My first gloss was "British usage," but I see that's not the case. Smarter=more intelligent, I guess referring to your consumer skills.
I'm so confounded, I can't think of a angle to attack it.
Probably because my tits are too small.
There we go.
Scarlett Johannson has fantastic intelligence.
I love the brainwashing scene in "The Porky's Candidate."
Apparently SJ sang with the Jesus and Mary Chain at Coachella. What?
No self-respecting intellectual woman allows herself to have large breasts.
What, she's supposed to tell them to shrink? Is that what the training bra is for, to get them to take verbal commands?
9: When I was in high school, back in the stone ages before breast implants, there was an article somewhere correlating lower breast size and higher IQ. My fellows nerdgrrls and I snorted in disbelief, our classmate Esther Dyson then having one of the bigger brains and bigger sets of hooters around. And we all knew that the head cheerleader stuffed her bra.
This kind of horrifically stupid advertising wouldn't happen in a world that nurtured true artistic genius.
10:
Tape them down like any respectable lady.
10: We've talked about this kind of thing before.
My favorite ironic t-shirt for women remains, "God, I wish these were brains.' Best worn by PhD candidates. Runner-up: "I'm too pretty to do math.", but only on physics postgrads.
12 - wow, for some reason I found those commercials super interesting. Are those really banned or am I missing something?
Apparently SJ sang with the Jesus and Mary Chain at Coachella. What?
Well, they play that JAMC song at the end of Lost in Translation. Just like honey?
I can't remember if they were banned or just slammed so hard the company pulled them voluntarily. So creepy though.
That is both confusing and hilarious.
Do I prehend correctly that the gal in the picture is not actually very busty? And yet, it's an implant ad... that says you look smarter with bigger... no, I don't quite get it, and yet it doesn't matter.
16: I think they were actually banned. I keep expecting to hear that sleazy voiceover guy turned out to be a serial killer.
Good golly, the ad just leaves me dumb. Maybe I was staring at her tits too long.
My god. The boobs are an intelligence-thieving device!
A&F got a ration of shit for their T shirt "when you've got these, who needs brains". My daughter the heiress and her classmates made up shirts "When you have brains, who needs A&F".
Ok, lets hold on for one second. What makes this a riddiculous ad? That it doesn't really make sense? Well, what about "so easy a caveman can do it" or a talking duck/gecko?
What's shocking is that it's such the opposite thing from what we'd normally think of someone with large breasts/implants: wow, she's smart. But is that always such a good thing to think? I'm not saying to go too far feminist with this add, but at least realize that the degree of surprise this add is generating is interesting and the implications are kind of sad
You're not allowed to post any more comments until you think up a less clunky name, author of 25.
Again with the rules, Ben. Is your personal life spiralling out of control?
Yes. And now that Magpie's turned me down, expect a widening of the gyre.
@Ben
not sure what my name has to do with anything....but any comment about the actual topic of this thread?
Just switch grad schools and our love will be free to grow!
It's graceless and unattractive, author of 29. Even "Englishineer" is preferable to the ungainly mess of a moniker I see under each of your comments.
I see that you're quite young still, though, so it's a little forgivable.
Someday, when you're old and ruined like Emerson and I, you'll understand.
author of 29 sounds either "The Prisoner" or "Star Trek".
The next person to use what he or she means to mention is banned!
"Like Emerson and me," Ben. Are you okay?
For the love of God, will you all grow up just a little?
Your opinion of my nome de plume ASIDE...I understand this was a discussion about the advertisement?
I saw. Apparently things are worse than I thought.
First the courtesan, now the engineer. You people are really good at pissing off the English.
We've already talked about the ad, sorta. And I know that elsewhere we've talked about perceptions of academics' significant others w/r/t whether or not they're too conventionally attractive (didn't we?).
Off-topic comments are highly prized at Unfogged. For example: !!duck genitalia!!
Sometimes, when visiting a strange and exotic land, it is best to observe for a while as the natives engage in the unfamiliar local customs, before attempting to join in oneself.
I thought 29 was the funniest comment on the thread, but 36 went and topped it.
Oh, and "!!duck genitalia!!" s/b "Duck! Genitalia!"
Pissing off the English, and this is bad why?
[I can't actually find my woad or bad ginger fright-wig right now, but if I could, I'd be wearing it]
Sometimes, when visiting a strange and exotic land, it is best to observe for a while as the natives engage in the unfamiliar local customs, before attempting to join in oneself.
For example: on a certain desert island, there are two tribes. One is always on topic. One is always off. In order to get directions using the minimum number of questions, RTFArchives.
I get that it's a shout-out to the incredibly famous sideshow act of Chang and Eng, and Gordon Lish is a powerhouse in American letters, but who's Ineer?
46: That's one example. I was just thinking of the sexual degeneracy of the Persians.
True, I should have added, "not that there's anything wrong with that." Except in the courtesan's case, because she left in a huff before anyone could get her to send photos.
Actually, y'all, if I read the signs aright, she's not an English engineer but rather a student at an engineering college in the Eastern US who almost became an English major and is a writer.
I wonder if it's the former home of James "Kibo" Parry, viz, RPI?
47: I think that's a typo. The iSneer is a long-awaited new accessory from Apple; will be shipping with the first edition iPhone.
You guys are being pretty mean to Hitch.
You guys are being pretty mean to Hitch.
Yeah, but only because she's a woman.
50: Oh. That takes all the fun out of it.
Hey, she could go by Alan Turing; he was an English engineer in drag, too.
Wasn't it some Englishman who wrote that "deliberate misunderstanding is the soul of wit?" Something like that, right?
Actually it was "a breviary is wit for the soul".
I cry foul! Alan Turing read maths. How about Rowan Atkinson? I know I've seen him in a dress.
Rowan Atkinson is an engineer? That guy can do anything.
If you just read the comments, it just looks like the commentariat scared off the Englishneerezwat by being predictably irreverent and irrelevant. But if you can see the secret pictures that go along with it, you can see that she has gone away, come back, and is now CREEPING UP ON YOU WITH A BAT FULL OF NAILS.
You know, home of the Britianese.
Britianny Spears. She's making a comeback, y'know.
How would eels get on a hovercraft? There's no way they could afford the ticket. Imagine ejecting an eel from coach... "No ticket!"
Perhaps the hovercraft had a lovely day in Brighton and ate a bit too much.
Since this appears to have become the randomness thread of the evening, I would just like to point out that, Googling about while watching the A's-Red Sox game, I have been unable to determine whether Oakland left fielder Ryan Langerhans is descended from German pathologist Paul Langerhans, and this reinforces my suspicion that the Internet is totally fucking useless.
At least you weren't wasting your time, McQueen.
Olivia Newton John is the granddaughter of the Nobel Physicist Max Born.
You can pretty much tell that just by watching the "Physical" video.
77 -- The boys are doing fine -- although I think I'd like a couple runs here (Manny just struck out in the 8th).
Holy shit! Triple by Drew -- and Christ, Papi's slow.
But what about his rack? Isn't that the only real measure of a human being?
They don't call him Big Papi for nothing.
I think we ought to dedicate this freshly minted baseball thread to Ogged.
Last year at a Mets-Braves game I pondered aloud why Ryan Langerhans lacked the obvious nickname "Islets of".
On accounta Englishwhatsifuckwit was also commenting in an equally inane way over at my blog, and was actually taken semi-seriously, I want to declare my undying love for w-lfs-n. I shall never mock you again.
I thought that ad for the breasts was just a cheap attempt to get the attention of Bill Clinton.
John's right. Ann Althouse is a notorious liar.
If you're not gonna mock w-lfs-n, what good are you?
I think 91 overstates the importance of mocking w-lfs-n. I mean, he practically mocks himself, so there's really no sin in other people not taking up that torch. No shame in it either, of course. Did I mention what an imminently and manifestly mockable and mockworthy mockabout w-lfs-n is?
You mean "eminently", not "imminently".
91: Still good for shrill humorlessness and irritating Ogged.
I love it when w-lfs-n takes such obvious bait. It kind of makes me want to say, "YHBT YHL HAND" or somesuch.
Way to fall for my reverse meta-troll, M/tch.
This is neat, it's like you're both Wallace Shawn.
w-lfs-n is no Wallace Shawn, I'll have you know.
He's certainly no Andre the Giant.
He does induce a certain remembrance of Billy Crystal, I'll admit.
We've already established that he's Cornel West.
77 -- Langerhans was center-field, I think.
The Unfogged hazing ritual claims another victim? How sad. If you can't stand the heat, stay out of the kitchen.
104: Left field with the A's, but that lasted for all of two games, since he was traded to the Nats last night.
...CREEPING UP ON YOU WITH A HOVERCRAFT FULL OF EELS.
g'morning.
Well, whaddayaknow? She does look smarter.
My Boobs Are OK
Starring a post-operative Roger Daltrey and John Entwhistle.