On the grid
By Carol Beggy & Mark Shanahan, Globe Staff | September 25, 2007
Imagine the look on Jennie Bass\'s face when she got to 111 across in Sunday\'s crossword puzzle in the Boston Globe magazine. The clue? "Generic Proposal." The answer? "Will you marry me?" While most puzzlers just scribbled in the answer and moved on, not Bass. Those 14 letters were an actual marriage proposal by Bass\'s boyfriend Aric Egmont, who\'d contacted the magazine to ask if a crossword could be specially created for him.
"On our fourth date, I knew I had found the kind of dork I could love," Egmont wrote to the mag. (Both inveterate puzzlers, he\'s in communications at Fidelity and she\'s studying food policy and public health at Tufts School of Medicine.)
Emily Cox and Henry Rathvon, the puzzle-writing pair who\'ve been crafting the magazine\'s crosswords for years, accepted the challenge. Their puzzle was titled "Popping the question," and each entry was a variation on proposals. The tricky part, of course, was writing a puzzle - including an official proposal - that would be clear to the happy couple but not obscure to everyone else. Hence, 111 across: "Generic proposal" (Jen + Aric = generic).
"We get to the \'Will you marry me?\' clue," says Egmont, "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 answer, but, yes, she\'ll marry him.
http://www.boston.com/news/globe/living/articles/2007/09/25/on_the_grid/maybe it\'s cause i\'m a geek myself, but that\'s pretty fuckin\' cool.
yeah, that\'s pretty money!
probably the geekiest thing I have ever heard of right there
aahhhhhhhh That\'s sweet.
That is pretty awesome.
14 letters is a pretty long crossword answer.
I heard about this on yahoo this morning. Nice original idea.
thats sooooo adorable. sigh. i need a dork like that.
Yea, this has been all over the news all day.
Ghay!!!!!
giving a fat girl a ring in a donut is not romantic.
Ghay!!!!!
giving a fat girl a ring in a donut is not romantic.
only if you have to save her from choking on it
Ghay!!!!!
giving a fat girl a ring in a donut is not romantic.
only if you have to save her from choking on it
If she is choking on a donut with a nice little ring in it, you have no need for her.
Ghay!!!!!
giving a fat girl a ring in a donut is not romantic.
rotfl
go ahead and ask him about it.
she said no because he gave her a glazed and she wanted a crawler.
it was cream filled...... get it right. i told her to chew first