Whisper Chain Marriage Proposal
July 29, 2009 1:59 AM   Subscribe

While setting the world record for longest whisper chain, Jake Bronstein used the occasion to propose to his girlfriend. His proposal traveled through 59 people to get to an ecstatic Kristina Hoge, Bronstein's now-fiancée.
posted by Cochise (17 comments total)

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Actually it started out "Will you lend me a twenty?"
posted by TheophileEscargot at 2:17 AM on July 29, 2009


"Why on earth did you pick the message 'Willam Ellery'?"
"Never mind."
posted by potch at 2:28 AM on July 29, 2009 [1 favorite]


These stories (of super-cute, high-profile marriage proposals) always make me wonder. I mean, it would have been really really hard for her to say no in such a context, right? I guess you don't stage this kind of thing unless you're certain of the answer...
posted by game warden to the events rhino at 2:35 AM on July 29, 2009


Urghh, I would have mis-heard it on purpose.
posted by ciderwoman at 2:41 AM on July 29, 2009 [1 favorite]


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posted by Blazecock Pileon at 2:48 AM on July 29, 2009


That wouldn't have been very pleasant of you.
posted by WalterMitty at 2:49 AM on July 29, 2009


Preview fail.
posted by WalterMitty at 2:49 AM on July 29, 2009


I just threw up in my mouth a little.
posted by molecicco at 2:57 AM on July 29, 2009


The world's longest wisper chain is only 59 people? Hell, I could whip up a longer chain than that with three cases of beer and two hours.
posted by Mr.Encyclopedia at 3:02 AM on July 29, 2009


Ah, but a longer succesful one?



(The answer is yes, if you pick an exceedingly simple and relevant message like "beer is good")
posted by Dysk at 3:28 AM on July 29, 2009


Blazecock Pileon, that's an awesome link, just for the idiocy of the Bill Underwood quotes. Why, he makes the accusation that the couple in question "love pleasure more than they love God". My guess is their response is likely to be something like "well, yes". I know that's true of me, and I even consider myself a Christian of sorts!
posted by Dysk at 3:32 AM on July 29, 2009


"The world's longest wisper chain is only 59 people? Hell, I could whip up a longer chain than that with three cases of beer and two hours."

It's certified? by the The Universal Record Database. Seems like we have a golden opportunity to get MetaFilter a world record.
posted by Mitheral at 4:11 AM on July 29, 2009 [1 favorite]


It's certified? by the The Universal Record Database. Seems like we have a golden opportunity to get MetaFilter a world record.

Yeah, the Universal Record Database people have a monthly event at Crash Mansion where you can sign up to attempt to break a world record (or come up with something nobody's done before in the first place). Lots of fun, but more than a little ridiculous.
posted by goingonit at 5:16 AM on July 29, 2009


Doesn't using a proposal like that, where everyone involved is going to have a real interest in passing along the message unmodified, kind of negate the only fun of doing a whisper chain?


I've always thought of religion and myth as a sort of giant whisper chain. You know, it starts out simply enough...some ancient Greek starts telling people "I know this dude, Heracles, he wrestled a calf to the ground." Not outrageous, right? I mean, they do that at rodeos all the time.

But then the story gets told about a billion times over a couple thousand years and the next thing you know Heracles has throttled some giant bull with his bare hands.

posted by JaredSeth at 6:02 AM on July 29, 2009 [1 favorite]


Blazecock Pileon, thank you for that link. Like Brother Dysk, I find the Bill Underwood quotes to be finestkind hilarity for the sheer head-up-ass-ness of them. Utterly ridiculous in the bluster. Probably the kind of person who looks down at someone smiling at a baby laughing, and grumps about the baby.
posted by mephron at 6:24 AM on July 29, 2009


59? I feel like I must have done longer whisper chains at summer camp. Not that ours ever made it to the end, because there was always at least one jerk who thought it would be hilarious to change the message to a completely different phrase. Glad there was no such jerk here.

Kristina, I'm breaking up with you.
posted by pemberkins at 6:37 AM on July 29, 2009


Prisoner: Johnny and the Mothers are playing "Stompin' at the Savoy" in Vermont tonight.
Johnny Dangerously: Vermin's going to kill my brother at the Savoy theater tonight.
Prisoner: I didn't say that.
Johnny Dangerously: No, but I know this grapevine.
posted by Astro Zombie at 6:48 AM on July 29, 2009 [2 favorites]


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