# SI Swimsuit Issue BACK Cover **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [March 31, 2015, 11:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/si-swimsuit-issue-back-cover/716407 "2015-03-31T11:34:22Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 18\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![CalMeacham](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/calmeacham/32/35_2.png) [@CalMeacham](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CalMeacham)\ **Post date:** [March 31, 2015, 11:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/si-swimsuit-issue-back-cover/716407/1 "2015-03-31T11:34:22Z")
For the first time ever, I have purchased a copy of the Sports Illustrated annual swimsuit issue. I had to. I saw the back cover and was blown away > **[Snickers transforms 'Sports Illustrated' to Super Irritated](https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation-now/2015/02/11/snickers-sports-illustrated-cover-girl/23233549/)** > > Who is that model on the back of the Sports Illustrated swimsuit edition? [https://images.search.yahoo.com/images/view;\_ylt=AwrB8pbUhRpVRAYAqjuJzbkF;\_ylu=X3oDMTIyZzBqNGgwBHNlYwNzcgRzbGsDaW1nBG9pZANmMTJlZDc1OTA2M2E2MDc0YjFiYTRiODU3ZWYzNmQxZgRncG9zAzIEaXQDYmluZw--?.origin=&back=https%3A%2F%2Fimages.search.yahoo.com%2Fsearch%2Fimages%3Fp%3DSports%2BIllustrated%2BMedusa%26fr%3Dyfp-t-252%26tab%3Dorganic%26ri%3D2&w=1024&h=710&imgurl=www.gutewerbung.net%2Fwp-content%2Fuploads%2F2015%2F02%2FSnickers-Sports-Illustrated-Medusa-Ad-1024x710.jpg&rurl=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.gutewerbung.net%2Fsnickers-sports-illustrated-medusa-ad%2F&size=183.9KB&name=Snickers%3A+\Sports+Illustrated+Medusa\<%2Fb\>+Ad&p=Sports+Illustrated+Medusa&oid=f12ed759063a6074b1ba4b857ef36d1f&fr2=&fr=yfp-t-252&tt=Snickers%3A+\Sports+Illustrated+Medusa\<%2Fb\>+Ad&b=0&ni=288&no=2&ts=&tab=organic&sigr=121h7439u&sigb=137e18p7q&sigi=131g64ism&sigt=11djn6f89&sign=11djn6f89&.crumb=iFnxBO8CwGG&fr=yfp-t-252](https://images.search.yahoo.com/images/view;_ylt=AwrB8pbUhRpVRAYAqjuJzbkF;_ylu=X3oDMTIyZzBqNGgwBHNlYwNzcgRzbGsDaW1nBG9pZANmMTJlZDc1OTA2M2E2MDc0YjFiYTRiODU3ZWYzNmQxZgRncG9zAzIEaXQDYmluZw--?.origin=&back=https%3A%2F%2Fimages.search.yahoo.com%2Fsearch%2Fimages%3Fp%3DSports%2BIllustrated%2BMedusa%26fr%3Dyfp-t-252%26tab%3Dorganic%26ri%3D2&w=1024&h=710&imgurl=www.gutewerbung.net%2Fwp-content%2Fuploads%2F2015%2F02%2FSnickers-Sports-Illustrated-Medusa-Ad-1024x710.jpg&rurl=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.gutewerbung.net%2Fsnickers-sports-illustrated-medusa-ad%2F&size=183.9KB&name=Snickers%3A+%3Cb%3ESports+Illustrated+Medusa%3C%2Fb%3E+Ad&p=Sports+Illustrated+Medusa&oid=f12ed759063a6074b1ba4b857ef36d1f&fr2=&fr=yfp-t-252&tt=Snickers%3A+%3Cb%3ESports+Illustrated+Medusa%3C%2Fb%3E+Ad&b=0&ni=288&no=2&ts=&tab=organic&sigr=121h7439u&sigb=137e18p7q&sigi=131g64ism&sigt=11djn6f89&sign=11djn6f89&.crumb=iFnxBO8CwGG&fr=yfp-t-252) [http://www.gutewerbung.net/snickers-sports-illustrated-medusa-ad/](http://www.gutewerbung.net/snickers-sports-illustrated-medusa-ad/) If you know me, you’ll know why I HAD to have this. ---
**Author:** ![QuickSilver](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/quicksilver/32/7832_2.png) [@QuickSilver](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/QuickSilver)\ **Post date:** [March 31, 2015, 11:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/si-swimsuit-issue-back-cover/716407/2 "2015-03-31T11:48:25Z")
I don’t get it. ---
**Author:** ![muldoonthief](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/muldoonthief/32/3188_2.png) [@muldoonthief](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/muldoonthief)\ **Post date:** [March 31, 2015, 12:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/si-swimsuit-issue-back-cover/716407/3 "2015-03-31T12:20:03Z")
That’s a pretty damned hot Medusa. I think Cal is referring to [this scholarly tome](http://www.amazon.com/Medusa-Solving-Mystery-Stephen-Wilk/dp/0195341317/ref=sr_1_4?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1427804295&sr=1-4&keywords=medusa). ---
**Author:** ![John\_Bredin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/96bed5/32.png) [@John\_Bredin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/John_Bredin)\ **Post date:** [March 31, 2015, 3:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/si-swimsuit-issue-back-cover/716407/4 "2015-03-31T15:19:14Z")
> [@QuickSilver](#): > > I don’t get it. It’s a Snicker’s ad, on their theme that you’re “not yourself” when you’re hungry. The beautiful woman on the front cover is the gorgon on the back cover because she’s peevish because she’s hungry, sorta like Dr. Jekyll & Mr. Hyde except with a chocolate bar. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![CalMeacham](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/calmeacham/32/35_2.png) [@CalMeacham](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CalMeacham)\ **Post date:** [March 31, 2015, 3:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/si-swimsuit-issue-back-cover/716407/5 "2015-03-31T15:31:56Z")
> [@John\_Bredin](#): > > It’s a Snicker’s ad, on their theme that you’re “not yourself” when you’re hungry. The beautiful woman on the front cover is the gorgon on the back cover because she’s peevish because she’s hungry, sorta like Dr. Jekyll & Mr. Hyde except with a chocolate bar. 🙂 Yeah. It took me a while to figure that out. I suspect the lady in Medusa makeup on the back cover isn’t really Hanna Davis, but someone else who volunteered. She is in very nearly the same pose (although not pulling down a swimsuit bottom to within a micron of censorship) and shot against the same background. Notice that she’s got that snake-lower-half-of-the-body thing, as in both versions of _Clash of the Titans_, and in lots of other interpretations these days. That ain’t Classical. The first person to give Medusa a snake body was Harryhausen, who basically stole it from himself (he’d used the same design for an exotic dancer in **Seventh Voyage of Sinbad** ) In ancient Greek art, I’ve seen two examples of Gorgons with bird bodies, and one in the Louvre has Medusa as a Centauress, with a horse body. But not snakes. ---
**Author:** ![QuickSilver](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/quicksilver/32/7832_2.png) [@QuickSilver](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/QuickSilver)\ **Post date:** [March 31, 2015, 3:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/si-swimsuit-issue-back-cover/716407/6 "2015-03-31T15:38:47Z")
D’oh! :smack: ---
**Author:** ![YogSothoth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/y/8edcca/32.png) [@YogSothoth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/YogSothoth)\ **Post date:** [March 31, 2015, 4:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/si-swimsuit-issue-back-cover/716407/7 "2015-03-31T16:05:26Z")
So you have a snake fetish or something? ---
**Author:** ![The\_Other\_Waldo\_Pepper](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/the_other_waldo_pepper/32/12370_2.png) [@The\_Other\_Waldo\_Pepper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Other_Waldo_Pepper)\ **Post date:** [March 31, 2015, 4:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/si-swimsuit-issue-back-cover/716407/8 "2015-03-31T16:07:42Z")
Whatever makes you hard. ---
**Author:** ![gaffa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/e68b1a/32.png) [@gaffa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gaffa)\ **Post date:** [March 31, 2015, 4:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/si-swimsuit-issue-back-cover/716407/9 "2015-03-31T16:09:55Z")
In order to make the joke name work, they spaced out “Super Irritated” because her head blocked a bunch of letters. So it’s actually Su **per Irrit** ted", and I’ve been trying to figure what the missing letters are. ---
**Author:** ![Shoeless](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/shoeless/32/7099_2.png) [@Shoeless](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shoeless)\ **Post date:** [March 31, 2015, 4:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/si-swimsuit-issue-back-cover/716407/10 "2015-03-31T16:54:12Z")
“I bought it for the ad on the back”? Is that an updated version of “I only read Playboy for the articles”? 😃 ---
**Author:** ![CalMeacham](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/calmeacham/32/35_2.png) [@CalMeacham](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CalMeacham)\ **Post date:** [March 31, 2015, 4:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/si-swimsuit-issue-back-cover/716407/11 "2015-03-31T16:55:54Z")
> [@Shoeless](#): > > “I bought it for the ad on the back”? Is that an updated version of “I only read Playboy for the articles”? 😃 It’s certainly the excuse _I_ used. I also bought this month’s _Playboy_ for the Dick Cheney interview. Or so I said. ---
**Author:** ![Rocketeer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rocketeer/32/4437_2.png) [@Rocketeer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rocketeer)\ **Post date:** [March 31, 2015, 6:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/si-swimsuit-issue-back-cover/716407/12 "2015-03-31T18:25:14Z")
> [@CalMeacham](#): > > …I also bought this month’s _Playboy_ for the Dick Cheney interview… Dick Cheney. Didn’t they tear his heart right out of his body? Couldn’t happen to a nicer guy 😃 Speaking of Medusas, I built a charming little kit of one a while ago; I love her fertility-symbol hips and half-feral wary look (spoilered for nudity): [SPOILER][http://i193.photobucket.com/albums/z256/hilbyf/Medusa/file\_zpsd86cfeeb.jpg](http://i193.photobucket.com/albums/z256/hilbyf/Medusa/file_zpsd86cfeeb.jpg) [![](https://i193.photobucket.com/albums/z256/hilbyf/Medusa/file_zpsd2a6bfe8.jpg) ](https://i193.photobucket.com/albums/z256/hilbyf/Medusa/file_zpsd2a6bfe8.jpg) [http://i193.photobucket.com/albums/z256/hilbyf/Medusa/file\_zpsbfff90cb.jpg[/SPOILER]](http://i193.photobucket.com/albums/z256/hilbyf/Medusa/file_zpsbfff90cb.jpg%5B/SPOILER%5D) ---
**Author:** ![gaffa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/e68b1a/32.png) [@gaffa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gaffa)\ **Post date:** [March 31, 2015, 6:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/si-swimsuit-issue-back-cover/716407/13 "2015-03-31T18:35:55Z")
Relevant Oglaf cartoon (spoilered for cartoon naked snake breasts) [snakeskin](http://oglaf.com/snakeskin/) “Heh. Snake tits.” ---
**Author:** ![Master\_Wang-Ka](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/master_wang-ka/32/3325_2.png) [@Master\_Wang-Ka](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Master_Wang-Ka)\ **Post date:** [March 31, 2015, 6:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/si-swimsuit-issue-back-cover/716407/14 "2015-03-31T18:49:13Z")
That’s a neat bit of marketing, there! ---
**Author:** ![Chronos](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chronos/32/134_2.png) [@Chronos](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chronos)\ **Post date:** [March 31, 2015, 8:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/si-swimsuit-issue-back-cover/716407/15 "2015-03-31T20:57:17Z")
Bah, they gave her snakey hair. That totally doesn’t count. ---
**Author:** ![dropzone](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dropzone/32/7515_2.png) [@dropzone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dropzone)\ **Post date:** [April 1, 2015, 1:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/si-swimsuit-issue-back-cover/716407/16 "2015-04-01T01:52:35Z")
> [@muldoonthief](#): > > I think Cal is referring to [this scholarly tome](http://www.amazon.com/Medusa-Solving-Mystery-Stephen-Wilk/dp/0195341317/ref=sr_1_4?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1427804295&sr=1-4&keywords=medusa). Yeah, but who’s that Wilk bozo? 😉 > [@gaffa](#): > > In order to make the joke name work, they spaced out “Super Irritated” because her head blocked a bunch of letters. So it’s actually Su **per Irrit** ted", and I’ve been trying to figure what the missing letters are. “FUCKING” ---
**Author:** ![Trinopus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/2bfe46/32.png) [@Trinopus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Trinopus)\ **Post date:** [April 1, 2015, 2:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/si-swimsuit-issue-back-cover/716407/17 "2015-04-01T02:26:08Z")
> [@Rocketeer](#): > > . . . Speaking of Medusas, I built a charming little kit of one a while ago; I love her fertility-symbol hips and half-feral wary look (spoilered for nudity): > > [SPOILER][http://i193.photobucket.com/albums/z256/hilbyf/Medusa/file\_zpsd86cfeeb.jpg](http://i193.photobucket.com/albums/z256/hilbyf/Medusa/file_zpsd86cfeeb.jpg) > > [http://i193.photobucket.com/albums/z256/hilbyf/Medusa/file\_zpsd2a6bfe8.jpg](http://i193.photobucket.com/albums/z256/hilbyf/Medusa/file_zpsd2a6bfe8.jpg) > > [http://i193.photobucket.com/albums/z256/hilbyf/Medusa/file\_zpsbfff90cb.jpg[/SPOILER]](http://i193.photobucket.com/albums/z256/hilbyf/Medusa/file_zpsbfff90cb.jpg%5B/SPOILER%5D) That’s a nice one indeed! How tall is the model? It looks to be about two feet or so. How much of the kit-bashing is your own original work? (I have a plan to name a character in a book “Christopher Bashing” and see who gets it.) ---
**Author:** ![Rocketeer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rocketeer/32/4437_2.png) [@Rocketeer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rocketeer)\ **Post date:** [April 1, 2015, 3:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/si-swimsuit-issue-back-cover/716407/18 "2015-04-01T15:06:02Z")
> [@Trinopus](#): > > That’s a nice one indeed! How tall is the model? It looks to be about two feet or so. How much of the kit-bashing is your own original work? > > (I have a plan to name a character in a book “Christopher Bashing” and see who gets it.) She’s only maybe eight or nine inches tall; she just has sort of a primitive, “massive” look. I didn’t do much modification; I didn’t like the poses of two of her snakes, so I replaced them with snakes that swooped forward to look over her shoulders. But that’s all. She got painted a couple times, though; I had originally painted the “hair” snakes in various colorful snake patterns, but she ended up looking sort of clownish, so I repainted them in shades of green, which looks much better. I also had some difficulties with painting the eyes, which are oddly sculpted and were tough to paint so that she didn’t look walleyed. Since she’s topless, she can’t be entered in most contests; so I made a couple stripper-style “pasties” out of paper and glitter, and now when she leaves the house, she’s (nominally) decent–although faintly ridiculous-looking 😉