Comments on: I Can’t Quit You… Oh Wait, Actually I Can!

By: Mike B.

Mike B. — Wed, 25 Nov 2009 22:00:21 +0000

Ok, I've been thinking about this and I think Mike V. is right. I was being unnecessarily harsh, probably due to my general distaste for other things Palin has said and done.

I leave the post and comments as-is to not disrupt the time-space continuum .

By: Mike B.

Mike B. — Wed, 25 Nov 2009 14:00:21 +0000

Ok, I've been thinking about this and I think Mike V. is right. I was being unnecessarily harsh, probably due to my general distaste for other things Palin has said and done.

I leave the post and comments as-is to not disrupt the time-space continuum .

By: Mike B.

Mike B. — Tue, 24 Nov 2009 17:42:05 +0000

I'm not sure asking her to sign 1,000 over the course of a day is asking too much. According to this random article, Roald Dahl once signed 3,000 over an afternoon:
"Roald Dahl used to complain about the cheek of Kenny's Bookshop in Galway, Ireland, whose proprietors persuaded him to fly to Dublin under his own steam, picked him up in a car, ferried him to the shop, gave him 3,000 books to sign all afternoon (buoyed up by cups of tea), before driving him back to the airport."

Reasoning 3 books per minute (20 seconds per book to sign and chat), it should only take about 5.5 hours. Add in 1-2 hours for breaks and it should have been very do-able in 8 hours. Now I have no idea how much time she had, but regardless the signing was either poorly planned or poorly executed.

By: Mike V

Mike V — Tue, 24 Nov 2009 17:14:44 +0000

I am no Sarah Palin fan, but I don't really see any reason to complain here. She showed early and stayed late. The reports say that she signed somewhere around 700 books. That is actually an unbelievable number, take that from someone who has been to his fair share of these things. Sarah Palin sucks, but not for this.