Would you spend $2.5 Million just to propose to someone??

[The Straight Story]

Man to propose in Super Bowl ad

NEW YORK, Jan. 19 (UPI) -- If they stay in their seats during commercial breaks, viewers of this year's Super Bowl in Miami will witness a first in television advertising.

A West Coast mystery man will propose to his girlfriend in a $2.5 million ad that will air during the game, The New York Daily News reports.

Known only as J.P., the suitor is in his mid-30's and works in the Internet field.

He raised some of the money to buy the Super Bowl TV spot in November on a Web site called "MySuperProposal.com."

The rest of the $2.5 million he needed came after public relations and ad firms helped him secure a sponsor.

http://www.newsdaily.com/Quirks/UPI-1-20070119-13460700-bc-us-superpropopsal.xml

[Wickerman]

1. shame on anyone who helped contribute to this gluttonous display of arrogance

Old ladies can't pay heating bills, kids don't have enough to eat, people die for lack of medical care and corporate folks stand in line to boost soom idiot's ego by helping him buy an add during the Super Bowl?

:puke:

[The Straight Story]

2. She might feel the same way and say no :)

:rofl:

[DesertRat]

3. Exactly. What a disgraceful waste of money. n/t

[TahitiNut]

4. She'd have to be insane. They'd make a good match, then.

It's a slap in the face of every working person on earth. To have such a totally whacked set of priorities is appalling in a nation (and world) where human beings are homeless, lacking health care, without adequate food or clothing, and without the means to attain a higher education.

IMHO, he's treating her like a prostitute. An expensive prostitute, but a prostitute, nonetheless.

[bahrbearian]

5. Would you marry someone who wasted 2.5 million to propose to you?

[skygazer]

6. Oh, I hope she turns him down flat

That's just gross to me.

[RestoreGore]

7. It's The American Way...

Getting your fifteen minutes of fame. Shameful. I hope she says no. Children are dying of malnutrition and preventable disease daily and this is what is important for people to contribute to? Good lord what a fu^^^^ up world we live in.

[Botany]

8. I hope she says no.

What a brutal waste of money. This boy should drop his ego and
use the money to pay for the heating bills for some seniors or use
it to fund some education for some needy persons.

This man thinks the world revolves around him just because he has
some money.

[Rosemary2205]

9. I don't see the difference really

most men do go all out within their means for a proposal. Even with the divorce rate, everyone goes into a marriage think this is THE one and this is a once in a life occasion to be savored. If the man has the smarts or the means to pull this off, I don't see any bad about it. I don't see it as any different than a factory worker saving up to take her to the Smokey Mtn's for the weekend or take her to the fanciest place in town or whatever.

And the charge that this is a gawdawful waste of good money is silly as far as I'm concerned. Every single one of us. Every one, has spent money on SOMETHING that is not a drop dead necessity of staying alive that COULD have gone to feed and cloth people starving to death in SOME part of the world.

[uppityperson]

10. I'd build/fund a school/heatlh clinic & name it after my proposee

TV ad? No way. Would I marry someone who spent this money for an ad? Not unless they could rationalize it better than conspicuous consumption.

[Tierra_y_Libertad]

11. Gee, I hope she loves being married to a egomaniacal narcissist.

With too much money and too few brains.

Of course, if she accepts, it would be two of a kind.

[zbdent]

12. And watch ... she'll be out with her girlfriends

and he'll be wondering where she is, and why she's not answering her phone (when he is trying to make sure she's watching "the big game" that is so important to him ...) ... and she'll miss it ...

:rofl: