Aside from Eugene Onegin, Hofstadter has translated many other poems ( always respecting their formal constraints ), and two other novels ( in prose ): La Chamade ( That Mad Ache ) by French writer Françoise Sagan, and La Scoperta dell ' Alba ( The Discovery of Dawn ) by Walter Veltroni, the then head of the Partito Democratico in Italy.

The term Mad Robin comes from the name of a dance which has the move.

The U. S. Food and Drug Administration ( FDA ), with support from the TSE ( Transmissible spongiform encephalopathy ) Advisory Committee, has since 1997 been monitoring the potential risk of transmitting animal diseases, especially bovine spongiform encephalopathy ( BSE ), commonly known as Mad Cow disease.

Simpsons producer Bill Oakley said, " The Simpsons has transplanted Mad magazine.

Mad has provided an ongoing showcase for many long-running satirical writers and artists and has fostered an unusual group loyalty.

In several cases, only infirmity or death has ended a contributor's run at Mad.

Mad has been criticized for its over-reliance on a core group of aging regulars throughout the 1970s and 1980s and then criticized again for an alleged downturn as those same creators began to leave, die, retire or contribute less frequently.

It has been proposed that Mad is more susceptible to this criticism than many media because a sizable percentage of its readership turns over regularly as it ages, as Mad focuses greatly on current events and a changing popular culture.

' ... And many people say ' I used to read Mad, but Mad has changed a lot.

" The magazine's art director, Sam Viviano, has suggested that historically, Mad was at its best " whenever you first started reading it.

Mad contributor Tom Richmond has tweaked critics who say the magazine's decision to accept advertising would make late publisher William Gaines " turn over in his grave ", pointing out this was impossible because Gaines was cremated.

However, the sensibility of the American Mad has not always translated to other cultures, and many of the foreign editions have had short lives or interrupted publications.

Mad has since relaxed its requirements, and while the U. S. version still eschews overt profanity, the magazine generally poses no objections to more provocative content such as the Swedish edition's 1999 parody of the film Fucking Åmål.

Mad has had many imitators through the years.

Over the years, Mad has branched out from print into other media.

Mad has sponsored or inspired a number of recordings.

In 1959, Bernie Green " with the Stereo Mad-Men " recorded the album Musically Mad for RCA Victor, featuring music inspired by Mad and an image of Alfred E. Neuman on the cover ; it has been reissued on CD.

The cartoonist has a featured section in every issue called " A Mad Look At ....", featuring 2-4 pages of speechless comic strips, all related to the same subject.

However, Aragonés has provided marginals for every issue of Mad since 1963 except one ( his contributions to that issue were lost by the Post Office ).

He has won Shazam Awards for Best Inker ( Humor Division ) in 1972 for his work on Mad Magazine, and for Best Humor Story in 1972 for " The Poster Plague " from House of Mystery # 202 ( with Steve Skeates ).

For the movie Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome, Tina Turner is said to have been wearing an actual mail and she complained how heavy this was.

In 1990 Franco Zeffirelli, whose Shakespeare films have been described as " sensual rather than cerebral ", cast Mel Gibson — then famous for the Mad Max and Lethal Weapon movies — in the title role of his 1990 version, and Glenn Close — then famous as the psychotic " other woman " in Fatal Attraction — as Gertrude.

In 2009, an interviewer proposed to Al Jaffee, " There's a group of Mad afficionados who feel that if Harvey Kurtzman had stayed at Mad, the magazine would not only have been different, but better.

Meanwhile, the magazine's reporter, George Dorn — having been turned loose without support deep in right-wing Mad Dog, Texas — is arrested for drug possession.

Memphis has been represented by several now-defunct professional sports franchises, including the Memphis Pharaohs of Arena Football, the Memphis Maniax of the XFL, the Memphis Xplorers of the AF2, the Memphis Showboats of the USFL, the Memphis Southmen of the WFL, the Memphis Houn ' Dawgs of the ABA, the Memphis Sounds of the original ABA in the late 1960s and early 1970s, and the Memphis Mad Dogs of the CFL.

An early 17th century broadside ballad, " The Mad Merry Pranks of Robin Goodfellow "— which is so deft and literate it has been taken for the work of Ben Jonson — describes Puck / Robin Goodfellow as the emissary of Oberon, the Faery King, inspiring night-terrors in old women but also carding their wool while they sleep, leading travellers astray, taking the shape of animals, blowing out the candles to kiss the girls in the darkness, twitching off their bedclothes, or making them fall out of bed on the cold floor, tattling secrets, and changing babes in cradles with elflings.

In recent years, Berg's Lighter Side strips have been rewritten for Mad with inappropriately " un-Berg-like " humor by long time Mad writer Dick DeBartolo and others ; this irregular feature is called " The Darker Side of the Lighter Side.

The Mad parody has been reprinted numerous times over the decades.

An example is " The Mad Trist " in Edgar Allan Poe's The Fall of the House of Usher, where through somewhat mystical means the narrator's reading of the story-within-a-story influences the reality of the story he has been telling, so that what happens in " the Mad Trist " begins happening in " The Fall of the House of Usher ".

The police in Bolton have questioned his wife, Gina about her involvement in the drugs trade, and his son ( nicknamed both ' Mad Pup ' and ' Daft Dog ') has been charged with selling crack cocaine and heroin.

In her book In Love With a Mad Dog, Robinson stated that after a UDA / UFF killing had been set up and carried out, he would become highly aroused and afterwards be " particularly wild in bed ".

On the other hand, Gaines rejected a lucrative incentive package from Warner Brothers that would have been based on increased sales of Mad ; Gaines explained that the act of accepting the incentive would have falsely suggested that he was not already doing everything within his abilities to maximize the magazine's circulation.

He is best known for his Mad Max trilogy, but has been involved in a wide range of projects.

His hot sauce brand, " Mad Anthony ", has been noted on local news segments and on the Food Network for being " high-end " due to the quality of its ingredients and manufacturing process.

The Mad Bomber storyline, in August – September 1975, came in the wake of news from periodical TV Week that the ratings for Number 96 had dropped to just half what they had been at the beginning of 1974.

" Mad published the article in issue # 33 ( June 1957 ).

The Discovery of Dawn was published in 2007, and That Mad Ache was published in 2009, bound together with Hofstadter's essay Translator, Trader: An Essay on the Pleasantly Pervasive Paradoxes of Translation.

Debuting in August 1952 ( cover date October – November ), Mad began as a comic book published by EC, then located in lower Manhattan at 225 Lafayette Street.

This practice continued into the 2000s, with more than 100 Mad paperbacks published.

Between 2006 and 2009, the magazine published 14 issues of Mad Kids, a spinoff publication aimed at a younger demographic.

The Lost Tombs trilogy of modules — The Star Cairns and Crypt of Lyzandred the Mad, by Sean K. Reynolds, and The Doomgrinder, by Steve Miller — were the first to be published in the new setting.

He published the popular satirical magazine Mad for over 40 years.

These eccentric behavior patterns are also described in Gaines ' biography The Mad World of William M. Gaines, written by Mad writer Frank Jacobs and published in 1972 by Lyle Stuart, a longtime friend.

A parody of the film, " Being Not All There ", was published in Mad magazine.

Paula Byrne's biography of Evelyn Waugh, titled Mad World: Evelyn Waugh and the Secrets of Brideshead, was published by HarperPress in the UK in August 2009 and HarperCollins New York in the USA in April 2010.

** The Family of Love, A Mad World, My Masters, and A Trick to Catch the Old One ( published )

By the time EC Comics published Mad # 1, Capp had been doing Fearless Fosdick for nearly a decade.

" Mad as a March hare " is a common British English phrase, both now and in Carroll's time, and appears in John Heywood's collection of proverbs published in 1546.

Cracked also appeared monthly during the period when Mad was being published just 8 times a year, thus picking up readership from Mad fans that couldn't wait out the six weeks for their next " comedy fix.

In issue 33, Mad published a partial table of the " Potrzebie System of Weights and Measures ", developed by 19-year-old Donald E. Knuth, later a famed computer scientist.

The 1653 edition, published by Humphrey Moseley, Richard Marriot, and Thomas Dring, contains A Mad Couple Well-Match'd, The Novella, The Court Beggar, The City Wit, and The Demoiselle.

Help !, a magazine published by former Mad editor Harvey Kurtzman, published two stories featuring Fritz, including the character's first public appearance in January 1965, " Fritz Comes on Strong ".

Don Martin ( May 18, 1931 – January 6, 2000 ) was an American cartoonist whose best-known work was published in Mad from 1956 to 1988.

In 2007, a two-volume hardcover box set of Martin's complete Mad magazine work was published by Running Press.

Mad Libs was invented in 1953 by Leonard Stern and Roger Price, who published the first Mad Libs book themselves in 1958.