Alas, the death has been announced of Hugh Hefner, the playboy of all playboys, and we shall not look upon his like again, er, not that any of us blokes particularly wanted to look upon him, it was his girlies we yearned for.
No wonder he looks somewhat smug in that photo. To have spent your life surrounded by the most gorgeous girls in the world all of whom were desperate to win your favour must have been a sort of heaven so it is remarkable, when you think about it, that it has taken 91 years before he reached the real heaven. I was also struck by one little item in his Wiki entry, the fact that "Sylvilagus palustris hefneri, an endangered subspecies of Marsh rabbit, is named after him in honor of financial support that he provided" for its preservation. A rabbit! Whodathunkit?
Anyway, thanks Hugh, you and your Playboy magazine provided me with many, er, solitary moments of pleasure which is more than Newsweek or Time ever did!
But you only bought/acquired it for the articles of course. Right Duffers?
When you quit this mortal coil what better way to go than surrounded by oodles of delectable crumpet which I sincerely hope was the case for him.
Posted by: AussieD | Thursday, 28 September 2017 at 11:15
If you persuade hundreds of attractive young females to dress up as rabbits, you become a rich, powerful, admired super-stud.
If you tried it with just one woman, you would be a sad pervy loser.
Funny old world.
Posted by: Whyaxye | Thursday, 28 September 2017 at 11:34
If Heff makes it to heaven, he may be lucky doing so...but a slight admonishment from the Almighty could take the form of surrounding him with completely flat chested women. No blondes either.
Posted by: Whitewall | Thursday, 28 September 2017 at 11:49
I will not celebrate or mourn his passing. I find it odd that the man who did (imho) the most harm to objectify and degrade women is being RIP'd by my feminist friends. And I have called them on that. Free speech, spree feech.
Unless RIP is roast in purgatory.
I once went to babysit for a neighbour and the young boy (probably 10, not yet gone through the change) picked up a copy of Playboy (sitting out for all to see) and said, Dad and Mom said that seeing the naked body is natural. I wonder if his mom walked around the house naked.....
Posted by: missred | Thursday, 28 September 2017 at 12:20
No doubt the female employees of Playboy Magazine will be wearing black underwear as a sign of mourning.
Posted by: Richard | Thursday, 28 September 2017 at 14:04
Hef was also a Chicago native. The original Playboy Club could be seen just south of Lake Shore Drive and had a huge neon bunny symbol lit at night. To a young man it seemed classy and exclusive because you had to have a "key card" to get in, and they weren't easy to get. Hef's reputation as a leader in the sexual revolution is exaggerated. There had been more, uh, revealing clubs in Chicago for years. His genius was in finding a way to upscale the idea and market on a national scale.
Posted by: Bob | Thursday, 28 September 2017 at 16:03
I could have attended the Labour party conference if I'd felt a compelling need to be surrounded by tits.
Posted by: Uncle Mort | Thursday, 28 September 2017 at 17:42
"If you tried it with just one woman, you would be a sad pervy loser."
Oh, errm, well, mmm.
She's called "Fluffbun" for a reason ...
Btw, Gaffer, I remember looking through those mags tucked away in your wardrobe when I was searching for my Xmas presents. Thanks! The sex-ed classes at Windsor Grammar School really weren't up to the task - bloody state education, eh Bob?
SoD
Posted by: Loz | Thursday, 28 September 2017 at 17:52
Classic Matt cartoon ...
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2017/08/31/matt-cartoons-september-2017/
SoD
Posted by: Loz | Thursday, 28 September 2017 at 17:55
Well, he did make it to the ripe old age of 91 so there may've been something to the "new[ish]" research after all.
So let's lift our glass in gratuitous homage (maybe) one last time!
http://duffandnonsense.typepad.com/duff_nonsense/2014/01/a-tit-or-two-a-day-keeps-the-doctor-away.html
(Apologies to Gloria Steinem. ... Though she did "fill" her own bunny costume quite nicely - motives aside, ultimately she managed quite nicely for herself post facto.)
Posted by: JK | Thursday, 28 September 2017 at 18:34
From first Playboy Issue (1953):
BTW, Marilyn's breasts were much nicer than CNN's crude mastectomy depicts.
Posted by: TheBigHenry | Thursday, 28 September 2017 at 19:17
SoD, I'm not sure what type of school this is, but I beat you to it:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gLiOfGvArAY
Posted by: Bob | Thursday, 28 September 2017 at 19:18
Well, I did read them for the articles and I still have a hundred or so copies of Playboy from the 60's to 70's. Last time I looked they are worth $ 10 each on EBay, plus % 10 postage so my son will have a bit of pocket money when I kick off.
I especially loved the interviews.
Posted by: Andra | Thursday, 28 September 2017 at 20:43