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Quiz lover pops question in Crossword
« on: Sep 24^th, 2007, 6:06pm »

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Man Uses Newspaper Crossword Puzzle To 'Pop The Question'
Boston Globe Aided Marriage Proposal

BOSTON -- Forget about candlelight, champagne and a bended knee. Don't think about a public proposal at Fenway Park while the Red Sox play.

They are both romantic in their own way, but not nearly as inventive as the proposal concocted by a love-struck man and a local newspaper.

The clue in a Boston Globe Sunday crossword puzzle turned out to be part of a clever and very original marriage proposal.

The clue for 111 across was Generic Proposal. The answer: Will you marry me?

For Aric Egmont, of Cambridge, Mass., the answer was also the marriage proposal to his girlfriend and puzzle devotee, Jennie Bass.

The Globe said that Egmont, 29, contacted the magazine this summer to ask if the puzzle writers would be willing to write one especially for him.

On our fourth date, I knew I had found the kind of dork I could love, Egmont wrote in a note to the magazine. We just went to the local coffee shop and did the crossword. That date was the first moment when we stopped relying on some kind of event to set the agenda, and instead we took that first tiny step towards normalcy, spending time together doing the same things we would regularly do on our own.

For Emily Cox and Henry Rathvon, the married puzzle-writing team, the challenge was more than including a single clue. They wanted to create an entire puzzle based on the theme popping the question. Each clue that followed the theme had to work. For example, Macrame artists proposal was Lets tie the knot.

Cox and Rathvon then went beyond a generic clue for Egmont's proposal. "Generic Proposal" actually was a phonetic play on words of the couple's first names: Jen and Aric.

Egmont told the newspaper that Saturday night was a restless one. The happy ending came Sunday.

Finally, Sunday morning, I was like, Do you want to do the crossword? I grab the paper and we start doing it. There are clues that have personal significance, my last name, her best friends name. Shes not suspicious at all. Her sisters name is in there. Shes like, This is so bizarre. She just thinks its an amazing coincidence.

Until they got to 111 across.

We get to the Will you marry me? clue, and I said, Will you marry me, Jenny? I got up, got the ring, and got down on one knee and she screamed, and hugged me. It took her a minute to say yes.

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Re: Quiz lover pops question in Crossword
« Reply #1 on: Sep 24^th, 2007, 6:07pm »

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I thought that this was really cute

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« Reply #3 on: Sep 24^th, 2007, 7:00pm »

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Clever!

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« Reply #4 on: Sep 24^th, 2007, 11:05pm »

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Interesting...

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« Reply #5 on: Sep 24^th, 2007, 11:18pm »

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It's cute! And original too.

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« Reply #6 on: Sep 24^th, 2007, 11:19pm »

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JP will pop the question in computer code Wink

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« Reply #7 on: Sep 25^th, 2007, 4:18am »

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That was cheezy, but cool idea.

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« Reply #8 on: Sep 25^th, 2007, 1:47pm »

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on Sep 24^th, 2007, 11:19pm, Elle wrote:

JP will pop the question in computer code Wink

That's actually a good idea! :bookworm:

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« Reply #9 on: Sep 29^th, 2007, 8:22am »

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JP will pop the question in computer code

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« Reply #10 on: Sep 30^th, 2007, 11:47am »

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on Sep 24^th, 2007, 11:19pm, Elle wrote:

JP will pop the question in computer code Wink

Since when is JP ready to propose? Tongue

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« Reply #11 on: Sep 30^th, 2007, 11:52am »

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I can't picture it! :laff:

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01010111 01101001 01101100 01101100 00100000 01011001 01101111 01110101 00100000 01001101 01100001 01110010 01110010 01111001 00100000 01101101 01100101

That is how JP will propose. Tongue

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