Hey, I was taken to my first bar by a preacher. Beat that.
edit: And I was underage. Damned good cheeseburgers, too.
Simon: You're out of your mind. Early: That's between me and my mind.
'Objects In Space'
Spike's Bitches 34: They're All Slime and Antlers
[NAFDA] Spike-centric discussion. Lusty, lewd (only occasionally crude), risque (and frisque), bawdy (Oh, lawdy!), flirty ('cuz we're purty), raunchy talk inside. Caveat lector.
Connie Neil - Jan 10, 2007 2:05:33 pm PST #248 of 10001
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§ ita § - Jan 10, 2007 2:10:51 pm PST #249 of 10001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
It was quite a while before I got that you Americans had a different one from the British.
Stuff is kinda cleared up, but at no time did my school-attending culture include school dances. Usually didn't include boys either.
Cashmere - Jan 10, 2007 2:11:04 pm PST #250 of 10001
Now tagless for your comfort.
Co-op-ma for Jess & E!
My senior year for prom sucked. Not because I didn't go, because I did. Not because I didn't have a date--I went with a cute, but dim boy I'd started dating. But because I initially worked up the guts to ask the guy I had the HUGEST crush on all through school.
He was my friend, too, and I even sucked it up and asked him to go "as friends." He said he couldn't justify spending that much money on "just friends." So what did he do? Our art teacher set him up with her tall, willowy, gorgeous brunette daughter--whom he had NEVER even met! And he went. Because she was beautiful.
My only consolation is that they had ZERO chemistry and he had a MISERABLE time (according to our friend that double dated with him). Take that!
Um, except he went on to get a dual degree from Notre Dame University and then on to IU Med school--where he became a surgeon for the Air Force and is now living in Japan.
Eh, he still can't beat my DH and I have WAY cuter kids than he does.
tommyrot - Jan 10, 2007 2:17:41 pm PST #251 of 10001
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.
I went to a bunch of proms.
Sophomore year, I had no date, but my therapist said, "Why not go anyway?" I mean, Jesus Christ, what kind of therapist tells a patient to GO TO PROM BY HIMSELF?!? Bastard. Anyway, long story short: felt stupid, went home.
Jr. and Sr. year I went with my girlfriend. There was actually less drama than usual between us.
Freshman year of college I took my best friend's sister (who was a few years younger) to Prom. I got made fun of for the way I danced to Van Halen's "Jump!" - just like the guy in the video....
Hil R. - Jan 10, 2007 2:29:36 pm PST #252 of 10001
Sometimes I think I might just move up to Vermont, open a bookstore or a vegan restaurant. Adam Schlesinger, z''l
I didn't go to Jr. Prom. Senior prom I went with a bunch of friends -- none of us had boyfriends or dates. It was reasonably fun.
askye - Jan 10, 2007 2:29:40 pm PST #253 of 10001
Thrive to spite them
I went to some kind of high school dance with church friends when I was 15 or so, I was such a spaz and managed to insult my date and not realize it until months later.
Then I went to my jr prom with a guy that a friend set me up with, it was an okay dance. I was much less of a spaz.
WindSparrow - Jan 10, 2007 2:35:29 pm PST #254 of 10001
Love is stronger than death and harder than sorrow. Those who practice it are fierce like the light of stars traveling eons to pierce the night.
~ma to Jessica.
SailAweigh - Jan 10, 2007 2:58:11 pm PST #255 of 10001
Nana korobi, ya oki. (Fall down seven times, stand up eight.) ~Yuzuru Hanyu/Japanese proverb
The guy on the left? My prom date.
EpicTangent - Jan 10, 2007 3:23:40 pm PST #256 of 10001
Why isn't everyone pelting me with JOY, dammit? - Zenkitty
I was sure by the time I got caught up in here (just in time to leave for the night, as per usual)someone would already have posted this:
Nightcrawler Actor Marries In Civil Ceremony
Also, hey everybody.
Fay - Jan 10, 2007 3:38:05 pm PST #257 of 10001
"Fuck Western ideologically-motivated gender identification!" Sulu gasped, and came.
Aw, Alan Cumming!
t verklempt
Man, I've always had a soft spot for him - I remember when he was on a cheesy Scottish skit show back in the 90s, and then he was in Circle of Friends and Goldeneye and then it was moviemoviemovie - but it cracks me up that he's a superhero. Because - bless. Blessity blessity bless.
(...in no way did his performance make me go away and write Nightcrawler/Wolverine. No, really. Who, me?)
Also - Yay UK! With the Big Gay Marriage! Go Team!
It was quite a while before I got that you Americans had a different one from the British. Stuff is kinda cleared up, but at no time did my school-attending culture include school dances. Usually didn't include boys either.
In this, ita is me. Yes. (Well, okay, no - inasmuchas I got to do the Prom thing when I had my year in Canada, but it still felt very much like being an anthropologist on Mars.)
Pete - Air Conditioning! Air Conditioning is the answer! And going out of an evening!