So, I'm reading in the New York Times, the big news in Britain that someone is coming out next month with yet another "Lad's Mag." Usually these consist of lots of glossy pictures of naked women, sports cars, footballers, the best places in Great Britain to drink and throw up, and a couple of short articles on how to pick up girls in bars, or what color jockey shorts to wear on a first date. Then the whole thing is wrapped up in a selection of crude jokes. But now, there's "Short List." And it's going to be different, because according to the the publisher, Mike Soutar, this book will have "no nudity and no profanity." The reason given for this radical shift is... "We don't want to embarrass our readers!" Bloody Hell, well that's definitely a first in the world of Lad Mags. Having perused a few dozen, purely in the interests of research I hasten to add, I would have thought the readership of these fine literary journals was well beyond being embarrassed by a bit of T&A!
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Yeah... Well I just finished War and Peace, so I thought I'd give myself a treat!
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