The Don Martin Dictionary
Richard Metzger pointed me to the Don Martin Dictionary. Martin was one of my favorite Mad cartoonists. His sophisticated absurdism was the opposite of Dave Berg's middlebrow sitcom humor (but I liked him, too). The Don Martin Dictionary
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blimey, it even has FAGROON!! KLUBBLE KLUBBLE! I remember that.
glortch!
I often remember a MAD parody where an L.A. cop asks: "Ma'am, can you describe the perpetrator?"
"Well, he was tall, dark, and, uh, handsome."
"That guy!" says the cop. "We'll pick him up right away."
Here is a similar dictionary of cartoon sounds by Basil Wolverton!
Basil Wolverton on Cartoon Sounds Introduction
Basil Wolverton's Sound Encyclopedia
Web 2.0 Site or Don Martin Sound Effect??
I've had this site bookmarked for years. Not many dictionaries make you laugh out loud. FABADAP!
Awesome. Fester Bestertester used to sign up for the swim team every summer. We're really dating ourselves here too.
A Pedant Writes:
Depending on when these sound effects appeared, it is possible that they should be credited to Don "Duck" Edwing, who wrote many of Don Martin's later scripts and gags.
I remember being really surprised that there was a Don behind the Don, and subsequently disappointed to see how uninspiring Duck Edwing's drawings were after Don Martin left Mad magazine.
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I'll get my coat.
This isn't a dictionary at all. It's a style guide for their proofreaders.
Good old Don Martin. I spent many a childhood hour copying favorite panels from his strips.
someone should catalog Martin's subtle variety of curled wrists and digits upon being struck.
-T
We actually named our eldest son with a Don Martinesque Sound Effect....upon learning that I was unexpectedly expecting, my husband's and my jaws proverbially hit the floor - the sound we imagined they made: Karang! Thus our son's unique middle name punctuates his somewhat more common first and last ones.
POIT!