Thelma Will U Marry Me?
Monday, 6th November 2006 by Alex Turnbull
Here at McAllen-Miller International Airport, Texas, someone has asked Thelma to marry them by writing an enormous proposal along one of the airport's access roads.
However, I half hope that Thelma declined this particular offer, on the the grounds that if the potential suitor couldn't be bothered writing the word "you" in full, then they weren't worth marrying. They also very annoyingly switched to lowercase letters in the middle of a word!
Of course this isn't the first marriage proposal that's been found on Google, but it definitely is the most ambitious - the proposals to D by person unknown, Melissa by Uxmal, and of course the one done by the unnamed person who wasn't even sure who they wanted to marry, are all far smaller.
Of course if anyone were to actually adhere to my newly-invented "guidelines for acceptance of aeroplane-visible marriage proposals", then only Melissa would have accepted, as Uxmal is the only suitor to have not switched case incorrectly or leave out any letters. Good work Uxmal, but perhaps you should go a little bigger next time.
Thanks to William Collins, philverney and doc0829.
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Alex has decided that his title will be Senior Vice President of Stuff.
technically, the guy who wrote “MARRY ME D” didn’t go from upper case to lower case, he just switched font size on us. as you can see a lower case y has one line going into the other, whereas an uppercase Y has to line going to a point and the stem originating from that point (thus a total of three lines) and clearly this guy uses an uppercase, just at a much smaller font size
^^^^^
snore.
:p
Why wasn’t y comment recorded sorry I ,ust still be a bit pissed. I msaid
LOLs, nice effort Mrb.
sry for the grammar correction, I have spent the last few days reviewing for the reading comprehension part of the MCAT
There’s a freaky ghost ship/heli pad just south-west of the approved proposal:
https://www.googlesightseeing.com/maps?p=&c=&t=h&hl=en&ll=40.755669,-74.0069&z=19
Maybe the person who wasn’t sure who they wanted to marry was actually trying to marry someone call “WiLLU”.
Stephan, this is one of New York’s (public) heliports. There are several of them along the coast. I guess this one is made of a ship’s hull.
It’s gone now. Before there was a ghost of the heliport next to the heliport.