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Miss Bimbo Offers Digital Ditz for Daft Tweens

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WORLD OF WHORECRAFT Miss Bimbo
Miss Bimbo, a new online game in the UK that challenges teen and tween players to get breast implants and a billionaire boyfriend for ditzy avatars, is either the best lesson in irony since Anna Nicole Smith picked up a book that one time or the virtual path to a life of sin and whoring. Either way: totez fun!

The game, which also requires players to maintain their characters' weights with pills and crash diets, is already wildly popular with about 200,000 players, mostly girls ages nine to 16. And Joe Francis. A spokesman for a UK parents' rights group Parentkind has fallen into place in the game's marketing plan, publicly declaring it "daft and pathetic" and adding, "Children's innocence should be protected as far as possible. It depends on the background and mindset of the child but the danger is that after playing the game some will then aspire to have breast operations and take diet pills."

The game's plot also involves going clubbing and winning beauty contests to earn virtual cash to buy clothes, and although, as in real life, there are plenty of douchebags to hurl cash at the game's gashes, players can also add to their virtual cheese with PayPal or text messages, to the tune of $3 a pop. Or, like, get a hold of daddy's Black Card.

The U.S. version in the works is said to include a cheat: If you can get yourself on the Amtrak to virtual D.C. and have virtual sex with a character called Meliot Schwitzer, you automatically win.

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By Tyler Gray   03/25/08 8:45 AM
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