{"id":18376,"date":"2018-09-06T17:58:24","date_gmt":"2018-09-06T09:58:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp-productionenv-bjg9h2g2bgg5b8aa.southeastasia-01.azurewebsites.net\/news\/rocket-envy-jeff-bezos-blue-origin-spaceship-launches-a-double-entendre\/"},"modified":"2018-09-06T17:58:24","modified_gmt":"2018-09-06T09:58:24","slug":"rocket-envy-jeff-bezos-blue-origin-spaceship-launches-a-double-entendre","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/news\/rocket-envy-jeff-bezos-blue-origin-spaceship-launches-a-double-entendre\/","title":{"rendered":"Rocket envy? Jeff Bezos\u2019 Blue Origin spaceship launches a double entendre"},"content":{"rendered":"
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A photo spread from the latest issue of Work magazine had a little fun with Amazon billionaire Jeff Bezos\u2019 Blue Origin rocket venture. (Work \/ CIPD \/ Blue Origin Photo via @christhebarker on Twitter)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

It\u2019s hard to top the risque rocket scene in \u201cAustin Powers: The Spy Who Shagged Me,\u201d but Blue Origin\u2019s New Shepard rocket has also spawned its share of comparisons to the male anatomy.<\/p>\n

The latest double entendre paying tribute to Amazon billionaire Jeff Bezos\u2019 space venture appears in Work magazine, a controlled-circulation quarterly published by the Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development in Britain.<\/p>\n

Graphic designer Chris Barker, who was also behind the viral \u201cLonely Hearts\u201d roundup of 2016\u2019s celebrity deaths, deemed it a point of pride that he was able to get his visual joke into print. \u201cPleased my headline\/image combo got through,\u201d he tweeted.<\/p>\n

The layout shows Blue Origin\u2019s New Shepard on one page, in all its phallic glory, opposite a bold headline reading, \u201cWhat Exactly Is Jeff Bezos Trying to Prove?\u201d<\/p>\n

In the accompanying article, writer Paul Simpson delves into Bezos\u2019 disruptive business style and how it\u2019s likely to lead to run-ins with regulators. But in this case, folks didn\u2019t want to read the magazine only for the articles.<\/p>\n

That comes through loud and clear in the response that Barker\u2019s tweet received. \u201cYou guys like nob gags then,\u201d he wrote four hours after his initial tweet.<\/p>\n

Then things really got hot: \u201cYour feature\u2019s had over a million impressions in a day. Admittedly not the bit with anything you wrote on it,\u201d Barker told Simpson on Wednesday. Today he reported that the traffic counter hit 2 million, with 5,000 retweets.<\/p>\n

\u201cI really didn\u2019t expect this to get this much attention,\u201d Barker said.<\/p>\n

Maybe it shouldn\u2019t be so surprising that adding a risque twist to rockets and the lives of the super-rich would get a rise. Just wait until that knobby rocket starts carrying people to the edge of space, which could happen by the end of this year or early next year. Then it\u2019ll be up to SpaceX\u2019s fans to deliver Woody Harrelson\u2019s deflating punch line from the Austin Powers movie: \u201cI\u2019ve seen bigger\u2026\u201d<\/p>\n

Check the replies to Barker\u2019s tweet for still more silliness.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

A photo spread from the latest issue of Work magazine had a little fun with Amazon billionaire Jeff Bezos\u2019 Blue Origin rocket venture. (Work \/ CIPD \/ Blue Origin Photo via @christhebarker on Twitter) It\u2019s hard to top the risque rocket scene in \u201cAustin Powers: The Spy Who Shagged Me,\u201d but Blue Origin\u2019s New Shepard […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[509,1046,21],"class_list":["post-18376","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-blue-origin","tag-jeff-bezos","tag-space"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18376"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18376"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18376\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18376"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18376"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18376"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}