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| Proposal stories; ...tell yours! | |
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| Tweet Topic Started: Apr 6 2011, 09:24 AM (578 Views) | |
| The 89th Key | Apr 6 2011, 09:24 AM Post #1 |
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Inspired by that other thread...figured it would be cool to hear everyone's proposal stories. (Don't worry, I don't have one to tell yet.)
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| Frank_W | Apr 6 2011, 09:30 AM Post #2 |
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Resident Misanthrope
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Nevermind. My story wasn't funny and didn't suck badly enough.... I keep forgetting what forum I'm on. Edited by Frank_W, Apr 6 2011, 10:46 AM.
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Anatomy Prof: "The human body has about 20 sq. meters of skin." Me: "Man, that's a lot of lampshades!" | |
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| KlavierBauer | Apr 6 2011, 09:32 AM Post #3 |
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HOLY CARP!!!
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Mine was meant to be awesome, and was fairly boring. Plan: Attend Handel's Messiah performance at a local cathedral. Got to prestigious Brown Palace in Denver for martinis. Walk 16th Street mall (which is all lit up on Christmas) and propose - preferably from within a horse-drawn carriage if I can find one. Reality: Performance was attended as planned - though we sat in a place where we couldn't see anything but a huge pillar in front of us. Brown palace for martinis - going well so far. Propose a stroll down 16th st. mall, to which Mrs.KB declines, since living downtown she got to see those lights all the time and found the idea boring. Sneak over to bartender and see about getting to the roof of the Brown Palace then, and propose there. - No luck. So - I began speaking of contractual arrangements, and asked Mrs.KB if she was willing to sign in blood her love for me. She agreed. I told her I had paperwork in my pocket, and then plopped down onto my knee in the middle of the restaurant, and went for it. So awkward, I had to move chairs out of the way, and Mrs.KB was laughing gently at me. Worked out ok though...
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"I realize you want him to touch you all over and give you babies, but his handling of the PR side really did screw the pooch." - Ivory Thumper "He said sleepily: "Don't worry mom, my dick is like hot logs in the morning." - Apple | |
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| kenny | Apr 6 2011, 09:38 AM Post #4 |
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HOLY CARP!!!
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89 IF you ever propose, and IF you want a diamond, please PM me. (I make no money from this, unless you happen to buy one of the two I'm selling but that's not my main motivation.) |
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| The 89th Key | Apr 6 2011, 09:46 AM Post #5 |
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Cool stories - and thanks Kenny, will keep that in mind! |
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| Mikhailoh | Apr 6 2011, 09:47 AM Post #6 |
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If you want trouble, find yourself a redhead
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I am getting a theme here, though. I will tell mine when not on Blackbrry. |
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Once in his life, every man is entitled to fall madly in love with a gorgeous redhead - Lucille Ball | |
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| blondie | Apr 6 2011, 10:14 AM Post #7 |
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Bull-Carp
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Fudge. I forget the micro details of the proposal. Maybe it's in the archives. I think it was in a hotel room. I'd be up for a re-do. I'm pretty sure he'd do a re-do. |
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| VPG | Apr 6 2011, 10:23 AM Post #8 |
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Pisa-Carp
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We were in Naples Florida decided to drive to key west for the weekend. Checked in to an Inn and went to see the Sunset. Went to a Bar for a dozen Oysters and two martini's each. Then went some place else for more Oysters and dinner, and martini's. Walking back to Inn there was a cute open air bar, we stopped for a nightcap (Martini's) Bartender took Our picture and told us what a cute couple we were. We left, there was a motorcycle (huge) sitting at the curb. She got on, I took her picture, And then got down on one knee and proposed to her. Next morning we decided that there must have been something wrong with the oysters, drove back to Naples and never talked about the trip again. |
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I'M NOT YELLING.........I'M ITALIAN...........THAT'S HOW WE TALK! "People say that we're in a time when there are no heroes, they just don't know where to look." Ronald Reagan, Inaugural, 1971 | |
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| apple | Apr 6 2011, 10:43 AM Post #9 |
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one of the angels
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My little brother set the two of us up on a date in about 1984. We walked about 20 miles from one part of the city to another to save gas. He asked me to pay for my own movie ticket and popcorn. I bought a hamburger myself when we passed by a McDonalds. We talked a lot, went to the art gallery, played pool, and a movie. When the date was over he asked if I wanted to go out again and I said no (no way). About 8 years later (Ross Perot was running independently for Pres in '92) he called me on the phone and asked me if I'd like to buy a box of music he had picked up at a sale for 2 dollars. It was a great collection and I said sure. We started talking on the phone for hours and hours daily.. went out and I remember thinking - 'he's your age, he's Catholic.. talk about food! - the way to a man's heart is thru his stomach'. I just assumed we were getting married. I went out and bought a dress at a thrift store. I was really surprised on Valentine's Day when he got down on his knees and asked me to marry him in my living room. I burst into laughter.. I thought it was so funny .. I thought we had already talked about marriage and everything. so, it wasn't the most romantic moment. He was pretty embarrassed that I laughed. Edited by apple, Apr 6 2011, 10:44 AM.
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| Claude Ball | Apr 6 2011, 10:46 AM Post #10 |
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Middle Aged Carp
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I took her possum huntin', cause that's one of her favorite things to do. Yep, we sat there for hours in them woods, in the dark, in the snow, squeezed up next to each other tryin' to stay warm, and listenin' to them dogs as they ran through the woods in the distance. It was so romantic. Then, that familiar yelp from far off in the distance as the dogs treed a possum. We jumped up and started a runnin' toward them dogs, she was havin' so much fun! But I tricked her and said "I think the sound is a comin' from this away" and took her over to the edge of the woods on the edge of a cliff hangin' out over the back 40.... where I had took my John Deere tractor and wrote the words... I LUV EWE MY SWEET ROWENA WILL YOU MARRY ME In that snow covered field. |
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Dain bramage caused my peach imspediment. Tooth? Tooth? You can't handle the tooth! Remember: He who laughs last, thinks slowest..... DON'T BEND OVER IN THE GARDEN, MARGARET - THEM TATER'S GOT EYES! | |
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| blondie | Apr 6 2011, 10:57 AM Post #11 |
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Bull-Carp
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Wouldn't it be a hoot if 89th proposed to her here? We could pin, then bury, then revive, etc. the thread for ever & ever! |
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| Kincaid | Apr 6 2011, 11:57 AM Post #12 |
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HOLY CARP!!!
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My wife would have hated any kind of big, showy or public proposal. We had talked about marriage (I think we actually did start talking about that after just a few dates - not getting married ourselves necessarily but what we thought about it, what it meant to us, etc.). We'd been dating about two years when we started discussing an engagement. Shopped a few jewelers during the summer and she really liked a very simple ring at a store in my home town. About the most romantic thing about the entire process was me secretly having them hold the ring and then riding on my motorcycle the three and an a half hour round trip a few weeks later to get the ring. I think she knew what was up as we planned a picnic in a park. Not even a gorgeous park, but a city park on deferred maintenance and water restrictions. I hid the ring in the basket and we were drinking some sparkling cider. Or maybe that came after, I don't know anymore. I acted like I was reaching for some grapes in the basket and she guessed what was happening. She was so embarrassed it took her quite a while to look at me. We were both laying on a blanket so I didn't have to get on one knee. I wish I could remember the words I used but they were almost certainly short, sweet and completely awkward. She said yes! Then we went to tell her folks and I was a bit worried her Dad would be ticked off as I hadn't "asked for her hand". No worries, they were very excited. |
| Kincaid - disgusted Republican Partisan since 2006. | |
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| Axtremus | Apr 6 2011, 11:59 AM Post #13 |
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HOLY CARP!!!
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So you're fishing for ideas?
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| The 89th Key | Apr 6 2011, 12:02 PM Post #14 |
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Nope - I already know what I'll do. |
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| kenny | Apr 6 2011, 12:03 PM Post #15 |
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HOLY CARP!!!
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| Axtremus | Apr 6 2011, 12:15 PM Post #16 |
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HOLY CARP!!!
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Jumbotron at a Steeler's game!
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| The 89th Key | Apr 6 2011, 12:28 PM Post #17 |
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That wasn't my idea........BUT IT IS NOW!!!!!
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| Axtremus | Apr 6 2011, 12:32 PM Post #18 |
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HOLY CARP!!!
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Tell us which game so we'll
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| ilm | Apr 6 2011, 04:11 PM Post #19 |
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Middle Aged Carp
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Mine was a big surprise, because there was nothing special leading up to it like a fancy dinner out, or a stroll/vacation somewhere. We were just having a simple dinner at my (now) hubby's place, and he got on one knee and proposed. No ring. I was humored by some of the responses on this thread - like forgetting what was said. I also can't remember the words of the proposal. Time does that. |
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| RosemaryTwo | Apr 6 2011, 05:08 PM Post #20 |
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HOLY CARP!!!
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Bar exam. Day after. Exhausted. Boyfriend asked me what I wanted to do that day. "I don't know," I replied. Who plans for the day after the bar exam? You are not sure you will survive until then. I had some vague idea about a trip to the dry cleaner. He responded, "Why don't we go look at rings?" I was shocked. I think it was a fatigued-based decision for him. Fifteen years ago this July. Edited by RosemaryTwo, Apr 6 2011, 05:09 PM.
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| "Perhaps the thing to do is just to let stupid run its course." Aqua | |
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| Luke's Dad | Apr 6 2011, 05:21 PM Post #21 |
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Emperor Pengin
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I had been told the month before that I had 4 months to get a ring on her finger or she was walking. So, we were visiting my mother for Christmas, and one of the gifts my mother unboxed was a wedding planner. My mother's jaw dropped, but it took M&M's a couple minutes to get it. |
| The problem with having an open mind is that people keep trying to put things in it. | |
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| Axtremus | Apr 6 2011, 05:35 PM Post #22 |
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HOLY CARP!!!
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By whom? |
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| big al | Apr 6 2011, 05:50 PM Post #23 |
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Bull-Carp
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Kenny, you're such a romantic.... Marriage was a bit of an afterthought between my wife and me as we were already living together when I learned that I would probably be sent to Brazil on a long-term assignment. The company didn't send girlfriends along, but they did send wives, so we made a pragmatic choice to marry then. My real proposal story was when my wife-to-be encouraged me to move on from a previous relationship and move out of where I was living, I packed up what I could carry on a bus and proceeded to move those possessions to her back porch while she was at work. Then I went to where she worked and told her that I had moved out. She asked where I moved to. I told her my possessions were on her back porch. She gave me the keys to her car and house and told me I should go move them inside so they weren't stolen. The rest, as they say, is history. Big Al |
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Location: Western PA "jesu, der simcha fun der man's farlangen." -bachophile | |
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| The 89th Key | Apr 6 2011, 08:08 PM Post #24 |
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Nice Al!
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| Mark | Apr 6 2011, 08:14 PM Post #25 |
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HOLY CARP!!!
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Ring in a special fortune cookie at our then favorite Chinese restaurant. I did not do the kneeling thing. I find such things to be oh, outdated or even contrived I suppose. Even 24 years ago I felt that way. |
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___.___ (_]===* o 0 When I see an adult on a bicycle, I do not despair for the future of the human race. H.G. Wells | |
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