11.   Only neurotics tackle every item on the list, and only Alfred E. Neuman of Mad magazine blithely ignores them all.

12.   She remembers a little boy growing up in Chicago reading comic books and Mad magazine.

13.   The sensibility is best described as postmodern geek, like Don DeLillo meets Max Headroom meets Mad magazine.

14.   This being Mad magazine, Jim Mullen becomes Jim Moron.

15.   This year we have every page of every issue of Mad magazine.

16.   You may have read that Mad magazine has decided to accept advertisements, starting with the current issue.

17.   But eventually, with his daughter as interpreter, he walked into the editorial offices of Mad magazine and submitted his drawings.

18.   His extensive collection includes uncut sheets of baseball cards and rare original paintings of comic books and MAD magazine covers.

19.   Yes, Mad magazine has finally started taking ads.