Answers I liked

[Portia]

...the airline tickets.

Tickets to where?

A European/Argentine/Istanbul honeymoon, of course.

[Imogen]

How to propose was adorable!

Here's my own attempt.

Portia: Something elaborate, like a piano appearing in my driveway, then taking me to a nice bar and the ring being around the stem of a glass, then whipping out the airline tickets.

Imogen: He'd better be older and have his life together. I think the real key to her heart would be through her students. After he donated a bunch of costumes and props to her school, she'd realize he's the one. Then he'd take her to his house (that he owned) and ask over a funny movie.

Violet: I think she'd really have to know the guy and be comfortable with him. I think she has a romantic and a pragmatic side, so something classic like the Empire State Building (or insert something else urban). I think she'd marry someone close to her in age, and that they'll live in a studio apartment doing creative stuff (he might be a photographer, for instance).

Uffish: I bet he'd have a beard. I think she'd want something straightforward, and maybe that made her laugh. Anything else?

bob: This one is hard because she has been dating someone exclusively for much longer than anyone here. Maybe she'll pop the question.

Katya: I feel like the only guy worthy of her would be one of those guys that's really, really smart but so humble about it you don't know it from casual conversation. It would have to be thoughtful, from the material of the ring to the proposal. A library scavenger hunt, maybe?

TBS: This one I imagine being the most down-to-earth. You have to get married now, in solidarity!

Portia, please save this so if my magical, older, life together, costume and prop donating (SWOON!) dream man comes along he can read it and know what to do.

ETA: He could also ask me by quoting Benedick from "Much Ado About Nothing" who is vastly more romantic than lame old Romeo.

[Indefinite Integral]

ETA: He could also ask me by quoting Benedick from "Much Ado About Nothing" who is vastly more romantic than lame old Romeo.

Agreed.

[Emiliana]

ETA: He could also ask me by quoting Benedick from "Much Ado About Nothing" who is vastly more romantic than lame old Romeo.

Agreed.

Obviously.

[Violet]

How to propose was adorable!
Violet: I think she'd really have to know the guy and be comfortable with him. I think she has a romantic and a pragmatic side, so something classic like the Empire State Building (or insert something else urban). I think she'd marry someone close to her in age, and that they'll live in a studio apartment doing creative stuff (he might be a photographer, for instance).

Pretty accurate up to the point where you hit creative stuff. Maybe I should be dating creative people, but I've mostly dated the analytic type (too many engineers). I'd do creative things (like take over the living space with a reupholstery project) for sure.

[Portia]

How to propose was adorable!
Violet: I think she'd really have to know the guy and be comfortable with him. I think she has a romantic and a pragmatic side, so something classic like the Empire State Building (or insert something else urban). I think she'd marry someone close to her in age, and that they'll live in a studio apartment doing creative stuff (he might be a photographer, for instance).

Pretty accurate up to the point where you hit creative stuff. Maybe I should be dating creative people, but I've mostly dated the analytic type (too many engineers). I'd do creative things (like take over the living space with a reupholstery project) for sure.

I wish I'd dated more engineers. :-P

[mic0]

Wow, a lot of questions posted this afternoon! Just a reminder to anyone looking for some light reading this holiday evening. A lot of good ones, though this jello one is especially good. Why are questions about food with lots of pictures always so good? ETA: Also, I loved MSJ's story with this wonderful ending: 'The important thing is that one girl who the roommate was originally interested in never attended so it never benefited that apartment personally, which teaches us a valuable lesson about how you should never try things because they won't work.' So much wisdom!

[Katya]

http://theboard.byu.edu/questions/75719/

Faith that "the thing that is ultimately is best for you" is not a codeword for certain misery.

Nicely put.

[Katya]

http://theboard.byu.edu/questions/75659/

First, to a depressed person, one of the most infuriating things in the world is butting heads with someone who seems incapable of understanding how anyone could possibly be unhappy.

Yep. Dead fish, etc.

[Portia]

Oh, burn! I can't imagine not wearing my hair in a ponytail or bun while dancing. Who wants hair flying in their face? Is this a Utah thing (um, I'm a dancer from Utah) or a touring folk dance team thing? (I was in it, but on the lowest rung, which was fine.)

[Stego Lily]

It's a touring folk dance thing. My mom knows the directors, and that's the advice she gave me. Apparently one of them is really big on appearance and thinks ponytails are sloppy and lazy.

[Portia]

It's a touring folk dance thing. My mom knows the directors, and that's the advice she gave me. Apparently one of them is really big on appearance and thinks ponytails are sloppy and lazy.

Wow. They need to make a docu-drama about this team.

[Stego Lily]

I mean, obviously they wear their hair up at rehearsal, and, usually, while performing. I think there's just a personal prejudice against ponytails from that particular director, and so if you're auditioning, it's in your best advantage to look more put-together.

[Portia]

Is this in a general audition or a callback for the traveling team?

[Stego Lily]

The question didn't specify, so I didn't specify when I talked to my mom. *shrug*

[Portia]

Tally's link to the List of fictional U.S. states brought us this gem:

Moosylvania, from Jay Ward's Rocky and Bullwinkle television series. ... Jay Ward even tried to make the 51st state, which he called "Moosylvania", by claiming an island off the coast of the U.S. and Canada for himself and promoting it all over the country. When Ward and his publicist, Howard Brandy, arrived at the White House gate with a proposal and signed petition, the guards told them to leave due to the Cuban Missile Crisis.

[Portia]

Props to my fellow Utahn Stego for her 5-for-1 deal. EVE was a blast. She's inspired me to do more outdoor things. I'm going snowboarding for the first time in years and years this weekend with a newbie friend. We'll probably go tubing as a company, and maybe my boyfriend and I can go to Homestead Crater (which is in Midway, not Midvale). I haven't done SCUBA, though.

[Concorde]

I got my scuba certification at the Homestead Crater. It's fun for an hour or so, and then you're done. It's hot, dark and kind of creepy. Maybe it's just my need to be able to see the sky, and the fact that I knew that someone had died there, and that it was located on top of a heat vent....but I did not enjoy it overmuch.

[Stego Lily]

Portia, I think we're kindred spirits. Let's be friends.

[NerdGirl]

http://theboard.byu.edu/questions/75755/

Good answer, but I can I just rant for a second about this guy's assertion that the whole Canadian healthcare system "sucks" because he happens to not like his doctor? Get a new doctor if you don't like them! The fact that your doctor sucks has nothing to do with the healthcare system as a whole (and you can literally go to any doctor you want to here as long as they are accepting new patients without having to worry if they take your insurance or not). And I'm pretty sure that BC is the only province left where you actually have to pay healthcare premiums. In most of the country you pay nothing. People think the Canadian healthcare system is bad because they hear all this propaganda and most people have very little experience being seriously ill so they don't know. I had 12 emergency visits, 2 hospital admissions, and I don't even know how many visits to my family doctor and my 3 different specialists (was seeing my ophthalmologist weekly for a while), and when stuff like that happens to you, it's pretty nice to be in a single-payer system where there are no deductibles, no life-time maximums, and no worrying about whether tests you have to get done or specialists you have to see are going to be covered or not. Any issues I had (and there were only a couple) were issues with individual doctors or nurses not being that great, but there are good doctors and bad doctors in every country.