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2017-09-19 -Land of the Free

The iconic Rolling Stone magazine is up for sale amid financial struggles

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Posted by Bright Pebbles 2017-09-19 00:00|| || Front Page|| [11128 views ] Top

#1 Did Dr. Hook ever get on the cover?

Posted by AlmostAnonymous5839 2017-09-19 03:32|| 2017-09-19 03:32|| Front Page Top

#2 Did Dr. Hook ever get on the cover?

Must one be a geezer to get that joke? Because I ain't laughing until I know for sure.

Posted by SteveS 2017-09-19 04:16|| 2017-09-19 04:16|| Front Page Top

#3 #1 Did Dr. Hook ever get on the cover?
Posted by: AlmostAnonymous5839 2017-09-19 03:32

Sure did. Bought five copies for his mother.

Mike

Posted by Mike Kozlowski 2017-09-19 04:58|| 2017-09-19 04:58|| Front Page Top

#4 Hunter S. Thompson was not available for comment.

Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, curiously enough, was not available either.

Posted by Pappy 2017-09-19 08:17|| 2017-09-19 08:17|| Front Page Top

#5 SteveS, the answer to your question is "YES".

I got it, as did my wife. 8^(

Posted by AlanC 2017-09-19 08:31|| 2017-09-19 08:31|| Front Page Top

#6 in case you don't get #1's reference:

Posted by CrazyFool 2017-09-19 09:03|| 2017-09-19 09:03|| Front Page Top

#7 Good, and I hope no one buys it or buys it for pennies. It deserves to go into the dustbin of history.

Posted by DarthVader 2017-09-19 09:14|| 2017-09-19 09:14|| Front Page Top

#8 Is it iconic to anyone under sixty?

Posted by charger 2017-09-19 10:57|| 2017-09-19 10:57|| Front Page Top

#9 I'm over 60 and it's not iconic to me.

Posted by Deacon Blues 2017-09-19 12:52|| 2017-09-19 12:52|| Front Page Top

#10 I just read it for the pictures.

Posted by Skidmark 2017-09-19 16:37|| 2017-09-19 16:37|| Front Page Top

#11 News: An appeals court judge has revived the defamation lawsuit by UVA fraternity students against Rolling Stone.

The original story that accused the frat bros of gang rape was both preposterous and uncorroborated, or what us non-journalists call bullsh1t. If anyone was bidding on the magazine, you can drop your offer by a couple orders of magnitude.

Posted by SteveS 2017-09-19 19:12|| 2017-09-19 19:12|| Front Page Top

#12 So was the McCrystal story fake?

Posted by Skidmark 2017-09-19 19:30|| 2017-09-19 19:30|| Front Page Top

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