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    Image of misslinda misslinda
    11/24/09

    In reply to The Gawker Sarah Palin Slam Book: Bid on This Literary Treasure for Charity
    Yikes! Bidding is over a thousand bucks and nine days to go! You're over the limit for what I can get away with without my husband saying "what the hell did you buy???? You're NEVER even gonna to wear those shoes! I bet you can't even walk in them. Walk. Yes, now, WALK! You look like a moron and you're gonna kill yourself in those, enjoy the five hundred dollar blisters, idiot. And change your emergency contact info for when they cart you off to the emergency room in the wahmbulance, cause if it's a shoe-related injury, I ain't comin to get you."
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    Image of momof3wildkids momof3wildkids
    11/24/09

    @misslinda: It is back down to $700ish.... what happened?

    My husband would say something similar about shoes.....
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    Image of misslinda misslinda
    11/24/09

    @momof3wildkids: Oh really...hmm...another couple of days and it'll be down into my price range! And if I got another copy of her book (bargain bin, natch), I could strap them to my feet and wear them as shoes (just anticipating the "what the hell are you going to do with that? You're not even going to read it, and if you are, it's just going to make you angry. At least you can wear a pair of expensive shoes. Idiot." rant).
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    Image of momof3wildkids momof3wildkids
    11/24/09

    In reply to The Gawker Sarah Palin Slam Book: Bid on This Literary Treasure for Charity
    You are charging $4 for shipping? Really? Couldn't Denton spring for the four bucks?
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    Image of Foster Kamer Foster Kamer
    11/24/09

    @momof3wildkids: I just filled it in because the page wasn't saving. WHATEVER. I'll pay the $4.
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    Image of momof3wildkids momof3wildkids
    11/24/09

    @Foster Kamer: Just giving you shit Foster. Great idea! Save the Children does wonderful work.

    Still no 'full-frontal' head shot of you? I'd throw in some change for that.
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    Image of Jim Topoleski Jim Topoleski
    11/24/09

    In reply to The Gawker Sarah Palin Slam Book: Bid on This Literary Treasure for Charity
    wow I remember my ex girlfriend LOVING to write so called "slam books"

    She had hundreds of them in high school she passed along to friends, I even found some of them long after we broke up.

    I never knew she stole the idea from someone else. For some reason I always assumed she was deranged enough to have thought of it herself.
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    Image of The Real JR The Real JR
    11/24/09

    In reply to The Gawker Sarah Palin Slam Book: Bid on This Literary Treasure for Charity
    Item specifics - Fiction & Literature Books
    Format: Hardcover
    Publication Year: 2009
    Topic: --
    Special Attributes: 1st Edition, Signed Language: English
    Condition: Brand New
    Subject: Folklore, Mythology

    LOLOLOL
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    Image of BookishLookish BookishLookish
    11/24/09

    In reply to The Gawker Sarah Palin Slam Book: Bid on This Literary Treasure for Charity
    Smails will bit $120 if there're tits involved. Anyone?
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    Image of Foster Kamer Foster Kamer
    11/24/09

    @BookishLookish: I'll show tits. WE HAVE $120 DO WE HEAR $2,000?
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    Image of BookishLookish BookishLookish
    11/24/09

    @Foster Kamer: Are yours really worth two large, kid? Well, hellooooo....
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    Image of Foster Kamer Foster Kamer
    11/24/09

    @BookishLookish: Not at all. The book, however: YES.
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    Image of BookishLookish BookishLookish
    11/24/09

    @Foster Kamer: *sniff* You did not ask me about mine, Foster. Their wait in gold, my dear. Why, the cleavage alone is worth a fortune.
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    Image of The Real JR The Real JR
    11/24/09

    In reply to The Gawker Sarah Palin Slam Book: Bid on This Literary Treasure for Charity
    Dude, I was in the lead then got outbid within 3 minutes.

    Oh, it's a mutha-fuckin-BID-OFF!
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    Image of Alaska Miller Alaska Miller
    11/24/09

    In reply to The Gawker Sarah Palin Slam Book: Bid on This Literary Treasure for Charity
    This is a farce.

    The best Sarah Palin book in the world is to buy Going Rouge, replace the dust jacket with Going Rogue and convincing her to sign it. Then you return Going Rogue and put Going Rouge on eBay.
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    Image of nirreskeya nirreskeya
    02:47 AM

    @Alaska Miller: I thought about this when it was mentioned a couple days ago, but when I checked it out it seems that Going Rouge is paperback only.
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    Image of The Real JR The Real JR
    11/24/09

    In reply to The Gawker Sarah Palin Slam Book: Bid on This Literary Treasure for Charity
    I am glad this is going to Save the Children. Though I would think this would be a good fundraiser for Planned Parenthood and, of course, Rape Kits for Alaska.
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    Image of Richard Petty Bourgeoisie Richard Petty Bourgeoisie
    11/24/09

    In reply to The Gawker Sarah Palin Slam Book: Bid on This Literary Treasure for Charity
    Just to clarify: No one's signature obscured any of the family's wilderness recipes, right? Because I'm only bidding to get Bristol's Beaver. I hear it's sublime.
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    Image of Foster Kamer Foster Kamer
    11/24/09

    @Richard Petty Bourgeoisie: No. None of the recipes have been obscured. The words contained within next year's NBA Fiction Prize-winning book have been preserved for future generations of fiction gormandizers.
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    Image of Mrs. Beeton Mrs. Beeton
    11/24/09

    In reply to The Gawker Sarah Palin Slam Book: Bid on This Literary Treasure for Charity
    I want this book to become like a chain letter. The winner should keep adding the signatures of literary luminaries and resell it for charity, as does the next winner, and the next, ad infinitum.
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    Image of Foster Kamer Foster Kamer
    11/24/09

    @Mrs. Beeton: Agreed. I will promise to do my best to get James Frey to sign this if someone wants. It seems appropriate. But for the sanctity of the auctioned prize, he has yet to be added. Yet.
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    Image of misslinda misslinda
    11/24/09

    @Foster Kamer: James Frey? Small potatoes. Surely someone at Gawker knows someone who knows someone who works with a guy in the Obama administration who has the balls to ask him to sign the book. You've got nine days...better get to work...
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    Image of reimoise reimoise
    11/24/09

    In reply to The Gawker Sarah Palin Slam Book: Bid on This Literary Treasure for Charity
    Just to be absolutely sure, this book is signed by Sarah Palin as well, right?
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    Image of Gabriel Snyder Gabriel Snyder
    11/24/09

    @reimoise: Uh, no.
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    Image of reimoise reimoise
    11/24/09

    @Gabriel Snyder: Thanks!
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    Image of reimoise reimoise
    11/24/09

    @Gabriel Snyder: I was just confused because of this post [gawker.com]

    I thought this was a Sarah Palin autographed Going Rouge book. Sadly, it is not.
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    Image of nirreskeya nirreskeya
    02:52 AM

    @reimoise: The winner of the auction should take it to one of the official signings and get it signed by her. Would probably increase the resale value tenfold.
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    Image of Mount_Prion Mount_Prion
    11/24/09

    In reply to The Gawker Sarah Palin Slam Book: Bid on This Literary Treasure for Charity
    While I do think we should save children, I also think we should burn books. So I'm a tad conflicted about bidding.
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    Image of Foster Kamer Foster Kamer
    11/24/09

    @Mount_Prion: If you buy it, you can burn it yourself. With a butane torch.
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    Image of Mount_Prion Mount_Prion
    11/24/09

    @Foster Kamer: Hey Foster, how come Levi didn't sign it? He's in print now.

    Or did this particular copy not make it to the Fleshbot awards also?
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    Image of Foster Kamer Foster Kamer
    11/24/09

    @Mount_Prion: This was after the Fleshbot Awards. But the spirit of Levi's seed is spread within the book's text.
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    Image of misslinda misslinda
    11/24/09

    @Foster Kamer: OMG, idea! I must bid on this book, win this book, and use this book to attract young Levi to my lair (yes, I have a lair, don't judge me), where he will sign my book, which is my new euphamism for having sexy time.
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    Image of Sir Thomas More Sir Thomas More
    11/23/09

    In reply to Who Is Gawker Media Overlord Nick Denton's New Neighbor?

    Well, now we know what type of pad Nick has.
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    Image of econdave econdave
    11/23/09

    In reply to The 99th Percentile Bowl: 2009's Harvard-Yale Game, A Compiled Air-to-Ground Report
    Here's the dirty little secret: there's nothing particularly glamorous about being an Ivy League grad. (I didn't go to Harvard or Yale, but have 2 Ivy degrees, with lots of relatives/friends/co-workers who are Ivy grads.) If you look at us (not just me, but my cohort, in our 40s), you'd probably call us successful.

    But we're not Kennedys or Bushes. We tend to make decent money, but we're still dealing with mortgages, trying to avoid getting fat, filling out paperwork all day, figuring out who's going to drive the kids to soccer practice, wondering if we're going to end up divorced, trying to keep our values and our sanity intact.

    I want to my alma mater's game Saturday. Game sucked, but beautiful weather, and a nice way to spend some time with my kids. It's nice to reminisce; I had a good college experience.

    But Sunday when I did the grocery shopping, no one at the store cared where I went to college. Today I'm back at work, which is alternately boring and interesting, just like always. It's not any different from my friends and neighbors who went to State U, Adequate Catholic University with Famous Athletic Program, or Liberal Arts College You've Never Heard Of.

    This isn't meant to be a whine; I recognize that I've got a pretty good life, particularly on the monetary side. But if going to an Ivy League school was as wonderful as Kamer makes it seem, why are so many of us wasting time commenting on Gawker?
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    Image of raincoaster raincoaster
    11/22/09

    In reply to Who Is Gawker Media Overlord Nick Denton's New Neighbor?
    Someone tell Sam Jackson he's my bro.
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