Some of the Cartoons were classic.

Yes, the jokes and cartoons were great. Little Annie Fanny was classic. When I was 8 or 9, my uncle was staying with us while he was going to college. Turned out he had a stash of Playboys under his mattress. I was a little young yet to truly appreciate them, but it was an eye opener.

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Originally posted by sjtill:
Martin Gardner's "Mathematical Games was great. Later when Doug Hofstadter took over the column, he retitled it "Metamagical themas", which is an anagram of the original.
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In the 60s and 70s “Scientific American” was an excellent and highly respected magazine. Martin Gardner had a monthly column, “Mathematical Games” on diverse subjects. In one April edition he wrote a credible-sounding article about the origin of the flush toilet, and how it changed the world. The inventor was said to be Thomas W. Crapper.

It was a joke article. The editors never permitted joke articles, but this one was so well written, with references, that the editors were fooled. They were furious when they found out. To this day, there are folks that believe that the flush toilet was invented by Thomas W. Crapper.

Except for the “War of the Worlds” radio broadcast, and the Democrat Party, maybe the most successful hoax in history.

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Originally posted by Pipe Smoker:
To this day, there are folks that believe that the flush toilet was invented by Thomas W. Crapper.

Except for the “War of the Worlds” radio broadcast, and the Democrat Party, maybe the most successful hoax in history.

Didn't Mr. Crapper write a book about his invention called:

Flushed with pride!

Dunno if Tommy Crapper invented anything, but there is a plumbing shop in London (or was when I was about 14) named after him. My sister probably still has the photo my dad took of it.

I remember that one of the best short stories I had read to that time was in PB: Anson's Last Assignment. The illustration for the story was a 35mm camera with a bullet hole right down the axis of the lens.

"Little Annie Fanny"

For years I had the issue with Vanessa Williams on the cover still in the wrapping, but I think I lost it or gave it away at some point over the years moving around with the USAF...It's probably in a box in the garage or something. Maybe it would be worth something over cover price now.

Somewhere around here I have a thumbdrive with all the pictorials from issue 1 to into the 90s. Maybe 2000s.
Perhaps I should search for it and review the photography. The image evolvement of quality, lighting, settings, costumes, hair-dos, boobs, ....

Ah! There it is. Right on top.

In the early 60"s would go to the local drug store down on main street and visit the magazine rack. Problem was that it was in the front corner of the store right in front by a very large glass window. would take the playboy mags and place inside a hunting or gun magazine so as anybody passing by would not see what I was actually lookin at. ................................. drill sgt.

Wow. I can only imagine Livermore in the 60s. I just moved from there to Florida this summer. After 47 years Couldn’t handle the Bay Area any more. The last 10-15 have been bad for their politics.

I had a single date with a woman who (10 years and 50 pounds earlier) had posed in college for one of the “girls of the PAC 10” special editions she was still quite attractive and had never done modelling since. There was no connection or I’d be bragging about my former playboy model girlfriend a lot more. Lol.

The articles were good and they published short stories by some really great writers. They jumped the shark when they started going from a libertarian attitude to just a woke/lefty stance. Apparently this month they have a trans person as the model. Pro tip fellas: If shes got an adams apple, she got a banana.

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Originally posted by HayesGreener:
Instilling teenaged boys with a highly developed appreciation for the human female form for more than 6 decades...

indeed.

two words from my adolescence:

Karen

Price


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The Gahan Wilson cartoons were exquisite.

Gary Larsen's were clever.

When I was 12 or so, and that would make it 1963, the neighborhood guys and I held a paper drive for "The Bishop's Relief Fund" or some other bullshit like that. We went door-to-door pulling little red wagons and and loading them up with whatever we could get as donations "for the poor" or whatever.

I remember it as being a totally bogus invention of ours as we filled one kid's garage loft with newspapers and Life magazines and didn't turn anything in for money, but boy howdy did we collect a pile of Playboys. That was the plan from the start.

We hid these under another guy's front porch and I believe that event contributed to the main direction of the rest of my life.

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did we collect a pile of Playboys . . . I believe that event contributed to the main direction of the rest of my life.

And now for the rest of the story.

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Originally posted by Hamden106:
Somewhere around here I have a thumbdrive with all the pictorials from issue 1 to into the 90s. Maybe 2000s.

Great Karma, please include me!

My introduction was also from a paper drive. Our elementary school did those a couple of times a year and we would dig through the piles and abscond with any playboys.

My barber in high school was located in downtown San Francisco just a block away from city hall. He kept a stack of Playboy magazines. My friends and I were regular customers and would wait one after the other for our turn.

Growing up in the 50s and 60s my dad had Marylin Monroe's centerfold from 1953 hanging up in the barn shop by the drill press (I inherited the drill press but not the centerfold) ... best sex education growing up.

My first encounter with the magazine; some time in 1968 I found an issue stashed in the house featuring Elke Sommer. It wasn't my copy!

Diane Parkinson. An Earth angel of the Price is Right. Some summer of the fifth/sixth/seventh grades she was transformed from being a Very Pretty Lady to being hypnotically beauteous. Several years later she modeled for Playboy. It was like an answered prayer. I was too young to buy the magazine but surely was impressed that Playboy signed her on.