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Yet the magazine’s final moment of thumb-in-the-eye relevance—this May, when Donald Trump compared Pete Buttigieg to Alfred E. Neuman—emphasized just how deeply Mad has tunnelled its way into the culture, waiting to inspire anew.

From The New Yorker • Jul. 25, 2019

He has tunnelled the mountains, bridged the rivers, and laid his cables beneath the ocean.

From Society Its Origin and Development by Rowe, Henry Kalloch

He has thrown a viaduct over the Slough of Despond; he has tunnelled the hill Difficulty, and raised an admirable causeway across the valley of Humiliation.

From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 62, Number 385. November, 1847. by Various