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.

Mad has been published in local versions in many countries, beginning with the United Kingdom in 1959, and Sweden in 1960.

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.

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 ).

In the 1950s, the Guelph Biltmore Mad Hatters of the Ontario Hockey Association, who were then a farm team of the NHL's New York Rangers, were sponsored by Guelph-based Biltmore Hats, a leading manufacturer of hats with North American dominance.

They are sponsored by Worcester Bosch and Fragrance Mad.

File: Mad square music2. jpg |< center > A concert sponsored by the Conservancy

In place of less easily available tin, arsenic was added to copper in the Bronze Age to harden it ; like the hatters, crazed by their exposure to mercury, who inspired Lewis Carroll's famous character of the Mad Hatter, most smiths of the Bronze Age would have suffered from chronic poisoning as a result of their livelihood.

In jazz, Ornette Coleman and Chick Corea wrote different compositions, both incidentally titled Humpty Dumpty ( in Corea's case, however, it is a part of a concept album inspired by Lewis Carroll, called " The Mad Hatter " ( 1978 )).

* Battlecars ( 1983 ) – A Games Workshop, Mad Max inspired road combat game using 1: 60 scale miniature cars.

* Roadwar 2000 ( 1986 ) – A video game inspired by the Mad Max film franchise.

* Market Forces ( 2005 )-A novel by Richard K. Morgan heavily inspired by Mad Max and thus, Car Wars.

Although the name " Mad Hatter " was clearly done and inspired by the phrase " as mad as a hatter ", there is some uncertainty as to the origins of this phrase.

Neil Young wrote the song " A Man Needs a Maid " inspired by Snodgress in Diary of a Mad Housewife: " I was watching a movie with a friend / I fell in love with the actress / she was playing a part I could understand.

The sketch is clearly inspired by the real-life story of notorious London gangsters the Kray twins, although the Piranhas ' methods seem to resemble more closely those used by the rival the Richardson Gang and their associate " Mad " Frankie Fraser.

The character of one of her ancestors, " Mad Jack " Ramkin, was inspired from John " Mad Jack " Mytton.

The band made their recording debut in 1987 with Let's Polka Steady !, with British dub producer Mad Professor, which contained several reggae inspired instrumentals and is usually considered the highpoint for the original line up.

Lee had drawn similar characters since childhood, inspired by characters from Mad magazine and by artist Ed " Big Daddy " Roth, as well as comics and cartoons.

" Kornheiser will wave the show logo ( on a stick ) in front of his face and tell someone ( usually a famous person or someone he knows ) to go to his / her room, inspired by Betty Draper's parenting on Mad Men.

The storyline was revamped, with the 1980s present-day setting in the original version replaced by a Mad Max-inspired post apocalyptic future world, and the protagonist Kenshiro, originally a high school student in Hara's earlier story, became an older and more stoic hero inspired by Bruce Lee.

The comic was inspired in part by Mad Magazine.

Jonah Hex was inspired to become a bounty hunter after murdering his first criminal, the outlaw Lucas " Mad Dog " McGill.

Mad publisher Bill Gaines joked that he was a fan of the Fold-In because he knew that serious collectors valued pristine, unfolded copies, and would therefore be inspired to purchase two copies of each issue -- one to fold, and another to preserve intact.

" And that's where I met Stephen Colbert and Jon Stewart and all the writers, and they told me it was our work in Mad that inspired them.

* In Alice's Adventures in Wonderland ( 1865 ) by Lewis Carroll, Alice is shushed at the Mad Hatter's tea party for disbelieving a story told by the Dormouse about a treacle well, inspired by the holy well at Binsey, Oxfordshire.

Dungeonland was inspired by Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, and " includes a very dangerous Mad Hatter and March Hare, a deadly game of croquet with the Queen, and a Mock ( Dragon ) Turtle ".

Wilson was inspired by the irreverent work of the various satiric Mad and Punch cartoonists, as well as the science fiction monster films of the 1950s.

Though the series was inspired by the 1960s show, the Mad Hatter is indeed a very different character from the one David Wayne portrayed.