Come the Singularity, mooching round the internet griping about grammar is going to be a lot of digital ghosts’ raison d’etre I iimagine
(ETA: obligatory spleling fale in post about grammar. Fucksticks)
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Oh that’s where my mom got that. She was big on these weird rules of etiquette. I couldn’t get my ears pierced until I was about 13 because getting it done too young was “trashy.”
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Kudos to the Original Poster for scanning and collecting this database of images, surely one of the most important tasks ever undertaken for the benefit of humanity (or at least half of it).
Ensuring the integrity of such data is important and I’m confident that users across the globe will be downloading this set to store in multiple backup locations, in case of some unforeseeable apocalypse.
I suggest that someone with more computing skills that I might want to create one of those composite images using the thumbnails in this database. The composite image itself should probably be one of the most artistically and intellectually stimulating of those in the collection. Should this endeavor be initiated I would be willing to thumb through the images to find the best choice. The task will be difficult and time consuming, but the tools are at hand and I’m sure I can handle it.
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Its also a pretty good way to track just how playboy went wrong. A surprising amount of the photos from the 50’s 60’s and early 70’s look shockingly modern, through the 70’s-90’s they uniformly look REALLY 70’s 80’s and 90’s. With some really shit airbrushing/touch up in the 90’s. Some of those women look like they’ve been painted rather than photographed. Then you move into the 00’s. Where things still look pretty early 90’s for a weirdly long time. Including some really outdated cloths with big shoulder pads and everything. As you move through the 00’s into more recent years everything starts to look like a poorly executed fashion shoot with added bewbs.
There’s also a pretty obvious trend in terms of physicality. The earlier you go the more varied the models are physically and the less touched up they appear. As you head into, and through, the 70’s there’s an ever more limited physical “type” with more re-touching and more plastic surgery. Even apart from things like BMI.
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I didn’t get that far toward the present 
I’m all for people looking the way they want to, but I find the reactions many men have toward women who don’t meet the standards of porno chic rather distressing.
It seems that (aside from facial hair) men are being railroaded into the same limited set of acceptable options. Men in advertising these days don’t have arm or leg hair, let alone chest or armpit.
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How’d she expect you to win Toddlers in Tiaras?!?
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My limited recollection is that Playboy comics, quite impressively, managed to actually be less funny than New Yorker comics. I suppose there must have been a few winners, though.
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Probably at least of few of them bring new meaning to “Christ, what an asshole!”
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They’re more of an acquired taste than New Yorker comics – Gahan Wilson and B Kilban aren’t everyone’s cup of tea. They’re some of my favorite comic artists, personally.
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I hadn’t forgotten but: America is a bit more fundamentalist Christian than the UK ( I have no idea what the family papers were like in Oz), and the Sun recently enough (I believe) did away with the topless page 3 stunna.
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Well yes, I’m sure you’re right, but I was complaining about actual misuse of words.
Generally I’m pretty relaxed about grammar. We manage with very little of it in English but generally speaking we get across our meaning. So do the Chinese. But, as we all known, Latin killed the ancient Romans.
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My father was recently round my house and wanted to watch a match and I don’t have satellite TV so I ran a stream from my laptop. His joy was unbounded at the information that Rupe got paid not a penny from it.
Because I wouldn’t piss on Rupe if he was on fire, give him the steam of my piss if he was dying of thirst. It wouldn’t be humane to do so given the shocking harm he has done and is doing to the world.
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No more so than men without beards look pre-pubescent. If they were going for pedo-fetish, you’d see much smaller boobs/butts in general.
Not into twinks, I take it? In my experience, twink porn is equivalent to, and just as common as, “barely legal” porn in their respective markets.
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I do see twink porn out there, but it isn’t as “mainstream” as extremely young looking women in Playboy, it seems. And as I say, I didn’t mean to imply that shaved crotches were for a “pedo-fetish” market, sorry for any confusion there.
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It’s been a very long time so my judgment may be clouded by memory, but I once heard a talk by Gahan Wilson about how he got started in cartooning. National Lampoon was asking for cartoons with the caption “Is nothing sacred?” So he submitted the cartoon below. National Lampoon thought it was too weird but Playboy bought it.
It does seem more like The New Yorker’s style than the other two.
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He would obviously agree with my father, who complained that The Times was going to pot when they stopped putting the small ads on the front page, asked what the world was coming to when Thompson took over, and dropped it like a very hot thing when Murdoch bought it. During the Thompson era The Times published an advert - a full broadsheet page black and white nude. I doubt many of its readership turned a hair - my father got far more exercised if he thought there was an error in the City news.
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There weren’t any playboys or national geographics in my house when I was a kid but the Sunday times used to have great photography in it. And I must admit I cut some of those pictures out…
That would be Harold Evans era I think.
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I remember seeing something in one of his books about how Hugh Hefner wanted to get a cartoonist like Charles Addams for Playboy, which is how he ended up doing lots of work for them.
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Nothing beats PlayDude comics!
“Our unabashed dictionary defines IUD as ‘love springs internal’.”
(read in Homer’s voice)
