Marge Simpson Poses For Playboy

caffiend666 writes "'Marge Simpson is posing for Playboy . The magazine is giving the star of The Simpsons the star treatment, complete with a data sheet, an interview and a 2-page centerfold. 'We knew that this would really appeal to the 20-something crowd,' said Playboy spokeswoman Theresa Hennessey. Playboy even convinced 7-Eleven to carry the magazine in its 1,200 corporate-owned stores, something the company has only done once before in more than 20 years." Worst issue ever!

As a 20-something...

[clone53421]

Worst issue ever!

As a 20-something, I must say I agree.

20-something ?

[arielCo]

We knew that this would really appeal to the 20-something crowd

Given that The Simpsons first aired 19 years ago and peaked not too long after that, try again with "30-something crowd".

Re:Wow . . .

[nomadic]

Playboy's been in bad shape for quite a few years now. It seems like they never figured out how to stay profitable in the face of competition from the web, despite having one of the most valuable brands in the world. Take a look at their chart. [google.com] If you click on the ten-year view, you'll see that they peaked during the dot com boom when investors just assumed that they were going to make a fortune on the net.

The sad thing about playboy is it actually used to be highly respected for things other than pictures of naked young women. Some of the best writers of the 20th century routinely published in their magazine.

Re:Wow . . .

[Menkhaf]

I would've saved this for later as I'm still coming up with nifty things, but here is my oneliner:

find -mindepth 3 -name \*.rar | grep -v subs | grep -v part[0-9] | sort -R | sort -R | head -n 1 | sed -r 's/\ /\\\ /g' | xargs unrar e && find -maxdepth 1 -name \*.ogm -or -name \*.avi | sed -r 's/\ /\\\ /g' | xargs mplayer -fs && rm *.avi; rm *.ogm

I keep it safe somewhere in my .bash_history ;)

Find all .rars at a depth of minimum 3 from the current path, removes all subs, all .rar files with part??.rar, sort the list randomly, do it again (had some problems with always getting the same one multiple times in a row, this fixed it -- might have been bad karma, might have been a bad algorithm, but haven't been bothered to remove it to check), take the first from the top, replace spaces with escaped spaces (to make xargs work), unrar using xargs (to current root), find the unpacked video file, replace spaces and play! After mplayer exits (but only with return 0!), remove all .avi or .ogm from the current folder.

If you need to limit it, do so after the first pipe, like this:

find -mindepth 3 -name \*.rar | grep S01 | grep -v subs | grep -v part[0-9] | sort -R | sort -R | head -n 1 | sed -r 's/\ /\\\ /g' | xargs unrar e && find -maxdepth 1 -name \*.ogm -or -name \*.avi | sed -r 's/\ /\\\ /g' | xargs mplayer -fs && rm *.avi; rm *.ogm

That's the reason for this way of having what you have in your script -- flexibility.

What do other people do?

Re:Wow . . .

[vivin]

Everyone seems to have forgotten that Maxim did this:

http://www.maxim.com/girls/girls-of-maxim/44455/marge-simpson.html?src=REDT:UTd

Will the issue be distributed in Australia?

[Doug52392]

I wonder if this issue of Playboy will be avialbe in Australia, given their intolerance towards cartoon pornography... [bbc.co.uk]