Just like the title says, I'm not in the Prom court. I know its a childish thing to be sour about, but I can't help it... What can I do? >.<
Posted by TMedina (Member # 6649) on :
Stage a coup.
-Trevor
Posted by Altáriël of Dorthonion (Member # 6473) on :
That has entered my mind....I just need to get people to support me...
Posted by Boris (Member # 6935) on :
I'd stage a scene from Henry V You know, maybe the last battle scene, or maybe the battlement scene.
Posted by Tater (Member # 7035) on :
Beat them up, of course. There's nothing a few bloody noses can't solve.
Posted by Farmgirl (Member # 5567) on :
what is prom court?
Posted by Altáriël of Dorthonion (Member # 6473) on :
The candidates for being Prom king and queen.
Posted by twinky (Member # 693) on :
I was wondering that myself. I don't remember my prom having a court. Actually, all I really remember about it is the car we arrived in (a bright red 1938 something-or-other) and then showing off on the dance floor with my friends, who had all taken ballroom dancing lessons. No court anywhere in sight.
Posted by Tater (Member # 7035) on :
they had cars in 1938?! Posted by twinky (Member # 693) on :
Seems as thought they must have.
Actually, 1938 is coincidentally the year my dad started driving. At 12 years old, his dad taught him to drive so he could drive back from the pub when his dad had drunk too much (which was often).
Posted by SteveRogers (Member # 7130) on :
I suppose that is something that you could be irritated about. I don't know. I haven't had that problem, and probably won't because I won't be nominated for anything. Posted by Hobbes (Member # 433) on :
All I remember about prom is that we got lost on the way to my junior one and ended up on the interstate.
I don't like to talk about it.
Hobbes
[ April 20, 2005, 08:16 PM: Message edited by: Hobbes ]
Posted by Portabello (Member # 7710) on :
I took a girl to the prom. I took her home at the end of prom. During the prom, she ditched me and I didn't see her at all. Posted by Orson Scott Card (Member # 209) on :
If you don't drink, don't intend to have sex, and don't look good in a prom dress or tux, why would you even GO? At least, those are the only things I ever hear anybody talk about from their proms. ("I drank so much I passed out with my head in the toilet!") ("When I found out he had already rented a hotel room I called my Dad for a ride home.") ("Look, how cute we were in this picture of my prom - except for him. I can't remember his name now.")
Here's how you win the REAL event: You don't show anybody the slightest sign that you're disappointed. Instead, you don't talk about YOURSELF at all, to anyone. If you mention prom, you talk about how darling X is and how cool it is that Y got to be king with her.
Then you show up at prom wearing, not the traditional prom dress, but something that looks sleek and truly sophisticated - something Audrey Hepburn might have worn in Charade. Or, if you don't have the body to bring off "sleek," then wear a nun's habit and then dance your brains out.
The only thing anyone will remember from the dance is you. Especially if you're a guy.
[ April 20, 2005, 08:35 PM: Message edited by: Orson Scott Card ]
Posted by Dagonee (Member # 5818) on :
I skipped prom, and went white water rafting on the New River in West Virginia. I've never regretted it.
Dagonee
Posted by TMedina (Member # 6649) on :
I didn't know OSC had the legs to pull off an Audrey Hepburn look.
-Trevor
Posted by Dagonee (Member # 5818) on :
But just imagine how long it would take him to wax them!
Posted by Orson Scott Card (Member # 209) on :
I saw you there, Dagonee. You looked amazing.
Posted by whiskysunrise (Member # 6819) on :
Posted by quidscribis (Member # 5124) on :
We don't have proms in Canada that I know of. But for grad, which I didn't go to, the invites read "Fancy dress." Well, one of the bisexual punk guys interpreted it quite literally. And showed up in a fancy dress.
I hear his shaved legs were quite sexy.
Posted by Dagonee (Member # 5818) on :
quote:I saw you there, Dagonee. You looked amazing.
Oh, yeah I did. I wore a cocktail butterfly dress that was just to die for. It was quite fetching, especially with the beaded life jacket.
Posted by Boris (Member # 6935) on :
I just wanted to say, that since I was in homeschool, prom was just...awkward.
Posted by Goody Scrivener (Member # 6742) on :
pig's blood. buckets and buckets of pig's blood.
<running for cover from Carrie/AoD>
Posted by ketchupqueen (Member # 6877) on :
I went in a long, home-made skirt and plaid in my family tartan. It was awesome.
[ April 20, 2005, 11:54 PM: Message edited by: ketchupqueen ]
Posted by ElJay (Member # 6358) on :
I had a great prom. I went with my best friend, Doug. I still have the dress, it was classy and I've worn it since. We had a lot of fun.
So I'd recommend relaxing and trying to have fun... that way maybe you'll remember it favorably a decade or so from now. Posted by Tater (Member # 7035) on :
I skipped the prom and went instead to the after-prom. Did anyone else have those? It was from about 1 AM to 5 AM. Just a bunch of casino games where you win fake money. Then you use the fake money to buy raffle tickets which you use to try to win prizes. I won a tie-dye flip chair my junior year and a basket of candles my senior year. I'm just lucky like that.
Posted by Papa Moose (Member # 1992) on :
I had a wonderful time at my junior prom, and afterward was exhausted, and fell asleep in a chair at my after-prom. People decorated me with vegetables from the buffet table.
If anyone knows where those pictures are, please let me know. I don't want to burn them or anything... I just never saw them.
Well, ok. Then I'll burn them.
--Pop
Posted by Altáriël of Dorthonion (Member # 6473) on :
I think I've actually got a good body and the dress I'm wearing is well...sexy. Its a pink one I got from Robinson's May. I got the most gorgeous shoes ever yesterday, and I'm now in the hunt for jewelery. BTW, its all carnation pink. Oh! and does anyone know where I can get a boutonneire?(is that how you spell it?) I know my date gets me a crosage, but its not until recently that I was informed of the other thingy.
Posted by katharina (Member # 827) on :
I missed prom because I was in Paris. It was nice.
Posted by Altáriël of Dorthonion (Member # 6473) on :
Now THAT is a good excuse to miss prom.
Posted by The Pixiest (Member # 1863) on :
Scott, you're totally blowing my image of you.
Pix
Posted by Intelligence3 (Member # 6944) on :
I went to prom... As the yearbook photographer.
Dorky.
But I did make out with a girl while her date was out by the campfire at the party afterwards.
Posted by Noemon (Member # 1115) on :
I never went to any of my proms. I remember having had some fantastic dates on the nights of my proms, but I never actually went to the dances.
Posted by MrSquicky (Member # 1802) on :
If yo count the two I went to freshman year of college, I went to 19 high school formal dances (i.e. proms, snowflake dances, spring formals, etc.). I was a popular rent-a-date for friends and foafs who didn't have a date (oh, and I got around in high school). I had a blast at each one.
The prom should be about you and your date. Making it about other people is a good way to have a miserable prom.
Posted by Teshi (Member # 5024) on :
We didn't have "prom" but we had "grad" and it wasn't about dates at all but about the graduating class...
I don't think there were many "other" people there!
Posted by Jenny Gardener (Member # 903) on :
I always had my monthly visitor during prom, and I didn't feel beautiful or sexy at all. And I went with the abusive boyfriend, so I didn't have any fun and dreaded after-prom. Nope. No good memories of prom night.
No, I take that back. The food was good.
Posted by Altáriël of Dorthonion (Member # 6473) on :
I hope to God that doesn't happen to me...
Posted by IanO (Member # 186) on :
During difficult times when some disappointment has hit me, I sometimes take myself aside, so to speak, and ask myself this soul-searching question: What Would Fifty-Cent Do? (tm)
And somehow, I just know what to do.
FWIW
[ April 22, 2005, 12:24 PM: Message edited by: IanO ]
Posted by Altáriël of Dorthonion (Member # 6473) on :
WWJD? I'm more of that type of person...
Posted by IanO (Member # 186) on :
So no busting caps in their ...?
Sorry I couldn't be more help.
Posted by Farmgirl (Member # 5567) on :
quote: I remember having had some fantastic dates on the nights of my proms, but I never actually went to the dances.
So...Noemon. Do you want to define for us what your idea of a "fantastic date" was at the time? Posted by Scott R (Member # 567) on :
This is the most beautiful thread I've read in a long time.
Thank you, OSC and Dagonee.
Posted by TMedina (Member # 6649) on :
Hey Alt?
WWJD? Probably not worry about the prom and move about the sick and outcast, giving out food and comfort with the occasional miracle.
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