Dead Thread 2021 -- If you're reading this, it isn't you.

[burd]

One fewer conservative.

Thomas Robb, leader of the KKK, dead at 77.

Surprised he didn't meet his maker at 66.

[SJHovey]

Ken Potts. One of the final two survivors of the USS Arizona. When asked if he wanted his ashes interred on the memorial, he declined, reportedly saying “I escaped once from that ship. I’m not going back.”

[Kepler]

One fewer conservative.

Thomas Robb, leader of the KKK, dead at 77.

[Kepler]

Darwin will know his own.

[Kepler]

It's a start.

[burd]

My daughter's cat. I hope whichever Republican ran it over and didn't stop skids through an intersection on its intestines and dies in a fireball.

Slowly.

Having had children whose cat was run over (without stopping), I can understand that pain.

[Kepler]

My daughter's cat. I hope whichever Republican ran it over and didn't stop skids through an intersection on its intestines and dies in a fireball.

Slowly.

[mookie1995]

When mookie was 10-11-13-13 yo he bought him all the mad and cracked all he could get. Had grandma drive him to the newsstand and bought em up :-)

[Kepler]

Wasn't he the MAD artist who drew the perfect little dog turds? And when someone complained about it being gross they were instead described as little sausages and he would sort of link them together? I'm thinking that was Al Jaffee.

I never heard that story but it tracks with everything about MAD. That whole staff are childhood heroes of mine. Hilarious and subversive and a fine nose for institutional bullsh-t.

God what they would do with internet culture now.

[Kepler]

Hobie Landrith, the first NY Met.

Reporter: "Why did you take a catcher with your first pick."

Casey Stengel: "Cuz otherwise all you get is passed balls."

[Ralph Baer]

Hobie Landrith, the first NY Met.

[WeAreNDHockey]

This guy is one of my heroes.

Wasn't he the MAD artist who drew the perfect little dog turds? And when someone complained about it being gross they were instead described as little sausages and he would sort of link them together? I'm thinking that was Al Jaffee.

[Kepler]

Seriously, the man had to be some level of spatial/visual genius to work through art like that. I can barely draw a smiley face let alone create a single piece of art that can then hold another image within it. And then reproduce that effect monthly for however many years.

I’m curious now when such a concept was first invented.

I believe there are triptychs which when you fold them up match up to some other image, so maybe 1000 years?

[St. Clown]

Mad magazine's Al Jaffee. He created the back cover fold-in that the magazine was famous for. Was 102 years old, only retired three years ago.

Seriously, the man had to be some level of spatial/visual genius to work through art like that. I can barely draw a smiley face let alone create a single piece of art that can then hold another image within it. And then reproduce that effect monthly for however many years.

I’m curious now when such a concept was first invented.

[Kepler]

Mad magazine's Al Jaffee. He created the back cover fold-in that the magazine was famous for. Was 102 years old, only retired three years ago.

This guy is one of my heroes.