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Aug 20 2008

This nom’s for you

Tag: Random silliness — Kerry Allen @ 3:32 pm

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Like a ripped bodice, I want to include this in everything I write henceforth.

2 Responses to “This nom’s for you”

  1. K@ is SO pretty.
    August 22nd, 2008 at 4:59 am

    …speaking of ripped bodices.

    I was explaining to two of the other english teachers on the island (both men) that I write romance novels, and instead of saying romance,

    I said “I write bodice rippers.”
    (blank stare)
    “Romance novels? Although mine, unfortunately, have no bodice ripping.”
    (pause)
    “What a great way to start a novel! I can see the first line now, ‘He ripped open her bodice.’”

    At which point we named the hero Edgar Titcum and the second line had to somehow include “jam open the clam.”

    …very intelligent discussion.

  2. Kerry Allen is SO pretty.
    August 22nd, 2008 at 10:02 am

    I can’t say I’ve ever heard anyone outside the romance community use That Term until AFTER someone inside the romance community introduces it as being horribly derogatory. I’ve heard “smut,” “girl porn,” and “mind rot,” but most people, even borderline illiterate teenage boys, just call them “romances.”

    “Bodice” isn’t a word in the vocabulary of most people these days (I found a forum comment once where someone had it confused with a hymen… you know, ’cause those sex books are all about deflowering virgins), so they’re not coming up with it on their own.

    And I would totally read that book. The romance community needs more lighten-up calls like The Greek Billionaire Tycoon’s Virgin Mistress Secretary with Low Self-Esteem or whatever it was called.

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