ThePlightoftheRomanceCoverMan

by SB Sarah Wednesday, December 13, 2006 at 05:48 AM

Darlene was kind enough to forward a link to The Onion’s hi-larious man-titty lament, as she called it.

My favorite part? “Can’t a brawny, brooding man ride his stallion slowly through the fresh-smelling air of a misty forest at dawn and think ruefully back to his tender childhood that seems to him now to exist in another world entirely—without having to constantly look over his perfectly sculpted shoulders?”

Perhaps we Smart Bitches are too harsh on the manful cover models. Poor, poor man-titty.

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Picture of Bernita Bernita said on...
12.13.06 at 06:30 AM |

Enjoyed that.
Thank you.
Need a new office chair though.

Picture of Rosemary Rosemary said on...
12.13.06 at 06:44 AM |

Oh, shit!  I haven’t laughed that hard in a good long time.

I seriously snorted I was laughing so hard.

Picture of Rosemary Rosemary said on...
12.13.06 at 06:48 AM |

The part where I lost it?

As I dipped her low, her pounding heart betrayed her pleas for her chastity, and my turgid manhood would be denied no longer.

Picture of SB Sarah SB Sarah said on...
12.13.06 at 06:51 AM |

Nothing like a little early morning turgid manhood, eh?

Picture of Ann Aguirre Ann Aguirre said on...
12.13.06 at 06:51 AM |

That made me LOL.

Picture of Colleen Gleason Colleen Gleason said on...
12.13.06 at 07:13 AM |

*spewww*

There goeth my morning cuppa tea.

That was great. Thank you for sharing.

Picture of Anna the Piper Anna the Piper said on...
12.13.06 at 07:25 AM |

That bastard must have been hiding with a sketchbook in the bushes.

Bwahahaha! I think that part made me laugh the hardest. ;) Well done!

Picture of Darlene Marshall Darlene Marshall said on...
12.13.06 at 07:26 AM |

Believe me, this was too good to keep to myself.

Picture of fiveandfour fiveandfour said on...
12.13.06 at 08:06 AM |

That was made of awesome.  Thanks for the linky goodness.

Picture of Kalen Hughes Kalen Hughes said on...
12.13.06 at 08:16 AM |

Oh-my-sweet-fucking-god . . .

Picture of emdee emdee said on...
12.13.06 at 08:41 AM |

Gawd, that was brilliant!

Picture of Jennifer Jennifer said on...
12.13.06 at 08:47 AM |

“I just hope no one I know sees it. The other blacksmiths would never let me live this down.”

“Had I known I would be fronting a bestseller, I would have taken a shower and put on my nice red shirt, and maybe a tie.”

BWAHAHAHAHAHAH!!!!!

Picture of Robin Robin said on...
12.13.06 at 09:11 AM |

Best last paragraph EVER:

No, this is no way for a free and unfettered man with a small fortune inherited from a distant noble relative to live. Therefore, I have decided to weigh anchor and set sail with my crew of strapping young seamen aboard my sloop, The Moonlight Arrow, toward destinations exotic and unknown. Once at sea, as the suzerain’s daughter I have shanghaied from our last port-of-call clings hungrily to my abdomen, her honeyed breath playing about my breast, I will gaze stoically at the horizon from the prow of my ship, where none of those frauds at Harlequin/Silhouette would ever care to find me.

Derek Larksthrush, OMG.

I so love The Onion.

Picture of Robin Robin said on...
12.13.06 at 09:13 AM |

Oops, DUNCAN Larksthrush—how could I get that name wrong?!

Picture of Becky Becky said on...
12.13.06 at 09:15 AM |

That’s OK.  Derek is his twin brother.

Picture of Nathalie Nathalie said on...
12.13.06 at 09:16 AM |

What a riot!

More! More!

Picture of Robin Robin said on...
12.13.06 at 09:58 AM |

That’s OK.  Derek is his twin brother.

That’s right—how could I have forgotten the raven-haired twin, separated at birth from his other half, torn from a “tender childhood” in the Italian Scottish Anglo-American countryside and thrust into a portable prison cell in a digital dungeon, sold to various circus owners, vampire dominatrixes, jealous stepmothers who secretly want to be spanked, sadistic smallpox scarred stepfathers with temptress stepdaughters, and surrogate daddy pirate plunderers.  It’s only a matter of time before Duncan rips himself away from that “busty field nurse” to discover, quite by overplotted accident, that his only brother lives just next door to that Tuscan-style log cabin nestled in the Ozarks, from which he walks every day—barefoot and clad only in too-tight hand-me-down cashmere overalls—the 20 miles to the local grocery store, where he has lovingly hand-packed that very mutton upon which his brother intends to feast. What a reunion that will be.

Picture of CantateForever CantateForever said on...
12.13.06 at 10:50 AM |

Don’t forget their lovely and feisty long-lost younger sister who was never mistreated by the sketchy parents because she was so perfect. The third novel in the trilogy will be about her finding a turgid member to call her own.

Picture of kate r kate r said on...
12.13.06 at 10:53 AM |

Oh, THANK YOU.

Picture of RandomRanter RandomRanter said on...
12.13.06 at 11:09 AM |

Well, and just when I thought it was safe to read silently at work. 

(My word is woman27, which is just...)

Picture of EvilAuntiePeril EvilAuntiePeril said on...
12.13.06 at 11:34 AM |

Perhaps Derek, the evil twin, is in league with the sinister lady author, Stephanie Blackmoore (who wants Duncan for her own nefarious purposes), and is therefore posing on romance novel covers in a cunning plot to destroy Duncan’s reputation and not-quite-yet-new-found love with a handsome, steely-eyed, desert sheikh.

Imagine the sheikh’s surprise when he pops into his local supermarket for a packet of falafel and a tin of chocolate wafers only to see his beloved blacksmith’s body splashed all over these books. There may be a misunderstanding of titanic proportions.

If Stephanie (who probably bleaches her hair, wears too much make-up and has long red fingernails like talons) has manipulated and lied to Derek to make him evil, he can be redeemed in the sequel by the sweet innocence, secret baby and magic hoo-hoo of a fairy-like lass who loves kittens.

Picture of Robin Robin said on...
12.13.06 at 11:59 AM |

If Stephanie (who probably bleaches her hair, wears too much make-up and has long red fingernails like talons) has manipulated and lied to Derek to make him evil, he can be redeemed in the sequel by the sweet innocence, secret baby and magic hoo-hoo of a fairy-like lass who loves kittens.

And don’t forget the underground operation she oversees in which she rescues the feisty young daughters of noblemen from lives of domestic normalcy by impoverishing them and training them for fake governess-mistress positions and secret-baby production.

Hmm, I’m not sure that should be the villainess or the heroine.

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