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Ray's Romance Novel by Rick Dorado Tuesday, April 27, 2004 • read strip Viewing 33 comments:

Ray is something of a renaissance man, it seems.

The Escalade needed a new clutch.

I'm pretty sure Ray just saw this as a challenge to fill an afternoon with.

A tale of a man in love with the military surplus store.

I do love his pseudonym, though.

But did that rose land on the bed like an angel slapping pudding?

I love that Ray is on the cover of his own romance novel, "smart beige pilot's dress cap" and all. Classic.

a product of his vanity? an indication of his inability to find another willing to so demean himself? or was Ray simply too embarrassed to ask?

vanity without a doubt

Who else notices the fact that while Ray uses a false name, he has a picture of himself on the cover
That is rude

Why are you surprised? After all, the dude has got no mercy.

It's pretty easy to argue away the fact that the photo is of him if there's a different name on it.

"Huh, wow, that guy does look just like me. Weird! Anyway, how about some crispy stellas in the back yard?"

A romance novel with cat on the cover, presumably wearing nothing but a pilot's dress cap...

To whom is this book being marketed? On second thought, I wouldn't want to know.

5 just for "Rick Dorado"
Chris sure has a way with names

Chris put in a call to Circus Penis for that one.

Holy hollyberries, the alt.text is such thoroughfare brilliance. (One day people will appreciate the genius that is Edward Bulwer-Lytton and will give thanks for all we owe him.)

But... but... the alt text is 'IT WAS A DARK AND RAUNCHY NIGHT'?

In case you ever wondered from whence that joke came .

My apologies: that was posted in the carefree days of my youth, when I was immune to the charms of BBCode.

OH well in that case you are just very clever! I am sorry to have questioned you. I just thought you were doing that thing that people used to do where they put the alt text here because not everyone could see it, and then I was thinking 'but I can see the alt text... but I can't... what what!' and yeah you see how that happened.

Thanks for posting that.

My favorite from the 2008 winners:

As a cold winter sun was just rising above the lonely French village of Vicres-le-Buffeur, the forlorn figure of a man dressed in rich Arabian silks could be seen crouching in the center of the market square, crying softly and cradling in his arms the limp and lifeless body of what appeared to be a large hamster.

Is 2 and 1/2 feet referring to the height of the bed, or is Ray getting mad rutty in the lower deck of a ship?

I assumed it was the bed, but I could easily be wrong.

I love Corny's "Really!"

I wonder why Téodor would keep a copy in his room of all places.

Where would you keep it?

un-bought at the store and i would be driving at kind of an angle away from the store.

I would buy that. I would buy it, and I would read it.

In two paragraphs Onstad managed to collapse almost every Romance Novel cliche. Look at it. It's just dense with everything you knew would occur.

He's lacking the thing where they use words to describe male genitals that men would never, ever use, but yeah, I hear you.

Tanner Roland pulled his gleaming blck Jeep into his fiancee's wide, dewy driveway. Then he pulled out. And then he pulled in again.

The BEST thing to say ever!
SPLUT!

Tanner Roland putting on his grandfather's WWII flight jacket? Man, Ray can write a hell of traditional character.

https://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2007/nov/27/awardsandprizes.badsexaward/print