Indecent proposal

I suppose I’m a little less surprised that this yahoo is attempting to raise $2 million in order to propose to his girlfriend on a Super Bowl commercial next month than I am the fact that he’s suckered enough people to raise $100,000 already.

As it turns out, the cash isn’t going to go to a commercial after all, but the Vanderbilt Children’s Hospital instead after reality apparently set in. “I was, originally, planning to buy an ad, but we couldn’t raise enough, and the selfish nature of it became clear as well,” JP writes. He’s now hoping for a sponsor to step in and float him the cash. Frankly, America would rather see a Budweiser lizards comeback.

JP also writes, “Can anyone really say–with a straight face–that Peyton Manning isn’t the best quarterback ever?” Which pretty much eliminates any chance of donation from this region, but might at least put him into the good graces of the 4,000 companies for which the Colts quarterback shills.

Besides, if anyone’s going to spend $2 million on 30 seconds worth of air time, it had better well have some monkeys involved. Not this guy. And by the way, with all the media attention he says he’s getting, hasn’t his girlfriend been tipped off yet? And who’s to guarantee, even if she watches the Super Bowl, she’s not going to pick that opportune time to check on the cheese dip? And if she says, “No,” then what?

Besides, if she finds out you spent $2 million on the ad, and considerably less than that on the ring…well, trust me, just forget about it.

In other developments, the My Super Proposal web site is apparently huge in Sweden. Of course, Sweden also plans to open an ABBA museum, so take that for what it is worth.