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Old 02-24-2005, 02:16 PM   #16
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yes, Mad Magazine!
spy vs spy and the tri-fold back cover
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Old 02-24-2005, 02:18 PM   #17
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Strange as it may sound, I will always have a fond association with Newsweek. My father had a subscription throughout my childhood, and from the time I learned to read I would browse through it, always going first to the Perspectives section to try to figure out why the quotes were funny or ironic. It was my first introduction to the idea that there was a whole world beyond my school and neighborhood, with crazy things happening pretty much all the damn time.
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Old 02-24-2005, 02:28 PM   #18
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Old 02-24-2005, 02:29 PM   #19
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Oh my, how could I forget Mad Magazine! I would spend hours upon hours trying to redraw all the Don Martin (rip) cartoons when I was in jr. and high school. What talent they had on that staff back in the early 70s: Jack Davis, Sergio Aragones, Don Martin, Mort Drucker, Dave Berg, Dick De Bartolo, Al Jaffee... and, of course, the Usual Gang of Idiots
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Old 02-24-2005, 05:40 PM   #20
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I've never been a big one for consuming periodicals, but I do enjoy a SciAm on occasion, as well as some Photography stuff when my fancy is tickled.

A few years back there was a UK-based science magazine called Frontiers that kicked many flavors of ass. It just sort of disappeared from the Barnes and Noble racks after I'd been reading it for about a year, and I couldn't find anything about it online... stupid fucking entropy.
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Old 02-24-2005, 05:53 PM   #21
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Liberty for politics, pretty amusing stuff.
Dirt Rag for mtn biking, lit, beer reviews...

I picked up a Mad recently. I was disappointed that it was no longer counter culture.
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Old 02-24-2005, 07:30 PM   #22
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Old 02-24-2005, 08:38 PM   #23
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Maxim (not currently subscribed)
Motorcycle Cruiser (also lapsed)
Omni (defunct)
Consumer Reports (lapsed)
Navy Times (currently subscribed)
Flying (occasional reader)
Guns and Ammo (occasional reader)
Popular Mechanics (read mostly in barbershops)
Mad Magazine (RIP)

This is an incomplete list but that's all I can think of right now. I miss the Omni puzzles the most.

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Old 02-25-2005, 02:23 AM   #24
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Current subscriptions:

Guns & Ammo
Shooting Times
American Rifleman

Growing up, we always had a subscription to National Geographic which piqued my interest in photography....the, uh, animal pictures. Yeah, that's it.

I also loved National Lampoon and had kept every issue. My mother tossed them all out when I joined the Army.
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Old 02-25-2005, 04:25 AM   #25
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Current Subscriptions;
Car & Driver
Smithsonian
National Geographic
Rodder's Journal
Custom Rodder

Past Subscriptions;
Fine Homebuilding
Fine Woodworking
Popular Science
Popular Mechanics
Consumer Reports
Time
Life
Saturday Evening Post
Watchtower
Hot Rod
Rod & Custom
Yankee
Mad
Playboy
Penthouse
Pennsylvania
Brooklyn
Several NRA, 4-H, NHRA and other organization Rags plus too many car magazines to list.
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Old 02-25-2005, 08:35 PM   #26
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Games Magazine

Remember the photo quiz? Several extreeeemely close up thumbnails of ordinary things. Good variety of puzzles, including some I could solve.
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Old 02-25-2005, 09:19 PM   #27
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OMG BigV- I had EXACTLY the same 3 in mind- I was such a car Freak from the age of 12 to 22, I could tell you the stats about any production car from a Lada to a Countach, including the options available. I read those 3 mags from cover to cover, except for the rims ads...

And I also thought that the Countach was the coolest car of all time. The Anniversary Edition was a little tacky, but hey- I was in a dealer in Montreal who had six of them lined up in his basement, brand-new, only driven on and off the loader. The pictures of the Countach do NOT do it justice to standing beside it (Then on the other side of the garage were 6 Diablos- 'tis to dream....). I still think of that day (it was '95) like it happened yesterday! Each Countach and Diablo were an even $350,000 CDN. I also went through quite a phase of reading that mucho-expensive homes mag- I can't remember the title, but it was the one that had Kenny Rogers' estate for $9m in '96 or so- Maybe "DuPont Registry"?

Now I read those three a bit but I now read Guitar Player and Guitar World a lot.
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Old 02-25-2005, 09:23 PM   #28
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I have been reading and subscribeing to Outside for years ,
I'll pick up a Guns + Ammo , Shotgun news , Amreican rifle man , or Mortor cycle , or Car and driver every now and then .
I had a LARGE comic book collection , but my mother trashed them when i joined the USMC , she stoped throwing out my mags when she stumbled onto my Porn stash , I had gotten 3-4 guys hords when they got married , a whole LARGE steamer trunk of stuff ( I never did figuer out HOW she got that lock open ) , She made me burn it in the back yard .
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Old 02-25-2005, 09:42 PM   #29
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Damn, Zip, what is it with Mom's throwing out your cherished possessions when you go join the military? Not only did my Mom toss my National Lampoon collection, she chucked my mint condition entire set of 1969 baseball cards. (To this day I can't bring myself to investigate what those would have been worth now. )

Mom also sold all my darkroom equipment at a tag sale for dirt cheap. She did all that in the name of cleaning out old stuff and making room.
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Old 02-26-2005, 12:41 AM   #30
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I hadn't considered this thread in terms of current and past magazine subscriptions ...

CURRENT
America's First Freedom
Women's Outlook
Field and Stream (got this free because I ordered stuff from somewhere, won't be continuing)
Whistleblower (wnd.com's magazine)
NewsMax (yeah, they have a monthly print version)
National Review
TV Guide (I don't think I've actually really read this since I got digital cable with the onscreen program guide. I do enjoy Cheers and Jeers.)

PAST (Many of these I will still pick up as single copies, but don't subscribe)
Games
Dell Crossword Puzzles (several of their monthlies)
Guns and Ammo
McCalls Needlework
Magic Crochet
Crochet on the Go
Hooked on Crochet
Annie's Crochet
Just Cross Stich
Beadwork
Bead and Button
Road and Track
Motor Trend
Scientific American
Discover
Smithsonian
Starlog
Consumer Reports
Alfred Hitchcock's Mystery Magazine
Isaac Asimov's Science Fiction
Analog
Omni
Fantasy and Science Fiction
Realms of Fantasy
Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine
Elfquest
Magical Blend
Circle Network News
Green Egg
UTNE Reader
Mother Jones
Soldier of Fortune
Spin
Rolling Stone
People
Entertainment Weekly
Newsweek
Time
Archeology
Dog Fancy
Funny Times
National Lampoon
Mad (never subscribed, but faithfully purchased every month)
Vietnam (military history magazine)
Dungeon
Skeptical Inquirer
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