# An announcement... **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [March 19, 2000, 3:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/an-announcement/15206 "2000-03-19T03:50:00Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 6
**Author:** ![SanibelMan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a88e4f/32.png) [@SanibelMan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SanibelMan)\ **Post date:** [March 20, 2000, 9:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/an-announcement/15206/101 "2000-03-20T21:32:00Z")
I’m so very, very, amazingly, terribly, truly sorry that I didn’t respond sooner. But hey, this is wonderful! I mean, I knew you two were getting engaged, but I didn’t know how. Brian, that’s possibly the most creative way to pop the question that I’ve seen. Make sure to get that ball encased in glass and set prominently in your house, so that you’ll always remember that amazing day - not that you need the ball to remember. So Brian, Libby, congratulations! * * * ## _SanibelMan_ - [My Homepage](http://members.macconnect.com/~jonkleinow/) I can only please one person per day. Today is not your day. Tomorrow isn’t looking good either. ---
**Author:** ![cmkeller](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cmkeller/32/118_2.png) [@cmkeller](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cmkeller)\ **Post date:** [March 20, 2000, 9:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/an-announcement/15206/102 "2000-03-20T21:37:00Z")
Mazel Tov to the two of you! * * * Chaim Mattis Keller [ckeller@kozmo.com](mailto:ckeller@kozmo.com) “Sherlock Holmes once said that once you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the answer. I, however, do not like to eliminate the impossible. The impossible often has a kind of integrity to it that the merely improbable lacks.” – Douglas Adams’s Dirk Gently, Holistic Detective ---
**Author:** ![Poto](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/7ab992/32.png) [@Poto](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Poto)\ **Post date:** [March 20, 2000, 11:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/an-announcement/15206/103 "2000-03-20T23:44:00Z")
Well, something positive at the board, for a change. Satan: Will she make you shave you know where? ---
**Author:** ![Gazelle](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/b4bc9f/32.png) [@Gazelle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gazelle)\ **Post date:** [March 21, 2000, 12:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/an-announcement/15206/104 "2000-03-21T00:39:00Z")
Woo-hoooo! Congratulations, you two! May you live happily ever after… * * * You have the right to remain silent. Anything you say will be misquoted, then used against you. With love from the poster voted as having the **"Most Confusing Username"** ---
**Author:** ![Shadowfox](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/c89c15/32.png) [@Shadowfox](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shadowfox)\ **Post date:** [March 21, 2000, 2:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/an-announcement/15206/105 "2000-03-21T02:31:00Z")
Congratulations! I’m really happy for the both of you. Too bad you didn’t get the proposal on videotape. That would be something to show your kids someday. _pssstt…hey Drain…when’s the bachelorette party?_ * * * Shadowfox “The dead have risen, and they’re voting Republican!” - Bart Simpson ---
**Author:** ![Kat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/b19c9b/32.png) [@Kat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kat)\ **Post date:** [March 21, 2000, 4:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/an-announcement/15206/106 "2000-03-21T04:43:00Z")
Congratulations to both of ya. (Yeah, yeah, I know you don’t congratulate the bride, but she’s getting the \*\*Lord of Darkness{/b] himself…) ---
**Author:** ![crackwise](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/22d042/32.png) [@crackwise](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/crackwise)\ **Post date:** [March 21, 2000, 5:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/an-announcement/15206/107 "2000-03-21T05:12:00Z")
You don’t even know me, but **congratulations** to you both. may a full, wonderful, and happy life wait before you, ~cd~ ---
**Author:** ![Green\_Bean](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/green_bean/32/1760_2.png) [@Green\_Bean](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Green_Bean)\ **Post date:** [March 21, 2000, 5:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/an-announcement/15206/108 "2000-03-21T05:18:00Z")
Congratulations, best of luck, and nice to meet you both. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Leachman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/e9c0ed/32.png) [@Leachman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Leachman)\ **Post date:** [March 21, 2000, 6:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/an-announcement/15206/109 "2000-03-21T06:05:00Z")
You better be good to her man, you are one lucky guy. Trust me on this one! Matt ---
**Author:** ![Sucellus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/df705f/32.png) [@Sucellus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sucellus)\ **Post date:** [March 21, 2000, 7:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/an-announcement/15206/110 "2000-03-21T19:47:00Z")
Will there be “Seeing Eye Goats” at the wedding…or should I bring my own? Best of luck ! ---
**Author:** ![Tinker\_Grey](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tinker_grey/32/8136_2.png) [@Tinker\_Grey](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tinker_Grey)\ **Post date:** [March 21, 2000, 8:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/an-announcement/15206/111 "2000-03-21T20:33:00Z")
Congratulations! ---
**Author:** ![idiotboy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/b487fb/32.png) [@idiotboy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/idiotboy)\ **Post date:** [March 21, 2000, 8:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/an-announcement/15206/112 "2000-03-21T20:35:00Z")
Is it?! Could it be?! **THE** Matt Leachman?! 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Drain\_Bead](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e47774/32.png) [@Drain\_Bead](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Drain_Bead)\ **Post date:** [March 21, 2000, 10:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/an-announcement/15206/113 "2000-03-21T22:23:00Z")
It certainly was, but I doubt he’ll be staying around. Wonder if he noticed that you posted here too? Thanks for the offer of the seeing-eye goats, Sucellus. I believe we’ll be having our reception at the Holiday Inn ballroom, in between the fraternity reunion and the nun convention. ---
**Author:** ![Myron\_Van\_Horowitzski](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/9de053/32.png) [@Myron\_Van\_Horowitzski](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Myron_Van_Horowitzski)\ **Post date:** [March 21, 2000, 11:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/an-announcement/15206/114 "2000-03-21T23:01:00Z")
Here’s to yah both! Have one on me! yer pal, Myron * * * Imbibo, ergo sum. ---
**Author:** ![Strainger](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/strainger/32/244_2.png) [@Strainger](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Strainger)\ **Post date:** [March 22, 2000, 1:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/an-announcement/15206/115 "2000-03-22T01:07:00Z")
You crazy kids! Congratulations! ---
**Author:** ![DougC](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/7feea3/32.png) [@DougC](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DougC)\ **Post date:** [March 22, 2000, 5:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/an-announcement/15206/116 "2000-03-22T05:25:00Z")
> [@](#): > > I’ve checked with the appropriate authorities here in the old world and they said it was OK. So there ya go! - Clodfire - - - Yea, but apparently you didn’t send 'em a picture. Drain Bead and Satan look too _normal_ to have an internet wedding; they do not meet the minimum requirements of dorkiness. I give you, Exhibit A: - [http://www.fugly.net/g8/3803.html](http://www.fugly.net/g8/3803.html) - - - - I thinks they oughta be hitched too, but I don’t want them to get into any trouble so I put together a story from what I could find. (-Get it straight, people. We all need to tell the same story if anybody asks.) - “They _really_ met during an “art happening” at the National Bowling Hall of Fame. Drain was traveling with a group of Future Accountants of America, viewing the exhibit “great accountants in bowling”. Satan is the lead guitarist in the band “Stinky Pinky and the Banana Peels”, whose tour van got lost on the western-Indiana leg of their Indiana tour. They both got spit on by Knuckles the Angry Clown, and knew they were right for each other when S offered DB a pocket tissue.” - Sorry about the delay, but leaving a digital trail isn’t quite as easy as them anit-government patriots say it is. - MC ---
**Author:** ![Kyla](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/eada6e/32.png) [@Kyla](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kyla)\ **Post date:** [March 22, 2000, 7:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/an-announcement/15206/117 "2000-03-22T07:49:00Z")
I already congratulated Libby & Satan, but since this thread will likely be saved for posterity, I want it down here that I am so very pleased for both of you. Mazal tov. ~Kyla ---
**Author:** ![ryan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/a8b319/32.png) [@ryan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ryan)\ **Post date:** [March 22, 2000, 9:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/an-announcement/15206/118 "2000-03-22T09:52:00Z")
My best wishes to you both! 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![DougC](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/7feea3/32.png) [@DougC](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DougC)\ **Post date:** [March 22, 2000, 12:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/an-announcement/15206/119 "2000-03-22T12:35:00Z")
- - - StoryTyler, me thinks you might be giving an impression you don’t intend. Your sig line “not everybody does it - but everybody should” appears in the George Michael song “I Want Your Sex”. - [http://www.summer.com.br/~pfilho/html/lyrics/i/i\_want\_your\_sex.txt](http://www.summer.com.br/~pfilho/html/lyrics/i/i_want_your_sex.txt) - - And yes, I _am_ giggling. - MC ---
**Author:** ![DougC](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/7feea3/32.png) [@DougC](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DougC)\ **Post date:** [March 24, 2000, 5:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/an-announcement/15206/120 "2000-03-24T05:44:00Z")
- - - Okay, uh, , -I had a little problem with the INS. Had to make a couple changes for saftey’s sake. Before you gripe, understand that I was caught in a jam and so was pressed for time; I had to pick from a few records that were already in dispute. - Satan, your new name is Salichhhar Beytamiat. You are Pakistani goatherder seeking political asylum. - Drain, sorry, but your new name is Tarimelayatra Hebrilameba Poriyativama Patel Masseoud. The_good_ news is, you now have a Master’s in microbiology from Stanford! - I’m playing the India/Pakistan peace connection to Oprah; I figure a little positive publicity couldn’t hurt. Watch the mail for new IDs. Other than that, everything’s normal. - MC [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/an-announcement/15206.md?page=5) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/an-announcement/15206.md?page=7)