Thursday, May 10, 2007

13 Warning labels from Samhain that made me laugh

I shop a bit at Samhain, and someone over there has a sense of humor that tickles my funny bone:

  1. Warning, this title contains the following: explicit sex, graphic language, mad seduction schemes, and the hard fall of a drop dead sexy hunk.
  2. Warning: This title contains the following: lots of explicit sex, going strong long after the cows come home, graphic language that’d make your mama blush, light bondage with bullropes, ménage a trois, and – yee-haw! – hot nekkid cowboy man-love.
  3. Warning this title contains the following: somewhat explicit love scenes, drunken earls, irritating relatives and bathing activities that leave the floor wet and the hero and heroine exhausted.
  4. Warning, this title contains the following: more sexual tension than you can shake a stick at…
  5. Warning: This title contains the following: Wahoo Sex and Wash-Your-Mouth Language (Explicit Sex and Graphic Language)
  6. Warning, this title contains the following: explicit sex, graphic language, ménage a trois, violence, hot nekkid man-love.
  7. Warning, this title contains the following: hot, explicit sex, graphic violence and language, and is not for the faint of heart!
  8. Warning, this title contains the following, explicit sex, graphic terms for body parts, torture via silk stockings, a little spanking, and shower and office sex.
  9. Warning: This book contains violence, unruly Faeries, scary sea creatures, evil queens, graphic sexual content and language.
  10. Warning, this title contains the following: explicit neon sex, graphic language, and violence.
  11. Warning: Explicit, hanging from the chandeliers style sex
  12. Warning, this title contains guns, swearing, dark thoughts about cheerful people, incomprehensible Britishisms, and painful sarcasm.
  13. Warning, this title contains the following: violence, cannibalism, disturbing concepts and subversive ideas. Exposure to this novel will result in your immediate termination for reasons of national security.


15 comments:

Alastriona, The Cats and Dogs said...

They certainly know how to peak ones interest in the merchandise.

Fence said...

lol, but you need to leave the titles as well :)

Happy T13

Rhian said...

oh yeah - i can tell just from the disclaimers which ones i've read!!! Number 13 I haven't read but now have to track it down - too damn funny!!

Anonymous said...

Them crazy Samhain authors! Gotta love that zany bunch.

Susan Helene Gottfried said...

Those are great. Nice to see a publisher who's got a finger on the pulse of their readership.

Anonymous said...

oh my goodness...made me laugh too! on the other hand, made me curious about the book.lol!

Michelle Pillow said...

LOL, I guess I've never read the Samhain warning labels beyond the first tame one they put on mine when the company first started. I'll be paying better attention now.

:)

Anonymous said...

i'm wondering what neon sex is

veinglory said...

For the most part the authors themselves write the warnings. I had one for my book that I thought was pretty amusing but it got vetoed (sigh) and then uvetoed but I didn't put it back.

Anne D said...

Really? That's kind of cool!

Ooh, I could make a contest out of that-make a humorous warning label for your book...

Anonymous said...

I'm totally jealous of how fabulously creative some of these are!!

Special K ~Toni said...

Hilarious!

Special K Family

Rhian said...

i like the warning label contest idea!!

Henri de Montmorency said...

Dead sexy hunk? C'est moi!

Bonjour,
Henri de Montmorency

Wylie Kinson said...

I realize that this is LAST week's TT, but I somehow missed it.
HILARIOUS! Someone is having fun with their job!