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October 30, 2005
Victims of Prom
Here is another interesting article from the "Indian Spirit," Friday May 16, 1980, Volume 14, number 7, a High-School Student Newspaper. I think this article by Stacie Schimke could just as well be speaking about all kinds of consumerism today, 25 years later:
" Tonight is the Prom, Sally Jean just can't wait!
Billy Bob asked Sally Jean to go with him three weeks ago, and Sally Jean has saved up enough money to buy her dress, get her hair "fixed up" and buy Billy Bob a boutonniere.
Billy Bob, on the other hand, HAD a bank account, but he paid $18 for the Prom tickets, $45 for renting a tuxedo, $40 (estimated) for dinner, two dollars for a flower for Sally Jean, and $30 for possible hotel arrangements. (Billy Bob isn't certain about the hotel arrangements. I guess his parents weren't too happy about them!)
In total, Billy Bob will be spending $125 in one night, not counting the picnic the next day, which will push the total to $140.
Billy Bob and Sally Jean are the "Prom Victims," and all you other "Prom Victims," should make the most of tonight, because all the "Prom rejects" will be out having fun!"
Posted by carl1236 at October 30, 2005 02:00 PM | Attitude
Comments
why would you have an article from a high school paper 25 years after it was written?
Posted by: sp at January 21, 2006 09:02 AM
Who are you?
Posted by: sp at January 21, 2006 09:11 AM
I went to Park High, class of 1981, and had an old box of memorabilia, which I boxed up when I left home at 18. It's been sitting all these years unopened. It had things like a few student newspapers, my letters from sports I was in, art projects I did, photos of activities I participated in, etc. It's like a time capsule really and it was fun going through that box! I'm not a wierdo for having a few keepsakes in a box am I? haha.
Anyway, now that I have opened that box though, I'm wondering if I should repack it and save it or throw it out. I may be a pack-rat if I keep it now, knowing it's there.
Posted by: John at January 25, 2006 01:45 PM
Well, that's not so creepy then.
Posted by: sp at February 6, 2006 07:21 PM
Well, that's not so creepy then.
Posted by: sp at February 6, 2006 07:22 PM
Hi! You want to know what's funny? I also saved some of those poetry anthology booklets that were published by some students. Very intersting reading. ;-) Do you want a copy?
Posted by: John at February 8, 2006 10:30 PM
Ne remercie toute la même chose mais aucun merci.
Posted by: eeks at March 11, 2006 06:07 PM
Translation from French to English:
Do not thank all the same thing but no mercy?
Not sure that's a good translation or what it could mean. How stange language is. It must be a spammer huh?
Anyone speak French?
Posted by: John at March 11, 2006 08:12 PM