Signs a Magazine Has Gone Too Far

The list for July 19, 2013
NOTE FROM CHRIS:
Rolling Stone magazine finds itself
in a controversy this week because
it decided to feature Boston Marathon
bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev on its cover.
The Top 17 Signs a Magazine Has Gone Too Far

  1. MAD Magazine: Started a new comic called "Spy vs Whistleblower vs Drone."

  2. Hustler: Westboro Baptist Church Gets Naked!

  3. Runner’s World: Ill-conceived pictorial of famous panty hose runs

  4. Playboy: The 2013 pictorial, "Centerfolds of the ’50s and ’60s today"

  5. Highlights: GOOFUS bombs a convention while GALLANT dates a Kardashian.

  6. Cat Fancy: "Heil Kitler! The Cats That Look Like Hitler Issue"

  7. Seventeen: "25 Awesomely Sexy Selfie Poses for Sexting!"

  8. AARP the Magazine: The notorious "GILFs" issue

  9. Forbes: The Forbes 500 Swimsuit Issue

  10. Field and Stream: "The Top 20 US Creeks to Dump a Body In"

  11. Boy’s Life: "An ‘Outing’ with Scoutmaster Tim"

  12. Highlights: Pictorial showing Tommy Timbertoe’s first woody

  13. Entertainment Weekly: Kardashians, the Scratch-‘n’-Sniff issue!

  14. National Geographic: Article showing topless native women featured the exotic land of Spearmint Rhino.

  15. TV Guide: Issue in which every episode description is a single word: "Crap"

  16. Reader’s Digest: "I Am Joe’s Throbbing Man-Tool" article
And the Number 1 Sign a Magazine Has Gone Too Far…

  1. Militant Separatist Chechen Muslim Terrorist Digest: Madonna on the cover. AGAIN.
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CREDITS
Selected from 81 submissions from 31 contributors.
Today’s list authors were:

  • Jeffrey Anbinder, New York, NY — 1 (21st #1)
  • Jeff Johnson, Los Altos, CA — 2
  • Josh Sinnett, Bellingham, WA — 3
  • Ian Dauphinee, Calgary, AB, Canada — 4
  • Jeremy Shelley, Possum Trot, KY — 5
  • Donald Johnson, Cincinnati, OH — 6
  • Mark D. Sabien, What Cheer, IA — 7
  • Brandon Eldridge, St. Louis, MO — 8
  • David Kass, Queens, NY — 9
  • Mitch Patterson, Atlanta, GA — 10
  • Judith Cottrill, Bronx, NY — 11
  • Carl Knorr, Devo City, OH — 12, 16
  • Elliott Schiff, Allentown, PA — 13
  • Peter Casper, Brisbane, Australia — 14
  • Peter Bauer, Rochester, NY — 15
  • Dave Henry, Slidell, LA — 17
  • Donald Junter, New Haven, CT — Banner Tag
  • Chris White, Olympia, WA — List owner/editor
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