So Joe Biden it is for Obama's vice-presidential pick. Biden, the bloviator, and man of a thousand words. Uhhhh, make that 50,000 words. He's abridged his acceptance speech from his hoped-for presidential acceptance speech of 200,000 words. Uhhhh, that would be one day or evening when I'd definitely want to be anyhere else. 50,000 words comes to 416.6 minutes at the conversation speaking rate of 120 words per minutes. Divide that by 60 and you get 6.94 hours. But then, you have to add in at least a hundred hoped-for standing ovations. That would bring his time at the podium...