[PLUG-TALK] R.I.P. Mad magazine

[Dick Steffens]

On 7/5/19 10:04 PM, Keith Lofstrom wrote:
> On 7/4/19 2:32 PM, Rich Shepard wrote:
>> mother decided I no longer needed those old magazines and threw
>> out numbers 1-100 (something) that I had saved. Had she not done
>> that I could  have sold them and made a small fortune.
>   
> On Thu, Jul 04, 2019 at 04:01:42PM -0700, Dick Steffens wrote:
>> Yeah, moms are like that.
> If moms weren't like that, there would be thousands
> of copies of all these old comics, and they would be
> classified as hazardous waste, of negative value.
>
> <...>
>
> If your guest room is full of collectables, Mom has no
> place to stay when she visits.  She knew what she was
> doing when she trashed your "treasures".  When she is
> gone, you will realize that she was the most valuable
> collectable of all.

Actually, she's been gone for over 30 years, but you're right. She was 
the most valuable collectible of all the family hairy-looms kicking 
around the house.

Good point.

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Regards,

Dick Steffens