It's for science. Really.

January 24, 2003 2:37 PM

Life imitates an old joke... sort of. National Geographic's Swimsuit Issue.
posted by XQUZYPHYR (17 comments total)

I hope Sports Illustrated calls Lokelani McMichael's agent, soonest.
posted by alumshubby at 2:49 PM on January 24, 2003

That photo from the 70's is really great.
posted by SweetJesus at 2:49 PM on January 24, 2003

Very briefly, I thought NG had gone hard-core on me: at first glance, I saw the image at the bottom right as reading "Watch Tits...".
posted by DakotaPaul at 3:52 PM on January 24, 2003

(for those of us who don't know... could you tell us the old joke?)
posted by cadastral at 4:15 PM on January 24, 2003

A three-legged dog walks into a bar and says "I'm looking for the man who shot my paw."

!!!!
posted by xmutex at 4:19 PM on January 24, 2003

So, who's wearing last year's swimsuit?
posted by newlydead at 5:20 PM on January 24, 2003

Yowza!
posted by blue_beetle at 5:57 PM on January 24, 2003

A man walks into a doctor's office with a lobster on his head. The doctor says, "How can I help you?"

The lobster says, "Get this guy out from under me!"
posted by hama7 at 6:28 PM on January 24, 2003

Ah ha! Now I get it. Nice link, by the way.
posted by hama7 at 6:57 PM on January 24, 2003

A buddhist goes up to a hot dog vendor and says, "Make me one with everything."

----

Vendor gives him his hot dog, and the buddhist pays with a 20 dollar bill.

A few seconds pass, and the buddhist asks, "Hey pal, I think you owe me some change."

The vendor replies, "Change comes from within."
posted by thebigpoop at 7:56 PM on January 24, 2003

"Well, I heard of this young girl. Eighteen years old. A Vassar student. For a price, she'll come over and discuss any subject - Proust, Yeats, anthropology. Exchange of ideas. You see what I'm driving at?"
posted by Vidiot at 8:00 PM on January 24, 2003

It's official: Nat Geo sucks. After years of quality journalism and scientific curiosity this is what it has finally come to - images of half naked women.

Maybe this will finally make back some of the money they threw away on that cable channel no one watches.
posted by photoslob at 8:49 PM on January 24, 2003

You know who the majority owner of the National Geographic channel is, don't you? Rupert Murdoch.
posted by pmurray63 at 10:19 AM on January 25, 2003

If this is truly about historical value, why is the girl at the bottom of this page wearing a leaf, not a swimsuit?
posted by Miss Beth at 12:39 PM on January 25, 2003

National Geographic has ALWAYS been images of half-naked women. Weren't you ever a young boy alone in an old person's house?
posted by kevspace at 1:22 PM on January 25, 2003

Ms. Magazine's blog has some interesting things to say about this...
posted by me3dia at 3:12 PM on January 30, 2003

not really - they basically just acknowledged that it was happening.

This is really sad, actually. I had thought the "old joke" reference was just to the fact that NG is famous for being a porno-replacement for young boys who can't get their hands on dad's playboys. But that they'd exploit that end of their business is depressing. 100 years of swimsuits is something for a fashion mag or a girly mag to do. It's depressing enough that a sports magazine does it on a regular basis...
posted by mdn at 3:46 PM on February 3, 2003