Is anyone more creative than geeks when it comes to sappy marriage proposals? There they go, snagging Neil Gaiman as a coconspirator or engraving messages into iPods. The truly endeavoring, like Claude M, parody Apple iPhone ads. One hopes his fiancée is also a die-hard Apple fanatic — otherwise another suitor might win her hand with an "I'm a Mac, Claude's a douche" spoof.

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