Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 6/24/83; site unc.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!bonnie!akgua!mcnc!unc!fsks From: fsks@unc.UUCP (Frank Silbermann) Newsgroups: net.singles Subject: Re: Mensa people Message-ID: <535@unc.UUCP> Date: Wed, 3-Jul-85 17:32:55 EDT Article-I.D.: unc.535 Posted: Wed Jul 3 17:32:55 1985 Date-Received: Fri, 5-Jul-85 06:37:05 EDT References: <11309@brl-tgr.ARPA> <497@ttidcc.UUCP> <175@gymble.UUCP>Reply-To: fsks@unc.UUCP (Frank Silbermann) Distribution: net Organization: CS Dept., U. of N. Carolina at Chapel Hill Lines: 22 Summary: In article wmartin@brl-bmd.UUCP (Will Martin) writes: > >While we're aimlessly talking about Playboy, I think I'll mention this, >too. I've subscribed for about 20 years. My current subscription expires >in January. I am letting it lapse. Not only did I recently read that >Playboy is soon (October?) to de-emphasize nude female portraiture, such >as by eliminating the ceterfold, but I have become more and more >dissatisfied with what the magazine is providing for my money. Perhaps >it is just age, and I am no longer in their target group, as I rapidly >approach 40, and they aim their publication at the generation behind me... Funny, I stopped subscribing because I thought it's target group was _TOO OLD_ (well, nobody ever accused me of being overly mature :-) ). I estimated their target audience to be 40+. It is no longer avant-gard (sp). Ten years ago Playboy owned Oui magazine. Oui was to appeal to younger men, i.e. college and graduate school age. Playboy sold Oui, because they feared it was competing too much with Playboy. How I miss it! Under the new ownership, Oui is oriented blue-collar types. Frank (I read "Hustler" for their articles) Silbermann