Didn't someone just do this on the Onion's crossword, too?

I wanna play the crossword damnit.

Someday someone's going to have to explain how articles with no discussion in TF make it to main.

9 across
4 letters
second letter A
Clue: Fark cliche for what happens when you don't article before you post the headline

Hint: The article isn't about the editor

Malinki: 9 across
4 letters
second letter A
Clue: Fark cliche for what happens when you don't read the article before you post the headline

Hint: The article isn't about the editor

FTFM

I take it that English isn't the submitter's first language.

Tawnos: Someday someone's going to have to explain how articles with no discussion in TF make it to main.

Easy. Modmins can green their own articles.

Or they popped it insta green because it was sappy enough.

Or no TFers found it interesting enough to comment about.

this is the second lamest proposal ive seen today this is the first.Link (new window)

I always get proposed to while going down, never across.

Hence the Name...: I always get proposed to while going down, never across.

Nice.

FTFF: "The puzzle, as always, appeared only in USA TODAY, in the paper and online."

It's a farking USA Today forum, crawling with (I assume) USA Today readers - and you feel the need to plug the newspaper?

That just struck me as lame for some reason.

That is so sweet. Everyones getting proposed to these days, eh?

This has been done before. Maybe not with the editor creating the puzzle as a proposal, but I read an article a while back about a guy who did the crossword w/his girlfriend every week, and he got the editor to write a proposal crossword for him.

It's not original if you're copying someone else's idea.

"We've been bouncing all over the place."

Giggity.

/Just wait for the wedding. That'll stop.

Try proposing with a sudoku.

Best marriage proposal:

All these type gimmicks are bullcrap, like proposing on the jumbotron or other big public ways of proposing. A proposal of marriage is a private, intimate thing. Making it a public spectacle is not only boorish and low-class, it takes away from the specialness, which is the private matter between you and your intended wife. Its like you are bragging for attention, hey everybody, look at me, I'm mr. romantic proposing to my wife and including everyone who doesn't even know us in on the private matter so I can get publicity for myself! Its bullcrap and if my S.O. proposed to me that way I'd publically slap his face and refuse him for disrespecting me in that way. That would be a nice publicity stunt for him.

It shows right off the bat that a guy cares more about himself and his public image than he does about the love you share together PRIVATELY. Its supposed to be intimate. What's intimate about a crossword puzzle in a newspaper? Really disgusting and low class move.

docweasel 2008-04-13 03:35:19 PM
All these type gimmicks are bullcrap, like proposing on the jumbotron or other big public ways of proposing. A proposal of marriage is a private, intimate thing. Making it a public spectacle is not only boorish and low-class, it takes away from the specialness, which is the private matter between you and your intended wife. Its like you are bragging for attention, hey everybody, look at me, I'm mr. romantic proposing to my wife and including everyone who doesn't even know us in on the private matter so I can get publicity for myself! Its bullcrap and if my S.O. proposed to me that way I'd publically slap his face and refuse him for disrespecting me in that way. That would be a nice publicity stunt for him.

It shows right off the bat that a guy cares more about himself and his public image than he does about the love you share together PRIVATELY. Its supposed to be intimate. What's intimate about a crossword puzzle in a newspaper? Really disgusting and low class move.

talk about a biatch, eh?

maybe they're trying to do something different and memorable rather than proposing in private like 99% of other people do. some people would be flattered that their SO would take the time to think of the most special way possible to pop this question. apparently, though, a small percentage are shrill enough to be put off by this practice.

in which case, this becomes a great litmus test for biatchy fiances.

This was done about 4 or 5 years ago with the NYT Crossword.

Ok, it was more like 10 years ago.

Jon Stewart did it already too.

He got back to us within minutes. "Yes, it WAS a real proposal," Parker wrote. "The constructor of the puzzle, Alex Fay wrote it as a proposal to his girlfriend and I edited it to our standards. To my knowledge, this is the first proposal crossword ever published in which the proposer actually CONSTRUCTED the puzzle."

This is how Jon Stewart proposed to his wife. He got the guy in charge of NYT crosswords to make one for him with a marriage proposal in it. I don't think it was published though.

This is all i have to say about that crap...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U72t1zy9ytY

/not a rickroll

Dude, if someone proposed to me with a crossword I'd make him pot roast and potatoes every night and make sure he always had enough extra whacking material in the bathroom.

/crossword FANATIC

I used boggle



Luckily my girlfriend is nothing like docweasel.

JPenman: I used boggle



Luckily my girlfriend is nothing like docweasel.

Aww, that's good too :)

Hence the Name...: I always get proposed to while going down, never across.

I laughed

perhaps hangman would be more appropriate, eh docweasel?

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thegreatmurgatroid: docweasel 2008-04-13 03:35:19 PM
All these type gimmicks are bullcrap, like proposing on the jumbotron or other big public ways of proposing. A proposal of marriage is a private, intimate thing. Making it a public spectacle is not only boorish and low-class, it takes away from the specialness, which is the private matter between you and your intended wife. Its like you are bragging for attention, hey everybody, look at me, I'm mr. romantic proposing to my wife and including everyone who doesn't even know us in on the private matter so I can get publicity for myself! Its bullcrap and if my S.O. proposed to me that way I'd publically slap his face and refuse him for disrespecting me in that way. That would be a nice publicity stunt for him.

It shows right off the bat that a guy cares more about himself and his public image than he does about the love you share together PRIVATELY. Its supposed to be intimate. What's intimate about a crossword puzzle in a newspaper? Really disgusting and low class move.

talk about a biatch, eh?

maybe they're trying to do something different and memorable rather than proposing in private like 99% of other people do. some people would be flattered that their SO would take the time to think of the most special way possible to pop this question. apparently, though, a small percentage are shrill enough to be put off by this practice.

in which case, this becomes a great litmus test for biatchy fiances.

What thegreatmurgatroid said. You know, there are still people for whom "stage fright" simply doesn't exist. Making or accepting proposals of marriage publicly would be something those of us in that group would adore and tell our (great-)grandkids about, if we get to have any. Someone in a serious relationship ought to know whether or not their significant other would enjoy that or not. And anyone in a serious dating relationship needs to know what their answer would be if their partner were to ask that question, so that they are ready for it when the time comes. They should also have the ability to answer it tactfully, even if the answer isn't what the other wants to hear. I thought that is how people who actually love each other would treat each other.

/Cue obvious tag.

Some guy just did this earlier, in Boston I think. Not a new thing. Clever, but not new.

Eh, I think it's cute and sort of a fun thing to do.

Last summer my neighbor's son did just that in Boston Globe. Link (new window)
So, I am getting a kick...

Eight letter word for "Life's over"?

This is the way I would propose to a gf...



/has no gf

NYZooMan: Eight letter word for "Life's over"?

Children?

NYZooMan
Eight letter word for "Life's over"?

Sorry, but "Totalfark" has nine letters.

The Voice of Doom: NYZooMan
Eight letter word for "Life's over"?

Sorry, but "Totalfark" has nine letters.

Actually i'm sure he meant Warcraft.

/prepares for backlash

I want to know how many other women did the crossword and pointed out that line to their SO, hoping it was intended for them.

Nice headline, subby. First good use of the Not News/News/Fark cliche I've seen in a while.

I gave my wife a giftwrapped ring box. With a PowerPuff Girls watch inside.

The next morning I woke her up with the ring.

Married 9/11/2004, still farkin' like bunnies.

Cool, I think I remember how the man proposed their first date too:

Aarontz23: Cool, I think I remember how the man proposed their first date too:

Gol, señor. Gol.

JPenman: I used boggle


I am a bad person.

I want the A and F at lower left to be swapped, so I can get a FAIL out of that.

(Sounds like there was no fail involved, though - congrats.)

Some guy did something like this in the Cleveland Plain Dealer on Valentine's Day this year.

JPenman 2008-04-13 04:37:24 PM
I used boggle

Well, seeing as that's nothing like what I'm talking about. Did you play boggle on the jumbotron? I'm talking about people who make a spectacle of their proposal are more about themselves than the person to which they are proposing, and ruining a beautiful moment with their own egomaniacal bullshiat.

thegreatmurgatroid 2008-04-13 03:39:06 PM
docweasel 2008-04-13 03:35:19 PM
All these type gimmicks are bullcrap, like proposing on the jumbotron or other big public ways of proposing. A proposal of marriage is a private, intimate thing. Making it a public spectacle is not only boorish and low-class, it takes away from the specialness, which is the private matter between you and your intended wife. Its like you are bragging for attention, hey everybody, look at me, I'm mr. romantic proposing to my wife and including everyone who doesn't even know us in on the private matter so I can get publicity for myself! Its bullcrap and if my S.O. proposed to me that way I'd publically slap his face and refuse him for disrespecting me in that way. That would be a nice publicity stunt for him.

It shows right off the bat that a guy cares more about himself and his public image than he does about the love you share together PRIVATELY. Its supposed to be intimate. What's intimate about a crossword puzzle in a newspaper? Really disgusting and low class move.

talk about a biatch, eh?

maybe they're trying to do something different and memorable rather than proposing in private like 99% of other people do. some people would be flattered that their SO would take the time to think of the most special way possible to pop this question. apparently, though, a small percentage are shrill enough to be put off by this practice.

in which case, this becomes a great litmus test for biatchy fiances.

Well, you've passed the litmus test for selfish, inconsiderate, self-aggrandizing assholes. I pity your wife, if you have one. She suffers, and you are probably too stupid and blind to see it, judging by your attitude.