All Comments on 'It Started with a Laugh'

Am I having deja vu, or is this a repost? I swear I've read this before, from the dissing with the Prom, to the working under her.

The whole story was about him and Pauline from start until (nearly) finish.

Why the swerve? It didn’t really flow in the last third because suddenly all three are sharing him and it spirals off in a different direction. I mean, hurray for Sherrie but that wasn’t the story you laid out for us. Three stars for weird choices.

Sorry but if your name hadn’t been attached to this story I would not known you had written it. Story was fragmented and over the top on all the sexual encounters between all of your characters. The spread of unprotected sex and ass to pussy must create a tidal wave of VD cases in that town. Not your best work.

story doesn't relate to the title. How did that come up was the "slut series" filled with previous used names?

Is it usual for authors to recycle names from other stories? Can JPB possibly come up with new names for his characters or is it all a rip-off (not only of his previous works but those of others...)?

Boring

Overworked

wasted time for the reader

He’s written some classics but this isn’t one of them. ⭐️⭐️

And so are you JPB. Our all time favorite loving wife Pauline French returns no wiser, and just as slutty as ever. Great job. Welcome back. We all missed Pauline's perils!

5*

In no way was the plot twist set up.

All the worse because Pauline French is usually the straightest shooter among your characters.

Enjoyed this one, Bob. I was caught by surprise on the ending, but really shouldn’t have been, for you painted Pauline as a fidgety bitch from the beginning.

Okay, maybe some of the others had a point—maybe you did create a not very probable scenario with all the girls waiting in line for Bob’s dick. All I know for sure is, nothing remotely like that has ever happened to me, and I can’t even picture it happening to anyone—except in “Just Plain Bob’s” world, but isn’t that where we are?

Full scores from the lowcountry and thanks for the read. cd

Pauline being Pauline. How many JPB stories does she show up in? I love her appearances, but I couldn't stand to be around a flaming cast iron bitch like her.

Well ...

This story started really well.

Moved on to hookups,

with a dash of school and work

and ... well ... stayed there.

More Erotic Stories than Loving Wives.

It's always exciting to see a new story

from one of my favourite writers.

Even though the story doesn't work for me.

3 out of 5.

I loved it. Thanks.

Bob doesn't deal much with motives, internal drives, explanations, analysis of human emotions, choices, morals and ethics. Why bother? Women are whores, or want to be, or on their way to becoming, or just haven't had the opportunity or been caught yet. And men are just pleasure seeking cocks, with some extraneous surrounding tissue useful for generating income, making babies, or being the foils and victims, of whores.

This was a pretty good illustration of ALL of Bob's character and plot tropes. Men without brains, women without souls. Just a bunch of animalistic automatons, following some deep base selfish programming. Why discuss or debate the idiosyncrasy of a computer executing its programming?

Your stories are always interesting, and almost always pointless. Pauline spent years thinking and plotting and dreaming and planning her seduction, then met some asshole for one weekend and decided to totally throw away all the years and all the effort. Makes sense, to Bob.

The one thing that is compelling about this author is that he lets anyone and everyone commnent on his stories, and couldn't care less. That not insulation, that's grit. You snowflake authors don't even bother to look it up; you won't understand it.

Thanks for the effort.

. . . this wasn’t believable, and it wasn’t, but so what? I was typical JPB entertainment. You know what you’ll get from Saddletramp and Ashson and JPB, and it’s all fun.

Why do you insist on all your characters being such assholes. Every one of your MC and supporting characters are unlikable every damn time. Your writing is the same every ti.e as well. Terrible.

Pauline French was the give away ,I couldn’t forget that name. Are you running out of new material. This story was over the top . Sex, cheating , life long girl he catches and she runs, it may excite some males but the plot sucks.

With the out of sequence story w Sherry being pregnant. The problem w the story is Pauline seems like she is mentally ill. It is true she has the princess mentality, but it is obvious she loves Bob and it is kind of twilight zone that she falls for an idiot like that,it is just too weak. Maybe the story needed some kind of apology from Pauline to Bob,maybe explaining why her love was so shallow,Bob to be honest takes it too easily, and would he be so easy to get into marrying Sherry after Pauline dumped him?

An interesting tale but the end has problems.

It started off ok but then became a Chinese Fire Drill.

I was sweating bullets for awhile but got my happy ending. Thank You Bob!!

ending was rushed. shouldve slowed it down.

Fairly cliched and felt very familiar.

Really this is more of a romance than LW even taking into account Nancy and Sherrie.

I feel a little sorry for Sherrie as really it's her story but she's a bit player, would have been nice to expand on her more after the ending was revealed.

I was worried that our intrepid Bob was going to ride off into the sunset with the beautiful Pauline, but luckily fate (JPB) intervened and Bob remains sorta unrequited. Sweet.

Hound dog that shoots like a machine gun. Way to much fantasy.

everyone in the story is ugly. the dumbass MC ends up marring someone who fucks other guys when she is mad at hubby lol gl to him. although he does have some bad karma coming his way lol pualie lol even dumber then the MC, was actually thinking they would be prefect together and most likely cheat on each other. idk guess just not my type of story

and pualine french really? that name is in probably about 50 to 100 stories on this site lol what is up with that name

Has to be in fantasy. No likeably people without Tina. To many shots he is "superstud(?)"

4* for your writing skills but me teacher has written theme missed.

a spoiled little rich bitch finally making the Gods life balance out and the universe back in order. TK U MLJ LV NV

First of all, I had trouble keeping up with the 10,000 different females he has bedding. My hat is off to him. But he only gets 4stars because as soon as he found out the girl was married to a soldier in the sandbox, so long, sweetheart. Which story did she sell him on???? The Bear does NOT approve.

The BEAR

I liked it. Characters were decently developed - heck! I am in awe of Rob's refraction! 5* to him. In fact, characters were good enough, I'd've preferred a little more story and perhaps a little less bedroom time.

I love a good surprise and, by gosh,you absolutely did it! My hat's off to you, JPB!

Thanks!

STARSONG1977 - before I read this I had read Halloween and Drugs. Interesting, I remembered reading your comment from that story (4 months ago) where you said "I swear this is the last time I will read or comment on a JPB story. Way to stick to your principles there !!! Everyone needs JPB. Thanks for your story Bob. I lived for a year in the Ypsilanti / Belleville area, your stories bring back memories.

somewhere east of Omaha

I read this and for the first time had a couple reservations about a JPB story. First, I'm a veteran. I wouldn't date another soldier's wife. Second, I quit high school and enlisted. When I came back I still had "acquaintances", but we had almost nothing in common. My loss I'm sure. Third, I did what Bob's protagonist did, and got myself in college, but not before I found the girl of my dreams. I never did that "running around" thing. So I guess I missed out on that too.

Now about the story. It was fun. I expected a bad end for Pauline, but the other girl's departure sort of clamped me down.

All in all I had a good time. Of course it was five.

carvohi (Jedd Clampett)

Not happening

jtwheels

Very hard to follow, storyline is ok, but hard to follow who was with who...

“"You aren't the only one. Since I started showing almost all the guys at work are hitting on me."

"Just remember I'm not Harry and you are not going to be finding someone to get even with me with. Not that I plan on doing anything that you need to get even with me for."

"I would never do that to you!"

"You can say that Sherrie, but you forget I know you and we have a history."

Sherrie?

Yes, Sherrie. How did that come about? One of Pauline's duties in her management position was to visit customers. It was two weeks before the wedding and she had just returned from a visit to a customer in Ann Arbor, Michigan. She was at my apartment waiting for me when I got home from work and when I went to hug her and kiss her she shoved me away. I stood there with a WTF look on my face and she said:”

What was this all about? Am I reading it wrong. What happened to the baby? I’m very confused on what happened here!

Shallow, duplicitous, deceitful MC. He’s just this morally side of the bad actors in the story. And wins. Yay!

So many other characters in other stories have a one or two night fling, have an emotional affair, and we’re all BTB baby. Burn her bad. Bitch deserves it. Here the MC is an ass. Maybe not a full-on asshole like some of the bad actors here, but definitely an ass. And because he’s good in comparison, we’re like “Way ta go dude!”

Nancy’s hubby, the one moral standout here, shoulda come home and best the shit out of Bob.

I want to say "vintage JPB" but I'm not sure there is such a thing. I will happily ready anything by this author if only because of the staggering size of his oeuvre. He has rung nearly all the variations. His is a remarkable study of infidelity in most of its forms. I have learned a great deal from him. Having said all that, I don't think this particular story is among the best.

so every single character in this story is a cheater/ willing participant in adultery... in short unlikeable

after this was becoming clear the story went from meh to scrap

1*

I enjoyed this story. Why? Because of the the way the characters were fully fleshed out and the story itself was nicely written.

Overall, I do enjoy JPB's writings, though some of his endings, IMHO, can be problematic, (i. e. 'Loretta' and 'Camryn's Baby').

My greatest regret, regarding JPB's writing is that he has only produce two stories since the start of 2021. While I still have a lot of his work to read through, it would be great if he would wrote more.

Thank-you for the great read.

Pasqual

Bored and left off midway to skim through and didn't even finish full - so boring, pointless and uninteresting

A lot of beating around the bush and mostly male fantasies by our JPB. Girls are obsessing about him and he punches guys in face, such an "alpha male" that he is. Quite juvenile and too long for what it is.

Unless you're a high school sophomore, there's no way this story earns its overall rating score.

Immature adolescent claptrap.

This was an unorganised shit show

I enjoyed it. It has a good beat and it's easy to dance to. I gave it an 85.

LWlurker

Pauline must have gone to a college where her dad's money was known, if she managed to preserve her "shit doesn't stink" attitude.

Karn9: need to work on your Reading Comprehension before applying to colleges.

The baby is Sherrie's with Bob, conceived c. February after Pauline bailed in early October.

Good from the beginning to the ending.

1 star

These moments sponsored by the JPB fan club.

Loved it, right up to where she suddenly left for another guy? No setup for this at all... Seems like a rushed ending and a very poor one at that. I honestly re-read the last page 3 times to make sure that I didn't skip something! Shitty way to end an otherwise good story. Thoroughly disappointed.

The end was flat and fast. 2*

Good story. I would rate it 4.5 Stars but you cannot give those so you got 5.

Getting the 3 ladies together was a wee bit over the top to me. I have no problem with the ending and really enjoyed it Other than the way it was written. I had to re-read the ending 3 or so times before I finally got it start. It came so out of left field (which I saw someone complain about) that I found it confusing until I finally figured it out.

Reading again.

Page 1

Maybe he should have re-enlisted 😂

Page 2

🤣

😂

Man whore almost dodged a bullet

The fact that she was trolling for a prom date while her boyfriend was going through the lowest point in his life at the time says more about her than anything else. Hell, she even chose the "humiliation" of going stag over being with her crippled boyfriend. That alone tells you she's the selfish and flakey type.

Was there a plot mixed in with near constant sexcapades with various and multiple partners? This tale reminds me of a cheap porno flick: - all fucking and no story.

Well written trysts, great word-smithing, mildly entertaining, and yet I wish I hadn't spent the time on this one.

Keep 'em comin'.

Ending just fell off a cliff. Needed more.

Enjoyed the rest of the story but didn't appear that anyone had any emotional attachments.

Felt like the ending could've used another paragraph or 2

I enjoyed it. Yes I do think the ending was a little abrupt, but could live with it. It almost felt like my own high school life passed before my eyes though. The Pauline character reminded me of my sister in law though, as she is a little flaky and only interested in money, along with having that "my shit doesn't stink" attitude.

Really? Writing and internal monologue was odd all the way through, I’m not really sure the author actually liked writing this story, or even why they wrote it, it just meandered to a shuddering halt. 2 stars, because I didn’t enjoy it, it didn’t make any kind of point, the only character I liked was her Dad and the story went hardly anywhere and seemed pointless. Sorry but that’s my opinion fwiw.

Every character had the morals of an amoeba which answers the oft uttered question of how a country could elect a wig wearing orange coloured cretin. lol.

JPB has written many college and beyond stories, they are all the same, copy and paste are well used shortcuts on the JPB keyboard.

I've done two but three women would be a push. Only Bob! Second trip through - thanks JPB. (it always amuses me to read the comments, they tear down your tales yet always come back for more! Guilty pleasure I guess.)

somewhere east of Omaha

This was boring. Does the mc even have feelings? They sure weren't evident, no matter that short part at the end.

Also doesn't seem he loved his new wife.

Was there really a need for Pauline to betray him right at the very end? Didn't seem like it.

Seemed like a rather dumb decision in fact.

You wrote the story well and creatively. Everyone in this was a low moral piece of shit. Bob and Pauline deserved each other because they are both assholes. Mr. French is the only one with any moral value. You created this horror story and wrote it well.

Good grief. I will meet you down at the soda jerk and we will have a dance. Boring and without feeling

How is it, Bob, every woman you hook up with loves anal? I thought for sure this was the one you land Pauline.

So close.

Crazy and chaotic. A lot of anal action. Call me silly but I kind of wished it had worked out with Pauline, considering where they started.

Liked this one a lot

My sense of humour

Have you ever watched children playing with a set of Lego's?

The children don't really know (or care) what they're building, so whenever a piece gets damaged, they throw it aside, and simply pick up another to use. All of the pieces can be used interchangeably, and they aren't building anything specific, so it doesn't really matter which, or where, each piece is used. Nothing is more important to the children than the momentary gratification received by finding a piece that "fits" into another. With intense concentration and chatter, they industriously amuse themselves in this fashion for a time. Then something else grabs their interest, so they abandon their unfinished creation to rush off on another "adventure". Often, none of them will remember any of this for more than a fleeting moment.

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The plot of this story is a lot like that.

Another wonderful portrait of the modern American male, completely devoid of even a basic moral compass. How he managed to avoid getting an STD is quite baffling as there was never any mention of using protection. So not only a manwhore but a moron to boot.

Does anyone else think that Pauline French is a caricature of some evil bitch in JPB’s past?

Q1mh1 follows up this story in "Pauline" which finalizes her arc. There Bob is married to a "Gina" who assumes must be Sherrie here. That followup is better written. Shows Pauline French as a self-destructive nympho who cannot stop from destroying her own happiness. Bob and "Gina/Sherrie" are only peripheral characters. Mr French continues to be a really nice guy.

How many times should a person be excused for being ignorant? That is: ignoring the reality right in front of them? For me, the fourth time gets boring.

Everyone is married except the MC and Pauline. Extramarital affairs or flings are the norm and the one potential saving grace blew up at the end. After 27 years active Army, no soldier that I have ever known gives their spouse a hall pass while they are deployed. Jody is the soldier's worst nightmare right next to the enemy.

Way over the top for me.

This dude is a total ass. And no one in the story gives a shit about commitment or marriage.

And what veteran would day this: "Then you won't becoming single because no man in his right mind is going to give up a woman like you for twenty years of playing soldier."

Skrucf101 said it well... But the women were just as bad.... Well two were worse because they were married. What a sad portrait of humanity....

The main character is so unlikable and just a plain boring guy. How did he get any sex at all just being so boring and emotionless? I was giving him the chance when Pauline was also unlikable but he just kept being unlikable throughout the story on his own accord.

This was going fairly well until the sucky ending. Ughhh! Best I can give it is a 1.

Great Fun...perfect characterization of a sociopathic narcissistic entitled princess in her full high maintenance glory...

5 stars

Long…. But a good read, the plot worked, but I didn't like the end, but you wrote it the way you wanted.

This has to be the worst ending to a story I’ve ever read. It’s like you spent hours working on the first 3 qtrs then minutes on the 4th.

@servant111 "sociopathic narcissistic entitled princess in" his "full high maintenance glory...", there corrected it for you.

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Pauline did what she needed to do, which was get as far away from this piece of shit, red flag waving MC as quickly as possible.

The MC was pond scum, I would honestly not have pissed on him if he were on fire.

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Its funny considering that the follow ups to this story by other writers, play Pauline off as an out of control nympho when the only characters that could be characterised as that in this story were the MC and the other women he spent almost every night and most of the day fucking with hardly a break.

Pauline was pretty tame in comparision, her only fault, if you could call it that, was bailing from this burning barn of a future life at the last minute.

This story only makes sense to someone like you. Fucked up people doing fucked up things.

MC is the real slut in this story.

Ms. Shit doesn't stink did. Then karma struck and she cried. Divorce was avoided.

Depraved people doing depraved things. Well that's the same comment someone made a few moth earlier, they just used the term fucked up instead of depraved.

Pauline is the kind of girl an average guy in his right mind wouldn't want to marry.

The male MC is absolutely unlikable and a slut, but the women who throw themselves at him aren't any better. Two of the married ones didn't even bother to tell him that they are spoken for and the MC, at least in the beginning, doesn't know about their marital status. Therefore it doesn't do the female sluts justice to call the MC the real slut in this story, like RedRachael did. They are all despicable.

Another strange aspect of the story is the passage of time. He has both a full time job and is attending college courses, still fucks away whole weekends, dates during the week, attends line dance classes, runs every morning at five etc. etc. etc.. I don't know on which planets he lives, can't be earth with its 24 hour days.

Wild sexy story, with no shortage of sluts, including MC.

It's a shame PF was not capable of a little more self-reflection, she was getting over "Ms Shit Doesn't Stink" but had not fully gotten over it as she caught serious wedding jitters when her pussy got wet on an out-of-town trip.

Our MC took his sex life very seriously, sluts only need apply, and they do not have to be ... completely ... single.

It is a bit hard to believe that any of these specimens will have satisfactory long-term relationships.

Good story

Entertaining story, but it sure made Pauline look stupid.