demise of Playboy

[VitaMan]

But the point of this thread is not jacking off. It is a business example of how a once promising
and almost monopolistic business turned into a worthless pile. And no real fault of theirs. Just
the destruction of a viable business plan by technological advance.

[VitaMan]

And speaking of a worthless pile. Donald Trump has run one publicly owned company. Completely ran it into the ground, shareholders were wiped out. But he did manage to siphon off millions of dollars in fee payments from the publicly owned company to his private companies owned by him.

That's what he really means when he says "I made a lot of money in Atlantic City."

[tbone2u]

Originally Posted by VitaMan

And speaking of a worthless pile. Donald Trump has run one publicly owned company. Completely ran it into the ground, shareholders were wiped out. But he did manage to siphon off millions of dollars in fee payments from the publicly owned company to his private companies owned by him.

That's what he really means when he says "I made a lot of money in Atlantic City."

I don't think this is the point of the thread either. Jacking off with a Playboy mag is a little closer

[Slitlikr]

Kodak is another company whose management dismissed the digital revolution as a fad until it was too late. Boardroom fossils.

[zerodahero]

Originally Posted by Natalie_Jacobs

Exactly; they want to be more like Maxim with more of a focus on prestige writing.

Maxim has prestige writing? That rag looks like it is written by teenagers

[Oralist]

I grew up when Playboy was King. There was no Penthouse or Hustler then. My Dad bought a bay house and it had a storage building. Inside I found a chest filled with Playboys. I whacked off for years with them. I remember some of the pages getting stuck together with spooge.

[Tatu]

Man that's like the old guy stories where you walk 12 miles to go to school by today's standards. Hard to even think about whacking it to a still pic anymore.

[pairofhearts33]

A sign of times have changed. PB was good back then along with Penthouse. Why buy magazines when you got online stuff now.

You have money you will attract women. You think they flock to Hef for his good looks, sexuality, I don't think so. Time to move on and so should Hef but by the looks like he can't.

[tbone2u]

Originally Posted by Tatu

Man that's like the old guy stories where you walk 12 miles to go to school by today's standards. Hard to even think about whacking it to a still pic anymore.

That's probably because most of the guys on this board are older guys.
I myself never walked 12 miles to school....but I did walk one.

[VitaMan]

The tangent about Hef is good for more talk.

How was he supposed to be in the bedroom - a normal guy ?

[O'Mike]

Originally Posted by tbone2u

That's probably because most of the guys on this board are older guys.
I myself never walked 12 miles to school....but I did walk one.

Probably not an age thing as much as a generational thing.

The guys that used to only have the ladies undergarment section of a Sears Roebuck catalog were jealous of the generation that got the native tribe articles in National Geographic. The NatGeo guys were probably bitching and moaning about the Playboy guys. Those Playboy guys felt those that had to wait 10 minutes for a porn picture to download over a dial up modem had it easy, and so on.