Lots of people, including us, have posted about/rolled our eyes at John McCain's Britney-Paris-Barack television ad.

But in the midst of the posting/eye-rolling, did you ever stop to ask yourself: Who is that smooth voiceover artist who sounds like she could be a public radio announcer (if public radio were not the Commie wing of the liberal media conspiracy)?

I did, actually. And it turns out I'm not alone. Politico tells us this she-narrator is named "Joan," and she is being held in a lockbox, or a cone of silence, if you will…

Her first name is Joan. Her last name is a mystery.

"We consider that a corporate secret," said Fred Davis III, chairman of Strategic Perception, Inc., the Hollywood-based company that has been making John McCain's ads.

Wow, who knew so much strategic perceptioning went into voiceovers? There's a lot, apparently…

That a woman would narrate such an ad was a foregone conclusion. It is a rule of thumb in the business, said Kathleen Hall Jameison, director of the Annenberg Public Policy Center, that "frivolous content equals female voice."

Well, duh. If there's anything we females are good with, it's frivolous content. (Speaking of which, what is this Kathleen Hall Jameison person doing commenting on public policy? Get back to the mall, Kathleen!)

At any rate, now we all have a fun new game: trying to figure out who McCain's lady voiceoverist really is. My guess? Joan X is this girl's mom. God, that would be hilarious.

(Hoo boy, remember when all those jokes about 3 a.m. were funny? What was that, forty-nine months ago?)