Talk:Blivet

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I think it appeared in Mad many times besides its 1965 cover appearance. In fact, it's second only to the grinning idiotic face of Alfred E. Neumann (in my mind) as being the Mad mascot. --Ed Poor

I would have thought that would be the veeblefetzer. :) --Furrykef 11:26, 5 Jun 2004 (UTC)

The multi-pronged object in the article is called a "poiuyt" by Mad magazine.

A "blivet" is 10 pounds of feces in a bag made to hold only 5 pounds. The word "blivet" also can be used metaphorically, but I'm not sure of the correct usage. --User:Juuitchan

In case anyone hadn't noticed, "poiuyt" is the last six letters on the top row of a standard English keyboard from right to left.

68.194.161.90 wrote:

It's also thought to be a WWll term for "ten lbs of manure in a 5 lb bag" I must look further but I may have run across the word in a Dickens novel. Contextualy it indicated a meaning of something completely useless.

[edit] Alluding To M. C. Escher

changed 'painting' to 'print' in the M.C. Escher comparison. Escher was a printmaker, not a painter. -Cory

I'm aware of Escher prints using other impossible figures, for example the Penrose Triangle and the Necker Cube. But I can't recall any using this object. Until I see an example of an Escher print using a poiuyt, I am skeptical of the claim. - Hop

As per Hop's concern, I've moved out this line of text:

The artist M. C. Escher was famous for utilizing this object in many of his drawings, lithographs, woodcuts and many such other media.

While Escher definitely used illusionary imagery in his prints, I've never seen a picture attributed to him with this specific "image cliché." (And I actually have a hardcover catalog of his work, so I'm pretty certain.) --DLWormwood 17:07, 5 September 2007 (UTC)