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[blankslatejoe]

Hi guys!

Sorry I haven't been posting as much lately--things have been a bit hectic and I feel I've been neglecting my moderator duties...but, as an excuse, I can announce to you all that I'm newly engaged!

Long story short: I was going to propose to her with an awesome super surprising proposal situation, but my girlfriend caught on to the plan and called me out on it, so I said, half joking, "Well, fine, I give up, now it's your turn!"...well, she took me up on it, came up with a cool plan of her own and proposed to me earlier today!

Just thought I'd share the news with my fellow GA'ers!

-joe

Also, to any UK'ers, I'm gonna be in London next week for a vacation--anyone down for a pub meet up?

[JeremyK]

Wow, congrats, man! Best of luck to you both. Care to share her cool plan :D?

[temmink]

:mugs: Congrats man, that's great news. Sounds like she is a pretty cool lady.

[cookepuss]

This isn't a made up woman or your hand again is it, Joe? ;) Congrats.

[seven]

grats man! :mugs:

[walrus]

Congratulations, Joe!
So are you going to tell us exactly how she proposed, or is it NSFW?
And what was your ill-fated plan?
Either way, congrats!

[sinz]

Wow congrats! looks like everyone is prospering, hope it comes around!

Have fun on vacation!

[Lamont]

Awww, how cute. Congratulations :D

[Absorber]

Congratulations!! :D Walrus is right; I'm curious as well ;)

Hope you 2 will do well :thumb:

[Marcus Dublin]

Yo Joe!:thumb: Sorry I couldn't:inocent: help myself, Big Congrats!:D

[Duncan Fraser]

Congratulations blankslatejoe. I think everyone is ready for the story of the ill-fated proposal :D Congrats again and all the best in the future for yourself and ahhh... mrs blankslatejoe :D

[Maph]

Congrats man. :)

[Yung]

congrats blankslatejoe!

[Amethyst]

Congrats to both of you! Looking forward to get some details about the event.:) Have a wonderful time in London.:thumb:

[Rayph]

Huge congrats man! :D

[typhus22]

ha look at u all grown up and what not! congrats man!

[KEDavidson]

congrats Joe:thumb:
juts so you know, the second you say i do, everyone you know will start asking when you're going to have kids:D

[stutts]

Congrats Joe!

[xerious3d]

Congrats man and Lol to the catching on, moments to remember.

[zann]

Congrats dude :mugs:

[Supernova87]

Congratz mate! Hope you won't be under too much pressure!

[grimdc13]

Congrats blankslatejoe!

Hmm.. Did you try to measure her ring finger while she was sleeping? Or pilfer from the jewlrey box so you could take a ring to the jewler's for sizing and she caught you?

[cookepuss]

The chloroform wore off. :)

[Beartastic]

Congrats Joe! She sounds like a keeper :)

[akacg]

congrats yo haha

[blankslatejoe]

Thanks everyone -- for those that want the details of her plan and my own ill-fated one:

I was planning on proposing through Dinosaur Comics, an online comic that my girlfriend loves and reads every day. The creator of the comic really seemed keen on the idea when I asked him, and we were sorting through the details ...but I left an email up on my screen when I shouldn't have and my GF saw a few hours later. So I had to have an interesting discussion with her and then go off and think up a new plan.

Meanwhile, so did she, so we then had what essentially breaks down to a proposal idea arms race going on. I really had no ideas short of changing my voicemail to something sweet and having her call. She had a pretty good idea though.

Over the last few years we've developed a game where we'll go into a used book store and each pick a random trashy romance novel. We flip to a random sentence and whoever's sentence is more scandalous is the winner. Well, we were in a bookstore on sunday and she suggested we play a round. I didn't know she'd 'spiked' the bookracks with a book called "Wedding Story" with her name taped over the original author's. I proceeded to pick the book, and flipped open to a bookmark she'd placed inside with the words 'will you marry me?' on them. It was quite the surprise!


grimdc - I actually did pinch one of her rings in order to get it sized, and she never caught on there... I was in the process of getting a ring while I thought about a new plan...

cooke - har.har.

Thanks again guys!

[Amethyst]

Now that is 'game playing' on the highest level:D

[darkfox]

lets make this into a romcom movie:lol:
congratulations

[Mogster]

grats blankslatejoe ^^, i might make it to London, just give a place and date and ill have a looksee.

[Beartastic]

Haha that's pretty romantic.

[BigJohn]

heh that's pretty awesome.

Someone should make a romantic comedy out of this with Dane Cook and Jeniffer Aniston

[blankslatejoe]

thanks guys, Mogster -- it's looking like Friday the 25th is the day so far. I'll post a new thread next week sometime to give everyone the details.

[Ritorian]

Congratualtions Blankeslate. Just had my one year anniversary with the wife on Aug 30th. Anyway I wish you all the best. ;)

[FredH]

haha, that's an awesome story and the fact that you were able to try and outwit eachother, sounds like a great start for things to come. Hope all the best for you and once you are done with the honeymoon, don't forget to pop in and say hi here to let us know how things went:)

Congrats on everything!

[DimSum]

I'm new to this forum and I wanted to inaugurate my first post by congratulating you blankslatejoe, for this wonderful moment in your life :) !

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