Missing inflatable breasts mystery -- solved!
The 130,000 missing inflatable breasts that went astray between China (where they were manufactured) and Australia (where they were to be included as a give-away in a dumb lad's magazine) have been found: they were on the wrong boat and ended up in a box in Melbourne.
They had been due to dock in Sydney last week, but have since turned up at a Melbourne dock, where they've been sitting for a week.Missing inflatable breasts found (Thanks, Itsumishi!)Workers are now frantically working to put them in bags to go out with the December 15 issue.
Ralph editor Santi Pintado said the incident had cost the magazine $30,000.
"If we'd found them a day later, it'd have been too late to get them on the next issue," Pintado said.
"You'd think the Chinese economy was in enough trouble without misplacing 130,000 pairs of boobs."
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I was so looking forward to hearing tales of these things washing up on beaches around the world.
Thank God. Now we can all rest easy.
I just love it when Australians get quoted in the media.
the whole thing was staged. False all the way.
"the whole thing was staged. False all the way."
I still liked my Cthulhu theory better.
I can not think of a story that shows my beloved adoptive country in a worse light.
Ralph magazine!!!
the shame.
Would'a been a better story if they were giant inflatable breasts or vaginas even. Wear 'em like a hat, that's what I say.
I don't like the sound of "lad's magazine". Sounds too wholesome to be unwholesome and I prefer my unwholesome to be completely unwholesome and completely lacking in wholesome.
A follow-up? Why are you guys milking this story?
It's a Christmas miracle!
Keeping abreast of the story, eh? With you guys all over the story, I can breast easy...
@#4 +1 all the way.
Call me a deeply cynical Orstralian, but i call bullshytt on ralph magazine. Pure marketing stunt from whoa to go, cobber. Global recognition and headlines for $30 000? Cheap.
It's hard to believe that anyone actually thought this was legit from the start. Come on, "130 000 inflatable breasts go missing" is a headline that writes itself. Then oh, wait a second, they found them just in time! How uncanny!
what do they take us for?
Of all the mysteries of the world, at least one of the biggest has been solved.
come on takuan, come live in the world with us. People that will read a headline that says boobs go missing as per #13. Even the cynics :) i still love a good boob :)
you'd think they'd have split the consignment over two boats...
lunacy to put all your boobs in one boat... all on one boat, you could lose the lot... in two boats, one could go down and you'd still have half of them left...
Why -- WHY-- does nobody post a photo with this story? I'm dying to see what inflatable boobies look like.
Maybe the front DID fall off?
I agree with Musicman (#13). Why didn't I think of pulling a stunt like this?
But what would be the online equivalent of inflatible breasts that would intice (nearly used an inappropriate verb given the headline) online readers?
So, they were merely under a different booby hatch.
How did they fit so many TSA agents into a box?
I would rate this stunt as a D, possibly DD.
I, like Nelson, am a bit sad that these things turned up all tidy and dry on a dock. Washed overboard, they could have provided marvelous data about ocean currents, not unlike the famous rubber duck wreck.
http://www.agu.org/sci_soc/ducks.html
Well, they weren't from a wreck, but from a container that washed overboard, and they weren't rubber, they were plastic, and only some were ducks, the rest were frogs, turtles or beavers.
But the point it, what with climate change and all, it is important to keep our, uh, finger on the situation.
A photo of the 'missing' (pigs might fly) boobs is to be found at http://arbroath.blogspot.com/
If they had washed overboard, in addition to providing data about ocean currents, there's also a chance that they would have help eased the loneliness of some passing sailor, as they bobbed by on the waves...
@#9 TELLER.
Ha! Breast pun so far.