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TEEN'S DREAM $10,000 PROM ($2400 dress, $550 shoes, but no date)
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| 3/26/06
| LINDSAY POWERS
Posted on 03/26/2006 3:39:31 AM PST by Liz
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To: ReagansShinyHair
The girl in this article is probably going to have a dissappointing time, since she seems to have built it up so much in her head.Good call on that one. I know that everytime I used to plan and scheme in anticipation of an evening, event, road trip or whatever things never seemed to go as well as I'd hoped.
My own damn fault, I know.
For the last 15 years or so, I've just been a spur of the moment type of guy and because of that I've never been disappointed and usually had a better time than I anticipated as a result. Much happier these days.
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posted on
03/26/2006 7:45:18 AM PST
by
Looking4Truth
(We in the U.S. know the rest of the world is nearly useless and we're sick of carrying their asses!)
To: Calpernia
My wedding dress was $200 - the cost of tailoring my mother's. It worked just fine; 20 years later I'm still married. :)
To: Wage Slave
Probably not. Guenevere married Arthur; she had the hot affair with Launcelot on the side.
To: LoveDoc
JEALOUS MUCH??? LoveDoc
Ps Newsflash: This is how 80% of the girls are these days. In church/out of church. It almost doesn't matter. In fact, you could do a lot worse. She's a cute girl that's not a druggie. A very cute girl (at least in that megawatt prom dress.)
I thought about that one as well. You'd think that jealousy was the motivation for a lot of these posts, but I'm not seeing it that way. My take on what I've seen on this thread is that the girl is just putting too much emphasis on the wrong things.
She is a little cutie, I might add.
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posted on
03/26/2006 7:48:40 AM PST
by
Looking4Truth
(We in the U.S. know the rest of the world is nearly useless and we're sick of carrying their asses!)
To: Looking4Truth
Looking4Truth:
"My take on what I've seen on this thread is that the girl is just putting too much emphasis on the wrong things." That sum's it up nicely.
IOW, 'nuff said.
But to go on and on and on...to the point of quoting (or at least sort of quoting) the Bible to diss this chick?
Please.
I think most discerning people understand what's going on in this thread.
LoveDoc
Ps I wish who ever thinks conservatives are a bunch of shallow fat cats would read freerepublic sometime. This thread in particular. Once again, more liberal mythology.
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posted on
03/26/2006 7:52:54 AM PST
by
LoveDoc
To: Liz
Observing the severely critical on-line mob that seems to be gathering, I feel quasi-paternal duty to offer a few words of understanding for the young woman featured in this article. Spending thousands of dollars on a teenager's prom (when you are not the teenager in question) may seem like a ridiculous act, but I think more people than will readily admit it have tastes just as fabulous and extreme as the child who is now being so brutally assailed.
I am 26 years old and have damn sure spent more than $10,000 dollars on booze in my lifetime so far. And I missed prom! If you're honest, some of you will admit that you have spent several times that yourself. Was your spending really a more worldly endeavor than the doubtlessly amusing time had by this girl?
If you take into account compound interest of only 8% (I believe they told me this was the time value of money in grad school) in 70 years, that would have become $2.1M dollars. But in 70 years, I will likely have become an angel or fertilizer, and either way will have no use of the money.
I cannot say for sure whether there will be any good bars in Heaven. I doubt it, because I've never found well-attended bars near well-attended churches. So, once I arrive in that great dry county in the sky, I will be relishing the memories of every fabulous drunk I ever pitched in the far flung capitols of Earth, no matter what I paid for them -- because they were a hell of a lot of fun, and I certainly don't foresee any more of them occurring where I plan to go!
So I'm not going to begrudge this young lady her own ridiculously excessive entertainment. Good on her parents for making enough money to buy such nice things for her. I'm sure they worked their asses off for their money so that they could spoil their kids.
Whatever I don't drink away, which I genuinely hope and intend will still be a considerable sum after my deductions, well... I hope the kids take it and have one hell of a prom. If there's any left after that, I recommend acquiring real estate or low risk mutual funds.
To: American Soldier
To: American Soldier From: Love Doc
Well put, my man...
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posted on
03/26/2006 7:55:20 AM PST
by
LoveDoc
To: Liz
Cossuto got $550 Gucci shoes, a matching handbag, tanning sessions, eyebrow shaping and professional hair and makeup for the big day, June 7. She GOT the tanning, brows, hair and makeup already? By my calendar it's still only March.
To: Liz
She paid $2,400 for THAT dress in THAT color?
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posted on
03/26/2006 7:56:36 AM PST
by
zeaal
(SPREAD TRUTH!)
To: LoveDoc
But to go on and on and on...to the point of quoting (or at least sort of quoting) the Bible to diss this chick? Whoa now! I wasn't trying to 'diss' anyone and I didn't actually quote the Bible. I suppose that I was influenced by some of the more vapid posts but I don't really want to deny someone like this girl a good time.
Being older with that perfect 20/20 hindsight vision sometimes makes one spout off a little I guess.
Besides that, my 'Low Coffee Indicator' light was(is) still on. OK?
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posted on
03/26/2006 7:58:06 AM PST
by
Looking4Truth
(We in the U.S. know the rest of the world is nearly useless and we're sick of carrying their asses!)
To: zeaal
"She paid $2,400 for THAT dress in THAT color?" Man, I'm sure glad conservative women aren't catty like those liberal wenches...
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posted on
03/26/2006 7:58:09 AM PST
by
LoveDoc
To: LoveDoc
jealous much?Yes, we're all juzz jeliss. (If you didn't watch Joe Millionaire...I can't really explain the joke.)
To: elli1
I paid less than $150 for my wedding dress. These people are crazy.
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posted on
03/26/2006 7:59:09 AM PST
by
Politicalmom
(Must I use a sarcasm tag?)
To: CheyennePress
I didn't even go to the prom. I never felt like I missed out on anything. I guess that's a difference between the chicks and the dudes.
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posted on
03/26/2006 7:59:14 AM PST
by
Future Snake Eater
(The plan was simple, like my brother-in-law Phil. But unlike Phil, this plan just might work.)
To: CheyennePress
Is the prom the most overhyped, overblown, overrated thing on earth? No. That position is held by the wedding.
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posted on
03/26/2006 8:00:18 AM PST
by
Wolfie
To: American Soldier
damn sure spent more than $10,000 dollars on booze in my lifetime so farLightweight... that's only 5 small shots of Dalmore 62 year old scotch.
To: Future Snake Eater
I didn't even go to the prom. I never felt like I missed out on anything. I guess that's a difference between the chicks and the dudes.No, the difference is that dudes are allowed to admit that they don't want to go, while chicks MUST want to go or they are "just jealous."
To: Tijeras_Slim
"Lightweight... that's only 5 small shots of Dalmore 62 year old scotch"
LOL!!!
This thread is finally starting to seem reasonable..
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posted on
03/26/2006 8:03:48 AM PST
by
LoveDoc
To: zeaal
She paid $2,400 for THAT dress in THAT color?A lot of the cost of the dress was probably for dip-dyeing it that color. It's a time consuming and difficult process.
To: MaDuce
And they said us Gen Xer's were spoiled...
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