As you may or may not recall, the bathroom readin’ basket at the Splotchy house typically contains stale celebrity magazines.

Along with these magazines are a few Mad Magazines from the early 70’s that I picked up at a thrift store a few years back.

I’ve been perusing the Mad Magazines more than the celeb rags lately, and am constantly confronted by the wit of Dave Berg, who had a long-running feature called “The Lighter Side Of…” In each issue Berg would explore a particular topic, to which he would devote several pages of three- and four-panel strips.

So, here’s my tribute to Dave Berg. Only the last word balloon has been changed on his original strips. Click on a strip to view a larger image.

And now, I humbly present:

To jon and kirby, who were kind enough to leave a comment here — the Interrupting Cow knock-knock joke killed.

It killed.

1984¹, in this case not an album² by the rock group Van Halen³, nor an album⁴ by keyboardist Rick Wakeman⁵, is a dystopian novel⁶ (an example of which can be found in George Orwell’s 1984¹) by George Orwell⁷, an English author most noted for penning the dystopian novel⁶, 1984¹, in this case not an album² by the rock group Van Halen³, nor an album⁴ by keyboardist Rick Wakeman⁵…

¹http://wikipedia.org, “Nineteen Eighty-Four”
²Ibid. “1984 (Van Halen album)”
³Ibid. “Van Halen”
⁴Ibid. “1984 (Rick Wakeman album)”
⁵Ibid. “Rick Wakeman”
⁶Ibid. “dystopian novel”
⁷Ibid. “George Orwell”