega Channel at the time. Silly me.
]]>Theres a thing where you are wrong. Cracked magazine is terrible. Completely unfunny. Mad is hilarious, maybe you wish you could afford the 16 dollars a year to subscribe.
]]>As much as I'd like to take my laptop for a #2 I'd still rather have the company of my Mad mag!
]]>I liked one of the comments on Newsarama:
"I wasn't aware that Circuit city sold magazines. I also was not aware that Mad magazine was still published."
]]>@catskyfire: I'm waiting for someone to say that Mad Magazine tastes like cardboard and that we should all be making our mags from scratch with stuff grown in our own garden.
]]>@MrTibbs: Ha ha. Nice!
]]>Cynical prediction: Mad Mag will try harder to upset more corporate bozos.
Wishful thinking: Mad Mag might therefore become as genuinely entertaining as it seemed to me when I a teenager!
]]>Yea I didn't know Circuit City sold no computer/ electronic type mags until I read this. Gotta laugh at Mad Mags responce to it though.
]]>It's right up there with the 'who would anyone shop at store X". Because they like to? Because they aren't rich enough to jet to better stores? Because it's in their locale?
]]>Come on Mad Mag, diss Best Buy. At least THEY sell magazines at checkout.
]]>Will new ways of telling the emperors they have no clothes develop and effectively make the point again? God knows we need 'em more than ever.
]]>Recycled and formulaic parodies. Trite. Hackneyed. Pathetically predictable. Have not had a funny issue since the Reagan Administration. And I am being generous
]]>"As a gesture of our apology and deep respect for the folks at MAD Magazine, we are creating a cross-departmental task force to study the importance of humor in the corporate workplace and expect the resulting PowerPoint presentation to top out at least 300 pages, chock full of charts, graphs and company action plans. In addition, I have offered to send the MAD Magazine editor a $20 Circuit City gift card toward the purchase of a Nintendo Wii....if he can find one!"
Alas...he did not say if they were "taking it seriously".
]]>When is the last time you cared about that Mag, when Spy vs Spy came out for NES?
Seriously.
]]>Well played Mad Mag...
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