Just a quick note to my fellow fans...I'll be away for a few days with no internet access. I am going through withdrawal already, my hands are starting to shake like Betty's!! I'll be back Monday, till then, have a great weekend. I'll be watching Sunday night.

OK, I just realized I misspelled throw in my post, I've only had one cup of coffee, sorry

Uhhhh. How 'bout we call ourselves Mad Men Fans?

Much better than Jerry Springer Fans, Oprah Fans, or Charlie Rose Fans.

And I think it hits the target 'spot on'.

Oh wryter1 we have to do better than that! We are very special fans. Read the post by the MM fan who asked how we prepare for Sunday night episodes each week.

Monty Mad Men's Flying Circus.

Would those spiffy Relax-i-cisors look too gauche for our hats?

Mad Menites? No, sounds like we're angry Amish people. Mad Menstrals? Okay, no! Weiners? (only if we have good buns). How about Whitman Drapers?

We need to all wear hornrimmed glasses, with pointy corners for the gals, and torpedo-pointed bras on our heads. At our parties we'll serve everything on "chip-n-dips." We'll carry Red Ryder BB Guns and shoot at pigeons while speaking of hunting bear. We'll always have a cigarette in one hand and a drink in the other and whenever anyone asks us anything we'll give a fake smile and say, "Of course."

Well, NancyStowOH, if we adapt your guidelines, no one will ever be able to accuse us of not going all out for our idols! LOL Love the bit of us all wearing torpedo bras on our heads! We could also have a Member of the Week/Month (this would alternate from week to week or month to month according to how often we meed) who gets to wear the "Sacred Hoover" (a nod to Peggy's vacuum fetish) draped over one shoulder during meetings. God, we're all so completely "gone"!

How often we "meed"?? Lord help me. you all know what I meant.....

Hi scfan - Sacred Hoover - LOL!

I think we should call ourselves the Sterling Coopers.

AND... we have to all go to the bathroom in pairs - one to go and one to stare...

I've got it - Maddicts!

Maddicts, yes

Maddicts.

And wo could have hats shaped like Alka-Seltzer tablets -- or Utz potato chip bags.

Bet ya can't view just one! (with apologies to Lay's)

Sorry, about wo, I was eating a potato chip at the time. It should be 'we'.

with plenty to keep our chip-n-dips chock full

I vote for Maddicts and I think all we need is fedoras. C'mon, that's what all the men wore back then anyway. Total class, easy to buy and it'd look great on both men and women. (Probably hotter on us women.) Just be sure to take yours off in the elevator.

How about "We are the cigarette kids", (twitch), the cigarette kids (twitch), the cigarette kids!" Guys wear fedoras and suspenders, gals we must wear red and a drill bit necklace, a beehive and stockings, high heels and cone pointed bras! How fun!

Actually, instead of hats, we should all wear Don Draper wigs, Brill Creamed to a fare-the-well.

Or, one of Joan's dresses.

Either one -- depending on your sexual orientation.

Everyone is so hilarious! "one to go and one to stare---funneeeee! I vote for "Maddicts" and the Alka Selzer tablet hats! (Remember "Speedy"?)

Aww, i was gonna say Mad Meniacs, but Maddicts works too.

And I say we wear the Kodak Carousel on our heads. It'll fit perfectly.

Kodak Carousel hats? LOVE IT!!!!

And they're sooooooo full of nostalgia.

Sure beats chip and dip hats.

How about Cirque de Mad Men?

Why? Because everybody on the show is doing a balancing act -- or dancing around the situation.

And we can wear any kind of funny hat we want.

Wouldn't it be great if Cirque de Soliel picked up on this. I can almost envision the performance with brief cases and strange hats -- including the Kodak Carousel.

I am not sure we can name our group. A group, if I may say I am very pleased to have joined, even if I did so only lately. Our group does not have a common reason for being here, not like Cheeseheads, who all want one team to win. We are broken up into as many compartments as a MM character's personal life. Sure we became Madicated about the show, but for different reasons. There are some of us who watch because a character mimics our own life, at least in some small detail, and we wish to see how they solve a problem that is beyond our own grasp. Or we watch a character who is as far from us as can be, because they are alien to us and we want to watch them as we would a travelogue of a strange country. Or we watch to see our past and remember it with older eyes. We all see the same scene and hear the same dialogue, but bring different connotations to the sights and words. That is what makes the show what it is, imo. Good topic, 60'schild, thanks for starting it.

Sizzle

Our common reason for being here is that we all love Mad Men. That's the common thread.

We make up a very interesting tapestry of fact, colorful opinion, etc. based on our love of Mad Men.

So, sure we can name the group. We're like a yarn basket, but we're all going to be a part of the whole garment that is Mad Men.

C'mon be part of the colorful threads -- be part of the whole of Mad Men.

I imagine all you guys would like to be "part of the colorful threads".... that make up one of Joan's sweaters, huh? LOL

I think the Carousel hats idea is cool!

wryter1...maybe out of the yarn basket we (someone) could knit some nice socks to be worn while watching MM as a tribute to Bert Cooper - the shoeless wonder of the advertising world!

In the early sixties I lived in Cleveland and worked in the insurance business for a large property/casualty company. There were Joans, Peggys, Harrys, etc... and one almost Don Draper type. I find I can relate to these characters very well since they are so well and truthfully written.

I didn't start smoking until I was around 23. When we girls met after work at the little bar (The Town Pump) across the street from our office, I was the only one who didn't smoke and felt sort of left out. It prompted me to go to a little tobbaco store and find some interesting cigarettes. I wasn't going to smoke just any old thing! I decided on the Markovitch brand, from England. The milds came in a small tin with red and white stripes. The stronger ones were in a tin with black and white stripes. I'm sure I still have one of those cans filled with pins and buttons. I tried some Russian cigarettes - once - they were regular length, but the filter took up 3/4, leaving very little tobacco. They were awful!!!

Please pardon me for going off the subject here, but
watching MM is like taking the proverbial memory trip and I look forward to visiting my "friends" every Sunday night.

To the critics who post here: where would we be without advertising? As other posters have said, this show is not a documentary...it's entertainment of the best kind. The writing and actors are so good they make it believable. If you didn't live through this era, like some of us, may I say, mature, posters did, you can, at least, learn to some degree what it was like.

You are right, wryter1, of course. I'll jump right into that basket...I think my initial hesitation is finding a name cool enough to fit us. Because we are a cool group...Bobby Darin cool, The way Don thought Midge was cool until he photographed her, cool like only New York in the 60s was cool. We are cool heads for the hottest show on TV. Okay, enough of my making fun of myself...was cool even used by anyone but beatniks that early in the 60s? You all pick a great name and I will wear it proudly.

scfan

With us guys, I think our feelings for Joan go 'deeper' than that. :>)

I vote for Maddicts. Skip the hats...The men can grease down their hair with Brill Creme and the women have to wear a ponytail and bangs.

LOL !!!!!!!! no comment.

The word "cool" hit the comics in the 1940's Mainly the Archie comics about teens. Before that it was used in the jazz music world. Who knows how far back the word and its slang meaning goes!