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Over a few years and several blogs I have posted quite a few imaginative marriage proposals, but this is by far the most elaborate proposal I have ever encountered. Steve posted the story at the YouTube page.
I have know my fiance Tracey Wade for over 14 years and wanted to propose to her in a very unique way. Tracey thought we were just going to the movies on a Sunday afternoon. Little did she know, I had rented the entire theater and filled it with 160 of our friends and family. I made it seem as though we were showing up a little late to the movie and went in to the theater after the lights had gone down and the movie trailers were already playing. This was done to keep her from recognizing anyone in the theater. What I had done was make an entire movie trailer that had actors portraying both Tracey and I at different times in our lives, both present day and in the future. After a few trailers played including one for Lord of the Rings the one I had made started. Tracey thought it was just another trailer for a movie soon to be released. Tracey was just perplexed as to how many different things had similarities to our relationship, she kept nudging me throughout the trailer. Tracey had no idea this was a marriage proposal until the last three seconds of the trailer.
Nine months earlier in September of 2006 I started by hiring a professional production team, securing two and a half million dollars (FOR FREE) worth of film equipment (THANK YOU PANAVISION, THEY DONATED THE EQUIPMENT FOR THE SHOOT), and writing a script that would show what would go through someone's mind (Tracey's) if they were about to die. It is said "moments before you die your life flashes right before your eyes". JUST A NOTE: Ever since Tracey was a young girl, she has had a reoccurring dream that she was going to die in a plane crash. Actors were cast to portray both Tracey and I at different times in our lives (twenty years in the future as well as present day)
Oh yeah, she said yes! This is one of The Top 14 Geekiest Wedding Proposals at LaptopLogic. http://laptoplogic.com/resources/geekiest-wedding-proposals -via Unique Daily
Comments (16)
I wouldn't say his opinions were hypocritical though, confused yes but not hypocrisy.
If you've ever been seriously poor, and I mean hungry homeless and without hope of it changing poor, the pursuit of money and fear of falling back into penury can be a driving force. While the first hand appreciation of what poverty truly is can make a socialist of a soul.
But in Jack's time he could both see the resistance to social reform so would see both socialism and his own pursuit of money as not being contradictory but springing from the same source.
The Social Darwinism and the Eugenics I'll give you those no question, but the alcoholic in favour of prohibition is no different from anyone with a substance abuse problem, they all stare at the needle the cigarette, the bottle or white line and wish that the bloody thing had never been discovered.
Very interesting article, thanks.