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Endangered Specie Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jul-13-04 01:26 PM
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Man Loses Engagement Ring at Fishing Hole
http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=817&e=7&u=/ap/sinking_proposal

ST. PAUL, Minn. - Erik Hobbie was amazed at his own stupidity.

The St. Paul native and ice fisherman had known for months how he would propose to his girlfriend. Over Thanksgiving weekend last year at his family's cabin near Ely in far northern Minnesota, he had his chance.

Hobbie woke up early that morning to drill holes in the ice on Burntside Lake and erect a tip-up — a spring-loaded device that indicates a fish has taken the bait.

On the end of the line he tied his grandmother's heirloom diamond ring.

Poorly, as it turned out.

When he went to the hole with his girlfriend, Pamala Gahr, and they pulled up the line, the ring was gone.

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Hobbie, 44, who works as a chemical engineer in Washington, D.C., popped the question on the spot anyway. Gahr, 37, a native of Champlin, said, "Yes."
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Lavender Brown Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jul-13-04 01:28 PM
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1. Pretty stupid
I do feel sorry for him though. His grandma's ring. Damn.
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Endangered Specie Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jul-13-04 01:44 PM
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3. But the bride to be is just a dumb for saying yes to him
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underpants Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jul-13-04 01:37 PM
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2. Mindless
simply mindless.
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Maine-i-acs Donating Member (989 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jul-13-04 03:40 PM
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4. Wedding gift idea:
His + hers Diving masks and snorkels.
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