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Title: Ignoble Proposal Post by: dystopia on March 14, 2008, 02:12:48 PM Engagement ring ends up gone with the wind http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20080314/od_uk_nm/oukoe_uk_britain_engagement;_ylt=AtjuNrkNqpRVKECXY84PEAXtiBIF Quote LONDON (Reuters) - It is the one moment every man wants to get right -- and which London floor-fitter Lefkos Hajji could hardly have got more wrong. The luckless 28 year-old's dreams of giving his sweetheart, Leanne, 26, the ultimate proposal have literally vanished into thin air. Hajji, of Hackney, east London, had concealed a 6,000-pound engagement ring inside a helium balloon. The idea was that she would pop the balloon as he popped the question. But as he left the shop, a gust of wind pulled the balloon from his hand and he watched the ring -- and quite possibly the affections of his girlfriend -- sailing away over the rooftops. "I couldn't believe it," he told The Sun newspaper. "I just watched as it went further and further into the air. "I felt like such a plonker. It cost a fortune and I knew my girlfriend would kill me." (more...) Title: Re: Ignoble Proposal Post by: Uisce Beatha on March 14, 2008, 02:16:05 PM Awesome plan to get full credit for dishing for a ~$10K ring without actually dishing for ~$10K.
Karma +10K. Title: Re: Ignoble Proposal Post by: stroh on March 14, 2008, 02:18:39 PM Awesome plan to get full credit for dishing for a ~$10K ring without actually dishing for ~$10K. Karma +10K. [sm_laughing] LOL cynical Usice is funny as hell. Title: Re: Ignoble Proposal Post by: Aske on March 14, 2008, 02:20:54 PM LOL, and UB says that I AM A A CYNIC!
oh, btw UB, i'll buy all the pounds you want to sell me at a ratio of 10/6. Title: Re: Ignoble Proposal Post by: Uisce Beatha on March 14, 2008, 02:22:48 PM LOL, and UB says that I AM A A CYNIC! oh, btw UB, i'll buy all the pounds you want to sell me at a ratio of 10/6. That's right. It's the euro at 1.6 and the pound at roughly 2.0. Right? Mum's going to England in May. She has a place to stay and rides and so forth but it's gonna be brutal. Title: Re: Ignoble Proposal Post by: dystopia on March 14, 2008, 02:27:24 PM Awesome plan to get full credit for dishing for a ~$10K ring without actually dishing for ~$10K. Karma +10K. [sm_laughing] LOL cynical Usice is funny as hell. LOL. Cynical Uisce > Insouciant Uisce Title: Re: Ignoble Proposal Post by: Aske on March 14, 2008, 02:29:18 PM Awesome plan to get full credit for dishing for a ~$10K ring without actually dishing for ~$10K. Karma +10K. [sm_laughing] LOL cynical Usice is funny as hell. LOL. Cynical Uisce > Insouciant Uisce someone bought a word of the day calendar Title: Re: Ignoble Proposal Post by: stroh on March 14, 2008, 02:30:19 PM Awesome plan to get full credit for dishing for a ~$10K ring without actually dishing for ~$10K. Karma +10K. [sm_laughing] LOL cynical Usice is funny as hell. LOL. Cynical Uisce > Insouciant Uisce Yahtzee! If I ever form a band, that's the name! Cynical Uisce. ;D Title: Re: Ignoble Proposal Post by: dystopia on March 14, 2008, 02:31:29 PM Awesome plan to get full credit for dishing for a ~$10K ring without actually dishing for ~$10K. Karma +10K. [sm_laughing] LOL cynical Usice is funny as hell. LOL. Cynical Uisce > Insouciant Uisce someone bought a word of the day calendar I get pretty bored in this library. (when I should be working) |