Appearances for company I worked for arms posting goods stores, shopping mall, nutrition stores, grand openings of a few places when the radio and tv people come, even a couple clothing stores like Macys, doing demos of boot-camp workouts , etc.. Promotional shit where I'm gonna be meeting hundreds of people, be on tv (& radio),& have my picture taken by press for local newspapers and publications. What else would an appearance be except for promotion? Photoshoots for promotion campaigns as well. Ads for the business(s). Where do younthink the idea for that billboard photo shop came from? Came from me mentioning I was on a couple billboards. One along the 10 freeway. Also "appearance" on tv, once along with an ex/figure girl/training partner talking about nutrition and exercise while promoting.
But nobody uses their heads or common sense, instead they're like little girls and jump right to "oh Eric says he's doing AUTOGRAPH SIGNINGS WITH TOM CRUISE AND FABIO!!... With his FIANCE! Shannon Lee Bruce Lee's daughter!!!.... That's what he said!! I have proof!! In have proof!!!..... Just like little girls and you're not even embarrassed or ashamed of acting like that. It's like they don't recognize how immature and buffoonish it sounds when they take what I say and exaggerate it and twist it.. Its just pathetic and even more pathetic is people like that actually believe others believe them.... sometimes I forget this is getbig and the emotional maturity level of some of these people is about the level of a second grade kid because shit like that in the tolerated on other boards and nobody I deal with in the real world actually behaves like that... except maybe the guys we hire to twirl those signs on the side of the road. The guys with mental and emotional problems who are unable to interact with adults and hold real jobs.
Actually, common sense does dictate that the appearance definition is related to things like autograph signing and the significance of the person being the implied draw card because that is what it is commonly used for.
I suspect you know that and the novel you wrote is how difficult you find it to admit you might have misspoken.
I remind you, I have never, ever questioned you before - this is not like someone else saying something to you, I happened to just be genuinely surprised that you were now claiming to be a drawcard at an event.