Thany you, sir. I couldn’t have made it through puberty without you.
If you don’t swing, don’t ring.
RIP Hef.
RIP.
I truly did not think he would ever die. RIP.
An American National Living Treasure.
Now no more.
It’s about time.
So how did he go out?
Natural causes…I wish he would have gone out like Nelson Rockefeller.
… Or middle age, for that matter. :o
In piece? :dubious:
RIP, Hef. 
Sorry to hear this. I’m sure a lot of people were pulling for him.
Rest In Poon
So, the rabbit died. 
RIP, Hugh. You afforded me countless, er, entertainment as a child.
Pretty good joke from article:
Anyway - certainly tugged and yanked me out of my complacency, here.
Smoking jacket donned.
I’ve got a collection of Playboy from the beginning to somewhere in the early 90’s (yes, sans Marylin issues). It is at times quite a bit more than a girlie mag. Good design, sometimes excellent writing, and now and then commentary or even an advertisement that in retrospect can make you think hard about the then and now. Even when it was a just a middle of the road girlie mag, it was at least a cut above People when it came time to relax and read.
Bye, Hef! You indirectly made me smarter through my onanism. If that’s not an admirable accomplishment, I don’t know what is.
The interviews that appeared in Playboy magazine over the years are worth mentioning. Impressive array of interviewees (I’ve been told).
More people should try to make sex sexy.
I guess he missed his friend Dick Gregory. Raise a pipe to his passing.
Iconic himself and creator of iconic work in his time, that helped define that time in the culture… and very much a product and man of his times, with all that means and containing both light and shadows as is inevitable.
Thus pass all the glories of the world. Here’s hoping he went with a smile recalling the good times.
Wood-paneled bachelor pads with jazz on the hi-fi and modern art on the walls shall drape the waterbed in black in his honor.
As a teenager, I used to roll my eyes every time I heard someone rave about the writing in Playboy. It wasn’t until I was an adult I realized PB really does (Or did anyway) have excellent writing.
The original Play’a has died. RIP.
Sorry to see him go, but he really did have an incredibly long run. And I’m glad they restored Playboy before he went. It wasn’t just the nudes – they took out all the cartoons and the color and sucked all the fun out of it. They put some of that back
One thing that people didn’t seem to get about Hefner. He projected the image of the sexy swinger (which he was, of course), but he was also the Consummate Nerd. He started out doing fanzines. He loved science fiction and comic strips. The man’s favorite quaff was Pepsi, not Dom Perignon. There’s a reason that Playboy ran all that science fiction in its early days ( George Langelaan’s The Fly debuted in its pages before it became a movie. He reprinted Ray Bradbury’s A Sound of Thunder and printed stuff by Asimov, Clarke, and other top-notch science fiction authors. He continued to do so into the 1980s at least, although it was never a major part of the magazine’s makeup. His love of comics and cartoons definitely was, though, and iit got closest to High Fan in the 1980s when he started up Playboy Funnies, which frequently featured edgy, funny science fiction (Through Time and Space with Shwimmer and Jones and suchlike). Sometimes I think the suave, smoking jacketed sex advisor was just camouflage for the reclusive nerd. It certainly had its fringe benefits.