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    Image of jburnaway jburnaway
    11/26/09

    In reply to The Gawker Sarah Palin Slam Book: Bid on This Literary Treasure for Charity
    Foster, your mock/serious excitement almost makes me want to bid... unfortunately, I am only about 8 drinks into the night..... give me 4 more beers and I will SO win this thing
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    Image of Foster Kamer Foster Kamer
    11/27/09

    @jburnaway: Not at all mock! I am totes serious. You need to get more drunk and bid the fuck out of this thing. #TAXDEDUCTIBLE.
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    Image of jburnaway jburnaway
    11/27/09

    @Foster Kamer: #TAXDEDUCTIBLE =best hashtag EVER... and i just sobered up enough to realize sloane crosley signed it... ugh... cruel world!
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    Image of Jamie Peck Jamie Peck
    11/25/09

    In reply to The Gawker Sarah Palin Slam Book: Bid on This Literary Treasure for Charity
    Sorry to bust yr ballz again Foster, but I didn't write that ish about wolves. Anyone who knows me will tell you that my writing isn't half as legible as that.
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    Image of Foster Kamer Foster Kamer
    11/25/09

    @Hunter_Suicide: Surprises! Well then. You signed, didn't you? Mysteries!
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    Image of Jamie Peck Jamie Peck
    11/25/09

    @Foster Kamer: no, didn't think I was fancy enough. Note the wistful look on my face as I watch Bercovici go to town.
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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 MattyMcboy MattyMcboy
    11/24/09

    In reply to The Gawker Sarah Palin Slam Book: Bid on This Literary Treasure for Charity
    All right, Foster, I've already bid (wolfsowner) and have convinced the other Mr Mcboy that we don't need to donate to the food bank this year if I win, and as an added bonus, seeing as she's coming relatively close to me in the spring, I'll take a day off and go get it signed by her.
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    Image of Foster Kamer Foster Kamer
    11/24/09

    @MattyMcboy: YAY. Awesome. That would be incredible. There Will Be Weekend Material.
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    Image of MattyMcboy MattyMcboy
    11/24/09

    @Foster Kamer: I had to retract my bid. God damn economy and clients that don't pay on time. But I will make a donation to the charity and email you a scan of the check. I am so sorry, Gawker. I hang my head in shame.
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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
    11/25/09

    @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 Han Valen Han Valen
    11/24/09

    In reply to The Gawker Sarah Palin Slam Book: Bid on This Literary Treasure for Charity
    Wow, you guys are just SO COOL.

    I mean really, jealous much? Its like all the hopeless, bitter nerds in high school getting together to make fun of the cheerleader/football star they secretly wish they could be/sleep with.
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    Foster Kamer promoted this comment Han Valen was starred Han Valen was unstarred
    Image of Foster Kamer Foster Kamer
    11/24/09

    @Han Valen: Of...Sarah Palin? Yes. Massively jealous. You can prove how jealous we are by spending money on this and giving it to her and saying "Look at these assholes, they're so witty, and to show you what assholes they are, I gave money to charity."
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    Image of Richard Petty Bourgeoisie Richard Petty Bourgeoisie
    11/24/09

    @Han Valen: Amen! These profane Coastal Elites couldn't hold Sarah Palin's 1984 Miss Wasilla sash!
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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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    Gabriel Snyder promoted this comment reimoise was starred reimoise was unstarred
    Image of Gabriel Snyder Gabriel Snyder
    11/24/09

    @reimoise: Uh, no.
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    Gabriel Snyder was starred Gabriel Snyder was unstarred
    Image of reimoise reimoise
    11/24/09

    @Gabriel Snyder: Thanks!
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    reimoise was starred reimoise was unstarred
    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
    11/25/09

    @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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    Edited by nirreskeya at 11/25/09 2:53 AM nirreskeya was starred nirreskeya was unstarred
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