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From: cbcox-AT-rs6000.cmp.ilstu.edu (Carrol Cox)
Subject: Re: M-TH: White Jazz. Term needs defintion.
Date: Tue, 20 Jan 1998 13:06:58 -0600 (CST)


Fergal writes:
<SNIP>

> the only thing they deserve is a night at the proms 
> 
> (exit stage left for the stage Irishman)


In the U.S. "proms" are occasions when high-school students whose parents
cannot afford it spend immense amounts of money on renting or buying
formal dress, limousines, corsages, and sometimes hotel rooms for a dance
sponsored by the "junior class" (11th grade), and which in addition serve
the purpose of reminding all the "unpopular" students just how deeply
unpopular they indeed are.

What do "proms" mean in British or Irish?

Carrol




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