Heck Of A Guy Blog Weighs in on Allen Lee

Crystal Laker Alan Showalter entitles his Heck of a Guy piece,

Allan Lee And The Mad Magazine-Deficient Generation Y Hypothesis The Bullet (You) Almost Dodged

Alan Showalter thinks Allen Lee’s problem is that he did not read Mad Magazine, especially the parts entitled, “What They Say and What They Mean.”

This is what Mad Magazine would have said about the teacher’s assignment.

As the Mad Magazine and the other channels of teaching the younger generation to decode what people say into what they mean have become less available to Allen Lee and his cohort, this kind of error is likely to occur again. Perhaps if Allen Lee had been properly introduced to the classics, such as Mad Magazine, he wouldn’t be in this fix because he would have known that when

They say:

Write about whatever comes to mind

They mean:

Write about whatever comes to mind – that won’t upset or anger me. And, in fact, it might be a good idea to write about something that I’ll like.

If high school seniors don’t know this, the schools and society are sending them unprepared into the world.

What next? What if voters started believing politicians? Or the congress believed the President? What if husbands believed their wives really wanted to know if they were getting fat or if wives believed that their husbands really wanted to know if they were the best lovers ever? Oh, the carnage, the humanity.

Generation Y shouldn’t get mad; they should get Mad Magazine.


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