What is the origins of Prom?
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Short for the word promenade.
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My then girlfriend was a senior in High School and broke up with her boyfriend and started dating me. She still took him to their prom in June because they had already paid for the tickets (so she said). She called me after it was over and said she had a horrible time. So I started setting up a prom of my own for her birthday in September. I had her mother rent us a luxury car, and I had one of my best friends drive us around the whole evening. I had her to wait for me on her balcony and I showed up to her house in a white tuxedo. I got out of the car and asked her to go to the "prom" with me. Of course she said yes!! I had her go and change into the same prom dress she had on in June. As my friend opened her door to the car to let her in, I had 2 dozen red roses waiting for her on the back seat of the car. I had set up a photographer to take our picture in a professional studio so we could have “prom pictures”, and dinner reservations at a great restaurant over looking the water. We danced all alone right by our table and had a wonderful meal. After dinner, we went to a hotel suite I reserved for us at Embassy Suites and made love. We showered together, changed clothes and went to a great Arcade Park complete with video games, a miniature golf course and a go-cart track. Earlier, I told my friend to come back for us in 2 hours and told him to bring his girlfriend along. All 4 of us were good friends. We had so much fun at the Arcade Park, and the 4 of us had a great time. After that, he dropped us off at our hotel suite and my girlfriend and I made love again. We spent a wonderful night together. The next morning, my friend was waiting for us with the car outside of the hotel entrance and he drove us to her house. That was the Greatest Date I ever went on. My girlfriend is now my wife and we just celebrated or 10th wedding anniversary.
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be front about it, if its to hard, try it over the phone instead of in person. or be romantic about it. my current boyfriend started things up with me by asking me to prom. in each class that i went to during the course of the day, he left an envelope with some cut up pieces of paper. at the end of the day, i put the pieces of paper together, and it turns out it was a puzzle, which read "will you go to prom with me?" and on the envelope it said to meet him at a certain time, so i did, with my own envelope with a puzzled 'yes' in it. it was really sweet.
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The history seems lost, however some other wedding traditions which might interest you are found at these sites:\n\nhttp://www.ashley-wedding-cars.co.uk/directory-service/wedding-traditions/western-europe-traditions.htm\n\nhttp://www.weddingguru.com/wedding_traditions.asp
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Walk up to someone who doesn't have a date and say something like, "Hey, wanna go to prom?" Just a crazy wild thought that just ran through my head. It's crazy enough it just might work!
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i used to have a record of that song. i liked the mtv as well. i recall i was 14 at that time and my friend's brother organized a backyard party.i and some classmates provided the band. when we played the song, all the girls there who were older than we thought we're cool.
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i would, and did =D so i had my prom date
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prom!!...and Burger king!
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put in prom dress.com try it or Greek  or better Greece the country look under\nthank you
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I don't get it.  I see it as an excuse to be extravagant, ride around town in a limo, dress up, and have another social event with a bunch of people from school, many of whom you probably don't like.  I went to a concert on my senior prom night.  It was much more enjoyable (and cheaper) than any school event would've been, and I had the pleasure of chuckling at some dressed-up high schoolers standing outside in the rain as I drove by.  If you're not interested, don't bother with prom - it's a waste of your time and money.
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Hello Cheaky, welcome to the Yahoo Answer family. Start  asking questions, giving answers, casting votes, thumbs up on good answers and you will soon find your self at a good position. \n\nI am at presnt having 2600 points, as you can also locate on http://blog.360.yahoo.com/y_answrs_team. But sincerely speaking, points are not that important. To become the Yahoo Prom Queen, you need to give quality answers from your knowledge and a little help of search engines. Giving good solutions will earn you respect, which is even bigger than the points we are trying to collect. Hope you have a fun  time, side by side sharing knowledge.\n\nAs far as points are concerned, an earlier answer by my friend Jonny Quest details how to get the points the fastest. Here's the link : \n\nhttp://answers.yahoo.com/question/;_ylt=AhnJZuAT7UDpunlSvwen89EjzKIX?qid=1005121204489\n\nI suppose the link might not work as it is for my own username, so here I am including his Answer for the older point system :\n\nAssumption: 1.once i reach a particular level in a day, the Q&A for that level is reset to 0 for the day\n2. when u say choose best answer for 50qn/day, i assume u want to rate the contribution=>1 point\n\nStarting with a initial fixed 100 points.\n------------------------------...\nAt Level I, per day i can earn\n10 answers - 20\n10 questions\n5 qna to vote - 25\n5 qna to best answer - 25\n10 qns to vote - 10\n10 qns to rate - 10\n1 best answer - 10\ntotal = 100 points\n------------------------------...\nFor level 2, i need 150 more points; so i take 1.5 days to get to level 2.\ncumulative total = 250\n------------------------------...\nAt level 2 i can earn per day -\n20 answers - 40\n20 questions\n10 qna to vote - 50\n10 qna to best answer - 50\n20 qns to vote - 20\n20 qns to rate - 20\n2 best answer - 20\ntotal = 200 points\n------------------------------...\nFor level 3, i need 1000-250=750 more points; so i take 750/200=3.75 days to get to level 3\nCumulative Points = 1000\n------------------------------...\nAt level 3, i can earn per day-\n30 answers - 60\n30 questions\n15 qna to vote - 75\n15 qna to best answer - 75\n30 qns to vote - 30\n30 qns to rate - 30\n3 best answer - 30\ntotal = 300 points\n------------------------------...\nFor level 4, i need 2500-1000=1500 more points; so i take 1500/300=5 days to get to level 4\nCumulative Points = 2500\n------------------------------...\nAt level 4, i can earn per day-\n40 answers - 80\n40 questions\n20 qna to vote - 100\n20 qna to best answer - 100\n40 qns to vote - 40\n40 qns to rate - 40\n4 best answer - 40\ntotal = 400 points\n------------------------------...\nFor level 5, i need 5000-2500=2500 more points; so i take 2500/400=6.25 days to get to level 5\nCumulative Points = 5000\n------------------------------...\nAt level 5, i can earn per day-\n50 answers - 100\n50 questions\n25 qna to vote - 125\n25 qna to best answer - 125\n50 qns to vote - 50\n50 qns to rate - 50\n5 best answer - 50\ntotal = 500 points\n------------------------------...\nFor level 6, i need 10000-5000=5000 more points; so i take 5000/500 = 10 days to get to level 6\nCumulative Points = 10000\n------------------------------...\nAt level 6, i can earn per day-\n50 answers - 100\n50 questions\n25 qna to vote - 125\n25 qna to best answer - 125\n50 qns to vote - 50\n50 qns to rate - 50\n5 best answer - 50\ntotal = 500 points\n------------------------------...\nFor level 7, i need 25000-10000=15000 more points; so i take 15000/500 = 30 days to get to level 7\nCumulative Points = 15000\n------------------------------...\nso adding up all the days together = 1.5+3.75+5+6.25+10+30 = 56 days
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It's:\n\nhttp://www.aurorabridal.com/prom.shtml
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The origins of football are thought to be over 2000 years old. Indeed, in 2004, football's governing body Fédération Internationale de Football Association (FIFA) officially acknowledged that China was the birthplace of football, when people played the sport of cuju around 200 BC. Association football in particular is derived from football games played at public schools in England in the 19th century.\n\nThe earliest evidence that games resembling football were being played at English public schools — mainly attended by boys from the upper, upper-middle and professional classes — comes from the Vulgaria by William Horman in 1519. Horman had been headmaster at Eton College and Winchester and his Latin textbook includes a translation exercise with the phrase "We wyll playe with a ball full of wynde". The first specific mention of football can be found in a Latin poem by Robert Matthew, a Winchester scholar from 1643 to 1647. He describes how "...we may play quoits, or hand-ball, or bat-and-ball, or football; these games are innocent and lawful...". Nugae Etonenses (1766) by T. Frankland also mentions the "Football Fields" at Eton.\n\n\nIn 1888, William McGregor a gentleman from Perthshire was the main force between meetings held in London and Manchester involving 12 football clubs, with an eye to a league competition. These 12 clubs would later become the Football Leagues 12 founder members. The meetings were held in London on 22 March 1888, the main concern was that an early exit in the knockout format of the FA cup could leave clubs with no matches for almost a year, not only could they suffer heavy financial losses, but fans didn't often stick around for that long without a game, when others teams were playing. Matters were finalised on the 17 April in Manchester.
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explain to your mom how much Prom means to you.  She may have a heart attack when she sees how much Prom dresses cost.  \n\nBe responsible and offer to work to pay for some of it.  You still have time, but don't wait too long!  \n\nThis is a special time, and don't stress over it.\n\nGood luck!
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Prom night is a night to remember. When almost every girl goes out to buy a dazzling dress, a fabulous new haircut and unique, exquisite jewelery. Prom only comes once and after, no more highschool. Then everyone will probably plan to go to college. Or not. And everyone seems to be going with their boyfriend or girlfriend to have one last good time in the highschool. This is the celebration for all the people who have graduated from highschool.
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You should go to yahoo.com and type in the word"prom dress" . Then visit the sites
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Okay may i just say I disagree with a couple of previous responses here for the following reasons:\n\ngalaxy500: A prom is NOT for two people who "have something going". I've never heard anything about Prom beign exclusively for couples, otherwise you'd might as well say "Fellas, single ladies, now's your last chance to get a gf/bf otherwise you might as well not turn up, yer loser!"\n\nmrs.iv: Why oh why would you emotionally blackmail a guy into going to the prom "cause its a tough time for the girl". Its a tough time for the guy also - he has to pay for the thing, getthe car/transport, pick HER up at a decent time, make sure they get in okay, see that she enjoys herself (if you've gone with her THEN you HAVE to be hospitable!), AND get her home safely! (As much as most guys wanna "get a room", lets be gentlemanly and remember most girls have dads who want them home by midnight!)\n\nHowever, in answer to the question: DON'T go with her. Other realistic options are:\n1) Go with someone else (another girl maybe?)\n2) Go with a a friend or few\n3) Don't go at all and give the tickets to someone else (selling them is an option).\n\nYou are in NO WAY obligated to go with her - thats emotional blackmail.  And NEVER for once think "oh its a couple thing" otherwise you'll just end up feeling sorry for myself then next banging your head thinking "Why don't I hve a gf".  I've been there - it ain't a nice place to be.