And he was so frustrated at finding the timer after it was too late
(but just before they left) that he flung it as hard as he could across
the lunar surface. It is still on the Moon there somewhere, waiting
for a lunar archaeologist to find it some day.
You probably first read about this in Chaikin's A Man on the Moon.
You can see one of the Playboy images in at least one of the photos
taken during the EVA. But it is not terribly clear and while some folks
may have been upset (some prudes certainly got that way over the
human figures on the Pioneer Plaques - the same bunch that would
have screamed discrimination if they wore conservative business suits),
I seriously doubt it would have stopped the Apollo program. NASA did
that to itself soon enough.
Space/Science » in reply to re: A bag
Of timers and nudes