Convention attendee: There’s a full moon tonight for the vampire ball!
Convention attendee to Mr. Romance contestant: Will you kiss my picture with lipstick?
Convention attendee dressed as fanged fairy: Oh yeah, I got my teeth at the RT shop.Same place I got my mask for the ball.
Convention attendee: Don’t drink that.You don’t know where it’s been.
Mr. Romance contestant #1: I’m a model and dancer.
Mr. Romance contestant #3: I’m a model.
Mr. Romance contestant #2 Jimmy Gaskin: I analyze engineering data for an energy company trying to locate new sources.
Sarah: Cool.
Robert Gellis seriously rocks.
Well bugger, I replied to the wrong post.
That’s what I like in men: beauty and brains. Oh, and big titties. And a spankable ass.
…I don’t even need to see them; I’d vote for contestant #2.
Verification word: shown72. Even if I were shown 72 of them, I’d probably still vote for him (unless one of the others had an even better response).
Casting my vote for Paul Tolmé here.
WV: record78—yes, I still have a few.
Wryhag: Are you at the conference? I sense a certain joi de vivre. 😀
Ooh, Jimmy’s cute! He can locate my new sources. (Just kidding, Angel Joe!)
I love that, of all the contestants, he has on the most clothing. Just proves that mantitties do not always win the day. Now, mantitty with brains. mmmmhmmm!
[quote“]I get books from Australia because England sucks.”
I sure that’s not right but it made me laugh. And laugh some more.
OK, this one is a riot!
“How do you like your heroes?”
“Medium rare?”
“Yes, hard alpha coating with a gooey beta center, and a tortured ripple.”
I love the “Fried is my favorite flavor.” It’s basically the unofficial motto of the Texas State Fair, home of chicken fried bacon among others.
These are all awesome, but <3 that last one.
Many, many thumbs-up for that last one.
And everything is most definitely better with bacon.
(Ha! My security word is “process69”!)
Love this post! It was hilarious!
Chicken Fried Bacon? Wow.
Love that last one. Gives me faith in humanity. I needed that today. Thanks!
The very last is my favorite too – perfect “what would you do” segment/material. And… even though I wasn’t following the hashtag or anything I have a pretty good idea of who said some of those lines 😛
Another vote for: “Yes, hard alpha coating with a gooey beta center, and a tortured ripple.”
And two votes for calling security. Damn, but that’s good to hear.
I am so going next year, I don’t care what it takes—I’ll laugh, learn, and feel safe. What’s not to like?
“I’m stuck on sausage.” <——haha that was me!
“That happens.”
Golly gee shucks! I’ve been quoted at SmartBitches. woo hoo! My conference experience is now complete.
Aloha from the USO at LAX! RT was fabulous … and I overheard the following within an hour of my arrival:
“We’ll have the Happy Hour Chardonnay”!
Its not the right and actual thing. By the way it creates pleasure. And think it will make laugh you all!
These are great! LOL But the one about the 15 year old… @-@
Oh geez, the fifteen year old boy reading romance…that’s it’s own kind of awesome…
Oh lord, was one of those mine? No, I think I said that cream makes me think of doctors.
Those were awesome! thanks, after the day I had, I needed those!!
Bwahahahahahahaha…my favorite truly was
“How do you like your heroes?”
“Medium rare?”
“Yes, hard alpha coating with a gooey beta center, and a tortured ripple.”
I am so proud that our Reader Event was the source for a good handful of these.
We brought the inappropriateness front and center. For a good time, call Courtney Milan, Victoria Dahl, and Tessa Dare.
Wow, I made the list! Twice! It’s not difficult coming up with good material when Sarah’s around. The woman is a fertile field for inappropriate comments.
For years now, I’ve been using a quote found in a SBTB comment as my sig. (The one about blaming Hemingway.) Now I’m tempted to replace it with that hero quote, especially since it pretty much describes my preferences, too.
My favorite one was
“If a romance book came with a pop out penis, I wouldn’t need a man”
Lordy, I have got to go to RT for the conversations alone! I laughed a lot but was especially proud of you guys for calling hotel security. There’s a TV show where they have actors play a scene in a coffeeshop or similar public setting to see if someone will intervene. For all the talk about not getting involved someone (very often women) steps up to the plate to intervene in a bad situation so I’m not particularly surprised that the smart women (and men) who attend RT would help out in this situation. We can all too well imagine a truely awful outcome if we didn’t.
WTG, RT ladies who called security!! Way to watch out for your fellow human beings. Always better to be safe than sorry in a situation like that!
Gina, I got ‘try69’ as my security code. I think SmartBitches is trying to spice of my (non-existant) sex life 😀