In which I reveal Victoria's Secret

In a sign of the end-times surely being nigh, it has come to this: I’m ready to throw something at the TV every time this Victoria’s Secret commercial comes on.
I don’t mean pretend kisses, I mean if I were still a smoker, I’d hurl a 5 pound brass ashtray at the screen.

The offending piece (no comments, please) is an ad for bras. Normally, ads for bras are ok - they’ve got breasts in them.

While this ad has a lovely young lady exhibiting the product for sale (which may even be bras), her lines, which are in limerick form, are so mind-numbingly moronic it makes me want to simultaneously shove a screwdriver into each ear 'till both meet in the middle, in some vain attempt to un-hear this god-awful drivel.

Maybe I’m getting old, but the sheer stupidity of this “limerick” makes her look about as pretty as if Janet Reno had a love child with Clay Aiken and the chemicals neccessary to bring this encounter about had somehow deformed the resulting baby even beyond it’s cursed genes, after which the Red Sox’ starting lineup beat it with ugly sticks for a day, and then it grew up trying all it’s life to look like Imus.

There once was an angel so fair
Who’s bra was lighter than air
But the reason you see
and it’s no mystery
her bra cups were made out of air!

YOU CAN’T RHYME “AIR” WITH “AIR” ! Goddamnit! There was no-one in the entire VS organization, the ad agency, the film crew - anyone - who could have stopped this abomination?

But now I know. I know what, exactly, Victoria’s secret is… It’s a conspiracy to render all of the free world into so many golems, to do the evil bidding of our fashionista overlords. Paris, Britney, Tom, Jessica - they aren’t isolated incidents, merely celebutards we can just ignore and they’ll go away. No! They are the shock troops of the new and coming world order! The terrorists have already lost. Proof? you want proof?

Clearly the above was no accident, as proven by this other commercial from the exact same company !

There was a young angel with wings
Who could fly without wires or strings
She put on her wireless bra
said, “I’m going out now”
No wires, no worries, just wings!

Oh, the humanity! Not just “wings” with “wings”, but “bra” with “now”?
Kill me now. Please.

Or maybe I’m overreacting. They do have breasts in them.

Nothing, not even breasts, can justify such hellaceous mangling of the noble limerick.

Victoria’s Secret, you suck!
Your ads should be trod in the muck.
The limerick should be
A thing of beau-teee.
Your rhyming and scansion? Oh, fuck.

:mad:

I for one welcome our new Victoria’s Secret overlords.

The thread title made me think of retiring Congresswoman Barbara “She’s a Slut” Cubin.

My reaction to the first limerick was, “Gee, I miss having nice cute boobs that could go around in an air bra instead of an 18-Hour girdlevest.”

“My God. It’s full of breasts.”

You damn her with faint praise. She makes my pants go crazy.

Oh, and the limerick bothers me, too, when I listen to it. Usually I’m too busy drooling.

Also, without breasts, there is no paradise.

So Victoria’s Secret is Vogon Poetry?

And yet…yet…“El Paso” and “hassle” are so much worse…

[Woody Allen] “These things usually travel in pairs.”[/Woody Allen]

Everyone knows all good limericks involve the word “Nantucket”.

-Joe

They just want you to buy their bra
So they put some young lass in a bra
So you’ll stare at her bra
While she sells you her bra
And miss that she rhymed “bra” with “bra”

Works for me.

I can’t believe it’s taken this long.

Cite?

I never noticed the messed up rhyme. I’m hetero female so I wasn’t distracted by her breasts, it was her accent that I couldn’t understand. But still, breasts man!

Roomie? Is that you?

My roommate and I hate this commercial with a passion. She hates it because of the air/air rhyme; I hate it because of the model’s accent. Why does she have to pretend she’s British?

There is dialog during Victoria’s Secret commercials? I never noticed.

It is not a limerick. The first line of a limerick always includes a place name.

A girl with a nice set of tits
Looks to have other nice bits
Would be wonder and awe
Should she just lose the bra
And give in to us horny twits