Most offensive and bizarre magazine cover ever

Parent Cafe
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<p>And I see a depiction of Corporate Sodomy.</p>

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<p>I actually thought of the space shuttle riding on an airliner’s back when I first saw it. It wasn’t until I read the caption that I realized it was supposed to represent two planes having sex.</p>

<p>I wonder if it was dreamed up by people who remember the parody posters that came out during a United Airlines campaign when the airline was using the slogan “Fly United.” They showed two ducks doing the same thing in midair that these planes are doing. You can Google “Fly United Poster” and see if it you want to.</p>

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<p>Oh, that’s pretty funny. Not offended at all.</p>

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<p>What’s the problem, it’s just plane sex! :D</p>

<p>Apparently there was a rejected cover that had the mating planes near the runway, with a mother behind a fence shielding her young child’s eyes.</p>

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<p>^ That made me laugh lol :D.</p>

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<p>I vote for funny.</p>

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<p>At least they used plus size models, none of those skinny little unhealthy ones.</p>

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<p>It would have been more, ehem, anatomically correct if an airline was on top and unfortunate passengers were on the bottom…</p>

<p>Major airlines in the US are well on the way to returning air travel to the 1970’s where only weddings, funerals, and corporate takeovers were ‘worthy’ of air travel. They’ll take a lot of the hospitality industry with them, but hey, “driving is the new flying” and all that…</p>

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<p>toblin made me laugh–</p>

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<p>I find it sad that do many people get wound up about anything to do with s*x and scream “my kids can’t see that” but think nothing of letting their kids watch very violent movies and TV. Seems backwards to me.</p>

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<p>The American obsession with keeping it secret from kids that women have breasts is very odd too. Really, they know already.</p>

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<p>I’m a little perplexed by the cover. I was under the impression that airline sex usually ocurred in the bathrooms.</p>

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<p>I’d hardly say Americans are prudish about sex. It’s all you see around you. And frankly I’m tired of it. I don’t find it funny, it doesn’t freak me out, I would just wish people wouldn’t go for the obvious and try finding humor elsewhere.</p>

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<p>I don’t find it cute or funny – more like when all else fails or you can’t come up w/ an original idea or something truly clever revert to sexual innuendo. Bloomberg Business Week can do better.</p>

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<p>I’m amazed there are still print magazines being published.</p>

<p>Who knew?</p>

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<p>I thought it was pretty crass, and was surprised to see it on the cover.</p>

<p>I remember seeing an old T-shirt with two flying ducks (or maybe geese) in a similar configuration. The caption on the shirt was “Fly United.”</p>

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<p>Honestly, my first thought was “that’s clearly photoshopped, so couldn’t they have done a better job than that?”</p>

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<p>Crass.</p>

<p>On another note, since when is “prude” an adjective and not a noun?! Don’t think it’s accepted usage, though I hear it all the time now.</p>

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<p>Funny. Gives a new twist to the Mile High club.</p>

<p>It is nothing in comparison with what is being said and written in the Dallas area about the similar treatment (–uhg humping) the employees of American Airline are getting.</p>

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<p>The Economist made its point in September 1994 -</p>

<p>“This controversial magazine cover of The Economist portrays The Trouble with Mergers by showing an illustration of two camels mating. The London-based magazine published the cover in the North American edition, but not in the European edition. Reaction to this cover was mixed, with some readers disgusted and others highly amused.”</p>

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<p>Lighten up!</p>