Comments on: It’s about time they made barcodes more interesting http://www.mentalfloss.com/blogs/archives/410 Feel Smart Again Sun, 22 Nov 2009 15:37:07 -0500 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.5 hourly 1 By: Mangesh http://www.mentalfloss.com/blogs/archives/410/comment-page-1#comment-261 Mangesh Thu, 29 Jun 2006 21:10:16 +0000 http://www.mentalfloss.com/blogs/?p=410#comment-261 When Mad Magazine was forced to put a UPC on their covers they completely rebelled. For like a year straight after all magazines had to start carrying UPC's they were still making covers that mocked the symbol because they felt it defaced their artwork. Eventually, they sort of accepted its being there, and one of my favorite covers is this one where Alfred E. Neumann is mowing a lawn full of UPC's. <img width="171" height="229" align="left" src="http://www.collectmad.com/madCoverSIte/mad210id.jpg" /> When Mad Magazine was forced to put a UPC on their covers they completely rebelled. For like a year straight after all magazines had to start carrying UPC’s they were still making covers that mocked the symbol because they felt it defaced their artwork. Eventually, they sort of accepted its being there, and one of my favorite covers is this one where Alfred E. Neumann is mowing a lawn full of UPC’s.

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