# In which I reveal Victoria's Secret **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [November 14, 2007, 3:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/in-which-i-reveal-victorias-secret/426374 "2007-11-14T15:40:40Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Sunspace](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sunspace/32/1250_2.png) [@Sunspace](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sunspace)\ **Post date:** [November 14, 2007, 5:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/in-which-i-reveal-victorias-secret/426374/21 "2007-11-14T17:12:53Z")
I wonder why they never noticed that “air” rhymes with “bare”? 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Mtgman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/b5a626/32.png) [@Mtgman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mtgman)\ **Post date:** [November 14, 2007, 5:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/in-which-i-reveal-victorias-secret/426374/22 "2007-11-14T17:14:24Z")
[QUOTE=Waverly] There is dialog during Victoria’s Secret commercials? I never noticed. [/QUOTE] Well I only watch them for the dialog. Enjoy, Steven ---
**Author:** ![Precambrianmollusc](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/precambrianmollusc/32/63_2.png) [@Precambrianmollusc](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Precambrianmollusc)\ **Post date:** [November 14, 2007, 5:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/in-which-i-reveal-victorias-secret/426374/23 "2007-11-14T17:23:32Z")
[QUOTE=Paul in Saudi] It is not a limerick. The first line of a limerick always includes a place name. [/QUOTE] there was a hot chick from Victoria a place name and an emporia of delightful bits that cover the tits and enhanced my state of euphoria ---
**Author:** ![Borborygmi](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/borborygmi/32/217_2.png) [@Borborygmi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Borborygmi)\ **Post date:** [November 14, 2007, 5:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/in-which-i-reveal-victorias-secret/426374/24 "2007-11-14T17:26:36Z")
Put those angel ads to the test, Remember t.v. ads at their best… . . . . If you need to be heard, . . . . Just repeat the key word: Bras, bras, bras, boobs, bras, bras, breasts. ---
**Author:** ![Thudlow\_Boink](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/thudlow_boink/32/320_2.png) [@Thudlow\_Boink](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Thudlow_Boink)\ **Post date:** [November 14, 2007, 5:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/in-which-i-reveal-victorias-secret/426374/25 "2007-11-14T17:29:24Z")
[QUOTE=Isosleepy] Normally, ads for bras are ok - they’ve got breasts in them. [/QUOTE] The ads, or the bras? > [@](#): > > 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! Maybe you misunderstood, and the bra cups are really made out of **hair**? > [@](#): > > 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? I blame it on the Poets’ Strike. Seriously, though, some of the early [limericks by Edward Lear](http://www.poetry-online.org/limericks.htm) were even worse about the repetition thing. > [@](#): > > 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! So, she could fly around by flapping her … breasts? I’m having trouble picturing this. ---
**Author:** ![danceswithcats](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/9e8a1a/32.png) [@danceswithcats](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/danceswithcats)\ **Post date:** [November 14, 2007, 5:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/in-which-i-reveal-victorias-secret/426374/26 "2007-11-14T17:31:58Z")
[QUOTE=Merijeek] Everyone knows all good limericks involve the word “Nantucket”. -Joe [/QUOTE] There once was a gal from Nantucket, whose titties could each fill a bucket. She tried on their bra, but her boobies said, Nah! Of such garments she’s concluded, “Fuck it.” 😉 ---
**Author:** ![Man\_With\_a\_Cat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/cab0a1/32.png) [@Man\_With\_a\_Cat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Man_With_a_Cat)\ **Post date:** [November 14, 2007, 5:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/in-which-i-reveal-victorias-secret/426374/27 "2007-11-14T17:32:38Z")
[QUOTE=Turek] 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. [/QUOTE] No kidding, I see her and my ears fog over. It makes me want to be air. ---
**Author:** ![Turek](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/turek/32/18782_2.png) [@Turek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Turek)\ **Post date:** [November 14, 2007, 5:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/in-which-i-reveal-victorias-secret/426374/28 "2007-11-14T17:41:51Z")
[QUOTE=HazelNutCoffee] Why does she have to pretend she’s British? [/QUOTE] [She’s Australian.](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Miranda_Kerr) Some of them aussies have been known to speak with an accent. ---
**Author:** ![Borborygmi](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/borborygmi/32/217_2.png) [@Borborygmi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Borborygmi)\ **Post date:** [November 14, 2007, 5:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/in-which-i-reveal-victorias-secret/426374/29 "2007-11-14T17:46:12Z")
I’m enjoying this thread in the Pit It’s full of sex, cursing and wit . . But I’d bet my last dime . . That this Pit of a rhyme Will give **Carol Stream** quite a fit. ---
**Author:** ![Man\_With\_a\_Cat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/cab0a1/32.png) [@Man\_With\_a\_Cat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Man_With_a_Cat)\ **Post date:** [November 14, 2007, 5:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/in-which-i-reveal-victorias-secret/426374/30 "2007-11-14T17:46:45Z")
Great, now I have a name to mumble in my sleep, thanks. ---
**Author:** ![AskNott](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/asknott/32/5790_2.png) [@AskNott](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AskNott)\ **Post date:** [November 14, 2007, 5:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/in-which-i-reveal-victorias-secret/426374/31 "2007-11-14T17:47:00Z")
[QUOTE=Cervaise] “My God. It’s full of breasts.” [/QUOTE] What, your hovercraft? Hmm, a bra made of air? Maybe it’s bubblepak. Maybe, like an air guitar, there’s no bra at all. Maybe they hired a party clown to make balloon animal bras. Maybe it’s liquid nitrogen, for those folkloric witch’s tits. ---
**Author:** ![tnetennba](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/7993a0/32.png) [@tnetennba](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tnetennba)\ **Post date:** [November 14, 2007, 5:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/in-which-i-reveal-victorias-secret/426374/32 "2007-11-14T17:47:04Z")
So it is OK to say that ad writing is complete shit and I could urinate a better limerick in the snow, or will the three resident commerical writers come in blowing smoke about how very hard it really is because you have to comform to technical guidelines? ---
**Author:** ![ZebraShaSha](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/eada6e/32.png) [@ZebraShaSha](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ZebraShaSha)\ **Post date:** [November 14, 2007, 6:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/in-which-i-reveal-victorias-secret/426374/33 "2007-11-14T18:05:36Z")
[QUOTE=cricetus] So it is OK to say that ad writing is complete shit and I could urinate a better limerick in the snow, or will the three resident commerical writers come in blowing smoke about how very hard it really is because you have to comform to technical guidelines? [/QUOTE] Depends. Do you feel lucky? ---
**Author:** ![Turek](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/turek/32/18782_2.png) [@Turek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Turek)\ **Post date:** [November 14, 2007, 6:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/in-which-i-reveal-victorias-secret/426374/34 "2007-11-14T18:13:12Z")
[QUOTE=Mr Bus Guy] Great, now I have a name to mumble in my sleep, thanks. [/QUOTE] I was already in my bunk, so get in line. ---
**Author:** ![The\_Scrivener](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/eada6e/32.png) [@The\_Scrivener](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Scrivener)\ **Post date:** [November 14, 2007, 6:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/in-which-i-reveal-victorias-secret/426374/35 "2007-11-14T18:13:59Z")
When pushing bras underwired, Use not weak rhymes uninspired. A pity: the _Ars Poetica_ Pairs well with passion erotica Or was their lit’rary muse just too tired? ---
**Author:** ![CarnalK](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/carnalk/32/486_2.png) [@CarnalK](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CarnalK)\ **Post date:** [November 14, 2007, 6:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/in-which-i-reveal-victorias-secret/426374/36 "2007-11-14T18:31:11Z")
You guys are missing the most important problem. The limerick makes no sense! I’m afraid it _is_ a mystery as to how a bra made partially from air is somehow lighter than air. ---
**Author:** ![tdn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/94ad74/32.png) [@tdn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tdn)\ **Post date:** [November 14, 2007, 6:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/in-which-i-reveal-victorias-secret/426374/37 "2007-11-14T18:36:53Z")
[QUOTE=Thudlow Boink] So, she could fly around by flapping her … breasts? I’m having trouble picturing this. [/QUOTE] Underwear models can fly because we believe they can fly. It’s the same principle that makes air conditioning work. ---
**Author:** ![WOOKINPANUB](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wookinpanub/32/132_2.png) [@WOOKINPANUB](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WOOKINPANUB)\ **Post date:** [November 14, 2007, 6:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/in-which-i-reveal-victorias-secret/426374/38 "2007-11-14T18:37:28Z")
Oh how I hate hate hate this commercial. I’ve got no issue with Victoria’s Secret or with beautiful young women in their unmentionables, but sweet samurai, the sound of this chick’s voice just makes me see red. And I could usually listen to our Aussie friends talk all the live long day. I might even find her pronunciation of the word bra (“braaahr”) cute in casual conversation, but for some reason it just grates when the very thing she’s promoting is so oddly pronounced (to Yank ears, of course). I won’t even comment on the asinine poem. Just grrrrrrrrrrrr :mad: ---
**Author:** ![tremorviolet](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/e47774/32.png) [@tremorviolet](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tremorviolet)\ **Post date:** [November 14, 2007, 6:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/in-which-i-reveal-victorias-secret/426374/39 "2007-11-14T18:42:17Z")
[QUOTE=WOOKINPANUB] Oh how I hate hate hate this commercial. I’ve got no issue with Victoria’s Secret or with beautiful young women in their unmentionables, but sweet samurai, the sound of this chick’s voice just makes me see red. And I could usually listen to our Aussie friends talk all the live long day. I might even find her pronunciation of the word bra (“braaahr”) cute in casual conversation, but for some reason it just grates when the very thing she’s promoting is so oddly pronounced (to Yank ears, of course). I won’t even comment on the asinine poem. Just grrrrrrrrrrrr :mad: [/QUOTE] Does she make it rhyme with “now”? "Cause that’s the part that’s really buggin’ me… ---
**Author:** ![The\_Scrivener](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/eada6e/32.png) [@The\_Scrivener](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Scrivener)\ **Post date:** [November 14, 2007, 6:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/in-which-i-reveal-victorias-secret/426374/40 "2007-11-14T18:46:09Z")
[QUOTE=CarnalK] You guys are missing the most important problem. The limerick makes no sense! I’m afraid it _is_ a mystery as to how a bra made partially from air is somehow lighter than air. [/QUOTE] If the tits don’t fit, you must acquit… [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/in-which-i-reveal-victorias-secret/426374.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/in-which-i-reveal-victorias-secret/426374.md?page=3)