# Ladies, would you mind...?
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ladies-would-you-mind/765007
**Category:** In My Humble Opinion
**Created:** [September 4, 2016, 11:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ladies-would-you-mind/765007 "2016-09-04T11:12:21Z")
**Posts on this page:** 20
**Page:** 2
### Author:  [@Spice\_Weasel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spice_Weasel)
#### Post date: [September 4, 2016, 10:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ladies-would-you-mind/765007/21 "2016-09-04T22:37:09Z")
‘‘Fuck no to infinity’’ sounds about right.
Nor would I buy a car so advertised.
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### Author:  [@brainstall](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/brainstall)
#### Post date: [September 5, 2016, 1:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ladies-would-you-mind/765007/22 "2016-09-05T01:16:15Z")
Nobody is going to ask me to pose in a bikini to help sell their car, but imagining I did have a bikini bod worthy of posing next to a hot car. Nope. Nope. Nope. Creepy, skeevy and ewww no.
Who falls for ads like that? Buy this car and hot chicks will be unable to resist you? Bwahahahahaaa!
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### Author:  [@TBG](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TBG)
#### Post date: [September 5, 2016, 1:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ladies-would-you-mind/765007/23 "2016-09-05T01:20:29Z")
Unless “Sweetie” is a current or former model, this sounds like a really bad idea. Better to just drive to a beach and yell out “$10 to pose with my car!”
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### Author:  [@joyfool](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/joyfool)
#### Post date: [September 5, 2016, 5:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ladies-would-you-mind/765007/24 "2016-09-05T05:59:31Z")
Back for the seven minutes of my life when anyone might’ve considered me ‘hot,’ I would’ve thought about it just because it would’ve totally been out of character and I probably would’ve thought of it as a lark. Nowadays with the invention of the never ending Internet, hell to the naw. They’d take away my feminist credentials.
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### Author:  [@appleaday](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/appleaday)
#### Post date: [September 5, 2016, 6:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ladies-would-you-mind/765007/25 "2016-09-05T06:25:41Z")
I can’t fit into a bikini, much less pose in one.
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### Author:  [@Spice\_Weasel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spice_Weasel)
#### Post date: [September 5, 2016, 7:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ladies-would-you-mind/765007/26 "2016-09-05T19:02:23Z")
Yeah, maybe the OP should pose this question to a bunch of hot 20-somethings. For a lot of us, this question is purely academic.
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### Author:  [@Loach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Loach)
#### Post date: [September 5, 2016, 7:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ladies-would-you-mind/765007/27 "2016-09-05T19:27:10Z")
> [@John\_Mace](#):
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> OK, what’s going on here. I clicked on the link and my computer automatically downloaded about 10 files. I quickly delete them, but what was that???
No idea why. It looks like a link to Ebay to me.
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### Author:  [@SuperNelson](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SuperNelson)
#### Post date: [September 5, 2016, 7:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ladies-would-you-mind/765007/28 "2016-09-05T19:54:28Z")
> [@John\_Mace](#):
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> OK, what’s going on here. I clicked on the link and my computer automatically downloaded about 10 files. I quickly delete them, but what was that???
Same here. Safari on OS 10.11.6.
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### Author:  [@Idle\_Thoughts](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Idle_Thoughts)
#### Post date: [September 5, 2016, 11:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ladies-would-you-mind/765007/29 "2016-09-05T23:10:06Z")
I’m going to move this over to IMHO.
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### Author:  [@Spiderman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spiderman)
#### Post date: [September 6, 2016, 2:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ladies-would-you-mind/765007/30 "2016-09-06T02:09:41Z")
Screw the girl(s) in the bikini (Ummm, I didn’t mean it like _that_).
What I desparately want is the phone # for his house painter. I want a house with a flaming eagle, like in the [second picture](http://i.ebayimg.com/images/g/sxsAAOSwaB5XvdmZ/s-l1600.jpg) in the OP’s link. 🆒
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### Author:  [@mistymage](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mistymage)
#### Post date: [September 6, 2016, 2:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ladies-would-you-mind/765007/31 "2016-09-06T02:38:09Z")
No problem.
But it wouldn’t sell the car.
It might sell car window tinting, though.
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### Author:  [@Heracles](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Heracles)
#### Post date: [September 6, 2016, 10:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ladies-would-you-mind/765007/32 "2016-09-06T10:25:39Z")
> [@Filbert](#):
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> Ehh… I doubt it would help I did, but I think I’d only agree if they were selling something like a Reliant Robin. Comedy has a fair value to me.
If you lean on the hood (uh, bonnet), remember to do it _in the middle_! 😃
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### Author:  [@Nava](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nava)
#### Post date: [September 6, 2016, 11:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ladies-would-you-mind/765007/33 "2016-09-06T11:10:03Z")
> [@Biggirl](#):
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> My option isn’t included-- Me posing in a bikini would only drive away customers.
And that would have applied even 30 years ago.
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### Author:  [@Cinnamon\_Imp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cinnamon_Imp)
#### Post date: [September 6, 2016, 1:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ladies-would-you-mind/765007/34 "2016-09-06T13:23:41Z")
> [@Biggirl](#):
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> My option isn’t included-- Me posing in a bikini would only drive away customers.
I voted HELL YEAH! but this is the inevitable outcome 😃
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### Author:  [@Rushgeekgirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rushgeekgirl)
#### Post date: [September 6, 2016, 6:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ladies-would-you-mind/765007/35 "2016-09-06T18:41:07Z")
If we’re dealing with fantasy world I’d feel flattered that someone found me attractive enough to model anything but I’d still say no. Not that I have anything against people dressing in bikinis to sell cars. It’s just not me. Even in fantasy world.
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### Author:  [@TroutMan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TroutMan)
#### Post date: [September 6, 2016, 7:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ladies-would-you-mind/765007/36 "2016-09-06T19:57:30Z")
> [@John\_Mace](#):
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> OK, what’s going on here. I clicked on the link and my computer automatically downloaded about 10 files. I quickly delete them, but what was that???
\The page uses Flash, and those downloads are all Flash files. They most likely aren’t an attack, but Flash is notorious for containing malware so you run it at your own risk. If you had Flash installed, you’d have seen the animations. You probably are using Safari or don’t have Flash installed, so the files are downloaded instead.\
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### Author:  [@Elemenopy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elemenopy)
#### Post date: [September 6, 2016, 9:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ladies-would-you-mind/765007/37 "2016-09-06T21:50:12Z")
Question is, erm, academic at this point. But even if it weren’t, the answer is no.
However, I would indeed be happy to do the 50s-60s [equivalent](https://www.pinterest.com/ganesvoort/vintage-style-1/). That would be fun.
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### Author:  [@iamthewalrus\_3](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/iamthewalrus_3)
#### Post date: [September 6, 2016, 10:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ladies-would-you-mind/765007/38 "2016-09-06T22:25:02Z")
> [@Lobohan](#):
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> No one was asked to be in the pic. Women who look and dress like that naturally occur in proximity to a car like that.
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> Source: I own a Nissan Leaf.
The reason they often appear wet is that the car owner, attempting to take an unobstructed photograph of his car, may try to shoo them away with the hose, as you would a cat.
Unfortunately, this tactic does not work. They are dressed for a semi-aquatic environment and will be quite comfortable.
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### Author:  [@Spice\_Weasel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spice_Weasel)
#### Post date: [September 7, 2016, 2:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ladies-would-you-mind/765007/39 "2016-09-07T02:06:30Z")
tiny hijack…
I just realized **iamthewalrus(:3**= username features… a walrus.
Good job!
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### Author:  [@MorningSunshine](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MorningSunshine)
#### Post date: [September 7, 2016, 4:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ladies-would-you-mind/765007/40 "2016-09-07T04:42:22Z")
Before we begin, what kind of old camaro are we talking about? What kind of condition is it in? Mileage? Do the numbers match? What geographical area are you in? Have you surveyed the market? Have you identified your potential buyer’s demographics, and are you completely certain that marketing your vehicle posed with a bikini-clad female is really going to attract qualified buyers, without the unintended consequence of potentially deterring qualified buyers? Are you accurate in presuming that your buyer is, in fact, a heterosexual male? Is there really a vehicle to be sold, or is this merely a pretext to get your brainy female into a bikini?
Brainy females want to know. It’s inevitable, so you might as well prepare for the thought process (at least, what my own stream-of-consciousness analysis reveals.)
While visualizing my bikini collection, I realize the color of the swimsuit should complement the color of the camaro. Is this a rare/desirable color? How many of these have sold recently, and …mea culpa, brainy females are sometimes easily drawn into wanting to research details and acquire additional information. Have plenty of additional information on hand, or the actual donning of a bikini may get put on the back burner. Unintentionally, of course.
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