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BIG NEWS

by Candy | April 01, 2008 | Tuesday at 2:42 pm | 86 Comments

For those of you who don’t know yet, our new front page has big, big news.

Check it out.

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  1. Joanne said on 04.01.08 at 02:48 PM • [comment link]

    April Fools!

    not to mention: frightening…..

  2. snarkhunter said on 04.01.08 at 02:50 PM • [comment link]

    Haaaah!

    FTW!

  3. Shae said on 04.01.08 at 02:50 PM • [comment link]

    This has totally made my day!! I laughed so hard!

  4. Darlene Marshall said on 04.01.08 at 02:50 PM • [comment link]

    Does this mean we get more lawyers as well as more bang for the buck?

    It was a mashup that was meant to be. Well done Bitches [and J(h)a(y)nes]!

  5. colleen gleason said on 04.01.08 at 02:57 PM • [comment link]

    Hahaaaa!

    Very good. I was checking from early this am to see what ya’ll had planned. :-D

    I’ve got a bunch of people stirred up over on my blo(h)g too.

  6. SB Sarah said on 04.01.08 at 03:01 PM • [comment link]

    It’s very difficult to sign my new name on all these legal documents that make me a member of the DAMN empire, AND make me a bonafide attorney as well. Who knew you could get your JD online?

  7. Anne Douglas said on 04.01.08 at 03:01 PM • [comment link]

    *snigger* Phido !

    Of all things that made me laugh the most.

  8. Arethusa said on 04.01.08 at 03:07 PM • [comment link]

    Holy shit guys, I nearly had a heart attack. I didn’t even read anything, my eyes just jittered across the screen, as I thought, “Wtf who stole their domain? Where’s the PINK? Did I get the URL wrong? JANDY?”

    *whew*

    That was evil. :P

  9. Kristin Lawrence said on 04.01.08 at 03:09 PM • [comment link]

    Love it!  Thanks for the laugh today.

  10. Cat Marsters said on 04.01.08 at 03:09 PM • [comment link]

    Ah, April Fools.  SB jokes, NASA running win 3.1, Sarkozy designing for Marks and Spencer, Heathrow returning luggage…

  11. Arethusa said on 04.01.08 at 03:14 PM • [comment link]

    But hilarious! Fuckin’ vampire elephants and were duck rape FTW!
    Oh Cat, I snorted at the Heathrow comment. Boy, if there’s one thing I hate about travelling to England…

  12. Lorelie said on 04.01.08 at 03:27 PM • [comment link]

    “Wh-Wha?  Did I click on the wrong. . . wait. . . Dammit!”

    :)

  13. MamaNice said on 04.01.08 at 03:28 PM • [comment link]

    Ah, yes, April Fool’s…you bitches never disappoint.

    The Were-Duck heading had me thinking of…was it Nickelodeon’s character?...Duckula - oh wait, I think that was a vampire duck.
    Holy duck corkscrew penises batman! There’s a whole ‘nother sub-category just waiting to happen!

  14. Larissa Ione said on 04.01.08 at 03:29 PM • [comment link]

    Dammit. I really wanted to read about Butch, Vishous, and vampire elephants.

    I’m kinda not kidding about Butch and Vishous…

  15. Anji said on 04.01.08 at 03:37 PM • [comment link]

    Bwahahahahahaaa!

  16. Aemelia said on 04.01.08 at 03:38 PM • [comment link]

    you guys are killing me!!!! 

    ty very much…I think my coffee just fried my keyboard

  17. STP said on 04.01.08 at 03:40 PM • [comment link]

    This is nearly as frightening as the fact that the kids dyed my white standard poodle blue today.

    woof.

    They also toilet papered me into my bedroom. I sent them dogfood for a snack as school today. Revenge is sweet.

    woof.

  18. Chicklet said on 04.01.08 at 03:41 PM • [comment link]

    AHAHAHAHAHAHA. I love the “logic” behind the launch of the wereduck line.

    (Also, I would up with the khreative spellling and read the J.R. Ward books if she actually did have Vishous and Butch hook up. FYI.)

  19. Jane said on 04.01.08 at 03:42 PM • [comment link]

    Hilarious.  I wish, though, DA was absorbed by SB since I broke DA last night.

    Just curious, though, how much does the online JD cost?

  20. StephB said on 04.01.08 at 03:44 PM • [comment link]

    That was hilarious - especially the JR Ward review. I loooove Phido and his race of beta vampire-dogs…

  21. Jody W. said on 04.01.08 at 03:59 PM • [comment link]

    Dude, I wanted to read the 30 comments about wereduck weiners!  But instead I just got redirected HERE.  *sigh*

    :)

  22. RStewie said on 04.01.08 at 03:59 PM • [comment link]

    Dear Bitches FTW!

    Happy April!!

  23. Sheryl Nantus said on 04.01.08 at 04:02 PM • [comment link]

    got the strangest email in my inbox today…

    “Quack, quack! Quackety quack for a small fee quackety quack POD quack quack! Quack quackety quack you get to keep the copyright! Quack quack quack.”

    hmm… methinks there is a new publisher on the market that may prove to be competition for the new line!

    totally faboo - I’m dying here!!

    well done!

  24. Lorelie said on 04.01.08 at 04:04 PM • [comment link]

    They also toilet papered me into my bedroom. I sent them dogfood for a snack as school today.

    May I steal these for use on my kids?  Might not be quite fair, though, since they haven’t done anything to me.

    Ah, who cares.  I’ll do it anyway.

  25. Melissa said on 04.01.08 at 04:19 PM • [comment link]

    You had me at ‘were-duck’.  :>

    LOL!

  26. Leslie Kelly said on 04.01.08 at 04:20 PM • [comment link]

    Thanks for the laughs—what a great morning pick-me-up!

  27. Diana Castilleja said on 04.01.08 at 04:29 PM • [comment link]

    Okay, I had to go back and read. How bad am I to think that EC could put out anything were and erotic??

    Thanks for the laughs!

  28. Eunice said on 04.01.08 at 04:31 PM • [comment link]

    *Gasp!* *Wheeze!*

  29. Miri said on 04.01.08 at 04:33 PM • [comment link]

    I have the “Howard the Duck” movie/soundtrack running through my fucking head now. It’s going to be a day long earworm for crying out loud!

  30. rebyj said on 04.01.08 at 04:34 PM • [comment link]

    and here I was just expecting a “sarah’s knocked up again” april fools! LOL

    you bitches exceed expectations yet again.

  31. rebyj said on 04.01.08 at 04:38 PM • [comment link]

    PHIDO?
    gawd its too early to wheeze and laugh this hard.

  32. Kismet said on 04.01.08 at 05:06 PM • [comment link]

    I was sleeping in on my day off and woke up to this, lol. The problem was that I forgot it was April Fools Day….boy was I confused for a moment. Don’t laugh, I haven’t finished my coffee yet.

    When I read about the DAMN merge, only one thought went through my head. “Damn the man, Save the Empire”.... thus followed immediately by “But it’s Rex Manning Day” and a multitude of other Empire Records quotes ;).

    Again, remind me to finish coffee before coming on this site, lol.

  33. spinsterwitch said on 04.01.08 at 05:11 PM • [comment link]

    I finally find a link to a posting about why Porcupine Furries get no love and it leads nowhere.  What kind of April Fool’s Day Prank are you running?

    You have gone too far!

    I will throw you in my trunk…

  34. Silver James said on 04.01.08 at 05:45 PM • [comment link]

    *SNORFLE*  *COUGH*  *CHOKE*

    *wipes up spilled coffee*

    *dashes out to buy new keyboard*

    *prepares bill for said new keyboard to be sent to Dear Bitches*

    Ya’ll win. *hands intrawebs*

  35. HelenB said on 04.01.08 at 05:54 PM • [comment link]

    Oh if only. Hint hint to J R Ward!!

  36. Mac said on 04.01.08 at 05:55 PM • [comment link]

    DAMMIT.  Now I am trying to figure out the mechanics of elephantine vampirism.  (Can they feed from 8 feet away, or do they have to carry you up to their molars, and how… DAMMIT.)

  37. AgTigress said on 04.01.08 at 06:03 PM • [comment link]

    Nice one. No doubt some eager author is penning a wereduck fantasy as we speak.
    It’s true about ducks, of course - they have penises, and drakes can be very violent.  Cassowaries and swans have penises, too.
    Remember Leda.

  38. Jaci Burton said on 04.01.08 at 06:07 PM • [comment link]

    Dammit

    I was all excited about Dear Bitches….

  39. Tracey said on 04.01.08 at 06:12 PM • [comment link]

    Holy Fother Muckers, bitches.

    My brain twitched and latched onto the JR Ward entry which I blazed through and said Lover Saved, how the hell did I miss that ANNNNNDDDDDD then I remembered it was april 1…

    got me

    thanks for the laugh

  40. darlynne said on 04.01.08 at 06:13 PM • [comment link]

    Does this mean we get more lawyers as well as more bang for the buck?

    Darlene, I think it’s more bang for the duck. What a great send up, SBs. Must go back and read more.

  41. Gennita Low said on 04.01.08 at 06:24 PM • [comment link]

    You had me at Dear Bitches, Jarah and Jandy!  Then the wereducks and elephant vampires got the rest of me.

    gone34

  42. Laura said on 04.01.08 at 06:31 PM • [comment link]

    I believed the EC article could be true, too!  Hey, if you can have a were-tree (someone on one of the loops said that)- why NOT a were-duck?????

    Too too funny!  Thanks for the much needed laugh!

  43. Anji said on 04.01.08 at 06:31 PM • [comment link]

    Would vampire elephants have their fangs in their mouths, or - at the front of their trunks? I guess that wouldn’t be anatomically correct, but, oh, the possibilities!!!!

    Word verification stood36 - the vampire elephant stood too close to me for comfort…

  44. Joanna S. said on 04.01.08 at 06:37 PM • [comment link]

    Ladies,

    I had a moment of supreme panic (until I remembered the date!), then my naughty bits practically burst into flames at the idea of Vischous and Butch finally consummating their man-love (you’re such teases!).  And, finally, I laughed myself silly over Phido. 

    Y’all are the bestest!  And don’t think I won’t forward that letter to JR Ward for a future book idea, true.

  45. Joanna S. said on 04.01.08 at 06:42 PM • [comment link]

    Oh - and were-ducks as “sexy fowl beasts”

    BWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!  *wipes eyes*

    I was raised to appreciate a good pun, so ladies, BRAVO!

  46. R. said on 04.01.08 at 07:03 PM • [comment link]

    [eyes wide in alarm] “Were-duck?!”

    [pointing into forest] “There duck.”
    [pointing forward of cart] “There castle.”

    “Why are you talking like that?”

    [uneven shrug]  “Thought you wanted to.”

  47. Charlene Teglia said on 04.01.08 at 07:09 PM • [comment link]

    That should SO come with a spew alert.

  48. Chrisbookarama said on 04.01.08 at 07:14 PM • [comment link]

    Aw…I was looking forward to ‘Year of the Penguin’!

  49. MeggieMacGroovie said on 04.01.08 at 07:31 PM • [comment link]

    1:30am, feeding the 4mo old to sleep, while checking the Bitchery….

    My shaking, while trying to stop myself from doing some form of a yelping cackle, woke her back up.

    Were-Ducks and Vampire Elephants-Fucking brilliant!!!

  50. Mala said on 04.01.08 at 07:32 PM • [comment link]

    Count me in as somebody who TOTALLY BOUGHT that Ellora’s Cave would put out were-duck erotica.  The obligatory crappy cover art alone would be something to behold.

  51. R. said on 04.01.08 at 07:40 PM • [comment link]

    Titles for new line of Were-Duck romances:

    Fowl Play

    Personal Fowl

    Situation Normal, All Fowled Up

    April Fowl’s Day

    Just Ducky

    The Private Duck

    Artemis Fowl’s Younger Brother

    Okay, I’m stopping here.  I seem to be on a Gene Wilder kick, today.

    taken62—must-resist-pun-impulse

  52. Kalen Hughes said on 04.01.08 at 07:41 PM • [comment link]

    *snort*

    Love the JR WARD review. That’s a book I might be willing to read . . .

  53. Marta Acosta said on 04.01.08 at 08:11 PM • [comment link]

    Reforming a Drake
    Once a Drake
    Never Romance a Drake
    The Perfect Drake
    The Dutiful Drake
    Drakes and Rogues
    This Drake of Mine
    Notorious Drake, Innocent Lady
    The Drake’s Revenge
    Mallardy and the Drake
    Mallardy in Love
    In Mallardy’s Chambers
    Mallardy’s Revenge

  54. jessica said on 04.01.08 at 08:18 PM • [comment link]

    Too funny. Wouldn’t elephants work out better though? Just saying

  55. cecille said on 04.01.08 at 08:41 PM • [comment link]

    Absolutely fabulous! Had me in stitches! Thanks for a great laugh, ladies! :-)

  56. Angelina said on 04.01.08 at 08:52 PM • [comment link]

    LOL Miri - actualy I keep hearing Ducktales (Woo Hoo). Holy Hannah Montana, I am never going to be able to look at ducks the same way.

    Thanks Bitches - you guys rock so hard you should have umlauts.

  57. Meggrs said on 04.01.08 at 08:56 PM • [comment link]

    OMG I LOVE you guys.

    Srsly.

  58. Estara Swanberg said on 04.01.08 at 08:58 PM • [comment link]

    I LOVE that version ^^. It’s so spot on. Your two blogs are the only romance blogs I read regularly. Actually I just came from them and was thinking I had hit the wrong bookmark *hearts*

  59. firefly said on 04.01.08 at 09:06 PM • [comment link]

    Ah.
    Mah.
    Gah.

    Totally fished in. For at least 30 seconds.

    (until I saw the eyeglasses)

  60. R. said on 04.01.08 at 09:16 PM • [comment link]

    Too funny. Wouldn’t elephants work out better though? Just saying

    Ask, and lookit what happens -
    Synopsis for My Lady’s Rogue:

    New to London, Mr Oliphant quickly became the Explorers Club’s latest gossip fodder.  It was reputed that his memory [and his member] were as long as his trunk.  And his trunk was proof-enough that Mr Olipant were a well-travelled gent, indeed. 

    And Mr Oliphant was a rogue at heart who loved having his ivories tickled. 

    But there was a mysterious attempt on his life.  Would he discover the plotter’s identity in time - and find true love along the way [or at least deflower her] - to prevent himself from becoming the newest resident of the Oliphant’s graveyard?

    hell76 - yer joshin’ me, right?

  61. Kristin Lawrence said on 04.01.08 at 09:34 PM • [comment link]

    Perhaps this trend will carry into other lines?  From Harlequin:

    The Drake Tycoon and His Mistress

    Marrying the Mallard

    The Pachyderm’s Promise

    The Desert Elephant’s Baby

    spam blocker: high 12 - but I could only think of 4

  62. R. said on 04.01.08 at 10:03 PM • [comment link]

    Where do Italian vampire elephants unlive?
    Tuskany
    [and can you imagine the size of the coffin for the required dirt-naps]

    Where do vampire elephants go for dental repair? 
    Tuskaloosa
    [probably would have to pay through the nose for those costs; and what would a grill look like on a vampire elephant, any way?]

    stage92 - at this stage it’s too late for me,... save yourselves, run away, run away, ah-hhhhhh, scream, scream, run away

  63. puccagirl73 said on 04.01.08 at 10:12 PM • [comment link]

    It is so hard keeping a straight face here at work after reading the April Fool’s day page.  Snort, that was soo hilarious.

  64. Jenyfer Matthews said on 04.01.08 at 10:29 PM • [comment link]

    Hysterical!!!

  65. LiJuun said on 04.01.08 at 10:51 PM • [comment link]

    The main thing that propelled me out of bed this morning was to see what you ladies had done to the site this year.

    :)

  66. Jean said on 04.01.08 at 11:17 PM • [comment link]

    ... corkscrew ... OMG ...

    saw22: my eyes! my eyes!

  67. KarenD said on 04.01.08 at 11:25 PM • [comment link]

    I can’t wait for Phugeddaboutit’s book!

  68. Silver James said on 04.01.08 at 11:30 PM • [comment link]

    Bitches, we forgot those She-Who-Shall-Remain-Nameless-But-Her-Initials -Are-CE classics -

    Savage Tusks

    Savage Trunk

    Savage Mallard

    Running Drake

    Thunder Duck

  69. Charlene said on 04.01.08 at 11:34 PM • [comment link]

    Were-duck.

    Three days ago someone linked me to an article referred to in the Annals of Improbable Research magazine on homosexual necrophilia in the duck.

    They’re stalking me, I swear.

  70. Elle said on 04.01.08 at 11:36 PM • [comment link]

    The scary thing is that I actually might have bought the BDB spoof if it hadn’t been preceded by the were-duck piece.

    Thanks for the laugh and Happy April Fools Day!

  71. R. said on 04.01.08 at 11:37 PM • [comment link]

    “Collections of Rather Fowl Poetry”,
    by the Dead Duck Society.

    Dammit, dammit, dammit.  I’m not gonna get any real work done today, am I?

  72. azteclady said on 04.02.08 at 12:01 AM • [comment link]

    Eeeeeeebol… and oh my gawd so funny!

  73. R. said on 04.02.08 at 12:10 AM • [comment link]

    “It was a duck and stormy night.  Suddenly a shot rang out!  A door slammed. The maid screamed. 
    Suddenly, a pirate ship appeared on the horizon!
    While millions of people were starving, the king lived in luxury. Meanwhile, on a small farm in Kansas, a boy was
    growing up.”

    Mr Oliphant, the Duck of Earl, closed the novel with no small amount of disgust that anyone would allow a were-beagle access to a typewriter.

  74. Candy said on 04.02.08 at 01:23 AM • [comment link]

    OK, kids: archived the fake front page in its own April Fools Folder. Glad y’all found it amusing. These things are a blast to work on. I think my favorite part was coming up with related post titles for the main entries. (I’m shocked nobody asked me about the anatomically correct animal penis dildoes. SHOCKED, I tell you.)

    Here are our previous years, if you didn’t experience them yourselves:

    2005

    2006

    2007

  75. Danielle said on 04.02.08 at 02:17 AM • [comment link]

    (I’m shocked nobody asked me about the anatomically correct animal penis dildoes. SHOCKED, I tell you.)

    Candy, there’s no need to ask - my brain has already been scarred on a previous occasion. (For the curious, though, you can follow this seriously NSFW link: anatomically correct animal penis dildoes. I take no responsibility for those who click.)


    On a happier note, I love the were-duck titles. Hilarious!

  76. Silver James said on 04.02.08 at 03:24 AM • [comment link]

    OMGWTFBBQ!!!!!! Danielle…that’s just… *scrubs eyes*

    What does it say about me that the thing I found most disturbing was the :)s, typos, and misspellings?

  77. kate r said on 04.02.08 at 03:24 AM • [comment link]

    you and April fools are the best combination since .... ever, ever.

  78. rebyj said on 04.02.08 at 03:51 AM • [comment link]

    if i’d had that animal dildo link this morning i coulda used that for an april fools link with my prayer/ bible reading group!

    (if i belonged to such a thing LOL
    be worth joining one just to pass that link along and watch satan giggle.)

  79. KariBelle said on 04.02.08 at 05:16 AM • [comment link]

    OMG!  I remembered it is April Fool’s Day (it is my sister’s birthday so I actually always remember) and I was reading along, giggling at the joke but maintaining my composure.  I almost made it through to the end but for some reason I just didn’t see “Phido” coming and THAT is what made me shoot tea through my nose.  Ouch.

  80. platedlizard said on 04.02.08 at 06:08 AM • [comment link]

    Crap. Just the day that my computer decides to purge itself of all my links. I had one that, no joke, was titled ‘homosexual necrophiliac duck rape’. The article it lead to was a somewhat dry scientific writeup on, er, pretty much what you think it’s about. It even won a Ig-Noble a few years back.

  81. R. said on 04.02.08 at 06:16 AM • [comment link]

    No wonder ducks have the reputation they do.  Here’s that article:

    http://education.guardian.co.uk/higher/research/story/0,9865,1432991,00.html

    Sorry, you’ll have to ‘cut and paste’.

  82. platedlizard said on 04.02.08 at 06:29 AM • [comment link]

    That’s the bunny. The link I had went straight to the scientific paper, though, and showed the hot necrophiliac duck action. (that’s a big LOL there, btw, for those of you who haven’t seen birds mate) The living partner had chased the dead one into the side of a building (which is why he was dead) before assaulting it.

    /random unrelated thought, didn’t Zeus seduce one of his many girlfriends while in the form of a swan? There’s your mythological precedent for this kind of ‘romance’ right there!

  83. KimberlyD said on 04.02.08 at 07:09 AM • [comment link]

    Ok, I have to admit my gullibility. Of course, I skipped to the JR Ward review and thought, “Hmmm…maybe she saw the light and realized 2 men with that much sexual tension MUST have sex!” When I read about the were-duck, I knew something was fishy. But it wasn’t until I started reading the comments that I remembered it was April Fools.

    I went to the past April Fools pages and this year’s is by far the best! The mantitty scared me, the bunnies scared me more, and the Chink-n-Jew page just seemed odd (though still funny-I like people who can laugh and joke about their own culture/ethnicity).

  84. Danielle said on 04.02.08 at 08:25 AM • [comment link]

    Silver James - I think the typos just make it worse, really. Would it be so hard to run the text through a spell-checker?

    Also, I am glad someone else linked the necrophiliac ducks. *g*

    Platedlizard, I believe swans, like ducks, are some of the few birds that have penises. Hmmm.
    (Of course, Zeus once appeared as a shower of coins, which - I really can’t see how that’s supposed to work.)

    ...look, there’s only a few times that you can share an article about the evolution of birds’ penises, so I’m going to go ahead and link it. (Probably work-safe; all the pictures are work-safe and there are scholarly footnotes and everything. On the other hand, it is about the evolution of birds’ penises, so.)

  85. gremlin said on 04.02.08 at 08:38 AM • [comment link]

    “Lover Saved by J.R. Ward”

    LOL!  vampire elephants - most excellent.  :)

  86. L Violet said on 04.03.08 at 09:09 PM • [comment link]

    Emerging from RL to mention Enslaved By Ducks, by Bob Tarte. Not a romance, except in the sense that avian love waddles down many a rocky road on the way HEA, and in the sense that it’s a heartwarming book.

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