# 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:** 3
**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, 6:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/in-which-i-reveal-victorias-secret/426374/41 "2007-11-14T18:47:41Z")
[QUOTE=tremorviolet] Does she make it rhyme with “now”? "Cause that’s the part that’s really buggin’ me… [/QUOTE] Yeah, something like “brow” but with a weird “r” kind of sound at the end. Again, I love Australian accents but somethin’ just aint right 'bout that. ---
**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, 6:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/in-which-i-reveal-victorias-secret/426374/42 "2007-11-14T18:48:43Z")
[QUOTE=The Scrivener] 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? [/QUOTE] Nicely done. ---
**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, 6:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/in-which-i-reveal-victorias-secret/426374/43 "2007-11-14T18:49:04Z")
[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] Partly air and partly a vacuum, which is wrapped around the upper surfaces thus providing uplift. So the total density of the volume occupied by the bra is less than that of air. The most important thing here is no one has as yet provided a link for the ad. ---
**Author:** ![Zebra](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/c0e974/32.png) [@Zebra](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zebra)\ **Post date:** [November 14, 2007, 7:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/in-which-i-reveal-victorias-secret/426374/44 "2007-11-14T19:06:16Z")
We now make a bra that is orange boobies boobies boobies boobies boobies boobies boobies boobies boob boobies boobies boobies bra ---
**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, 7:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/in-which-i-reveal-victorias-secret/426374/45 "2007-11-14T19:15:12Z")
There may be lovelier poets, but I doubt they have lovelier tits. And thats why my ode, Though it makes heads implode, is thought, TV-wise, to be 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, 7:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/in-which-i-reveal-victorias-secret/426374/46 "2007-11-14T19:23:28Z")
[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] Then mute the sound, and enjoy. Use your imagination man!! ---
**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, 7:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/in-which-i-reveal-victorias-secret/426374/47 "2007-11-14T19:28:44Z")
[QUOTE=Zebra] We now make a bra that is orange boobies boobies boobies boobies boobies boobies boobies boobies boob boobies boobies boobies bra [/QUOTE] MUSHROOM MUSHROOM ---
**Author:** ![BrainGlutton](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/82dd89/32.png) [@BrainGlutton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrainGlutton)\ **Post date:** [November 14, 2007, 7:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/in-which-i-reveal-victorias-secret/426374/48 "2007-11-14T19:30:23Z")
[QUOTE=Isosleepy] 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? [/QUOTE] Edward Lear was one of the most renowned practitioners of the Limerick form, and [he usually hobbled the last line.](http://ingeb.org/songs/edwardle.html) ---
**Author:** ![BrainGlutton](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/82dd89/32.png) [@BrainGlutton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrainGlutton)\ **Post date:** [November 14, 2007, 7:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/in-which-i-reveal-victorias-secret/426374/49 "2007-11-14T19:31:45Z")
[QUOTE=danceswithcats] MUSHROOM MUSHROOM [/QUOTE] BADGER! BADGER! ---
**Author:** ![BrainGlutton](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/82dd89/32.png) [@BrainGlutton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrainGlutton)\ **Post date:** [November 14, 2007, 7:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/in-which-i-reveal-victorias-secret/426374/50 "2007-11-14T19:38:39Z")
When you’re pimping your lacy brassieres Rhyming verse often tempting appears But just don’t get sidetracked From the vital impact, Viz., the model’s enclosed hemispheres! ---
**Author:** ![Waverly](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/57b2e6/32.png) [@Waverly](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Waverly)\ **Post date:** [November 14, 2007, 7:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/in-which-i-reveal-victorias-secret/426374/51 "2007-11-14T19:38:45Z")
[QUOTE=tdn] Underwear models can fly because we believe they can fly. It’s the same principle that makes air conditioning work. [/QUOTE] I thought this was how Peter Pan flew. Air conditioning defies the laws of thermodynamics, and works through magic. ---
**Author:** ![Isosleepy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/isosleepy/32/479_2.png) [@Isosleepy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Isosleepy)\ **Post date:** [November 14, 2007, 7:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/in-which-i-reveal-victorias-secret/426374/52 "2007-11-14T19:41:50Z")
[QUOTE=BrainGlutton] Edward Lear was one of the most renowned practitioners of the Limerick form, and [he usually hobbled the last line.](http://ingeb.org/songs/edwardle.html) [/QUOTE] For you over-represented Dutchies here: A hot-headed Drent in Ter Apel who always ran too hard from staple forsplintered his plate when the waitress was late and gave her a lell with the laple ---
**Author:** ![Quartz](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/quartz/32/267_2.png) [@Quartz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Quartz)\ **Post date:** [November 14, 2007, 8:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/in-which-i-reveal-victorias-secret/426374/53 "2007-11-14T20:20:43Z")
[QUOTE=Isosleepy] 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. [/quote] You’ve remembered the company / brand, so the advert has been successful. ---
**Author:** ![Monstre](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/e274bd/32.png) [@Monstre](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Monstre)\ **Post date:** [November 14, 2007, 8:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/in-which-i-reveal-victorias-secret/426374/54 "2007-11-14T20:29:04Z")
More importantly… When I’m snuggling with a maiden so fair And I’m starting to nuzzle her pair Please won’t you tell Why in heaven or hell Would I want to squeeze handfuls of **air**? ---
**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, 8:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/in-which-i-reveal-victorias-secret/426374/55 "2007-11-14T20:33:42Z")
The vital question hasn’t been answered: If one becomes a little rough with an ‘air bra’, does it make a farting noise and fly out the window? :eek: ---
**Author:** ![Isosleepy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/isosleepy/32/479_2.png) [@Isosleepy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Isosleepy)\ **Post date:** [November 14, 2007, 8:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/in-which-i-reveal-victorias-secret/426374/56 "2007-11-14T20:39:56Z")
[QUOTE=Quartz] You’ve remembered the company / brand, so the advert has been successful. [/QUOTE] Were I a prospective buyer of bras, yes. Had I any input regarding my GF bra purchases, maybe. Since I am not and do not, no. And besides, the old saw that brand recognition and brand recollection reign supreme is BS. I still remember that “at Meineke, you’re not gonna pay a lot for a muffler” - and they’re right. I will spend exactly $0 at Meineke for mufflers or anything else… Don’t piss me off to help me remember your brand. I’ll remember the association as well as the name. ---
**Author:** ![El\_Cid\_Viscoso](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/41988e/32.png) [@El\_Cid\_Viscoso](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/El_Cid_Viscoso)\ **Post date:** [November 14, 2007, 8:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/in-which-i-reveal-victorias-secret/426374/57 "2007-11-14T20:59:35Z")
[QUOTE=danceswithcats] The vital question hasn’t been answered: If one becomes a little rough with an ‘air bra’, does it make a farting noise and fly out the window? :eek: [/QUOTE] Only if you give it a little prick. ---
**Author:** ![Monstre](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/e274bd/32.png) [@Monstre](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Monstre)\ **Post date:** [November 14, 2007, 9:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/in-which-i-reveal-victorias-secret/426374/58 "2007-11-14T21:01:30Z")
[QUOTE=danceswithcats] The vital question hasn’t been answered: If one becomes a little rough with an ‘air bra’, does it make a farting noise and fly out the window? :eek: [/QUOTE] You’re thinking of the guy, when the husband comes home… ---
**Author:** ![gigi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/a587f6/32.png) [@gigi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gigi)\ **Post date:** [November 14, 2007, 9:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/in-which-i-reveal-victorias-secret/426374/59 "2007-11-14T21:17:56Z")
[QUOTE=The Scrivener] If the tits don’t fit, you must acquit… [/QUOTE] You can’t let the defendant have control of the key piece of evidence. Plus, she’s trying it on over a leotard, of course a bra’s not gonna fit on over a leotard. A bra’s gotta fit right up a person’s skin, like a glove! LIKE A GLOVE!! ---
**Author:** ![Figaro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/ea666f/32.png) [@Figaro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Figaro)\ **Post date:** [November 14, 2007, 9:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/in-which-i-reveal-victorias-secret/426374/60 "2007-11-14T21:49:06Z")
I’ll pass on the bra-wearing minx, whose poetry certainly stinks. Rhymes and diction? Who cares! Her boobs feel like…AIR!! Flesh is oh so much better, methinks. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/in-which-i-reveal-victorias-secret/426374.md?page=2) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/in-which-i-reveal-victorias-secret/426374.md?page=4)