Listen to MAD Magazine's Alfred E. Neuman sing "What—Me Worry?" (1959)

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Originally published at: https://boingboing.net/2019/07/22/listen-to-mad-magazines-alfr.html

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Potrzebie Wow what a flash from the past. I spent far too many hours contemplating the pronunciation and meaning of that word and IIRC it was simply nonsense

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It’s either Polish for “need” or a unit of measurement: 2.2633484517438173216473 mm depending on your level of Knuthiness. (absolutely delightful link as from there we can investigate other critical terminology, such as: veeblefetzer, hoohah, osszefogva, bitsko, furshlugginer, ganef …usw)

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Yeah Just after posting I googled and got the 411 on Potrzebie on wikipedea

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There’s more than five people in that band, including a very hip keyboard player. And is that Mel Blanc on vocals?

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This voice will always be Bugs Bunny to me!

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It wasn’t simply nonsense, it was MAD!!

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“What–Me Worry” is the janky version of “The Ballad of Bilbo Baggins.”

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It sounds legit in context, but wow — I did not really expect that.

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MAD would later occasionally include a free 33 1/3 record with its (“50 Cents - Cheap”) magazine. This novelty one was my favourite:

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Something like po-CHEB-yeh.

Potrzebować means to need, but I’m really not sure on the conjugation for potrzebie.

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In my head it will always be Pot Ra Zeeby

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Don Martin graphics on the sleeve!

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