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The other day, I was leafing through one of the books I was cataloguing, as I often do. This one happened to be about the history of various beauty products and "inventions", each of the chapters devoted to a certain body part (eyes, legs...). Of course, there was a chapter on the breasts, and this included a section about the bra, or brassiere. It mentioned the folklore/urban legend about Otto Titzling and the French guy whatshisname Brassiere, and so for a couple of days I have had this in my head:
Otto Titzling, inventor and Kraut
Had nothing to get very worked up about
His inventions were failures; his future seemed bleak;
He went to the opera at least twice a week
One night at the opera he saw an aida
Whose bust was so big it would often impede her
[....something...] fell down into the pit
Dragged down by the weight of those terrible tits!
I've never even seen Beaches. At the time that I knew this song (and indeed the entire sountrack) in its entirety, I had learned it because my then-best-friend was a big fan of the movie and we used to listen to the soundtrack at her house after school (alongside such diverse fare as Les Miserables and Bel Biv Devoe). Now, this was junior high we are talking about. In other words, about fifteen years ago.
Why do I remember this?
(This song ends up "...do you buy a 'titsling', or do you buy a 'brazeer'?")
Otto Titzling, inventor and Kraut
Had nothing to get very worked up about
His inventions were failures; his future seemed bleak;
He went to the opera at least twice a week
One night at the opera he saw an aida
Whose bust was so big it would often impede her
[....something...] fell down into the pit
Dragged down by the weight of those terrible tits!
I've never even seen Beaches. At the time that I knew this song (and indeed the entire sountrack) in its entirety, I had learned it because my then-best-friend was a big fan of the movie and we used to listen to the soundtrack at her house after school (alongside such diverse fare as Les Miserables and Bel Biv Devoe). Now, this was junior high we are talking about. In other words, about fifteen years ago.
Why do I remember this?
(This song ends up "...do you buy a 'titsling', or do you buy a 'brazeer'?")