# RIP Hugh Hefner
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rip-hugh-hefner/797484
**Category:** Cafe Society
**Created:** [September 28, 2017, 3:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rip-hugh-hefner/797484 "2017-09-28T03:37:59Z")
**Posts on this page:** 20
**Page:** 1
### Author:  [@madsircool](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/madsircool)
#### Post date: [September 28, 2017, 3:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rip-hugh-hefner/797484/1 "2017-09-28T03:37:59Z")
Thany you, sir. I couldn’t have made it through puberty without you.
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### Author:  [@silenus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/silenus)
#### Post date: [September 28, 2017, 3:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rip-hugh-hefner/797484/2 "2017-09-28T03:39:33Z")
If you don’t swing, don’t ring.
RIP Hef.
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### Author:  [@Lucas\_Jackson](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lucas_Jackson)
#### Post date: [September 28, 2017, 3:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rip-hugh-hefner/797484/3 "2017-09-28T03:41:12Z")
RIP.
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### Author:  [@ThelmaLou](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ThelmaLou)
#### Post date: [September 28, 2017, 3:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rip-hugh-hefner/797484/4 "2017-09-28T03:45:15Z")
I truly did not think he would ever die. RIP.
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### Author:  [@Evan\_Drake](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Evan_Drake)
#### Post date: [September 28, 2017, 3:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rip-hugh-hefner/797484/5 "2017-09-28T03:52:10Z")
An American National Living Treasure.
Now no more.
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### Author:  [@Gatopescado](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gatopescado)
#### Post date: [September 28, 2017, 3:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rip-hugh-hefner/797484/6 "2017-09-28T03:52:59Z")
It’s about time.
So how did he go out?
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### Author:  [@madsircool](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/madsircool)
#### Post date: [September 28, 2017, 3:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rip-hugh-hefner/797484/7 "2017-09-28T03:57:17Z")
> [@Gatopescado](#):
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> It’s about time.
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> So how did he go out?
Natural causes…I wish he would have gone out like Nelson Rockefeller.
> **[The History of New York Scandals - Nelson Rockefeller’s Death -- New York...](https://nymag.com/news/features/scandals/nelson-rockefeller-2012-4/)**
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> 1979
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### Author:  [@terentii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/terentii)
#### Post date: [September 28, 2017, 3:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rip-hugh-hefner/797484/8 "2017-09-28T03:57:21Z")
> [@madsircool](#):
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> Thany you, sir. I couldn’t have made it through puberty without you.
… Or middle age, for that matter. :o
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### Author:  [@terentii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/terentii)
#### Post date: [September 28, 2017, 3:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rip-hugh-hefner/797484/9 "2017-09-28T03:58:59Z")
> [@madsircool](#):
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> Natural causes.
In piece? :dubious:
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### Author:  [@cochrane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cochrane)
#### Post date: [September 28, 2017, 4:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rip-hugh-hefner/797484/10 "2017-09-28T04:10:53Z")
RIP, Hef. 🐇
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### Author:  [@E-DUB](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/E-DUB)
#### Post date: [September 28, 2017, 4:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rip-hugh-hefner/797484/11 "2017-09-28T04:42:55Z")
Sorry to hear this. I’m sure a lot of people were pulling for him.
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### Author:  [@GuanoLad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GuanoLad)
#### Post date: [September 28, 2017, 4:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rip-hugh-hefner/797484/12 "2017-09-28T04:53:02Z")
Rest In Poon
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### Author:  [@Siam\_Sam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Siam_Sam)
#### Post date: [September 28, 2017, 5:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rip-hugh-hefner/797484/13 "2017-09-28T05:18:53Z")
So, the rabbit died. ☹
RIP, Hugh. You afforded me countless, er, entertainment as a child.
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### Author:  [@Guest-starring\_Id](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Guest-starring_Id)
#### Post date: [September 28, 2017, 5:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rip-hugh-hefner/797484/14 "2017-09-28T05:31:22Z")
> [@madsircool](#):
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> Natural causes…I wish he would have gone out like Nelson Rockefeller.
>
> [The History of New York Scandals - Nelson Rockefeller’s Death -- New York Magazine - Nymag](http://nymag.com/news/features/scandals/nelson-rockefeller-2012-4/)
Pretty good joke from article:
> [@](#):
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> …[NR] had succumbed to a heart attack at the age of 70, while in his midtown townhouse with his 25-year-old assistant, Megan Marshack. **Preferred joke: How did Nelson Rockefeller die? Low blood pressure: 70 over 25.**
Anyway - certainly tugged and yanked me out of my complacency, here.
Smoking jacket donned.
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### Author:  [@scabpicker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/scabpicker)
#### Post date: [September 28, 2017, 6:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rip-hugh-hefner/797484/15 "2017-09-28T06:52:10Z")
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.
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### Author:  [@jerez](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jerez)
#### Post date: [September 28, 2017, 8:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rip-hugh-hefner/797484/16 "2017-09-28T08:09:24Z")
The interviews that appeared in Playboy magazine over the years are worth mentioning. Impressive array of interviewees (I’ve been told).
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### Author:  [@Channing\_Idaho\_Banks](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Channing_Idaho_Banks)
#### Post date: [September 28, 2017, 8:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rip-hugh-hefner/797484/17 "2017-09-28T08:53:53Z")
More people should try to make sex sexy.
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### Author:  [@JRDelirious](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JRDelirious)
#### Post date: [September 28, 2017, 11:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rip-hugh-hefner/797484/18 "2017-09-28T11:32:04Z")
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.
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### Author:  [@Grrr](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Grrr)
#### Post date: [September 28, 2017, 11:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rip-hugh-hefner/797484/19 "2017-09-28T11:32:11Z")
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.
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### Author:  [@CalMeacham](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CalMeacham)
#### Post date: [September 28, 2017, 12:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rip-hugh-hefner/797484/20 "2017-09-28T12:04:17Z")
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.
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