Dan Stiffler
Tue, 17 Nov 2009 07:41:45 -0800
On Nov 16, 2009, at 6:04 AM, gabriel593 wrote: > I appreciate the writer's citing Playboy covers, but definitely not > his accuracy. It looks like he didn't bother to check the cover > credits for the actual model in many cases, and just decided to say > it was that issue's Playmate. Like no one would know?
[snip] >> It's *April 1973*, and a first-class postage stamp costs 60 cents. >> Playboy costs one dollar. Put that together with a model licking a >> postage stamp on the cover of the Playboy and you have something we >> would pay $400 for -- in 2009 money. > > Licking is good, especially when it's Lenna Sjooblom, Miss November > '72. At least he didn't get her confused with Julie Woodson. Thanks to gabriel593 for pointing out the many errors in that posting/ blog. I was going to do it myself...if I had the time. How anybody can take seriously the judgments of someone so clueless about models' identities is beyond me. One nitpick: a first-class stamp did not cost 60 cents in 1973 (it was 8 cents and has yet to reach 60). The stamp that *Lenna* is licking is "Special Delivery." [snip] >> November 1975* is the month Playboy finally put a woman touching >> herself on the cover. The world was a happy place during those four >> weeks, we're pretty sure. > > Not as happy as Patti McClain, Miss May '76. This is the cover that Wil long ago pointed to as evidence that PLAYBOY reached its "nadir" in the mid-seventies. Apparently, Wil was not in a "happy place during those four weeks"! Regards, Dan Stiffler