PARIS HILTON has been on virtually every other magazine cover, so why not National Geographic?
After all, as we mentioned last week, she did discover the nation of West Africa.
Psych!
It's the Harvard Lampoon's April Fool's spoof of the venerable nature mag, which hit stands yesterday.
The folks at the Lampoon even persuaded NG employees to help with the parody, which includes a satire on Mongolia's wildest waterparks and "Native Girls Gone Wild."
"My guess was they were just extremely bored and they were tired of working with animals and scientists and wanted to hang out with college students," said Hayes Davenport (now there's a Harvard name), who edited the magazine with fellow senior Ross Arbes.
Davenport said that other publications have helped with their parodies in the past, such as when USA Today printed the Lampoon's version on its press in 1989. National Geographic not only helped print the parody and distribute it, Arbes said, but also a designer helped lay out the mag to make it look as much like the original as possible.
"They provided things that were really valuable to us," Arbes said.
In one jab at National Geographic's staid image, the Lampoon created three new editions to help keep the magazine relevant for younger generations, and features Hilton in a "Your Wildest Animal Fantasies" story.
Of course, the Lampoon's version offers a send-up to anthropological nudity. A photo of a lion is actually made up of dozens of images of women's bare chests.
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