Nonsense!
Jon Stewart (of The Daily Show... Comedy Central... yeah, its a liberal laugh fest, but gives me the chuckles..) refered to the SI swimsuit issues as; "Quaint, almost... Amish" (ie, by comparison to the day-to-day flesh fest we see everywhere!)
Marisa Miller is the hottest thing on this planet. And possibly any other planet in the galaxy. I don't but this issue, but I spent about 20 minutes staring at it in Barnes & Noble the other day when I had some time to kill.
What's this guy know about babes? He's from Mt. Lebanon fer crissake!
The girls are pretty. I'll just leave it at that. I'm going to try be nice for a week..errr a day...maybe a minute even ;o)
No pics ?
I don't buy it. I just saw the words "Bikini Babes" and I clicked on the thread.
'Course, if fat chicks and wrinkle prunes are going to be behind every "bikini babes" link, I my stop clicking out of learned helplessness.
I have one complaint, and only one complaint, about the SI Swimsuit Edition. How much would it be worth to Time Warner never, ever again to run a swimsuit pictorial with either of the Williams sisters? There are attractive black women in the world. There are attractive women athletes in the world. There are even attractive black women athletes in the world. At least as far as I'm concerned, Serena and Venus Williams are not among them.
Duh...it's hockey season!
What? Oh, I didn't know.
Methinks poor Tom Purcell may be having a mid-life sexual identity crisis. I am already 43 and find this year's SI Swimsuit issue as interesting as those when I was a teenager.
Why not just rename this thread: "FreeRepublic. The Swimsuit Edition"?
I am sorry to hear that. The author may want to consider Viagra for his problem.
PING to the REPUBLICAN PARTY REPTILE ping list! What is the Republican Party Reptile? It is a creature of the eighties. It's neoconservatism with its pants down around its ankles, the Rehnquist Supreme Court on drugs, a disco Hobbes living without shame or federally mandated safety regulations. The Republican Party Reptile supports a strong defense policy, but sees no reason to conduct it while sober. The RPR believes in minimum government interference in private affairs; unless the government brings over extra girls and some ice. In short, the RPR is the new label that our political spectrum has been crying out for; the conservative with a sense of humor and a healthy dose of depravity.
Of course, the models and bikinis in SI are pretty damned tame--no one seems to mention this, of course.
I've considered the Swimsuit Issue a form of mental cruelty. When it's 20 degrees and snowing outside, somebody waving a bunch of pretty gals in skimpy swimsuits at some tropical paradise is like sadism.
Now that it has devolved into soft core porn, I don't miss it at all.
Are SI sales going up or down? (no pun, no pun...)
This seems to be the newest MSM spin, probably trying to ride the coattails of the morality issue.
Hey lighten up! Back in my other life, I carried mail---and believe me, we read your magazines before they went into your mailbox. The "Swim Issue" was the harbinger of spring.
Years later, it still is.
Geez, Tom, maybe it isn’t SI, but you. Try slapping some of this on you, wait a few hours, and take another look…
models, actresses (sp?), etc. totally turn me off.
listening to them yack about how the role was just 'made' for them, their bad hair days,....... good God. The only thing they have to offer anyone is their fleeting looks and their too damn stupid to realize they ALL hit the wall at 35.
SHUT UP!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I haven't seen this year's edition yet.
Do the women look like 14 year old boys or do they actually have curves this year?
Why pay for the calendar? Get the free Hooters calendar.
http://www.angelfire.com/ak2/intelligencerreport/hooters2004.html
"Few things are concealed."
Yeah, I wish more people had their CHL. ;)
Er, Tom, is there something personal you'd like to share with us...?
Those scrawny things in the SI swimsuit issue don't even qualify as women in my book. Any girl that starves herself half to death and has toxic waste injected into her breasts seems to fill the bill for them.
And the direct correlation of this pornography to sports is???????????????????????????????????????? Duh????
Some of this year's models look anorexic, and their round silicone breasts look incongruous with their bodies. They look like someone screwed them on.
I've only seen it from time to time at doctors offices.
I am noticing a trend though. I used to kind of grin when people would get the "unrated directors cut" of movies with maybe a little more steamy sex. I wanted to say, why don't you just cut with the game playing and rent some porn.
It looks like that is what our culture is doing. With all the pay and free porn on ther internet, and you don't even need a "plain brown wrapper," why get the "swimsuit issue" of a sports magazine?
If you absolutely have to have hard copy to take into the bathroom with you, use your photo quality printer. You can even zoom in on the parts you like.
Better yet, take the WiFi connected laptop in with you.
I'll say this again. Our country/culture is a gold plated garbage can.
It will generate 50 MILLION in revenues and the concept is played out?
Speak for yourself there Tommy.
self ping for later read...
Mike
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I feel the need to add my .02 cents. 
Much better now....
