March 09, 2006

Russian girl writes letter to Prince William proposing marriage. Through tragic misuse of Google, she ends up addressing the letter to the Prince William County Courthouse in Virginia. Officials go "aaaaaw" and wonder what to do next.
posted by Pallas Athena 18 years ago
  • Erm... nowhere in the article is a marriage proposal mentioned. She just "rated highly his looks".
  • Those court employees should be disciplined for abuse of the U.S. postal system. Just because a letter is misaddressed doesn't make it public domain-able, does it? *tears up steamy letter to Willie, sends fax instead*
  • OK, yeah, dumb reading on my part, she's not proposing. Yet. But look how she's asking him about his hobbies, his tastes in music and food.... she's sounding him out as husband material, I bet.
  • are there any doubts as to his husbandly merits? He's got bah-jillions in moolah, is young and quite a handsome lad....let the bidding begin!
  • That poor naive girl. Why couldn;t they just all have a good private gawp and chuckle at her little letter, and then forward it to Buckingham Palace? Instead they tell the Washington post and spread it all over the internets? Heartless bastards.
  • OH YOU HEARTLESS GLOATERS
  • The protocol at the courthouse seems to be very ... casual. If not slipshod, or even illegal. I'd think returning this to sender for being inadequately addressed would have been the way to proceed, rather than opening it and passing it around. Or returning it to the local postmaster. There once were penalties for tampering with mail, but in this pomo post 9-11 world it would seem this has been dispensed with. /old fogey in high huff
  • Yeah, as an ex-postie, I am not impressed.
  • I didn't look.
  • When a Russian girl proposes marriage, there won't be any question about it.
  • ...not to typecast or anything, of course...
  • Cue Smirnoff 'soviet russia' joke in 5.. 4.. 3..
  • *closes thread*
  • I had a girl write a letter to my prince albert.....but alas he couldn't read.
  • kernilicious, you shoulda told her to write it in the international language...
  • Penis semaphore?
  • Porn?
  • oh, ok In Soviet Russia, letter of proposal sent to Virginia post office is sent to YOU. Or something like that.
  • no no no! in Soviet Russia marriage proposes to YOU!!
  • In Soviet Russia, the commanding heights of the economy lie in the hands of the working classes and proud, liberated women scorn the feeble charms of the effete and degenerate aristocracy of the bourgeois nations. /Stalinist fantasist
  • The more I think about it... maybe that bastard William was looking for a mail-order Natasha; 'yeah, sure, I'm the Prince, I can make you the Queen', he puts a phony return address... bastard.
  • Up the workers!
  • YOU HEARTLESS SWINE whom I love, of course.
  • COMMUNISTS!!! NUKE THEM ALL!! only not really.