I take it that you liked him?

Funny thing is, he stopped running the Magazine portion back in 88' when his daughter Christie took it over.

Bye Mr. Hefner, and thanks for the mammaries.

thanks for evrything hugh

"How comes you have so many bitches?"

"It's because I treat them with respect and do NOT call them 'bitches'."

this is how you do it. money for nothing, and the chicks for free.



no, wait.

You win *gives you a cookie*

*pounces the cookie and devours it*

God bless him.

The man was a cultural icon and true gentleman.

I was heart broken when I heard of his passing :C

If you want, I started a thing where playboy bunnies are drawn every 9/28 in his memory.

Man had class. Thanks for the Bunnies.

#dixsout

The Legend.

On the early SNL, Hef was ranked among the classic philosophers in a skit. He even gave advice to Glen Quagmire on Family Guy. The Bob & Tom Show also made a song about him. Although an editorial cartoonist, Wright, once depicted him being humiliated by feminists--as clad in a bunny costume--The Playboy Foundation was actually funding feminist causes IIRC.

Hef knew the difference between what feminism used to be and what it became.

Learned everything I needed to know about women from my father's smuggled copies of Playboy.

Thanks for the memories Hef!

That’s an awesome tribute dude

Well, those Islamic Extremists can forget ever getting their 40 Virgins now....

wasn't it 78? are we down to 40 now? but, can you guarantee 40 virgins at least?

Rumors have it, that the text could also be translated "40 white raisins." o.o

o goody. so they all commit suicide for... raisins? 0.0

As they said on #

...And kittens everywhere rejoice! :)

Without him, there would be no bunnygirls. What a lousy existence it would be.

First-class memorial, Rabbi.

Of course, I only read the magazine for the articles...

He also published a short story about a society where homosexuality was the norm, and hetero was underground. It got a lot of complaints from the straights, which he responded with "If this upsets you, think how it is in this world for those who are homosexual".

this doesn't come as a surprise to me. When he sold his house about eight months ago he had a clause in the sale that he could continue to live in the place after its sale till his passing. i kind of figured that meant he wasn't going to live long and was putting his affairs in order.i admit I would not have minded having the opportunity to have met him.cant say ive in my younger days bothered much with the magazines but the guy's icon and a ironically huge contradiction.he had how many wives over the years and hes way of living and particular lifestyle and yet white frankly seem to have a massive amount of respect for women which made the whole thing ironic. Always tried to wrap my brain around the guy being such a skirt chaser yet he also seemed to have such a respect for women. As somebody mentioned he was even a supporter of some feminist movements and hes daughter ironically had been in church of the magazine since the late 80s.if i remember correctly the original name for the magazine was going to be stag or something like that I forget what happened that it ended up being changed to Playboy. At any rate the guy was Damn good at casting a image;) i were a member there being a comic book to celebrate his 60th or 70th birthday quite a few years ago wear it was a series of comics about a female assassin something similar to dead pool and she has a hiper sex drive.in the issue celebrating Hefner's birthday the storyline was about her protecting him from I forget who that was trying to kill him and in the ind she loks hem in a room and pointed story was she was going to screw him senseless and he was all this might not be such a good idea given his age lol. too the end he managed to hold up that image of being this sex obsessed guy after girls half his age and I can't help but imagine him owning quite a bit of stock in Viagra ;).wood like to think he went out doing what he enjoyed but I find that highly unlikely given what I understand of his health from the last couple years. I lost track a long time ago how many times he got remarried.

I must covet my April 1971 Playboy now.
Thank you Mr Hefner.

Heh, that's awesome. I would add to his repertoire "Playboy extraordinaire"

Everyone knows about the nudes in Playboy, but what I don't think gets as much coverage as it should is that he published articles by a whole buttload of famous people (and famous for actually doing something, not the "famous for being famous" twits of today), including but not limited to Vonnegut, Asimov, Bradbury (F451 was serialized in PB), Heinlein, Jack Kerouac and Ian Fleming.

So, yes, "I read it for the articles" did have more of a basis in fact than just a big joke.

(Hell, there was/is [not sure] a Braille edition, so there's nothing but articles to read in that version.)

Playboy may still have their logo, but they've lost an icon.

Farewell Hugh, I'll still reference you in my parodies.


Great image.

True story many may not know about Hugh:
To start his magazine, he printed 300 copies of it, traveling to every magazine retailer he could between Chicago and Omaha. 1 of the 1st retailers he picked up on that trip was in my hometown of Burlington, IA: a book store called Newsland. The owner of the store at the time: my grandfather Donald Karl Sandell.

What a guy.

Thanks to him, good girls do!