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And me? I'll just go where I'm told and sign whatever is thrust in front of me unless it says "By Tad Williams" on the cover.

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Mr. Card, have you signed anything other than products that originally come from trees?
 

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Posted by Blackthorne (Member # 8295) on :
 
He would probably sign your fruit loops box if you asked him nicely.
 

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Posted by Orson Scott Card (Member # 209) on :
 
Fruit Loops boxes come from trees.

I have signed shirts, but it's very hard - they have to be stretched just so, and even then the point of the Sharpee snags and makes my signature jumpy.

I have occasionally signed on plastic, but the ink will never truly bond with the surface, so I advise people against it.

I have signed occasional patches of human skin, almost always attached to a living person, but I don't like doing it, mostly because people tend to be sweaty and then my hands don't feel clean afterward.

Of course, in a deep philosophical sense, don't all things ultimately come from trees?
 

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Posted by Eruve Nandiriel (Member # 5677) on :
 
Human skin...coming from trees? I'm sorry, I fail to see the connection there.

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I have signed occasional patches of human skin, almost always attached to a living person,

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Almost always? I'm almost afraid to ask...
 

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Posted by rivka (Member # 4859) on :
 
All (non-plant) living things eat plant life, or eat something that ate plants, or eat something that ate something that ate something that ate plants, etc.

I suspect that's what OSC meant.
 

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Posted by neo-dragon (Member # 7168) on :
 
Wasn't there a diaper signing incident one time? Ask Papa Moose.
 

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Posted by Eruve Nandiriel (Member # 5677) on :
 

 

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Posted by Beanny (Member # 7109) on :
 
The inside or the outside of the diaper?
 

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Posted by MandyM (Member # 8375) on :
 
or more importantly: clean or dirty diaper?
 

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Posted by Orson Scott Card (Member # 209) on :
 
I scratched my name in baby poop with my finger.

Oh, no, wait, that was a nightmare.

Yes, I've signed a plastic diaper surface.

But truly, truly I prefer signing published works authored or edited by me ... <grin>. I hope we aren't going to start a contest to see what is the weirdest thing somebody can get me to sign. Because if that starts, then I'll just stop signing anything.

Which is probably a good idea. Right now, I believe the rarest state of the "Iron Man" comics is UNsigned.
 

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