Marge Simpson makes cover of Playboy
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Marge Simpson -- the blue beehived matriarch of America's most loved dysfunctional family - is Playboy magazine's November cover, the magazine said on Friday.
Simpson, tastefully concealing her assets behind a signature Playboy Bunny chair, is the first cartoon character ever to front the glossy adult magazine, joining the ranks of sex symbols like Marilyn Monroe and Cindy Crawford.
Playboy said the cover and a three-page picture spread inside was a celebration of the 20th anniversary of the "The Simpsons" and part of a plan to appeal to a younger generation of readers.
Scott Flanders, the recently-hired chief executive of Playboy Enterprises, told the Chicago Sun-Times in an interview that the Marge Simpson cover and centerfold was "somewhat tongue-in-cheek."
"It had never been done, and we thought it would be kind of hip, cool and unusual," Flanders told the newspaper. He said the magazine hoped to attract readers in their 20s compared to the average Playboy reader's age of 35.
Playboy also promises a story inside called "The Devil in Marge Simpson". The issue arrives on newsstands on October 16.
Playboy magazine's circulation has slipped in recent years in the face of competition from the Internet, which offers free and plentiful pictures of naked women online.
The magazine's circulation fell 9 percent as of the end of June 2009, according to figures from the Audit Bureau of Circulations.
But Flanders told Reuters earlier this week that there were no plans to close the print edition. "Over my dead body will we quit producing the magazine in print," he said.
Homer, Marge, Bart, Lisa and Maggie have already been honored this year with a set of U.S. postal stamps marking the 20th anniversary of the longest-running comedy series on U.S. television.
Animated series "The Simpsons" debuted in December 1989 with a Christmas-themed episode called "Simpsons Roasting on an Open Fire." It has won 24 primetime Emmys and was renewed by Fox television earlier this year for two more seasons.
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I can honestly say I don't want to see a cartoon nude. I'd rather see a flesh and blood lady nude.
In 1982, bunnymag reached it's peak when Tanya Roberts did a nude spread to accompany her appearance in Beastmaster. By then, though, the articles were becoming elitest-the magazine was losing touch with it's blue collar roots.
A long slow sad decline began. By the 1990's, the stock centerfold was a blonde with surgically altered tits, month after month after month. As the new century dawned, the mag's writers remained rooted in 1968, unaware that the public had moved to center right. One of bunnymag's biggest blunders was to fully endorse a now discredited writer (then professor) who launched a full frontal assault on the second amendment. When complaining letters filled bunnymag's mail center, the magazine's response was to tell the objectors that the magazine "fully endorsed" the writer and had thrown away the letters of the objectors. Wow, imagine that-telling your customers to go get fucked (not in a good way).
Within a year, bunnymag was complaining that subscriptions were way down (gee, I wonder why?). Now, in 2009, the magazine is resorting to "implied nudity" from a cartoon figure. This is quite sad, figuring just how important this magazine once was.
The biggest problem the magazine has is that most of the staff is female. Although a near total female staff would be a good idea in a strip club, it's not a good thing in a magazine. A men's magazine should have things that interest men-(natural)naked women and articles about classic cars, guns, and sex. Since bunnymag is staffed and written by women, with couples in mind, the magazine will continue to decline. Most likely, it will die when it's founder dies.
Take a girl from a working class home, and she might have a work ethic, as opposed to a spoiled brat, who hasn't wanted for anything in her life.
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The first link has 1 year of playboy for $9.95 and the second link (from amazon.com) has it for $15.96 for 1 year. I bought my subscription from amazon because it is a website I trust.
At $1.33 per issue I think it is not a rip off.
I read rarely and I think Playboy's articles are excellent. In fact, I'm thinking about subscribing again.
I remember going to Wendy's back in the early to mid 70's somewhere NE of Dayton. I didn't know they started in Columbus. Remember they used to make their fries out of the raw potato right in front of the customer? Never see that again!
what happened to the glory days of the 80's with big natural tits, full but firm asses and pussy hair?