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MAD Magazine Recurring Features

What They Say and What it Really Means

in Order of Appearance in Regular Issues

Article Title Writer / Artist Issue / Date
What They Say and What it Really Means Ronald Axe and Sol Weinstein /
Paul Coker, Jr.
97 — Sep 1965
What They Say and What it Really Means George Hart / Bob Clarke 137 — Sep 1970
Interpreting the News —
What They Say… What It Means…
Gary Alexander / 163 — Dec 1973
What Television Says and What it Really Means Tom Koch / Jack Davis 222 — Apr 1981
What Disc Jockeys Say…
and What They Mean
Dick DeBartolo / Rick Meyerowitz / Dean Fiora (idea) 231 — Jun 1982
When Somebody Sayeth, He Really Meaneth… (part of The Book of MAD) Lou Silverstone / Bob Clarke 243 — Dec 1983
TV People —
What They Say and What They Really Mean
Greg Eckler / Barry Blitt 337 — Jul 1995
What They Say and What it Really Means

Excerpt from What They Say and What it Really Means — from #137, September 1970