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	The Origins Of Halloween: A Brief History Of Samhain, All Hallows Eve And Halloween (Page 2)
		"Boo, Humbug!" by Michael Elliot (Time magazine, October 27, 2003)
	www.cultureplanet.com /news2.htm

	Michael Williams -- Master of None: Act Your Age!
		In response to this post about adults getting more involved in Halloween, my friend Craig passes on a Time Magazine article titled "Boo, Humbug!
		Call me a Scrooge, but why can't adults leave Halloween to the kids?" by Michael Elliott.
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	www.mwilliams.info /archives/003651.php

	all about arie kaplan - wizards of wit part 1
		Longtime MAD magazine writer/cartoonist Al Jaffee, for example, had been relegated to kiddie comic books before the war, but after 1945 he started to get magazine work for publications such as Trump, Humbug, and The Realist.
		MAD made its debut in 1952 as a comic book (it became a magazine in 1955 to avoid censorship) founded by Jewish "red diaper baby" Harvey Kurtzman, an eccentric iconoclast who inspired fierce loyalty among his admirers.
		Jews such as Jack Pearl, who played radio's Baron Munchausen, and Al Shean of the comedy team "Gallagher and Shean" performed on the radio and in vaudeville, often wearing the accoutrements of the baggy-pants clown.
	www.ariekaplan.com /wizardspart1.html (3436 words)

	FILES.HLD
		JIM.ZIP [ 2] a text game written by the same man who wrote humbug LIFETIME.ZIP [ 17] compute your life expectancy LINARES.ZIP [ 2] Text file on a whole chess tournament LOST202.ZIP [ 4] you are lost in the forest with few recorces in this text adventure game.
		This publication is about speech-friendly games AUD6.ZIP [ 3] Audessy number six, magazine on speech-friendly computer games for blind persons.
		Magazine about accessible games of interest to blind computer users.
	www.nfbnet.org /files/games/FILES.HLD (1764 words)

	TIME.com Print Page: -- That Old Feeling: Hail, Harvey!
		Kurtzman — the founding editor of MAD, and later of the humor magazines Trump, Humbug and HELP!
		The magazine was aiming for a bimonthly schedule, but the issue dates — June 55, September 55, November 55, Spring 56, Summer 56 (which was promoted as the “Spring Issue”) — show that Kurtzman wasn’t close to meeting his deadlines.
		And though he would create some wonderful magazines over the next decade, and would be a mentor and beacon to artists for the rest of his life — Saint Harvey — the Great Moment was over.
	www.time.com /time/columnist/printout/0,8816,633658,00.html (6317 words)

	kurtzman
		...harvey kurtzman, kurtzman, fisted tales, annie fanny, silver linings, pot-shot pete, mad magazine, playboy, two-fisted tales, hey look, trump, humbug, little annie fanny, bill...
		Harvey Kurtzman October 3 1924 February 21 1993 U.S. cartoonist and magazine editor...
		...Harvey Kurtzman, Harvey Awards, comics, comic books, artists, writers, inkers, cartoonists, MoCCA The Harvey Awards are the comic book industry`s premier award show.
	www.adbd.com /cherche.php?q=kurtzman (938 words)

	John Gibson Lockhart - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Lockhart's account of the transactions between Scott and the Ballantynes and Constable caused great outcry; and in the discussion that followed he showed unfortunate bitterness by his pamphlet, "The Ballantyne Humbug handled." The Life of Scott has been called, after Boswell's Johnson, the most admirable biography in the English language.
		In 1820 John Scott, the editor of the London Magazine, wrote a series of articles attacking the conduct of Blackwood's Magazine, and making Lockhart chiefly responsible for its extravagances.
		In 1818 the brilliant and handsome young man attracted the notice of Sir Walter Scott, and the acquaintance soon ripened into an intimacy which resulted in a marriage between Lockhart and Scott's eldest daughter Sophia, in April 1820.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/John_Gibson_Lockhart (1088 words)

	TIME Magazine Archive Article -- Ex-Husband Found? -- Mar. 11, 1940
		Lord Haw-Haw, the humbug of Hamburg, The hee-hawing, high-browing Hun.
		Lord Haw-Haw, the humbug of Hamburg, The life of the town, full of fun; But still, in the winter, he's rather pathetic, He's frozen to death, for his pants are synthetic.
		Lord Haw-Haw, the mysterious Nazi propagandist with the frozen British accent, has had more than his share of 1940 Mother Goose.
	www.time.com /time/archive/printout/0,23657,789697,00.html (139 words)

	Comic Book Resources - Comic Book News, Reviews and Commentary - Updated Daily!
		MAD creator Harvey Kurtzman was a great believer in the use of fumetti in his humor magazines HELP and HUMBUG, mainly because it was a great way to stretch the budget!
		But by far the oddest of all features in THE MARVEL FUMETTI BOOK is the comic's center spread, a pasted-up photo of Smilin' Stan as the Hulk, reclining on a couch a la Burt Reynolds in PLAYGIRL magazine!
		Although the typical "Marvel Zombie" might have considered this comic to be highly innovative at the time of its publication, the photo-comic -- or "fumetti" -- was already commonplace the world over for decades.
	www.comicbookresources.com /columns/oddball/index.cgi?date=2001-06-11 (485 words)

	Amazon.com: Music: The Band [EXTRA TRACKS] [ORIGINAL RECORDING REMASTERED]
		Voted the Band of the Decade (70's) by Rolling Stone magazine, their combined talents provided some of the finest music of this century.You will never hear anyone who can cover their songs even remotely, a testament to their collective musical genius.
		Not just a band, The Band: A list by bald_terror, Compilations, bah, humbug!
		Given the high standard established by The Band and its better-still 1968 predecessor, Music from Big Pink, it's not surprising the Band peaked early as a recording group.
	www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/B00004W510?v=glance (2439 words)

	Opinion Column by PC Magazine: Creative Commons Humbug
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		Dubbed Creative Commons, this system is some sort of secondary copyright license that, as far as I can tell, does absolutely nothing but threaten the already tenuous "fair use" provisos of existing copyright law.
		Creative Commons actually seems to be a dangerous system with almost zero benefits to the public, copyright holders, or those of us who would like a return to a shorter-length copyright law.
	www.pcmag.com /article2/0,1895,1838244,00.asp (973 words)

	Berkshire History: Biographies: Mary Russell Mitford (1787-1865)
		William Harness, who knew the family well, and was Miss Mitford's lifelong friend, heartily disliked him and called him "a detestable old humbug" but his many failings never succeeded in alienating the affections of his wife and daughter.
		Miss Mitford also wrote 'Mary Queen of Scots,' a scene in English verse (1831), and an opera libretto, 'Sadak and Kalascado,' produced in 1835; and she contributed several dramatic scenes to the 'London Magazine' and other periodicals.
		Mary Russell Mitford was the only child of George Mitford, a descendant of an ancient Northumberland family, and of Mary Russell, an heiress, the only surviving child of Dr. Richard Russell, a richly beneficed clergyman, who held the livings of Overton and Ashe, both in Hampshire, for more than sixty years.
	www.berkshirehistory.com /bios/mrmitford.html (973 words)

	City Journal Summer 2003 Michael Moore, Humbug by Kay S. Hymowitz
		Moore claimed political differences, but those at the magazine said he had been utterly unprofessional: arbitrary, suspicious, and impervious to deadlines.
		Moore will insinuate that the United States created Usama—“or USA-ma, which is more appropriate considering we trained him to be a terrorist.” He will tell us that in the late nineties the oil firm Unocal held a meeting with Taliban representatives in Houston, “when Bush was governor,” to talk about building a pipeline through Afghanistan.
		Moore’s chief conceit is that he is the lonely truth teller, seeking out the story no one else is brave enough to touch.
	www.city-journal.org /html/13_3_michael_moore.html (973 words)

	Opinion Column by PC Magazine: Creative Commons Humbug
		PC Magazine is a registered trademark of Ziff Davis Publishing Holdings Inc. Reproduction in whole or in part in any form or medium without express written permission of Ziff Davis Media Inc. is prohibited.
		ZIFF DAVIS MEDIA ESEMINARS AT Nov. 21, 2 p.m.
		Networking in a Blade Infrastructure Environment with Michael Krieger.
	www.pcmag.com /article2/0,1895,1838244,00.asp (981 words)

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