A good way to start your Saturday? Go read today's post on RTB. It's about fave phrases/cliches in romance. You're guaranteed a great laugh.

Let me see if I can remember such phrases (besides "throbbing manhood" - that you can't forget if you wished to. And indeed, it's more often than not is combined with "her moist femininity"). "His glance oozed with dangerous sexuality." I know that one can ooze sex appeal and probably used that phrase myself, but still associate oozing with pus and wounds. "His raw need clawed at her." It might be me, but I know how painful cat's claws can be. But nothing I remember can come close with "her forbidden honey pot" (Andrea's comment). 

I have a memory about the honey pot, I must admit. I watched Winnie the Pooh as a teen and there was a scene where Winnie the Pooh puts the baloon's remains inside an empty honey pot, then takes out. In and out. In and out. Wel, it created entirely different images in my head. Okay, dirty mind, I was growing up, but now really what images can "her forbidden honey pot" create? Well, I guess, after "moist" femininity there's not a long road to a sticky one.

What are your fave cliches in romance? 

Olga, you dirty girl :) Pooh will never be the same, lol. My favorite cliches are these: a black horse named Diablo, and angel stories that MUST use the name Gabriel. I know he's an angel, but there are others...

I can't think of any right now. haha! I'm still craching up over the winnie the pooh reference. haha!

The main cliche, at least the one I'm noticing at the moment is the one where the heroine and hero hit it off badly to start off with for no apparent reason. Sometimes there is a reason, and I do love Much Ado About Nothing, but I hate how readily it gets wheeled out.

Marty, thanks for sharing, and honestly, usually I don't have such dirty mind. Usually.

Kelly, thanks for stopping by, and I'm wondering whether the creators of the cartoon thought about possibility of that interpretation. Probably, not.

Claire, I hear you. But I find it worse when the characters then carry out the conflict about nothing for the entire length of the book!

LOL!! I still get dirty thoughts about Bob the Builder and Wendy--I swear to God there is something going on!
Cliches of sex. It's so hard to think of one in particular right now, not when I have the honey pot in my mind

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Toni, lol! To be honest, if I try hard enough, I think I can find something Freudian in many cartoons and/or fairy tales. Hmm, that would make an interesting research paper for college, let's say, for English Literature, wouldn't it?

LOL..too funny, Olga! Cliche..probably use them all the time...none of the ones mentioned though.

Jerri, thanks for stopping by! Btw, I received your book - looks awesome! Thank you so much! I'll e-mail you as soon as I can.

Fav cliche? Heaving bosoms. I've tried to make mine heave. They just don't have the structure, I guess. ;)

Meretta, lol! I remember that one. I don't think mine heave either. I think one has to have a very heavy bosom for it to heave. No pun intended!

Meretta took mine. *sigh* How about when the heroine gets "moist" at the mere sound of his voice. Yuck.

And I will never think of Pooh in the same way now ...

Bailey, yuck indeed, and he must have some voice! As for the poor Pooh, I hope I didn't spoil childhood memories for you!

I remember when we talked about this with the Beez. LOL I used to have the whole list, but can't find it. Dang!

Dana, lol! I'd love to have that list!