A little bit of LOL

[spoiled-saint.livejournal.com]

I don't think anybody noticed this laugh-out-loud part of the chapter. I'd put it in a comment or something, but I really believe it deserves its own post.

"The bouncer at the door was tall, blond, and way too cheerful for the job. Clay was one of Richard's werewolves, and when he wasn't body guarding someone, he worked security here. Clay's gift was avoiding fights. He was really good at calming things down. A much more useful ability for a bouncer than brute strength. Last week Clay had been helping guard my body. No pun intended."

The pun she's referring to is being a body - as in dead. See, I didn't get that right away. What I did get, was the Anita-Strip club pun:

1) "Clay was one of Richard's werewolves,... he worked security here."
2) "Clay's gift was avoiding fights. He was really good at calming things down."
3) "Last week Clay had been helping guard my body."

Let's see, so he's a guard at a strip club, and that's who guarded Anita.  Anita that has a tendency to disrobe in front of men a few times a day, at least; Anita that went into a police investigation sans underwear on occasion, Anita who is an object of desire - physically and metaphysically, and has men throwing themselves at her - be it in an orderly fashion of petitioning to JC.

JC uses the club to get powered up/feed the aurdeur. JC uses Anita's "performances" the same way.

The one thing someone guarding a strip club has to be good at is calming fights... No one would deny that the fights/whine fests around Anita done by the interested men are pretty similar to the kind of squabbling that supposedly happens in Guilty Pleasures.

So... that whole "no pun intended" at the end made me laugh So Hard!!!

Spoiled_Saint :-)

Comments

[kethryvis.livejournal.com]

I think it was Johnny Carson who said something to the effect of "If you have to explain your joke, it's not one worth telling."

I think LKH should take that into consideration with her "puns." If we have to think THAT hard about it... yeesh :)

[ladymuttly1.livejournal.com]

How can Clay's gift be avoiding fights? Can I have a gift too?

[allova.livejournal.com]

I honestly thought the joke with 'guarding my body' somehow involved nudity and the ardeur, and tried to remember if Anita had had sex with Clay at any point.

Incidentally, your joke was funnier than Laurell's.

[ladymina.livejournal.com]

I think nearly - in the one before danse macabre ... ID?
Something in a car on the way - or on the way back from a zombie rising ...

[windiain.livejournal.com]

Could you put this behind a cut please? Some people will want to be avoiding spoilers until they can gouge their eyes out over read the book.

[pith]

Modly: Is this for The Harlequin? If so, please edit your post to say so.

Non-modly: A werewolf named Clay. Gee, I wonder who's had a werewolf named Clay for years? Could it be... oh, Kelley Armstrong, who doesn't have to resort to having a sex scene every two pages? Yeesh. If LKH claims to be so "into" her genre, you think she'd try to watch name/species matches.

[witchwillow.livejournal.com]

Actually I thought she did it on purpose. And that Clay's going to be killed off - brutally. And Anita's going to smack down his gf. Because this is how LKH gets her jealousies off at someone else, y'know, actually writing.

Though given that, the part about Clay calming down fights made me laugh and laugh!

[pith]

*L* I know.

I find it convenient that she pimps all these conventions and such in her newsletter, but she NEVER mentions Kelley Armstrong if she's attending one of them.

Jaime could out-necromance Anita any day. And her wit is actually witty.

[witchwillow.livejournal.com]

Jamie could out-necromance, Eve could out-dark magic / protecting my own...and so on.

It's an effing humor shop, it is. And I still dislike LKH being a 'forerunner' in how this type of work would be promoted. Because it kept me from Kelly Armstrong. And man, I heart Clay with the love a hundred moon-struck teenage girls.

I've never seen LKH's blog ever mention other authors in the genre. Not to say congrats on the new book. Not to say anything at all, not even 'I led the way for such and such'. It's as if she knows even an incidental pimping would have people going -

"And I read LKH why?"

[pith]

I think LKH has mentioned Charlaine Harris and MaryJanice Davidson--but they're both more on the light, humourous side of the genre, so they aren't as much of a threat.

Clay is awesome. He's a werewolf who actually acts like a wolf, rather than a person who simply gets furry and four-legged some of the time.

(Which reminds me: I need Kelley Armstrong icons.)