# If You Could Be On The Cover Of Any Magazine.... **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [August 7, 2000, 7:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-could-be-on-the-cover-of-any-magazine/28457 "2000-08-07T19:45:04Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![ultress](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/7c8e57/32.png) [@ultress](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ultress)\ **Post date:** [August 7, 2000, 7:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-could-be-on-the-cover-of-any-magazine/28457/1 "2000-08-07T19:45:04Z")
what magazine would you chose and why? I’d like to be on Fit and Trim because then I’d be in great shape! ---
**Author:** ![xizor](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/xizor/32/102_2.png) [@xizor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/xizor)\ **Post date:** [August 7, 2000, 9:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-could-be-on-the-cover-of-any-magazine/28457/2 "2000-08-07T21:32:32Z")
Forbes or Fortune, because then I would be rich. ---
**Author:** ![CanadianSue](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/71e660/32.png) [@CanadianSue](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CanadianSue)\ **Post date:** [August 7, 2000, 9:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-could-be-on-the-cover-of-any-magazine/28457/3 "2000-08-07T21:50:18Z")
One of the gourmet cooking magazines yum! ---
**Author:** ![JoeyHemlock](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/7ba0ec/32.png) [@JoeyHemlock](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JoeyHemlock)\ **Post date:** [August 7, 2000, 9:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-could-be-on-the-cover-of-any-magazine/28457/4 "2000-08-07T21:53:37Z")
**National Geographic**. That’d be surreal. ---
**Author:** ![Rebo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rebo/32/13005_2.png) [@Rebo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rebo)\ **Post date:** [August 7, 2000, 9:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-could-be-on-the-cover-of-any-magazine/28457/5 "2000-08-07T21:54:14Z")
on the cover of the Rolling Stone… Who did that song, anyway? ---
**Author:** ![obfusciatrist](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/4af34b/32.png) [@obfusciatrist](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/obfusciatrist)\ **Post date:** [August 7, 2000, 10:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-could-be-on-the-cover-of-any-magazine/28457/6 "2000-08-07T22:06:11Z")
Adult Video News, just to freak out my relatives. ---
**Author:** ![Boots](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/c89c15/32.png) [@Boots](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Boots)\ **Post date:** [August 7, 2000, 10:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-could-be-on-the-cover-of-any-magazine/28457/7 "2000-08-07T22:53:03Z")
Seventeen, cuz then I’d be 17 again? Nah. Uh, Purely 18, cuz then I’d be young AND legal? Nah. Uh, I know, I wanna be on the cover of The National Enquirer, then I would know I’d really made it… ---
**Author:** ![aha](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/eada6e/32.png) [@aha](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/aha)\ **Post date:** [August 8, 2000, 1:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-could-be-on-the-cover-of-any-magazine/28457/8 "2000-08-08T01:38:33Z")
I wouldn’t mind being on the cover of ultress…wait is that a magazine? ---
**Author:** ![Nika](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/ba9def/32.png) [@Nika](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nika)\ **Post date:** [August 8, 2000, 1:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-could-be-on-the-cover-of-any-magazine/28457/9 "2000-08-08T01:43:06Z")
Playboy. Actually I am serious. I would most likely chicken out, but the idea of someone thinking I am that hot is really flattering. ---
**Author:** ![RealityChuck](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/realitychuck/32/195_2.png) [@RealityChuck](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RealityChuck)\ **Post date:** [August 8, 2000, 1:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-could-be-on-the-cover-of-any-magazine/28457/10 "2000-08-08T01:44:56Z")
I’d like to see my name on the cover of “The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction.” It’s already been on the cover of “Galaxy,” “Aboriginal SF,” and “tomorrow SF” (with Harlan Ellison). I was also listed for some time in the “back issues” ads for “Realms of Fantasy,” getting a higher billing than Neil Gaiman. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Soup](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/977dab/32.png) [@Soup](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Soup)\ **Post date:** [August 8, 2000, 1:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-could-be-on-the-cover-of-any-magazine/28457/11 "2000-08-08T01:45:15Z")
The cover of MAD magazine - parody is the sincerest form of flattery. ---
**Author:** ![dpr](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/8797f3/32.png) [@dpr](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dpr)\ **Post date:** [August 8, 2000, 6:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-could-be-on-the-cover-of-any-magazine/28457/12 "2000-08-08T06:11:30Z")
Dolores: it was Dr Hook Nika: We already think you’re hot without you going to Playboy (tho if you want to do the nude shots we won’t stop you). I know a fair few guys who’d buy that issue. Me? Either Time (I won’t tell you the caption I can see though _grin_ - and no not for man of the year) or Lit Review. Or Who magazine marrying… oh now that would be telling huh? ---
**Author:** ![Monster104](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/c6cbf5/32.png) [@Monster104](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Monster104)\ **Post date:** [August 8, 2000, 6:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-could-be-on-the-cover-of-any-magazine/28457/13 "2000-08-08T06:36:28Z")
Time Magazine with the caption “Sexiest Man of this Eternity”. Or PC gamer with the caption “Winner of a lifetime of anything computer related that he desires”. ---
**Author:** ![Bill\_H](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/a5b964/32.png) [@Bill\_H](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bill_H)\ **Post date:** [August 8, 2000, 6:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-could-be-on-the-cover-of-any-magazine/28457/14 "2000-08-08T06:36:30Z")
Red Herring. **The** magazine of money and high-tech. ---
**Author:** ![SanibelMan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a88e4f/32.png) [@SanibelMan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SanibelMan)\ **Post date:** [August 8, 2000, 7:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-could-be-on-the-cover-of-any-magazine/28457/15 "2000-08-08T07:24:04Z")
Mother Jones, as “The Decade’s Coolest Liberal”. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![JavaMaven1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/cab0a1/32.png) [@JavaMaven1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JavaMaven1)\ **Post date:** [August 8, 2000, 7:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-could-be-on-the-cover-of-any-magazine/28457/16 "2000-08-08T07:31:07Z")
I’ll know I’ve made it when I’m on the cover of _Food and Wine_, as one of the “Best New Chefs of the Year”… ---
**Author:** ![Lux\_Fiat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/bc79bd/32.png) [@Lux\_Fiat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lux_Fiat)\ **Post date:** [August 8, 2000, 7:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-could-be-on-the-cover-of-any-magazine/28457/17 "2000-08-08T07:41:50Z")
**GQ** : “Our newest writer wittily distills Truth from this madcap existence (and damned if he don’t look smooth as hell while doing so).” ---
**Author:** ![Typo\_Negative](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/typo_negative/32/484_2.png) [@Typo\_Negative](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Typo_Negative)\ **Post date:** [August 8, 2000, 8:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-could-be-on-the-cover-of-any-magazine/28457/18 "2000-08-08T08:21:12Z")
Baseball Weekly! ---
**Author:** ![Homer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/df788c/32.png) [@Homer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Homer)\ **Post date:** [August 8, 2000, 8:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-could-be-on-the-cover-of-any-magazine/28457/19 "2000-08-08T08:38:52Z")
“Amazing people who possess superpowers such as flying, telekinesis, telepathy, heat vision, super strength, and nigh invulnerability, while having more money than they could ever need and have women falling all over them Monthly” Of course, I’d be on the first, and last, issue. –Tim ---
**Author:** ![ThisYearsGirl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/73ab20/32.png) [@ThisYearsGirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ThisYearsGirl)\ **Post date:** [August 8, 2000, 2:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-could-be-on-the-cover-of-any-magazine/28457/20 "2000-08-08T14:29:53Z")
Cosmo–it’s kinda like soft porn [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-could-be-on-the-cover-of-any-magazine/28457.md?page=2)