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Message: [QUOTE="Hans Sprungfeld, post: 3213716, member: 181"] No more accurate word for me than "formative," my introduction to it coinciding with Beatles & British Invasion music at the end of my elementary school years. While I was at college, David Berg was a guest speaker, and that night he was cranky & expressed disdain toward NatLamp's parody of Mad. What he disliked the most was a cartoon of a fractured cliche: "Blowing a joke," which showed a character sitting in a toilet stall and an implied other character with feet coming out from under the door. As to this cartoon, which my teenage self loved, as well as the cessation of publication, I'll quote Alfred E. Neuman from the cover of (I think) the 100th issue of Mad: "Big deal." Lately, when I'm frustrated by and displeased with the actions & attitudes of people, I'm reminded of a Peanuts book parody (again, I think) "I Got All the Jerks I Need." Yep, formative, and permanently influential. RIP [/QUOTE]