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Subject: Marriage proposals From: GUEST,PatZ Date: 26 Jan 02 - 07:34 PM I've just been wondering about proposals. Anybody want to talk about theirs? Thanks |
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Subject: RE: BS: Marriage proposals From: Amos Date: 26 Jan 02 - 08:12 PM "Hey, why don't we knock off all this fooling around and get married?" . Worked like a charm. A |
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Subject: RE: BS: Marriage proposals From: Hyperabid Date: 26 Jan 02 - 08:18 PM Well I took you Venice, kissed you under every bridge in a Gondola whilst the Gondolier sang "Volare" and "Ciao Venezzia" then got pissed, nervous and maybe even paranoid and had an argument with you. So now we're back in the kitchen at home do you still appreciate the effort? Well it worked for me |
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Subject: RE: BS: Marriage proposals From: catspaw49 Date: 26 Jan 02 - 08:34 PM I met Karen on a Thursday evening and I wasn't looking for a girlfriend, much less a wife. Within 20 minutes I knew that this was the woman I'd spend the rest of my life with. She had about the same feeling and when I went home I called some friends and told them. She designed a wedding dress. We went to a ballgame on Saturday (she had free tickets-Braves) and then I couldn't see her again til Tuesday. So I sent her some flowers and said "I'm so happy you've come into my life." On Tuesday we were supposed to go watch a movie but I picked her up and said, "We have to talk, ta' hell with the movies." She agreed immediately and we went about talking about the whens and wheres of getting married. We went to a friend's house and I introduced her and we told them we were getting married. Late that night, about 2 AM we stopped in a Denny's for coffee and she reminded me that technically I hadn't proposed to her. I was eating an English muffin at the time and said, "Okay......Not upon a knee, but looking across this table and English muffin.......Will you marry me?" Fortunately she did say yes.........16 years ago. She was 27, I was 36. Absolutely the greatest and best thing that has ever happened to me! Spaw |
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Subject: RE: BS: Marriage proposals From: Hyperabid Date: 26 Jan 02 - 08:38 PM Awww Spaw ... (gush)!!!! And there was lil ole me trying to make the point that if she loves you she'll marry you anyway! |
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Subject: RE: BS: Marriage proposals From: jup Date: 26 Jan 02 - 08:49 PM WANTED:Partner,to cook,clean,mow yard,catch bait,clean fish. Must have boat and motor! Send photo of boat and motor! I do jest . |
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Subject: RE: BS: Marriage proposals From: WyoWoman Date: 26 Jan 02 - 09:16 PM What if I am pregnant? What are you going to do? I dunno. Love 'im, I guess. Ok. (It held for 11 years -- and several of them were lovely years.) ww |
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Subject: RE: BS: Marriage proposals From: Sorcha Date: 26 Jan 02 - 09:17 PM Well, my mister was my younger brother's friend. He showed up one evening in August on a Harley. Asked my brother if he wanted to ride. Then, he asked me if I wanted to ride with him.
I said, "Let me change clothes" (had on shorts and halter top) I came back out in jeans, leathers and boots. In October he said "I think I want to make this permanent." |
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Subject: RE: BS: Marriage proposals From: John Gray Date: 26 Jan 02 - 10:05 PM After the failure of the first two its going to be - are you religious or addicted to gambling? - no - good, let's get married. JG/FME |
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Subject: RE: BS: Marriage proposals From: Bobert Date: 26 Jan 02 - 10:27 PM A Christmas present: cigar band in an antique jewelry box. It will be one year, Feb. 9th..... |
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Subject: RE: BS: Marriage proposals From: Deckman Date: 26 Jan 02 - 10:34 PM Which time??? Bob |
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Subject: RE: BS: Marriage proposals From: Tweed Date: 26 Jan 02 - 10:37 PM She waited tables at the White House Restaurant on the morning shift where we all went for breakfast before heading off to the job. I asked her out and we never were apart after that. Went to Bloomington to see Taj Mahal one night in my '64 Ford pickup. I asked her to marry me on the way home and she said yes so we did. That was 22 years ago. I was 27 and she was 19. We still have never been apart. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Marriage proposals From: artbrooks Date: 26 Jan 02 - 11:26 PM Came back from Vietnam, picked up girlfriend in Pittsburgh, went to visit my parents in Atlanta. Second day there, my dad said "well, are you two going to get married some day?" I looked at her and asked "we doing anything next week?" 32 years in March. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Marriage proposals From: Mickey191 Date: 27 Jan 02 - 12:45 AM We'd been going out for a couple of months, having a great time. I didn't think it was serious, till one night we went for a long walk. We stopped on a bridge overlooking the Taconic parkway in Mount Vernon, NY. he said something like, when we get married. I was flabbergasted. It lasted a great 32 yrs. They were the best of times. A drunk driver drove him off the road. The end of the dream. Funny thing, 30 yrs. before, my aunt & her boyfriend were on the same bridge and he said I'll jump if you don't marry me. She said jump. He didn't. They both were married happily to others. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Marriage proposals From: GUEST,alinact Date: 27 Jan 02 - 10:05 AM My first long term relationship, I thought long and hard about marriage but finally popped the question. It lasted 17 years but eventually ended. The second long term relationship I thought long and hard about marriage, kept finding excuses not to and after 10 years she said "you don't really love me - do you" and left. Trouble is, I did (and still do after 6 months apart). Seems I took the wrong turn on both occasions - oh well, I've still got my guitar. Allan |
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Subject: RE: BS: Marriage proposals From: GUEST,ta2 Date: 27 Jan 02 - 10:59 AM i said "how would you like to do this every night ?"........that's subtle ! |
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Subject: RE: BS: Marriage proposals From: TNDARLN Date: 27 Jan 02 - 12:44 PM Oh.... [sigh] I uh.....[clearing throat] I thought this thread was about getting a marriage proposal.... [backing out of the thread slowly] |
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Subject: RE: BS: Marriage proposals From: NicoleC Date: 27 Jan 02 - 01:17 PM Hey, there's a wedding chapel! Let's get married. {not today, honey} Hey, there's another wedding chapel! Come'on, marry me! {no, dear} But I really do want to marry you! We could stop here! {No.} etc., etc. He finally agreed with me that getting married on a lark while we were both living on opposite sides of the continent was a bad idea. But we've been engaged since... unfortunately now we're in different hemispheres!
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Subject: RE: BS: Marriage proposals From: Clinton Hammond Date: 27 Jan 02 - 02:02 PM Well, I knew when I first clapped eyes on yer, that she was gonna be saddled with me for the rest of her life... Luckily she was dumb enough to feel the same way! LOL!!!! That could be one reason why we still haven't done the 'ceremony', and really are in no rush to do it... When we do though, we're using "In Spite Of Ourselves" as our song, and her mother be damned! :-) |
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Subject: RE: BS: Marriage proposals From: Bat Goddess Date: 27 Jan 02 - 02:04 PM Tom and I met at a pre-Christmas client party at Fishtraks recording studio back when it was on the 3rd floor of Walker Hersey's house in Rye, NH. I came down the stairs from the studio and standing at the foot of the stairs were Denise Brown, the designer I worked with at McAllister & Co. (type shop -- we did the label & LP jacket design for Fishtraks), Hal Inglis, who owns a local ad agency, and Tom, local trad musician who had gone to school with Hal. I joined the conversation. Denise and Hal later drifted off in opposite directions and Tom and I went off to find a refill for our wine glasses and to trade songs. He also introduced me to his musical partner, banjo player Bob Frost, who was head of printing for the state of NH at the time. Anywho, my co-workers left; Tom said he'd take me home. And there was a snowstorm going on. Both Tom and Bob lived some distance from Portsmouth (Tom was separated from his wife and living in Massachusetts), so I offered my floor for the night. I had just moved from Kennebunkport into a vile 3rd floor, 2-rooms & a bath apartment less than a month earlier. Frost traveled with a sleeping bag in those days and I tossed Tom a snugsack and a pillow -- Bob on the kitchen floor (probably with one of my cats sitting on his face) and Tom on the floor of the other room. There was a major crisis the next morning. Not only did I only have one coffee cup, but tea drinker me didn't have any coffee, either. The thing is, Tom never left. It was a "snow day" for him (he was a teacher) so he found a squalid winter rental at Hampton Beach. So we had my "townhouse" and his "beach cottage" for the rest of the winter. Fourth of July weekend, when his soon-to-be-ex-wife moved out of their house into her new one (just up the road -- it was a very friendly relationship), he and I moved into his house in Nottingham. That December 15th, while celebrating the fact that we had known each other a year, we found ourselves planning our wedding. Thought at that point it might be a pretty good idea to get married. I don't think there was any asking (or formal proposal) involved. We were married the next June after school was out -- Bob Frost was our best man. Linn |
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Subject: RE: BS: Marriage proposals From: SINSULL Date: 27 Jan 02 - 05:10 PM I had several but they always ended with "Once we're married you will have to (quit your job, stop travelling, give up your cats,etc.)" I always said "No" or worse. Sometimes, I regret it - a few good years might have been worth the price. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Marriage proposals From: Peg Date: 27 Jan 02 - 05:27 PM I kinda doubt it will ever happen. I was engaged once. One friend told me I have to lower my standards. I simply never meet any men who are attractive and also available to me. No big deal; I enjoy my own company.
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Subject: RE: BS: Marriage proposals From: Mickey191 Date: 27 Jan 02 - 07:00 PM Peg, Suppose you met someone who was wonderful,funny,intelligent,kind & giving-but not attractive. You'd turn him down? Just wondering. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Marriage proposals From: WyoWoman Date: 27 Jan 02 - 07:13 PM Alinact -- Fer heaven's sake, man, if it's only six months you've been separated and you really do lover her, get your heinie over there, make some kind of act of contrition and let her know, unmistakably, that you do love her and want a future together. That's not long to be "broken up," if you're really in love with her. And, yes, Mickey191, "Marry me or I'll jump" may not be the absolute MOST effective proposal line. ... ww |
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Subject: RE: BS: Marriage proposals From: swirlygirl Date: 27 Jan 02 - 07:14 PM Just waiting on EJ to ask! :) xxx |
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Subject: RE: BS: Marriage proposals From: Amos Date: 27 Jan 02 - 07:22 PM wirly -- If ya mean our Lonesome EJ, step lightly lass- there's the Lion to be considered, an' all....but i imagine you're thinking of another EJ...yes? A |
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Subject: RE: BS: Marriage proposals From: Amergin Date: 27 Jan 02 - 07:47 PM Amos, I think she is talking about English Jon..... Sins....if those fellows required you to give up things that you love....they were not much of anything to misss....
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Subject: RE: BS: Marriage proposals From: sophocleese Date: 27 Jan 02 - 08:35 PM A Tim Horton's in Hamilton at 1:30 am, "I want to see your smiling face 45 years from now".....34 more to go. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Marriage proposals From: SINSULL Date: 27 Jan 02 - 09:07 PM Mickey191 - I think Peg means men she finds attractive. It has almost nothing to do with physical appearance assuming of course that he has most of his teeth and the ones he has are brushed fairly regularly. But, of course, I can't speak for Peg. Amergin - I agree. That's why I said "No". |
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Subject: RE: BS: Marriage proposals From: Peg Date: 27 Jan 02 - 11:12 PM true Sinsull; attractiveness is in the eye of the beholder, and yes, I did mean what *I* find attractive. That said, I am an attractive woman in the conventional sense and tend to find, well, attractive men, attractive...but this is certainly a highly subjective thing. Why would anyone marry someone they did not find attractive??? I mean, husbands and wives are supposed to sleep together and have sex, yes?
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Subject: RE: BS: Marriage proposals From: Deckman Date: 27 Jan 02 - 11:42 PM I'll tell you the story of my 2 (yes, I said two) proposals. In retrospect, I find much humor in them. My first wife (neat lady) PROPOSED TO ME! That marriage lasted 26 years, until I stopped it. After nine single years, Bride Judy and I met. I courted her for six months, and damned if SHE didn't propose to me too! Sure, yah, O.K., I went along with the game plan until the morning of the wedding. As we were getting dressed for the wedding, with the whole famdamly around, I was suddenly obsessed with the thought, "damnit, I want to propose just once." So I kicked all of her daughters and other family members out of the bedroom, where they were fussing with Mommy, and proposed to her! She seemed surprised that I felt that I needed too, but I sure felt better. It's being a grand marriage ... we're in our sixth year. CHEERS, Bob |
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Subject: RE: BS: Marriage proposals From: JenEllen Date: 28 Jan 02 - 12:38 AM I'd gotten off my shift at the bar and got home about 3am, crawled into bed and was just drifting when the alarm clock went off. He rolls out of bed and shakes me saying "C'mon, we're going to be late!" Me, the sleepy, fuddled thing that I was, said "Okay..." and got dressed. We hopped in the car and started driving south. I was still tired, really cranky, and had to pee. I mentioned it might be a good thing if we stopped at the next exit, and he said "Okay". I dozed off, and woke up as we passed the exit. "Hey, you were going to stop.." He apologizes and promises to stop at the next one. The same thing happens three more times, and despite the fact that my back teeth were floating, I said "Please, we have got to stop somewhere.." He kept driving. We finally arrived at this lovely park in Brown County, Indiana. I was in NO mood to enjoy the fall weather at 5am, and headed straight for the port-o-johns. As I came around the back of the car, he hands me a backpack, grabs my arm, and starts to head us both down this little path. Right about there, I can only assume that the urine backed clear up into my kidneys must have affect my brain in some way, because I threw one hell of a fit. I vaguely remember asking what sort of sadistic bastard would drag some poor woman from her bed in the wee hours to drive her around the countryside and tortue her very full bladder (I was sure he hit every pot-hole on purpose) I told him precisesly where he could stick his little backpack too, and threw it at him. It turns out that he'd had about enough of me as well, and in a voice that I'm sure they could hear in Kentucky, yells at me how he envisioned us having a lovely picnic at dawn, watching the sun rise over all of the golden trees, and he was going to ask me to marry him, but now we were late for sunrise and "After the events of this morning, I'm not sure I want to marry you anymore.." We both stared at each other for a minute, blowing smoke, and then started laughing so hard that I really needed to go to that port-o-let, and how! Afterwards, we got back in the car and drove home, laughing the entire way. We never did get married, but we've been friends ever since, and he still delights in telling people about how on the day he proposed to me, he was kind and sweet and ever so gentle, and I threw a knife at him (apparently my backpack had the breakfast gear in it and there was a little plastic knife tucked in there somewhere?) Love makes you do really stupid things, but for gawds sake, don't ever stand between a woman and a toilet. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Marriage proposals From: Deckman Date: 28 Jan 02 - 12:53 AM JenEllen ... sounds like you were flushed with excitment! Bob (Or maybe you were just in a crappy mood)! |
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Subject: RE: BS: Marriage proposals From: Fibula Mattock Date: 28 Jan 02 - 05:46 AM He asked me to marry him before we were even going out with each other, when we were best mates and working together. I said "no". Then, after three-and-a-half years of being best mates and then some, when lying in bed, after the most intense silence I have ever heard, he asked me again. I asked him if he was serious, he said he'd never been more serious, and I agreed to marry him. Now if we can get ourselves in the same country for longer than a weekend and work through the long distance problems, we can actually tie the knot. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Marriage proposals From: mooman Date: 28 Jan 02 - 06:44 AM We were having a big lovers' row and (uncharacteristically for me as I am normally very calm) I threw my prized mandola at her. Being very small, quick and agile, she jumped out of the way and the said mandola smashed against the wall, breaking into about ten pieces. After a moment's initial astonishment and dismay, we both broke into fits of laughter and during the making up agreed to tie the knot. That was 24 years ago and we are still together! I later repaired the mandola and sold it when I had an instrument repair business shortly afterwards! I am not sure the purchaser ever knew the real story behind the unusual glue lines! mooman |
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Subject: RE: BS: Marriage proposals From: Tweed Date: 28 Jan 02 - 07:16 AM Good one Moo! |
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Subject: RE: BS: Marriage proposals From: GUEST,alinact Date: 28 Jan 02 - 02:45 PM WyoWoman, I'm working on it - thanks for the thought Allan |
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Subject: RE: BS: Marriage proposals From: Mrs.Duck Date: 28 Jan 02 - 04:02 PM Geoff and I got together on the final day of Whitby folk week in the Tap and Spile. The following year in the same pub Geoff called for silence in the midst of the singing and playing and got down on one knee and asked me to marry him. I said yes and 12 months later we got married in Whitby and of course had the reception in the Tap and Spile. How could we follow that? Well when I discovered I was expecting twins due on the last Friday of folk week!!!! They were actually born 3 weeks early so we took them to the festival with us. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Marriage proposals From: swirlygirl Date: 28 Jan 02 - 04:35 PM EJ - English Jon...don't know lonesome EJ I don't think! :) xxx |
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Subject: RE: BS: Marriage proposals From: Amergin Date: 28 Jan 02 - 04:45 PM sounds like English Jon will find himself caught in the web...if he ain't careful.... |
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Subject: RE: BS: Marriage proposals From: swirlygirl Date: 28 Jan 02 - 04:48 PM Whaddya mean if he ain't careful???!! Not all women are harpies you know!! :) xxx
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Subject: RE: BS: Marriage proposals From: Amos Date: 28 Jan 02 - 07:23 PM Surely not our Swirly Girl! I don't think she plays the harp, anyway!! A. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Marriage proposals From: sophocleese Date: 28 Jan 02 - 09:45 PM I never thought harpies spun webs. Weren't they bird women not spiderwomen? |
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Subject: RE: BS: Marriage proposals From: JedMarum Date: 28 Jan 02 - 10:20 PM we never had a marriage proposal between us ... we were kids and talked about marriage and what we wanted our life to be, and what we wanted from marriage, and what we loved about each other ... and when we were practicing sex while experimenting with birth control (apparently we had it backwards) ... the pregnancy led our conversations to discussions with parents and hard plans for married life. We married at semester break. I finished out Freshman year of college. Our eldest was born about the same time school ended and the rest is history. That was 31+ years ago, and I'd do it all over again in a heart beat. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Marriage proposals From: GUEST,swirlygirl Date: 29 Jan 02 - 08:46 AM It was just a general comment on the "harpy-ness" of women, not any link to catching in web cos then I'd need to be Ariadne or someone and I like being a non-harpy... And no I don't play the harp but I have been forced to learn the melodeon on which I have practiced for half an hour... :) xxx |
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Subject: RE: BS: Marriage proposals From: GUEST,English Jon Date: 29 Jan 02 - 10:08 AM !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Are you sure you want to marry someone who cruelly thrusts free-reed instruments upon people? xxx EJ
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Subject: RE: BS: Marriage proposals From: GUEST,swirlygirl Date: 29 Jan 02 - 11:47 AM Oh yes...better to be cruelly thrust upon than not... :) xxx |
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Subject: RE: BS: Marriage proposals From: Mrrzy Date: 29 Jan 02 - 12:42 PM Once I had a Moroccan stranger propose to me in Barcelona, but I don't count that. I knew that my X2B was going to propose, what surprised me was the ring. We were going to get married after I finished my PhD, but before that we had a huge (long-overdue) fight and I threw the ring back. (We didn't split up, just got unengaged.) Years later I got very drunk at a party and told him I'd like to get married after all. After three days ("I wanted to make sure you were sober") I was asked if I still meant it, and we were married about a year later. GREAT wedding. Terrible marriage. We had Marie's Wedding as our recessional, the Moms had no say... |
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Subject: RE: BS: Marriage proposals From: Naemanson Date: 29 Jan 02 - 03:35 PM The first time we were walking in a field of uncut hay and wild strawberries behind my parents' farm. I swept her into my arms and asked her to marry me. We held it together for 17 years. Last December, while sitting in the theater waiting for Harry Potter to start, Rebecca turned to me and asked me to marry her. I agreed and then asked for my "rock". She wasn't prepared for that but, then, I was just kidding. We will be married in July. |