Your favorite line from the National Lampoon? Back when it was funny.

[bif]

My favorite headline was: Diz blows Bird at Newport.

One of my favorite lines was: The only way you can get a Canadian into a church or art gallery is if they have a Happy Hour.

Loved that magazine back in the 1970s. What a great magazine with some excellent writers.

[RedCloud]

1. I loved coincidental juxtapositioning (sp?)

two stories for the price of one!

[LynneSin]

2. Was it over when the Germans bombed Pearl Harbor? Hell no!

Course I don't know if that's from a National Lampoon movie or a Michelle Bachman rally.

[old mark]

3. I loved the cover "Buy this magazine or we'll shoot the dog!"

http://thepoodleanddogblog.typepad.com/.a/6a00d83451580669e20115723e723a970b-pi


Gota love the eyes!

mark

[Richardo]

18. Best magazine cover in the history of history

:thumbsup:

[WinkyDink]

26. To think I once owned that. Don't know where it got to!

[Gidney N Cloyd]

4. "It is mui hot-o here in Latin America!"

Delivered by the very well-endowed model who posed for many of the fumetti (sp?) cartoons.

[nolabear]

5. Michael O'Dohohue's tombstone:

One Thing Led to Another and Before We Knew it, We Were Dead

Ironic, yes?

I wore a Mona Gorilla shirt til you could see through it. But I was young and perky then.

[hifiguy]

6. That brings back memories

Somewhere in a storage locker I still have a boxful of NatLamps from '72 to 81. I gotta dig those out someday.

For some reason I just remembered part of a Chris Miller story called "Telejester" in which some stoner had the power to alter what appeared on TVs all over the nation after ingesting some exceedingly potent acid. This was during the Nixon era, and I recall that at some point in the story he altered a press conference of Ron Ziegler's so that Ziegler was wearing a Nazi uniform and armband, answering questions in a stereotypical WW2 German accent and being viciously heckled by a frog on the podium.

Gads, those were the days.

[MilesColtrane]

7. I thought the take off on wine snobs in the Food Issue was pretty good.

It was called, "The Joy of Wife Tasting".

[gratuitous]

8. "Back when it was funny"

I have real difficulty anymore trying to convince people that there was a time when P.J. O'Rourke had some comic chops. Some of his articles from back then were wet-your-pants funny.

I remember a cartoon: Perspective is the back of a city bus, about three people on it. Weird, scummy guy gets on, lone woman about 2/3 of the way back thinking "Oh God, please don't let him sit by me." As the guy lurched his way back, the woman keeps thinking, "Please God, don't let him sit by me." Finally, the guy sits down right next to the woman, turns his head and says, "God told me to sit by you."

[hifiguy]

9. Back in the '70s and '80s PJ was hysterically funny

but he lost it somewhere in the early/mid 1990s and became just another vicious Repig jackass. He forgot the first rule of comedy - nothing is funnier than the king slipping on a banana peel and landing on his ass, but the same thing happening to a peasant isn't nearly as funny. His automotive and travel writing remained readable for a long while.

John Hughes wrote some very funny stuff for NatLamp as well. But the originals (Doug Kenney, Henry Beard, Tony Hendra, Chris Miller, and the truly perverse Michael O'Donoghue) were matchless.

[old mark]

12. Yeah- P.J.'s brain went bad after that....he never recovered....nt

[bif]

23. He sure turned into a dickhead, didn't he?

He was pretty funny back in the 70s though.

[trof]

10. The Floating VW/ Ted Kennedy ad spoof

Completely tasteless, as usual.
;-)


If Ted Kennedy drove a Volkswagen, he'd be President today

It floats.

The way our body is built, we'd be surprised if it didn't. The sheet of flat steel that goes underneath every Volkswagen keeps out water, as well as dirt and salt and other nasty things that can eat away at the underside of a car. So it's watertight at the bottom. And everybody knows it's easier to shut the door on a Volkswagen after you've rolled down the window a little.

That proves it's practically airtight on top. If it was a boat, we could call it the Water Bug. But it's not a boat, it's a car.

And, like Mary Jo Kopechne, it's only 99 and 44/100 percent pure. So it won't stay afloat forever. Just long enough. Poor Teddy. If he'd been smart enough to buy a Volkswagen, he never would have gotten into hot water.
http://www.bizbag.com/Cartoons/kennedy.htm

[nolabear]

13. Oh man, that was priceless.

And no wussy apology issued either. At least I don't think so.

[trof]

14. I've read they had to recall the issue from newstands.

VW sued them.
Or threatened to.
But that may be an urban legend.
I had a subscription.
:-)

[hifiguy]

24. VW did sue or at least threaten to sue

Can't remember how it was resolved other than it was out of court - I think the 'poon was never allowed to reprint that gag under the terms of the settlement.

[jmowreader]

11. There were a couple

One was "The War on Lomotil," which was a rather severe slam on the Drug War. According to the article, kids were sneaking into Mexico and buying Lomotil (an anti-diarrhea medicine which is OTC in Mexico) so they wouldn't have to go to the bathroom. They were pretty damn harsh on the Drug War.

Another was "Get Off My Damn Back!" magazine...contained ads for products like a sauce that was 100-percent cholesterol, "Tip O'Neill's Tips on Meals" which claimed men loved salad with Bleu Cheese dressing but hated lettuce so you should just serve hubby a bowl of salad dressing, and a review of a video called "Bone Crunching Fun" which was two hours of really violent cartoons.

[blogslut]

15. The Appletons

Becoming a Subgenius a few years later was a natural progression.

[nolabear]

20. LOL The Appletons and Bob.

It was one of those cringe-and-howl comics, and after a lifetime of Goofus and Gallant I was more than ready!

[rurallib]

16. Don't remember specififc issues, but the High school yearbook

and the Sunday Paper had me in pain from laughing.
"Dacron" I believe the city was.
The yearbook included the girl contributor nicknamed "Preggers."

[Richardo]

19. The High School Yearbook was a classic

:rofl:

[trackfan]

33. I remember the miniscule pictures of the freshmen -

like 500 per page.

[LiberalEsto]

22. The Sunday Newspaper parody was amazing

Remember the huge lead headline about two local women missing (while vacationing in Japan.
And then a small headline for a teensy story just below that: "Japan Destroyed".

Unfortunately I kept thinking about that a lot this past week.


I think the paper parody's name was the Dacron Republican-Democrat. Or Democrat-Republican. I treasured it because I'd worked for four local papers over the years, and they managed to incorporate an unbelievable number of small details making fun odf all the quirks and oddities of local journalism.

[begin_within]

27. I still have that.

They put a LOT of work into it. An entire newspaper with ads, classifieds, the whole thing. They were decades ahead of The Onion at this type of thing.

[LiberalEsto]

29. I do too

There were little innuendos and clues to one of the main story lines - the masked prowler or whatever he was - even in the tiniest classified and display ads.

[bif]

17. Throwing another one out there

A photo of Lenny Bruce's body.
Underneath it said:

Net Henhoff loved him.
Ralph Gleason loved him.
We all loved him for what he was. A funny junkie.

[Hardrada]

21. There was a funny issue on Paranoia

and one segment was about what you should be paranoid about in each country you might visit.
France was "rape artists" and Ireland had "priestcraft." And a page of weird and baffling Balkan highway signs. Immensely imaginative. And the issue with Hitler retired on a tropical island.

[meow2u3]

25. Mine comes back from one of the '72 editions

My favorite poem was (featuring a topless, very well-endowed young woman wearing boxing gloves)

I am the Queen of England
I love to sing and dance
And if you don't believe me
I will punch you in the pants

[mockmonkey]

28. Interesting site about NatLamp

http://www.marksverylarge.com/index.html

[Gabi Hayes]

30. I don't understand this one. anybody give me a........hand?

[bif]

32. It was a story called...

My First Blowjob. It was brilliant. I don't know if you can find in on the net. But it was fantastic.

[REP]

31. "Hope as they haggle with a hate-lipped hooker!" (Aesop Brothers)

Weeny Winey Doll cartoon by Gahan Wilson

Topless bar raid by Rodriguez

Mom's home-made soup machine cartoon by Rodriguez

[trackfan]

34. The Moscow Phone Book,

with entries like, Jack Adogoff; I.L. Kutchacockoff; Benden Spreadyacheeks, etc.

[csziggy]

35. For a "walk" through National Lampoon history check this out

http://lampoon.rwinters.com/
National Lampoon Covers 1970 - 1998

[Skittles]

36. STOP SCREAMING OR I'LL STOP!!!

:D