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LotharOfTheHillPeople Geek Larva  
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posted February 06, 2002 20:40
   
Well, of course im always looking for new, amusing, mentalics to dance in neural bliss with....purely platonic with a side of sass please.... BUT, on to the fun part.... I am musing over popping the big Q to my lady love.....looking for a truly unique <or somewhat> idea to use.....ive gotten one and ill share it after some get posted.... Cheers! ------------------ ST VI A3 S2 IP: Logged |
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macadddikt18 SuperBlabberMouth!     
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posted February 07, 2002 06:01
When you say the Big Q are you talking about proposing? Nayt ------------------ IP: Logged |
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Doco Geek Larva
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posted February 07, 2002 07:29
I'm not very creative - but I can post what I did just over 10 years ago. (been married now for 9 1/2 years) My idea was to surprise her by getting the ring, putting it on a gold chain and putting that around the neck of a big stuffed animal. (I still don't understand what it is about women and stuffed animals) That animal was arranged with the wait-staff at a favorite Chinese restaurant to be waiting in our booth. (We had some of our first "dates" by going to Chinese restaurants) I still am not sure that I believe that I left a piece of jewelry in the hands of people I really didn't know. But hey - it worked - she said yes and that has been a good thing. IP: Logged |
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Oldguy geek Alpha Geek  Posts: 306 |
posted February 07, 2002 07:39
quote: Yeah, well, there is a lot to be said for the KISS principle. Keep it simple, preferably elegant, and try not to involve a lot of other people. It's not about that. Good luck. IP: Logged |
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EngrBohn Highlie 
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posted February 07, 2002 08:21
I'd advise against trying to end up with a "how he proposed to her" story that's like mine. It was the end of my supersenior year at Purdue, and Caryl had another year to go. I'd bought the ring, and I planned to propose after we were both finished with finals but before graduation. Well, Caryl found out that I had something for her that I was hiding, and my refusal to give her even any remote hints just fed her curiosity, until she decided to charge right over and search my room. Eventually, she found the box, but the cluelight didn't come on. So, our "story" is that I proposed to her over a pile of unfolded laundry. (Eventually, I was able to convince her that it was a pile of unfolded *clean* laundry.) ------------------ IP: Logged |
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Eponine Highlie
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posted February 07, 2002 14:03
Ooh, proposal stories! Yay! Can't wait to hear more. If you want to make your proposal special, you needent work too hard, if shes proposed to by someone she loves, it's special, and it makes a great story. It doesn't matter how it happens. Mine is particularly "boring". I put boring in quotes, cause I'm not going to get sick of the story. We were laying in bed cuddling, and we had just gotten over a disagreement. I was telling him how much I loved him, and he just asked me. I was like of course, cause we had talked about it dozens of times before. And he kept going on about it... and I was like, " Is this official, or is this just a practice proposal?" And he said, "Oh, I think it's official." Then he said, "I'm not on one knee, but one knee is bent, does that count?" It was cute. I don't even have a ring, cause we're poor. (It just happened two weeks ago, if you can't tell.) I wouldn't recommend going our route, but my point is, as long as you don't embarrass her, she's going to think it's special. IP: Logged |
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curlysimon Geek Larva
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posted February 07, 2002 15:25
I drove halfway 'cross the country and had the ring with me. We were sitting on the porch talking and I started playing with the ring she normally wore and took it off and then switched it with mine then I put it back on. She said, "Thats not my ring. *long pause* Oh." It was fun and she wasn't expecting it even though we had been talking about getting married. Of course a fun story usually has "and they lived happily ever after" but ours didn't. *sigh* IP: Logged |
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macadddikt18 SuperBlabberMouth!
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posted February 07, 2002 18:43
I think i am going to start writing these down, Just incase sometime in the distant future i fall in love and want to marry a girl. Nayt ------------------ IP: Logged |
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MacintoshGeek Geek Larva
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posted February 09, 2002 23:41
Ya'll keep talking about rings, are we sure he is not going to ask her to switch to Mac OS? hehe, congrats you two! Steve IP: Logged |
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ZorroTheFox SuperBlabberMouth!
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posted February 10, 2002 20:29
I am one of the fortunate few who never have to worry about the big question, God forgot to make Me a mate........Z IP: Logged |
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Charisma Super Geek 
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posted March 05, 2002 20:52
ahhhh. I think I may be in the same class as Zoro... and I hope this isn't self-flattery... ------------------ IP: Logged |
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macadddikt18 SuperBlabberMouth!
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posted March 06, 2002 07:10
i am beleive that out there is my mate. Somewhere, where and when i will meet her i don't care. The hope that someday i will is enough for me. Faith in the unknown has fufilled me. Nayt ------------------ IP: Logged |
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The Pope of Perl Geek Apprentice
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posted March 06, 2002 14:22
So, let me get this straight... You're trying to convince her to switch to Qt? ------------------ IP: Logged |
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Drasca Alpha Geek Posts: 344 |
posted March 09, 2002 22:55
Hmm. If I ever asked the "the big Question"... only the answer 42 would clinch being overjoyed. IP: Logged |
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So she asked, "What's this? Is this it?" (not opening the box). I took the box from her, got down on my knee, opened the box (revealing the ring), and asked her then-and-there. It took a second or forever to sink in, 
and she excitedly accepted.