Clearwater Beach twins Karissa and Kristina Shannon reach Playmate of the Month (19 going on 40)

St Pete Times ^ | 06/27/2009 | Keith Niebuhr

[devane617]

Reading the story, one would think these young girls have lived the life of someone 40 years old. Only 19. Wow...

[rovenstinez]

I wonder when “Hef” dies if he’ll get the same media attention as Michael J...

[devane617]

He will be hailed as a saint for all his humanitarian work...

[csvset]

This sort of story really should include pictures.

[CaptainK]

It’s a touching family story. I’m waiting for the Hallmark movie.

[driftdiver]

Their Dad is happy they are out spending time with Grandpa?

[freedumb2003]

Posting this without pics is like ... well, posting this without pics.

[devane617]

Hef could easily be Great-Grandpa.

[devane617]

[devane617]

See #9...Looks like they should still be in Jr. High.

[yarddog]

Does anyone really wonder if those girls would be staying with Hef if he was not rich and famous?

Does anyone wonder if Hef would have those girls staying with him if they were not pretty and young?

[jessduntno]

He's very, very smart.”

...says the 19 year old...

[devane617]

What’s the old saying: There is little difference between Saturday night and Sunday morning.

[LongElegantLegs]

their father, Patrick, is a longtime Playboy fan.

Um, ICK.

[smokingfrog]

They were homeschooled?

I've been to the WingHouse. They do have some pretty hot girls there. Of course, I went there for the food, not to ogle the girls.

[freedumb2003]

But they are of age and FR rules have been honored.. ;)

[Blue Highway]

Winghouse? Never heard of that chain. I wonder why Hooters doesn’t sue.

[yefragetuwrabrumuy]

I think Playboy is missing a bet, because the truth is that they were never selling sex as much as they were selling male fashion. Not just clothing and accessories, but style. At their peak, they were the James Bond magazine.

To see what Playboy was, you can see a much more amped-up version in Wired or Maxim magazines. And while few men ever bought the James Bond accessories mentioned in Playboy, if they had money, that is what they wanted to buy.

But there was more. Playboy also was intellectually trendy and fashionable. For years they actually did print “articles” that were worth reading. Some of this was truly literature, and worthwhile enough for Playboy to be translated into braille. In this way, it was trying to capture what had made The Saturday Evening Post such a magnificent magazine before it.

But such writing was expensive, so Playboy moved to the arena of entertainment and sports, again providing an in depth niche that readers couldn’t get elsewhere.

As always, Playboy had to shoot for the young male market, trying to keep a “daring” mood, a hair’s breadth from “tacky”.

In the final analysis, about the only way they can succeed in the long term is to each year apprentice a handful a new college graduates, which after a year it farms out to other organizations. Then ask them to define what is hot and what is not.

[TheClintons-STILLAnti-American]

"Their Dad is happy they are out spending time with Grandpa?"

I'd guess Hef is older than their Grandpa.

[GQuagmire]

I've been to the WingHouse. They do have some pretty hot girls there. Of course, I went there for the food, not to ogle the girls

Yeah, me too.....nudge,nudge,wink,wink