Really? I honestly didn't know it was an actual thing. I thought Jon was just saying it to scare the crap out of Garfield.

I thought for sure California had already done it years ago.

I suppose it's a good thing I got in on that Amazon lightning deal yesterday!

$79 is the lowest I've seen them. Been waiting for them to go on clearance... $30 is my price point before I'd pull the trigger!  

Surely all that stuff runs just fine on the $20 Playstation Classic after a little work?

I agree Nathan. Amazing tech he finds and shares with. Never heard of VHD before.

One of my favorite youtube channels... especially for the videos on weird audio/video formats.

Interesting stuff.  Looks kind of like what RCA tried with CED.

Had to look that one up and can't say I really remember it. I do however, remember Lando advertising Colt45 malt liquor!   lol

Maybe not so much the wagon variant...But in the 80's I worked with a girl who drove a Dodge Colt.  I remember it well, probably because when we'd talk at work, she always referred to it as her little "sports car".  My first car ever was an '71 Opel GT, which I thought was more of a sports car (at least as far as looks go

I actually looked up to him back when I was seven years old. The man seemed genuine, and he'll be missed.

So did actor Rip Torn.  I remember him from THE MAN WHO FELL TO EARTH, TROPIC OF CANCER and THE BEASTMASTER (where he got 'ripped' and 'torn' at the end, by ferrets!).

Torne also worked on Robocop 3, Dodgeball, and the Men in Black trilogy.

The guy across the street from us has one. Between it and our '84 Vanagon our block is pretty well stocked in boxy 80's vans.

Those were cool. May see one in the next season of Stranger Things.

Coincidentally, I've been re-reading Zot (a comic book from the late 80's) and noticed this today.

because being a cat is where it's at!

Yeah! Cats have more liberty than dogs.

They leave the house in the morning and going back late at the night.

They can sleep most of the time.

They make people happy.

And the most important: cats have beautiful eyes.

Dang my tired eyes!!!   At first I thought it said,  Everyone wants to be a car.

I was gonna write Vrooom Vroom instead of meow ...

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This is the first I have heard of this. I thought maybe it was a joke, but then I checked. I guess it's true. Been a subscriber for a long, long time. It's too bad. About the only positive result - if there is anything positive here - is that I am running out of room to store all my various magazines and such. Did anyone ever type in the Mad computer program from - after checking, looks like issue #258, October 1985? There were versions for Atari, Apple, and Commodore. I forget why, but I remember writing the editors about that program, I had some sort of question. The reply came in my SASE - SASE, remember those? - many months after the fact, if I recall. A quick note at the bottom of my letter. I have it around somewhere. Anyway, sad news...but I learned that Marvel was going to revive Crazy this fall for a one-issue only event (doubt it will be the same). I loved Crazy, too, as well as Cracked. Oh well...

Actually, I checked some more info, and I guess there is an update to the story. And this is odd (yet maybe welcome, for me at least). Supposedly there will still be issues but they will have old content. If they start reprinting old movie/TV satires, that would be very cool. I guess the plan is to cease investment in new content. I really don't know, maybe there will be more clarification. However, this sounds to me like the first step toward a total cessation of publication. I'll have to go seek out any comment on this from a Mad artist's blog, Tom Richmond in this case...(plus I assume there will be more news on this coming up at Comic Con in San Diego)...

Bummer!

Though to be fair the last copy I bought had Jurassic Park on the cover (so 1993),   actually it was Jur Ass Has Had it Park!  and it struck me as so funny in line @ the supermarket and the guy behind me and I were laughing and he grabbed a copy too!

RIP. He was a great innovator. He wanted to do a FWD platform for small/midsize cars and a minivan back in the mid 1970's when he was at Ford, but HF II shot him down -- "small cars -- small profit!"  But then of course, the gas crisis and competition from imports quickly arrived, so it was another 10 years before Ford had a FWD car and a minivan. Meanwhile Iacocca turned around Chrysler and created a huge impact on the auto industry with the K-Cars, minivans, downsized cars like the LeBaron, etc..

Thoughts and prayers. 

I agree bro. But that soundtrack is amazing. 

As someone who has a graphic design degree... (and who has always been into art and graphics) blank video tapes always had appealing abstract graphics on them, to me.

I remember my mom buying Scotch VHS tapes for recording her shows... My prefered brand for both video and audio recording though is Memorex which Radio Shack used to sell.

I remember some movies and Christmas specials my mom taped, and some Transformers cartoons I taped on those.  And some "Showtime After Hours" my stepdad taped.

I've seen T-shirts of the Scotch VHS cover!

"The sound of the water splashing is music to your ears."

Shouting a battle cry, you catapult yourself off the
platform. You are brave, warrior, but stupid!! Your
body explodes as you plunge into the lava.

It's a sad thing your adventures have ended here!

Classic!   One I bought and still have boxed from back in the day!

Reminds me of being a wiseass teenager at the mall.  They had 4 payphones and my friends and I would go to each one, then crank call the operator (by dialing 0), then walk away while each of the 4 phones would be ringing...If anyone answered them they got chewed out by the operator 😂

In my city of 40 thousand people, there might be 10 pay phones I can recall seeing in the last few years that are still in use. The last bank of phones that you used to see at shopping centers,etc. are all gone. the last one in the City was torn out by Ma Bell last year.  

The only places I see payphones now are airports and malls.

I made some knockout lasagna recently.  Still got plenty to make in the future.

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Cool. Turtles are neat.

I like turtles!

What..? That's an amazing story!

Happy Birthday!!

Happy Birthday Brother!

Thank you for the Birthday wishes fellas. Was playing Neo-Geo all day long. 8^)

slab0meat: yet they'll play the uncensored version of '88 Lines About 44 Women'. It's a conspiracy, I tell you. A conspiracy.

For a younger audience, those lyrics must be difficult to understand as what remains of MTV today for sure doesn't play music videos, or at least didn't last time I checked. Perhaps the revival for music videos on YouTube have made them take up old traditions?

Banned by the CBC for about a week.

Biggest OCOD issue I've had was bad anti drainback valves causing dry starts with audible tapping. Other factors are the sheer amount of filters they produce. The more you make, the higher the odds of a bad one. Purolator had an issue with tears inside the media a few years ago, yet the MC and Bosch versions made in same places did not.

Fdurso224, you can go from conventional oil to synthetic to conventional to synthetic, but synthetic is superior.

Zylon nailed it. I've had to use a variety of filters over the years depending on what's available for <insert vehicle here>, but will avoid Fram like the plague. After one bad incident (the can sheared away from the base while being screwed on), that plus the drainback stories are enough to keep me away.

But... SHROOMS

Say no to drugs. And say yes to pro wrestling and sticking rubber bands in your face!

So if I say no to drugs, I'll go to Hell before I die?

@x=usr(1536) Plus, the right motor oil is crucial as well. I always use Castrol GTX in my Yugo ever since I purchased it. This commercial is why I felt Castrol was perfect for my car from that era.

@fdurso224: thanks! FWIW, I'm also on the Castrol GTX bandwagon - with the exception of the diesels, I run it in pretty much everything we've had.

My tastes typically run to French, British, and Italian - but anything interesting is game

@x=usr(1536) Amazing we have plenty in common. 8^) Castrol GTX is in just about every car that me and the family own and glad you do he same as well. 8^) Same here anything interesting is good with me as well. 8^)

"Give us a bottle of your finest champaign, five shrimp cocktails and some bread for my brother."

"I've always loved you"

"We've got both kinds of music - Country *and* Western!"