From: roxy@cbnewsj.cb.att.com (r.prisco)
Subject: Re: B&B: ATWT:  Proposal (was: Monday's episode is history)
Organization: AT&T
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Date: Thu, 15 Oct 1992 00:11:28 GMT

In article <1992Oct14.194429.2106@nsisrv.gsfc.nasa.gov>, jgacker@news.gsfc.nasa.gov (James G. Acker) writes:
> r.prisco (roxy@cbnewsj.cb.att.com) wrote:
> 
> : Hilarious and quite randy update deleted .....
> 	You obviously haven't been reading all my stuff.  That was TAME!

I read EVERY SINGLE THING YOU POST .... they're all hilarious and randy!
For some reason tho, this one just tickled me ....

> : >      Tune in last Friday, when we heard my new fiance' say:
> : >      "YES!"
> : You can't just leave it at this .... we want details ... lots of them!
> : Where were you, what did you say, what did she say besides yes, are you ever
> : going to tell us her name, and so on!!!!!
> 
> 	Details, defronts, desides -- what a package!  O.K., here's the scoop.
> Her name is Dorothy.  Wizard of Oz fans can do what they want with that.  
> Back when we were first dating, I was in a "competition" of sorts for her 
> favors, which, due to my remarkable charms and suavity, I won.  However,
> still in the competition, I asked what I could to "influence her opinion
> favorably toward me."  She said "oh, just be yourself, take it as it happens,
> etc."  Howe'er, when she went home and told her sister my statement, her sister
> said, "That was dumb!  You should have told him -- diamonds, furs and cash!"

Now why didn't I say that to BroncoManDave?????  I got the diamonds but I'm
still waiting for the furs and cash!!!!

> 	Since this has been in the planning stages quite awhile, it was 
> hard to make it a big surprise.  Anyways, after a dinner in Chowning's Tavern
> in Colonial Williamsburg complete with a strolling violinist playing colonial
> ditties, candlelight, etc., I pulled out two penny rolls (she's going what?  
> and I explained it was leftovers from buying my house), rabbit fur earmuffs,
> and fur-lined leather gloves.  She put on the gloves and found a note that
> said "These are kind of tight.  I wonder how they're going to fit over the
> ring?".  She naturally says "What ring?"  At which point I unveil the rock
> and say "This ring!"  GASP!  I then explain that I'm taking no chances with
> the answer to the next question, as I have now offered a diamond, furs, and
> cash.  Then I ask her to marry me, and she turned me down flat, and ran
> away with the ring.
> 	NOT!

cute try .... ;-)

> 	She said yes.  Considering we've already booked the church (April
> 3rd), that was a relief.  Spent the next half-hour gazing on the ring.

Sounds divine .... pics in the next ATWT yearbook????

> 	The funny thing was, there was this one single guy there, reading
> a book and facing us.  I had to order dessert and eat it slowly -- I didn't
> want to make him feel bad!  I am SUCH a nice guy.

We'll have to check with Dorothy on that one!!!

> 	We then spent about an hour smooching, looking forward to the 
> honeymoon, and lamenting the fact that we're so disgustingly moral.

It all sounds wonderful .... hope you make it till April!!!!!
You could elope NOW and keep it a secret and redo it big time in the
spring...


> : >      E-mail with questions, congrats and gift certificates
> : > to Victoria's Secret.
> : > 
> : 
> : I don't remember where you live, but Macy's has much nicer lingerie than
> : Victoria's (well, the store VS, not the catalog ...)
> 
> 	Good idea!  Macy, Macy's, where HAVE I heard that name before?
> 

GOOD GRIEF .... I certainly wasn't thinking when I wrote that .... in that
case then, if I were Dorothy, I think I'd prefer Victoria's .... ;-)

> : And a big congrats to you and best wishes to your fiance, who now needs a
> : nickname!
> 	"Dot" is out.  HATED IT!  Doefy isn't bad.

Had a friend named Dorothy who we called Dorce ... I'm not crazy about that
either tho .... BaByDoLl ... we need you!

> Is it the women who's the fiance and the man who's the fiancee, or the 
> other way around?

Haven't a clue!

> : Best of everything to the both of you,
> : Rita
> 
> 	Tank you velly much.
> 
You're quite welcome!
Ain't love grand?

> 	Jim Acker (to my B&B fans)
> 	Lazzzzzerjet Jimmy (on Ward D)
> 	jgacker@neptune.gsfc.nasa.gov (on the Net


RiBabe or Rita ... whichever is fine with me!
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