Orange County Where magazine on newsstands

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The Fall 2012 issue of Orange County Where has a story titled "Wine Bars Take Flight." (Via Photoshop Disasters)

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Grahamers2002

She’s a real…………………………………..

Where Girl!
glatt1

The digital issue for Fall 2012 has a different cover.
http://wherela.com/oc/new-in-oc/digital-issue/

I’m not saying this is fake, but…
- http://twitter.com/escowles esme
  
  I’m sure there’s no way they could have used a different cover after people have been tweeting about this all week…
  - glatt1
    
    And there’s also no way that somebody would fake a magazine cover for lols. See for example: http://boingboing.net/2005/05/30/funny-parents-magazi.html
ChicagoD

Even their whores are classy.
Brainspore

Designer: “Whore do you want me to position the model?”
Art Director: “Whorever. I’m off to Vegas to play the Slut Machines.”
Don

Who else thinks it INCREASED newsstand sales?
- Quiche de Resistance
  
  Bought issue for first time, total ripoff. Some kind of fashion mag, not a single escort ad. Would not recommend.
  
  0/3
niktemadur

There’s another element to this story. Hey Fall 2012 issue of Orange County, the year 2000 called and it wants its’ wine bars taking flight back.
- timquinn
  
  Wine bars are very popular among the new urbanites who desire to distinguish them selves from beer guzzling suburbanites.
  - pjcamp
    
    Not to mention two bit hookers.
http://halfbakedmaker.org Robert Baruch

Wow, that cover makes me want to read all about Costa Mesa! Who knew?
Pharaohmagnetic

Andrew Hearst of The Panopticist presciently spoofed this phenomenon with a mock cover of Parents magazine.

http://andrewhearst.com/blog/2005/03/cover_up_at_parents_magazine
chgoliz

The pixels remind me of 1970′s soap operas, and the young woman reminds me of a mash-up between:

http://cdn2.mamapop.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/07/loves-baby-soft-e1280500332928.jpg
http://danaclassics.com/buzz/wp-content/uploads/2011/02/tshirt_ad.jpg
Brainspore

Reminds me of a blunder that might have happened in the fashion magazine from that David Spade sitcom. I think the show was called “Just Sh*t Me.“
TimeMachine

I have a subscription to whore magazine (http://www.whoremagazine.net), which is actually pretty good.
http://twitter.com/DaniKrameroni Dani Erdos-Kramer

that took me entirely too long to realize the obvious funny. i need to stop scanning over images so quickly!
- Boundegar
  
  Me too. I swear I looked at this four times, wondering why it rated a mention… and why all the mean girls were calling the model a whore?
http://celesteagnes.blogspot.com/ Sekino

… I see what you did there.