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2. His paperback digest book "MAD Inventions" was the Bible of my youth.

Thu Apr 10, 2025, 02:45 PM

Apr 2025

He proved that inventions didn't have to be Rube Goldberg style in order to be funny and wildly impractical.

He was a god of satire.

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