MAD Magazine was recently befuddled when retailer Circuit City pulled their August 2008 magazine from the 40 stores that offer magazines... mostly because MAD didn't realize Circuit City even sold magazines. The debacle began at CC's HQ, where some corporate folks were offended by a piece in the magazine entitled "Sucker City". In the piece, a parodic CC advertisement, the retailer got slammed for items such as the Nintendo Wii and Hitachi flat screens.

Circuit City spokesman Jim Babb offered a public apology to MAD and promised a task force to study humor in the workplace. They have also offered MAD a $20 gift card towards the purchase of a Wii. MAD jokingly hopes the gift card is an opening offer

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...a task force to study humor in the workplace...


there is no suitable response to that phrase. TFTSHITW

I will bomb all Circuit City locations into nothingness as soon as I rule the world.

They still publish Mad?

I was hoping this was about Mutually assured Destruction



Walmart has it coming I tell ya.

I had a MAD subscription that recently ran out. I got the subscription to research it for freelance humor writing opportunities. It was OK, but not great. It was pure toilet reading, and nothing more.

That being said, I had no idea Circuit City sold magazines. Who buys magazines there?

I bought a copy of Showgirls for $5 there.

you paid too much.

I guess they had to pull the mag now that the cover guy is running for president.

For me Showgirls was worth it if only because I got to live an adolescent fantasy and see Jessie Spano's rack.









Multiple times.

Who buys anything there?

Who pays for Showgirls? They give it out for free at nudie bars.

I do. They're much better now that they ditched the commission sales and set their stores up like Best Buy.

Best Buy and Circuit City are pretty much equal in my city. Poh-tay-toe, poh-tah-toe.

I don't get to go to nudie bars all that much.

Plus with a DVD you can just skip to the good parts.

(Showgirls had "good" parts? Wa-wat?)

Tater?

I don't, at least not after the overtly rude treatment I received from their so-called "sales staff".

Showgirls is for dudes who don't have internet connections

Funny that you say that because at the time I only had dial-up.

or dvd players. moneyshot loop ftw.

Thats really no excuse I downloaded pron on a dialup BBS in DOS on an XT 6 mhz computer. It took 30 minutes to realize that the gif you had been downloading was only bewbs.

Dude desperation to look at porn is pretty funny.


* not that I ever stitched together pieces of .gif files from alt.porn.binaries or anything *

Hey I was 12 it would be another year before I started my illicit tape duplication business.


too bad I didn't just spend the time working on my social skills and doing crunches instead.

Yeah, if I spent 30 minutes downloading a picture and it turned out only to be of this guy, I'd be pretty disappointed, too.

Not me