Saint Sputnik posted:

Beeler has been a loving sphinx this election. On the one hand, I think he's the one who used the little fascist "T" black armband on Trump and he's been doing stuff like this post-election:


then on the other hand he somehow thinks getting mad about that is also bad?

After The War posted:

It was pretty much essential for communication. There's a great story in the Spy vs. Spy collection about how Prohias was utterly incomprehensible, even to other Spanish speakers. The MAD staff chalked this up to a Cuban dialect, until they took him out to a Cuban restaurant and the waiters couldn't understand him either.

Doubtful Guest posted:

Mister Beeg posted:

I always get the feeling that the only one who truly understood Prohias was Sergio Aragones, who became friends after the latter joined MAD.

quote:

Since his knowledge of English wasn't very extensive, he asked for the only Mad artist he knew of that spoke Spanish, Cuban-born artist Antonio Prohías, creator of the comic "Spy vs. Spy". Aragonés hoped Prohías could serve as an interpreter between him and the Mad editors. According to Aragonés, this proved to be a mistake, since Prohías knew even less English than he. Prohías did receive Aragonés very enthusiastically and, with difficulty, introduced the young artist to the Mad editors as "Sergio, my brother from Mexico," temporarily leading to even further confusion, as the Mad editors thought he was "Sergio Prohías."

quote:

Our limited ability to communicate with Antonio was sufficient for day-to-day creative consultations, but for more involved situations such as contract, agreements, and understandings regarding the "Spy vs. Spy" paperback collections, then literal translations was in order. [William] Gaines, determined to crack the language barrier once and for all, assembled three Spanish-speaking MAD associates-Sergio Aragones, Angelo Torres, and part-time assistant art director Bill Negron-to determine how Prohias was progressing (or not!) with his English classes. After 20 minutes of baffling exchanges in the art department, all three men concluded that Prohias didn't speak Spanish at all-it was as if he had no native tongue, his dialect seemingly defying translation. (Or as Al Jaffee concluded on another such occasion, "Antonio is non-lingual!")

[...]

To further the "Prohias language mystery," one of the many lunches shared with him took place at Victor's, the famed authentic Cuban restaurant (then located at 71st Street and Columbus Avenue) in Manhattan. Several waiters attested to the findings of MAD's board of inquiry; though Cuban, they had great difficulty conversing with Prohias as well. But with Gaines typically ordering one of just about every dish on the menu, it didn't matter who spoke what!

Titus Sardonicus posted:

Not to single you out, but this term is used a lot on here. Isn't it more that these people experience a lack of cognitive dissonance? That they can keep these two opposing thoughts going in their heads without feeling any intellectual discomfort? Because if these people really did suffer the cognitive dissonance we all say they do, they'd be utterly crippled, unable to function, wouldn't they?

bunnyofdoom posted:

I wish I coulda gone drinking with Gains. Everything I have heard about the dude makes me think he was awesome.

ratbert90 posted:

Wasn't Castro Catholic? If so lol he's in heaven with Hitler.

Nenonen posted:

the Mad editorial crew probably ain't the most trustworthy source but still lol

Mad posted:

Manhatten

Titus Sardonicus posted:

Not to single you out, but this term is used a lot on here. Isn't it more that these people experience a lack of cognitive dissonance? That they can keep these two opposing thoughts going in their heads without feeling any intellectual discomfort? Because if these people really did suffer the cognitive dissonance we all say they do, they'd be utterly crippled, unable to function, wouldn't they?

Trogdos! posted:

Mister Beeg posted:

On another note, I just found the story After The War was talking about, and it's really worth posting. This was from Nick Meglin, long-time editor for MAD:

Samurai Sanders posted:

Cognitive dissonance has become a Janus word, which can also mean it's own opposite. Same as "literally".

Willatron posted:

I feel like "Janus" words are an easy out for people who either got tired of correcting others out being corrected by others.

Trogdos! posted:

Titus Sardonicus posted:

Not to single you out, but this term is used a lot on here. Isn't it more that these people experience a lack of cognitive dissonance? That they can keep these two opposing thoughts going in their heads without feeling any intellectual discomfort? Because if these people really did suffer the cognitive dissonance we all say they do, they'd be utterly crippled, unable to function, wouldn't they?

TheBigAristotle posted:

Cross-post from DnD pics thread... a young Ward Sutton?

TheBigAristotle posted:

Wistful of Dollars posted:

*Castro dies*
*Still in jail*

Wistful of Dollars posted:

*Castro dies*
*Still in jail*

duz posted:

How is that irony?

rum sodomy Rainbow Dash posted:

I mean, honestly, do they think the apparatus he has spend half a century building is going to wither because he's dead?

Dude was 90 years old: he had sufficient time to set up his successors and probably hasn't been a significant factor in the country's government for years now.

Mister Beeg posted:

Me too, but I might be biased...

Trogdos! posted:

Teriyaki Hairpiece posted:

Cuba being presented as one big dictator's prison camp when that's the island on which we maintain our foreverjail.

Skellybones posted:

Batman???

bunnyofdoom posted:

I heard that he took the Mad Magazine staff on a yearly trip together for a week somewhere in the world. It sounds like Mad was hit pet project.

Good Ol' Chip Bok posted:

FBI Director Comey recommended that Hillary not be prosecuted by the Justice Department. But he presented her case on national TV anyway. A verdict was rendered on election day. Hillary was convicted in the court of public opinion. Her sentence was loss of the White House.

She’s Suffered Enough Already

Now President-elect Trump has issued a get out of jail free card. He doesn’t want to see her prosecuted in a court of law either.

Court of Public Opinion

Meanwhile, some Democrats don’t believe there were enough Deplorables in the court of public opinion. They want a recount.

Green candidate Jill Stein is leading the charge. She wants a recount in Wisconsin, Michigan, and Pennsylvania. She’s raised more money so far than she did for her presidential campign.

Oops. She can’t guarantee the money will go to a recount.

Saint Isaias Boner posted:

yes, famously devout hitler who obviously would have gone to heaven in line with catholic teachings

Jerusalem posted:

Well if I understand my Chick Tracts correctly, Hitler could have said,"I accept Jesus Christ as my lord and savior" on his deathbed and gone straight to heaven, while a humanitarian pacifist who gave every cent they ever earned to charity and held nothing but love in their heart but did NOT say the magic words would appear before Christ on the Seat of Judgement, where Christ would declare,"Depart from me ye wicked and burn forever in the lake of fire."

Space Cadet Omoly posted:

My main problem with Fidel Castro is that if a man with as many unhealthy habits can make it to 90 then Trump probably can too.