Barometer | 5 October 2017

Bunny beginnings

Hugh Hefner, creator of Playboy, died.
How did he get the idea for bunny girls?
— Hefner said he had been inspired by Bunny’s Tavern, a bar in Urbana, Illinois, named after its owner Bernard ‘Bunny’ Fitzsimmons, who opened it in 1936.
— A closer match for Hefner’s clubs was the Gaslight Club opened in Chicago in 1953, where customers were served by ‘gaslight girls’ dressed in corsets and fishnets.
— Originally, Hefner proposed dressing up his hostesses as baby dolls, then toyed with the idea of ‘stag girls’ wearing antlers, to match the name he wanted to give Playboy magazine, Stag Party. He had to drop that name when Stag magazine (men’s adventure stories) threatened to sue.

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A chicken processing works was caught out changing slaughter dates. How many chickens are processed in Britain?
— In August an average of 20.6