FHM # 47, August 2004

FEATURES
76 QUOTE, UNQUOTE
METHOD MAN AND REDMAN
Rap's leading botanists get a garden in the 'burbs.
78 REUNION
REVENGE OF THE NERDS
Travel back to 1984 with Ogre, Booger, Wormser and the rest of the gang.
86 FAR ABOVE AVERAGE
MELANA SCANTLIN
The original Average Joe princess is now the sexiest blackjack queen.
92 REVIVAL
RETURN OF A KILLER!
Thirty years after drawing first blood, a killer resurfaces in Wichita.
98 PRINCESS OF TIDES
ELISE GARRIGUE .
Grab your board and get wet with surfing's hottest attraction.
106 TOWERS
SKYLINE 2010
Architecture's finest erections will pierce the heavens and serve as bedposts for the homeless.
108 THE HUSTLER
EXPOSED!
Are the professionals being squeezed out of modern-day bikini competitions? FHM investigates.
114 COVER GIRL
BETH OSTROSKY
You wake up to Howard Stern—here's what greets him every day.
IN EVERY ISSUE
20 LETTERS
A soldier's lonely girlfriend, one of the best desk poses yet and an FHM reader finds Jesus ... in back hair!
26 REPORTER
The world's strongest clown, most absurd phone booths and safest bananas. Plus, beer gets magnified.
55 REVIEWS
Uncle Kracker gambles, ?uestlove offers 'fro tips and Triumph the Insult Comic Dog teaches his tricks.
123 FASHION
America's Olympic heroes put their activewear on. Plus, international gear for traitors.
146 MACHINERY
Evidently, taking pictures makes it last longer. We've got the best lenses and accessories.
152 GASOLINE
This summer's hottest drop-tops and the future of four-wheelers as seen through the eyes of Hollywood.
156 BIONIC
Get a surfing god's body and a bike helmet that won't crush your fragile melon.
ADDED VALUE
74 BAR ROOM JOKES
If you're not ha-ha funny, then you're only Ashton Kutcher funny. And, really, after a few minutes, how funny is that?
160 TRUE STORIE
Run-ins with the law accounted for half of this month's True Stories. The other half? Urine and the elderly, of course.