# Hugh Hefner jilted

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hugh-hefner-jilted/585483>\
**Category:** Cafe Society\
**Created:** [June 14, 2011, 8:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hugh-hefner-jilted/585483 "2011-06-14T20:29:54Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 2\
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**Author:** ![Starving\_Artist](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/aeb1de/32.png) [@Starving\_Artist](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Starving_Artist)\
**Post date:** [June 6, 2012, 10:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hugh-hefner-jilted/585483/101 "2012-06-06T10:51:04Z")

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> [@terentii](#):
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> I read the interview. Did you?
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> Again, you find a copy of the 20th anniversary edition and then tell me that’s not what he said.

[If you insist.](http://www.scribd.com/mobile/doc/66980763)\*

To wit:

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> I still didn’t have any money, but I was 27 years old and I was afraid that if I didn’t try it on my own soon, I might have to learn to be a good company man after all.

\*Note that Hef actually made no mention of his age in recounting his request for a raise from his boss at Esquire. 😉

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**Author:** ![Son\_of\_a\_Rich](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/son_of_a_rich/32/5439_2.png) [@Son\_of\_a\_Rich](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Son_of_a_Rich)\
**Post date:** [June 6, 2012, 6:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hugh-hefner-jilted/585483/102 "2012-06-06T18:13:52Z")

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> [@Musicat](#):
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> Who says? Time to change that antiquated rule. Let’s make a new one. He who is rich gets the pussy.

That’s a new rule?

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