Meet the new mistress of science: Paris Hilton
This is a very cool story:
It looks like a typical National Geographic cover with the signature yellow border. So what’s Paris Hilton doing on there? The folks at Harvard Lampoon persuaded employees of one of the nation’s most respected magazines to help them ensure their April Fool’s parody — with satire on Mongolia’s wildest waterparks and “Native Girls Gone Wild” — looked authentic.
The issue, coming out Tuesday, is the latest in a string of Harvard Lampoon magazine parodies. But the undergraduate group had never done National Geographic, which quickly responded when contacted by the students last summer.
The magazine helped print the parody and distribute it alongside its own April edition in some areas, Arbes said. A designer also helped lay out the parody to make it look as much like the original as possible.
Such a good idea – but why stop at the National Geographic?
It would be nice to see photos of pimps and bank robbers on the cover of the Wall Street Journal. In Putin’s ‘New’ Russia the Pravda could suffice with digging up a few old photos of Lenin and Stalin, of course.
And maybe the English New Scientist could have a photo of Tom Cruise, to reassure its readers that there are far worse things than super bugs, global warming and/or incoming meteors.
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