<p>Thanks Alu. It’s stayed with me for nearly 30 years.</p>
<p>Oops. :o .</p>
<p>Alu – just this morning at the grocery store a middle age man called me “young lady.” WOW! Talk about making my day … :)</p>
<p>You have to watch out for those only-slightly-older-than-you men trying to score points by calling you “young lady.” 
I know what their game is.</p>
<p>My only experience with almost strapless was my wedding gown. It had small sleeves but with all the lace on the bodice I had to wear a strapless bra. Most annoying, worrying undergarment EVER. Never again.</p>
<p>Speaking of fashion (I know, we were speaking of Prom fashion but this is not a bad segue) I was published in the paper today! A little opinion piece on why this is the year I am making a break from fashion. Those of you who remember fashions from the 60s will understand why we don’t want to do them again at our age. :eek:</p>
<p>And for all you “young” people out there–I am not clueless, I am free. That’s my story and I’m sticking to it. :D</p>
<p>I, too, ventured into strapless bra territory for my wedding dress, which must have been similar to mommusic’s since it had sleeves and some lacy deal on top but straps would have been a no-no. I called the bra my “fortress deep and mighty.” I contend my back problems all started there (and were cemented when I had those pesky twins who weighed 8 pounds and 8# 7 oz.at their birth at 34-1/2 weeks. There was no possible escape from my ouchy back after DD’s birth; she weighed 10#13oz.).</p>
<p>It is very hard for the clergy to indicate nonverbally to the bride who has popped her top that she has done so, before she turns around to the photographers and crowd. His pointed glance and wink are readily misinterpreted. Usually it’s the groom who figures it out first and rescues the, er, situation.</p>
<p>I just saw a TV commercial for a new kind of double-bra that hooks in front, on top of your normal bra, pushing you up to Medieval proportions. Meanwhile it pulls back on your shoulders "like your Mom always said, ‘don’t slouch’ "</p>
<p>One selling point for the bra was how the young TV cameramen and tech crew ogled the middle-aged models. That’s exactly who I’d want to date next.</p>
<p>the middle aged models or the young tv cameraman?</p>
<p>never did go to prom; instead, I was busy pretending to be a hippie (in my parents’ very affluent suburb).</p>
<p>DD gets away with strapless dresses by using a patented invention called Nubra. It’s a washable sticky bra that adds a little bit of an “endowment” and somewhat helps holding those strapless dresses up. I think the name sounds like some sort of a rodent species - Nubra.</p>
<p>Nubra… Nutria… MARMOTS!!</p>
<p>I just KNEW we’d find our way back to the marmots eventually!</p>
<p>(And PS: p3t, I am just seeing the situation now in my mind’s eye… how mortifying for the brides who do pop out and don’t catch on.)</p>
<p>There was a hilarious tv show on at the gym once, like an “America’s funniest Home videos” but all WEDDINGS. You name it: tripping, falling, tantruming ring-bearers, flower girls gripping their embarrassed mothers’ thighs, stepped on trains causing ripped gowns, altars catching fire, everything. </p>
<p>I was WEAK with laughter thinking about how funny it is that MARRIAGES all start as these sanitized weddings. I remember thinking, better have some reality right up front…</p>
<p>Some of the couples were such good sports you knew they’d passed the acid test.</p>
<p>Uh oh, marmots. Since I began reading SA after around page 200, I get tongue-tied in this advanced class with my weak SA fundamentals. If someone would just identify the page where the marmots crept in, I’d go back to do the remedial reading.</p>
<p>(fencersmom, it did sound like I was on both teams there…so I guess re posts l0877-8, all of the above?)</p>
<p>We’re both wearing many hats here, p3t. haha</p>
<p>At my dear friend’s wedding, the photographer DIED! He had a heart attack and fell into the cake. It was pretty awful. </p>
<p>I guess that’ll clear up any chance of having a smile today.</p>
<p>Well unfortunately I am laughing out loud about the photographer with a heart attack who fell into the cake.</p>
<p>Odd how awful things turn out funny in retrospect.</p>
<p>And I have always thought that people should be made to get divorced first before they got married so that they could get a peak at the underlying dynamics. Of marriage AND of divorce.</p>
<p><em>runs away to look for the origination of marmots…</em></p>
<p>I think this is it. </p>
<p>Look at m&sdad’s post. Had to do with finaid…</p>
<p><a href=“http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/parent-cafe/62644-sinner-s-alley-happy-hour-168.html?highlight=marmot[/url]”>http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/parent-cafe/62644-sinner-s-alley-happy-hour-168.html?highlight=marmot</a></p>
<p>Bravo Alumother.</p>
<p>Alumother, thank you for the lifeline. I read all the red marmot posts and now feel much more comfortable in class. <strong>sighs happily</strong></p>
<p>p3t: you MUST read pages 1-200! refrigerator magnets, bladder infections, great drink recipes, medicinal properties of alcohol, plus you’ll find out who fell under the bar in 2005 and is still there living off our spilled beer and dropped cheetos.</p>
<p>What pages was Burning Man on?</p>
<p><a href=“http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/parent-cafe/62644-sinner-s-alley-happy-hour-240.html?highlight=Burning+Man#post2843222[/url]”>http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/parent-cafe/62644-sinner-s-alley-happy-hour-240.html?highlight=Burning+Man#post2843222</a></p>
<p>That’s another reference that might make people feel like newbies. There should be no newbies here. No junior high club stuff. All are welcome.</p>
<p>After all, if no one comes in to buy drinks how with the owner of the place feed and house himself?</p>
<p>Wait. The owner of the place? Is there such a person? I imagine it rather like the Wizard of Oz. A large floating head that says in a resonant voice, “Pay no attention to the man behind the curtain!”</p>
<p>BTW, do you think we can get owlice to cater this thread too?</p>
<p>OK, DeniseC, I’m huffing and puffing to keep up…thought I’d slip in without the prerequisite. Thanks for keeping me honest.</p>