# What Magazines Do You Subscribe To? **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [March 12, 2000, 3:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-magazines-do-you-subscribe-to/14747 "2000-03-12T03:59:00Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Czarcasm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/czarcasm/32/4050_2.png) [@Czarcasm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Czarcasm)\ **Post date:** [March 12, 2000, 5:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-magazines-do-you-subscribe-to/14747/21 "2000-03-12T17:31:00Z")
I subscribe to Skeptic, Ben Is Dead, Popular Communications, Time, and two newspapers(The Oregonian and The New York Times). ---
**Author:** ![Glenoled](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/c0e974/32.png) [@Glenoled](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Glenoled)\ **Post date:** [March 12, 2000, 5:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-magazines-do-you-subscribe-to/14747/22 "2000-03-12T17:34:00Z")
I don’t subscribe to any magazines, but when I pick one up from the local store, it’s usually either Kitplanes, or something about car audio. a couple times, I got a computer mag, but they never had anything in them that was of any significant interest to me… * * * I don’t suffer from insanity… I enjoy every minute of it! ---
**Author:** ![psycat90](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/7ea924/32.png) [@psycat90](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/psycat90)\ **Post date:** [March 13, 2000, 6:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-magazines-do-you-subscribe-to/14747/23 "2000-03-13T06:03:00Z")
Gamepro- that’s the one I couldn’t remember. * * * I’ll buy that for a dollar. ---
**Author:** ![pricciar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/f4b2a3/32.png) [@pricciar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pricciar)\ **Post date:** [March 13, 2000, 6:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-magazines-do-you-subscribe-to/14747/24 "2000-03-13T06:48:00Z")
I am subscribed to a bunch of magazines. I had an offer to trade my frequent flier miles for magazine subscriptions and I jumped right on it. Smithsonian, National Geographic, Civilization, Readers Digest, MIT Technology Review, Red Herring, Premiere… Hmmm, that doesn’t seem like very many, I thought it was alot. ---
**Author:** ![Gr8Kat](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gr8kat/32/18668_2.png) [@Gr8Kat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gr8Kat)\ **Post date:** [March 13, 2000, 6:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-magazines-do-you-subscribe-to/14747/25 "2000-03-13T06:53:00Z")
_Entertainment Weekly, Reader’s Digest,_ and _Radiance_. I let my subscriptions to _Cat Fancy_, _TV Guide_, and _Rolling Stone_ run out last year. * * * “I hope life isn’t a big joke, because I don’t get it,” Jack Handy [The Kat House](http://members.aol.com/gr8kat1/KatGen/home.htm) [Join the FSH Muscular Dystrophy Webring](http://members.aol.com/gr8kat1/KatGen/fshwebring.htm) ---
**Author:** ![Nanno](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/e9c0ed/32.png) [@Nanno](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nanno)\ **Post date:** [March 12, 2000, 10:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-magazines-do-you-subscribe-to/14747/26 "2000-03-12T22:17:00Z")
Yahoo maginzine and Time, but then what do I know. “Whatever” ---
**Author:** ![Ruffian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/71e660/32.png) [@Ruffian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ruffian)\ **Post date:** [March 12, 2000, 11:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-magazines-do-you-subscribe-to/14747/27 "2000-03-12T23:31:00Z")
My favorite is _Discover_–I relish reading every page of the new issues every month. It’s a treat–curl up in bed, read about neat stuff. I also get _Newsweek, Horse Illustrated, and Creative Classroom._ I also let my subscription to _Cat Fancy_ run out because, simply, it was a silly magazine–if not nutty. They have ads in there for freeze drying your dead pet, _cloning_ your dead pet (or, as they claim, saving skin cells–at $800 a pop–for whenever the technology makes it possible), and all variety of bizarre trinkets, like a water dish that also serves as a “decorative mini fountain.” _Horse Illustrated_ just has the ads for the lame magnetic boots and blankets. * * * Teaching: The ultimate birth control method. **Poster You’d Most Like to Date–Female** Second Official SDMB Awards [Laura’s Stuff and Things](http://members.aol.com/lrconaway) ---
**Author:** ![Shirley\_Ujest](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/45deac/32.png) [@Shirley\_Ujest](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shirley_Ujest)\ **Post date:** [March 13, 2000, 4:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-magazines-do-you-subscribe-to/14747/28 "2000-03-13T04:08:00Z")
Mutual Fund Magazine - it was a freebie for airline miles. and Parents. I swipe from my OB’s office the extra copies of parenting magazines. ( Always the older ones, not within three months. My standards may be low, but I do have them.) I trade with neighbors People, National Geographic and assorted Glamor like magazines and decorator magazines.And reader’s digest. ---
**Author:** ![Girlbysea](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/c6cbf5/32.png) [@Girlbysea](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Girlbysea)\ **Post date:** [March 13, 2000, 4:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-magazines-do-you-subscribe-to/14747/29 "2000-03-13T04:14:00Z")
Health and Natural Health * * * * * * Girlbysea (AKA: ChiefScott’s GBS) ---
**Author:** ![TaleraRis](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/7c8e57/32.png) [@TaleraRis](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TaleraRis)\ **Post date:** [March 13, 2000, 4:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-magazines-do-you-subscribe-to/14747/30 "2000-03-13T04:43:00Z")
I only subscribe to PopSci, but I want to add Discover, Smithsonian, SciAm and Dell’s Logic Puzzles to that list because I quite frequently read those as well. Just a big science buff 😃 * * * I rode Omni in Springfield, IL ---
**Author:** ![Catrandom](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/7bcc69/32.png) [@Catrandom](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Catrandom)\ **Post date:** [March 13, 2000, 5:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-magazines-do-you-subscribe-to/14747/31 "2000-03-13T05:15:00Z")
I subscribe currently to Entertaiment Weekly (seems to be a popular choice) and Mode. Mode is a fat ladies’ fashion magazine. I subscribed on a whim, and while I kind of like some of the features, the fashions all seem to be designed for 6-foot-tall 19-year-olds. So it’s pretty much the same as thin lady fashion magazines in that regard. I used to subscribe to Poetry, but if you think Entertainment Weekly is repetitive, try reading the same damn free verse “I hate my father and my life sucks” confessional poems month after month after month. Catrandom ---
**Author:** ![UncleBeer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/977dab/32.png) [@UncleBeer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/UncleBeer)\ **Post date:** [March 13, 2000, 12:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-magazines-do-you-subscribe-to/14747/32 "2000-03-13T12:08:00Z")
Skeptical Inquirer, National Geographic, Scientific American, U.S. News & World Report and Rolling Stone. Christ, how many people here get Skeptical Inquirer? That magazine has a circulation of only about 50,000 and there’s probably about 6 of us on this MB. ---
**Author:** ![rackensack](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/e5b9ba/32.png) [@rackensack](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/rackensack)\ **Post date:** [March 13, 2000, 4:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-magazines-do-you-subscribe-to/14747/33 "2000-03-13T16:50:00Z")
Lessee, _The New Yorker_, _The Atlantic Monthly_, _Fast Company_. Used to get _Harper’s_; still buy approximately every other issue. Let my subscription to _The Economist_ lapse a couple of years ago, but still buy it from time to time when I need a newsmagazine fix (don’t necessarily agree with the editorial position, but at least it’s an explicit, cogently argued position; also, it’s a full magazine worth of text instead of mostly photographs with glorified captions, and there’s an acknowledgement that there are things happening in the world beyond the U.S.). My wife gets _Sesame Street Parent_, _Family Fun_, and _Mothering_. We also get the Atlanta _Jewish Times_. Keep meaning to subscribe to _Baseball America_, but haven’t done it yet. * * * * * * “Ain’t no man can avoid being born average, but there ain’t no man got to be common.” _–Satchel Paige_ ---
**Author:** ![Myron\_Van\_Horowitzski](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/9de053/32.png) [@Myron\_Van\_Horowitzski](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Myron_Van_Horowitzski)\ **Post date:** [March 13, 2000, 4:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-magazines-do-you-subscribe-to/14747/34 "2000-03-13T16:54:00Z")
Atlantic Monthly, Discover, Smithsonian, Popular Woodworking and PC Magazine. I gave up Rolling Stone a long time ago; the perfume ads were the last straw. ---
**Author:** ![Eve](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/9e8a1a/32.png) [@Eve](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eve)\ **Post date:** [March 13, 2000, 4:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-magazines-do-you-subscribe-to/14747/35 "2000-03-13T16:55:00Z")
I edit for one magazine and write for another—I can’t read the goddam things anymore. Neither can anyone at my office. After a full day of editing our own mag, we shuffle the freebies back and forth to each others’ in-boxes, incapable of even opening them. ---
**Author:** ![Athena](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/35a633/32.png) [@Athena](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Athena)\ **Post date:** [March 13, 2000, 4:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-magazines-do-you-subscribe-to/14747/36 "2000-03-13T16:56:00Z")
Smithsonian and National Geographic. I buy Wired & Architectural Digest at the newstand on a regular, but not monthly, basis. With the addition of SO into my household, I’m sure I’m going to start seeing a plethora of motorcycle magazines making their way into my mailbox as well. ---
**Author:** ![Dirty\_Devil](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/a3d4f5/32.png) [@Dirty\_Devil](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dirty_Devil)\ **Post date:** [March 13, 2000, 5:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-magazines-do-you-subscribe-to/14747/37 "2000-03-13T17:37:00Z")
MAD, National Geographic and Off-Road Magazine. ---
**Author:** ![MeanJoe](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/meanjoe/32/5693_2.png) [@MeanJoe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MeanJoe)\ **Post date:** [March 13, 2000, 5:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-magazines-do-you-subscribe-to/14747/38 "2000-03-13T17:47:00Z")
Only the finest… ## Maxxim Gear Cigar Afficionado Spin Inc The Sleeper has AWAKEN! ---
**Author:** ![system](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/original/2X/e/e489c3b7d8fce19c4b355dd4fc3f88cc39c34b87.png) [@system](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/system)\ **Post date:** [March 14, 2000, 6:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-magazines-do-you-subscribe-to/14747/39 "2000-03-14T06:03:00Z")
Oh boy… _too_ many! National Geographic Smithsonian Civilization Atlantic Monthly American Heritage Discover House & Garden Traditional Home Sunset one other home mag I can’t recall the name of Readers Digest\* a crafts/painting mag\* a cooking mag\* - My mother got me these subscriptions, but I barely have time to read the mags I LIKE… * * * [**StoryTyler**](http://sites.netscape.net/storytyler/homepage) “Not everybody does it, but everybody should.” ---
**Author:** ![system](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/original/2X/e/e489c3b7d8fce19c4b355dd4fc3f88cc39c34b87.png) [@system](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/system)\ **Post date:** [March 14, 2000, 6:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-magazines-do-you-subscribe-to/14747/40 "2000-03-14T06:15:00Z")
Oh boy… _too_ many! National Geographic Smithsonian Civilization Atlantic Monthly (about to lapse-won’t renew) American Heritage Discover House & Garden Traditional Home Sunset one other home mag I can’t recall the name of Readers Digest\* a crafts/painting mag\* a cooking mag\* - My mother got me these subscriptions, but I barely have time to read the mags I _love_… * * * [**StoryTyler**](http://sites.netscape.net/storytyler/homepage) “Not everybody does it, but everybody should.” [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-magazines-do-you-subscribe-to/14747.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-magazines-do-you-subscribe-to/14747.md?page=3)