I think I have arrived at a recipe for success… now it’s time for the great Don Juans at SDMB to help me refine it or tear it apart.
Step 1:
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Does she drive to school or take a bus each morning? Do the Burma Shave thing and have a series of signs on poster board along her route, asking her to the dance… It’s cheap, it’s memorable, and also very, very public without setting fire to anything.
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Yes, she drives (the car will come into play later).
Step 1.5:
[QUOTE=FormerMarineGuy]
To agree with everyone else, the fire thing is a bad idea. Again…bad!.
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So fire… it was a bad idea. At least I had my heart in the right place.
However, I have found a way to get a similar, albeit not as explosive, sudden darkness-to-light effect: Projector Hooked up to Laptop.
Step 2:
[QUOTE=duality72]
Record yourself asking her to the dance, make it into an MP3, and surreptitiously either a) put the MP3 on her iPod (might help to queue it up to play next or something or you might be in for a long wait if it’s on random) or b) swap her iPod with a ‘plant’ that has your MP3 plus a few others or something on it. If you really want to geek it up, make your dance invitation into a jazz song.
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Okay record my own track…
[QUOTE=Pullet]
You on her lawn in a trech coat with an oversized boom box playing a tape of you singing “Will you go to homecoming with me?” really loud held above your head.
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pump it through a boom box…
Plan:
0900 Make sure she has no plans tonight
1200 Coordinate with her sister for a plan to get her into the car at 2050 Hrs (after sunset)
2045 Sister plants a CD with mysterious instructions to follow the signs in her car. (Disguised voice of course…)
2050 Target follows signs set up that tell her to “Turn Right” “Turn Left” etc. (2-3 signs with an infantryman and a flashlight- to light up the signs)
2055 (Cue dramatic music) Car stops at predetermined location, sister makes target get out.
2056 One of my men is on the roof with the Laptop & LCD projector all ready to go
2057 Target reaches large X on the ground
2058 Suddenly a sees an projection image and hears a romantic jazz song
2059 Gunnsfastest emerges from the bushes- in his trenchcoat
-with a rose
2100 Asks question: receives a yes and a hug, a yes and a kiss, a polite no, or a scream and a fainted girl.
Any ideas for what the projection should be, how I could fine tune the plan, any elements that probably aren’t right?
wow… that was creepesque; I could have probably done without the miltary precision.