The American Prom Tradition - Is it the same day everywhere, like Hallowen, or are there local variations?

Definitely local variations.  I can't imagine the chaos that would ensue from a National Prom Day.  :D

Definitely local variations.  I can't imagine the chaos that would ensue from a National Prom Day.  :D


Thanx Emi!

Hmm... how about the chaos that will emerge when guys from "local variations" all wanna take you as their date to their various proms? ;)

Halloween? Are you sure you're not thinking of homecoming? Our homecoming is always in October (but this year it was a little earlier, on October 1) but prom is at the end of the year, in May.

Hmm... how about the chaos that will emerge when guys from "local variations" all wanna take you as their date to their various proms? ;)


Now THAT, I could imagine.

What are you going on about now?

I hate you.
Marry me.

Oh yeah, THAT'S real mature.

Mysterious piano reminder?????

I ended up asking my parents about it.

They said "no way, and you're never getting on AmIRight again."  :\'(

Mysterious piano reminder?????


...  ???
I find it interesting that by typing five consecutive question marks, you got a question mark left either side of the ??? smiley.
I would have thought it would have gone ??? followed by ??


I ended up asking my parents about it.

They said "no way, and you're never getting on AmIRight again."  :\'(

Is this the piano or marriage thing you tawkin' 'bout?

Whee. Let me know when you move out. Or I'll figure out how to E-mail this stuff. There's a joke. A girl bring her boyfriend home to meet Mom. "This is Joe, he's a musician" Mom says "And?"

Whee. Let me know when you move out. Or I'll figure out how to E-mail this stuff. There's a joke. A girl bring her boyfriend home to meet Mom. "This is Joe, he's a musician" Mom says "And?"


Thanks - and sorry about my parents. 

Assuming I graduate high school, I'll be out of there by next May.  ::)

Okay. Come to the big city. I have 2 teenage girls that would love to have a third part singer /piano chick in the group.

So Emi...I was wondering, I saw on the earlier threads that your 17th birthday was in September, what is the cutoff date in your school system? Just curious, since by our standards you'd be a junior, after the end of August it goes to the next grade.

So Emi...I was wondering, I saw on the earlier threads that your 17th birthday was in September, what is the cutoff date in your school system? Just curious, since by our standards you'd be a junior, after the end of August it goes to the next grade.


Nawp, I'm just one of the older kids in my grade.  High school junior I am, albeit an older one.  Basically a junior should turn 17 during 2005 or 2006 - that's the "cutoff".  We're lenient, and my parents started me "late".

Well, they had to wait until your moustache had been surgically removed. Couldn't have you being teased in class now, could we?

Make good use of these in your library the day before you leave school:
http://www.swarthmore.edu/NatSci/cpurrin1/textbookdisclaimers/

Well, they had to wait until your moustache had been surgically removed. Couldn't have you being teased in class now, could we?


Enough.  With.  The.  References.  To.  My.  Ungodlyamountofbodyhair.

I haven't even started on your nether regions.
(That's right- I know of your little 'toe waxing' regime.)

I haven't even started on your nether regions.
(That's right- I know of your little 'toe waxing' regime.)


OK, so she's a hobbit, or one of her ancestors was a hobbit during the third age... I find that adorable. ;)

Now, tell me about your ancestors... what penitentiary ship took them from England to Oz? :D

And BTW, how did this thread turn into a new "the only thread that matters"? ???

Oh, poot! So sorry! Ahem...
Proms in Australia are generally around mid December in Australia. On A Current Affair, they had a human interest story about a Sydney girl taking her toy pup as her date in a miniature tuxedo. It was meant to display one girl's individuality within a social discourse of standards of conformity, but was really just a prime example of how much rich little daddy's girls spend on prom events as a means of perpetuating feminist empowerment whilst hypocritically falling into every stereotype in the book by doing so.


Now, tell me about your ancestors... what penitentiary ship took them from England to Oz? :D

I did my family tree in Year 4 or something using the Tamworth library microfiche (distantly related to tuna). I didn't get back far, only about the turn of the century. My grandmother's grandmother was actually called Australia, though so... yeah. Lucky she wasn't born in Bosnia and Herzegovina or the Democratic Republic of the Congo.

I have a conspiracy theory that Dad's side of the family were involved with Nazis somehow. His place of birth was Yugoslavia before the war, Italy during the war, and is now part of Croatia. They adopted the name 'Brattoni' when they moved to Australia. I guess the tradition carried down when my completely fictional middle-name 'Oswald' somehow managed to become my official HSC/university name.




So to answer your question, it is a deadly concotion of hormones, globalisation and fermented avocados that turned your perfectly fine thread into a foul smattering of matteringness.  ;D

You're one of the older kids in your grade? Luckyyyyyy. I'm one of the youngest in my grade

My grandmother's grandmother was actually called Australia, though so... yeah. Lucky she wasn't born in Bosnia and Herzegovina or the Democratic Republic of the Congo.

If that was a rule I've heard of some places in Wales where roll call would take all day, and noone would ever get around to graduation and prom at all!  ;D