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MorningGlow (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Apr-02-09 06:13 PM Original message |
Poll question: "Prom" or "the prom"? |
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HopeHoops (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Apr-02-09 06:15 PM Response to Original message |
1. That's kind of an "across the pond" issue. |
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MorningGlow (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Apr-02-09 06:19 PM Response to Reply #1 |
4. True, I am well acquainted with the first one. That second one is nuts! |
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pokerfan (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Apr-02-09 11:50 PM Response to Reply #1 |
12. like math vs maths |
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Critters2 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Apr-03-09 12:56 PM Response to Reply #12 |
24. Yikes! I've never seen "maths" in this country. |
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trof (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Apr-02-09 06:15 PM Response to Original message |
2. See also: |
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MorningGlow (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Apr-02-09 06:16 PM Response to Reply #2 |
3. It's a colloquialism kinda day! |
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tigereye (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Apr-02-09 06:19 PM Response to Original message |
5. I think it's an age differential |
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Bunny (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Apr-02-09 06:40 PM Response to Reply #5 |
7. Yeah, we called it 'the prom' too. |
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tigereye (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Apr-02-09 11:29 PM Response to Reply #7 |
10. not too bad - nice weather lately, eh? I can't believe it's April already. |
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Bunny (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Apr-03-09 03:30 AM Response to Reply #10 |
18. Yeah, she's a junior and she's going to the prom this year. |
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tigereye (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Apr-03-09 12:49 PM Response to Reply #18 |
23. yeah, it's amazing how much all that stuff seems to cost now - the gown, |
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bigwillq (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Apr-02-09 06:20 PM Response to Original message |
6. The Prom (nt) |
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Iggo (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Apr-02-09 08:19 PM Response to Original message |
8. Born and raised in SoCal, and it's "the prom" here, too. (n/t) |
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BarenakedLady (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Apr-02-09 08:22 PM Response to Original message |
9. The Prom in Rhode Island. |
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graywarrior (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Apr-02-09 11:32 PM Response to Original message |
11. "The" as in The GE as opposed to GE. |
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Oeditpus Rex (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Apr-02-09 11:52 PM Response to Original message |
13. When the Colonel says, in the 'The Funniest Joke in the World' bit (episode 1), |
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Iggo (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Apr-02-09 11:59 PM Response to Reply #13 |
14. I think they should arrest people who stand in water. |
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Oeditpus Rex (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Apr-03-09 12:31 AM Response to Reply #14 |
15. WHOA! |
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MorningGlow (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Apr-03-09 08:54 AM Response to Reply #13 |
20. Good point |
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DarkTirade (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Apr-03-09 12:55 AM Response to Original message |
16. I say 'prom' because I went to two... mine and my ex's. |
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MorningGlow (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Apr-03-09 08:56 AM Response to Reply #16 |
21. Woah. Is "prom" plural? a collective noun? |
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DarkTirade (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Apr-03-09 02:27 PM Response to Reply #21 |
26. No, I just mean that it wasn't 'the' prom, because I had two of them. |
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RoyGBiv (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Apr-03-09 12:59 AM Response to Original message |
17. Morp ... |
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Heidi (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Apr-03-09 04:24 AM Response to Reply #17 |
19. We had our prom in a nearby town, because our little town had a no-dancing ordinance. |
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MorningGlow (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Apr-03-09 08:57 AM Response to Reply #17 |
22. No way! |
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Critters2 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Apr-03-09 12:59 PM Response to Original message |
25. No "the" in either Illinois or Iowa. nt |
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Tommy_Carcetti (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Apr-03-09 02:34 PM Response to Original message |
27. Proom? What's a proom? |
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