Forget Natural Disasters, Get a Load of This Awesomeness
May 12th, 2008This is the best video I’ve seen on the internet in many days. Hey, CNN, you wanna hook up an embed option for the kids? o
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May 12th, 2008 at 12:41 pm
I saw this earlier on dlisted.com! I’ve already pledged to make this my ‘08 Hallowe’en costume … tres Flavor of Love!
May 12th, 2008 at 12:42 pm
Why, I do declare, I am positively scandalized that such a paragon of good taste and elegance should be denied her senior prom.
:insert requisite “When I was a senior in high school…” grumpiness here:
May 12th, 2008 at 12:49 pm
i’d hit it.
May 12th, 2008 at 12:50 pm
i tried SO hard not to write something snarky. honest i did. just. couldn’t. help. myself.
May 12th, 2008 at 1:27 pm
When my daughter has her senior prom in a few years, I am so making that dress for her. Did Heather take notes, so she can make one up for Leta’s senior prom? That dress is HOT!!
May 12th, 2008 at 1:58 pm
Did she make that dress herself? That is the funniest thing I have seen all day.
May 12th, 2008 at 2:03 pm
Give the girl credit for moxie. She is wearing the HELL outta that dress!
May 12th, 2008 at 2:04 pm
At least she wasn’t pregnant. At the time. Did anyone ax her bowt wat her date tawt?
May 12th, 2008 at 2:16 pm
obviously no Father in that household or if there was he is a pimp and was hoping his daughter was going to bring home some income that night……
May 12th, 2008 at 4:08 pm
::BLINK:: ::BLINK:: Seriously?! Ok, that’s officially the stupidest dress I’ve ever seen…
May 12th, 2008 at 4:39 pm
It won’t load, am I the only one who can’t see it? (Nothing wrong with my connection, everything else loads fine.)
May 12th, 2008 at 4:42 pm
Never mind! For some reason it wouldn’t load when I followed the link from my feedreader but from here, it does.
That’s not a prom dress, that’s a bikini with a blanket attached to the bottom.
May 12th, 2008 at 5:04 pm
Seriously.
May 12th, 2008 at 5:37 pm
We’re using the term “dress” pretty loosely here.
And yeah I’d hit it too. With a stick. In the hope that I’d knock some sense into her.
May 13th, 2008 at 4:51 am
I think I love this girl. “I WAS wearin’ underwear!” - sure, honey, only you called it your dress.
Let’s not knock sense into her. She’s totally precious. The body of a girl, the soul of a drag queen.
May 13th, 2008 at 8:31 pm
Much to my surprise when I clicked on the video to watch this I realized its in my HOMETOWN! Sugar Land, Texas representin’!
May 14th, 2008 at 10:32 am
Ridiculous considering every high school has a prom dress code and every student knows what it is.
“But ma friends tried to wrap it around me!” I agree with an above poster. Bikini and a blanket.
May 14th, 2008 at 3:56 pm
So, perhaps that dress was not appropriate - although many have worn less to the Oscars - but I’m surprised at the attitude taken by the comments. I’m fairly sure that these are the same people who, should I make fun of the way they talk, would take great offense. Some of these people probably railed at Kathie Lee after the Heather interview, some of these people comment on the shallowness and bad attitudes of replies to other blog posts and yet they can’t display the same sensitivity here. Yes, the girl does not have a white, midwestern accent and diction. She’s black, y’all. She talks that way. We’re blurring the lines between hoochie mama and appropriate every day, so it’s no wonder that she has a skewed idea of what is appropriate.
And her father must be a pimp?
How would the comments have been different if she was a white girl not allowed into her prom for the same dress? An upperclass, well-spoken white girl?
May 14th, 2008 at 6:56 pm
@Alyson, I don’t think it has a thing to do with race. The dress is inappropriate for a high school dance. Period. It doesn’t matter what color the skin is of the person in the dress, the dress is not appropriate.
What is amusing about this video is the attitude of the person; that she feels she has a right to wear something like this to a high school dance.
So. Pretend it was a white upper class well-spoken girl. Still inappropriate. And super crazy to expect that any high school would allow it.
Grumpy old man rant is over now.
May 15th, 2008 at 8:25 am
You can’t help it when you mix up Spring Break and prom, yo. Simple mistake.
May 23rd, 2008 at 7:32 am
@blurb:
While I agree that the dress is inappropriate for a school function regardless of race, Alyson is making the point that some of the comments left are focusing on the fact that this girl is black and their perception that she is lower-class.
Such as this:
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May 12th, 2008 at 2:04 pm
At least she wasn’t pregnant. At the time. Did anyone ax her bowt wat her date tawt?
Tell me that they would have posted that if this had been a middle/upper class white girl. Inappropriate and offensive. Dialect ought not to be automatically associated with level of intelligence or social mores.