Subject: TP: twin-peaks proposal
From: pane@cat.cmu.edu (John Pane)
Date: 1990-11-30, 10:11
Newsgroups: alt.tv.twin-peaks

My apologies to those who have seen this before.  I originally posted this
message to rec.arts.tv, before I knew that alt.tv.twin-peaks was accessible
to me.  I'm reposting here because obviously the TP audience here is much
larger, and it was well-received by the TP fans on the other group:

Barbara and I have been talking about marriage for a while.  She knew I was
ring shopping, and had been anticipating that I would propose to her any day
now.  But I didn't want her to expect it, as she would if I took her out to
a nice restaurant, for instance.  So here is what I did, which only a Twin
Peaks fan would appreciate.

The Twin Peaks soundtrack was playing on the stereo when Barbara
walked into my apartment on Monday afternoon.  I handed her an envelope
addressed to "My Special Agent".  Inside was a note saying "Laura knew 
answer to the question on your mind."  (Of course the question on her mind
was "when is he going to ask me to marry him").  

It took a little while, but eventually she walked over to the bookshelf and
picked up my copy of The Secret Diary of Laura Palmer.  Inside she found a
computer printout of a bunch of random numbers.  Imbedded in these numbers
was the message "check the machine for answers".  She went to the answering
machine and played the message, which went something like.  "Diane, 3:52 pm,
Room 221 at the Great Denniston.  These mystery letters keep turning up
everywhere, even under my own fingernails." (The Denniston is the name of
the building I live in).

She grabbed my hands and checked all of my fingers.  Under one fingernail
she found a tiny piece of paper.  On the paper were the letters "cd".  She
walked over to the stereo expecting to see the Twin Peaks soundtrack cd
playing.  But I had taped it earlier and it was the tape that was playing.
She found the cd and searched the jewel box and liner notes to no avail.
Then she turned on the cd player to insert the cd.  The cd tray opened to
present the engagement ring.

It was a fun little game.  And she said "yes".
-- John Pane pane+@cs.cmu.edu School of Computer Science Carnegie Mellon University (412) 268-3650