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You have got to hear the story about this picture. It is very obviously
a prom dress but what I had to go through to get this picture even taken is no less than hilarious.
I liked Brian and through the grapevine I knew he liked me.
I had to practically beat him over the head to get the hint to ask me to prom. This is not my high school prom this
is his. Carl Hayden in 1992.
I borrowed the dress from one of his ex girlfriends, I wore
a 6 but the dress was a 4. (are you surprised I am not blue lol). She is also a friend of mine. Anyway,
I am getting dressed and my brother decides to take the dog for a walk. My dog HATED the color black. Any of us could wear
it but nobody else. Well first of all Brian got lost and had to call for directions. Too funny. Then when
he got there my dog bit him because he was wearing black, being prom and all. So he is in my bathroom on prom night
in his boxers while my mom is sewing his pants. Too funny. So now he is all worried about how it looks (fortunately
these are his pants and not rented, who owns tuxedo pants anyway) We go to his house in his friend's car that he borrowed
for the night that had no radio. He changes shoes. Now he has on boots that go to his knees and this other jacket.
Now you will agree he looks like a bullfighter. That has been the joke since that night.
Instead of a corsage he gave me one single rose. That rose
lived for 2 years. Wow. I still would like to know what that means. Anyway so we have kept in touch through the years.
He came over the night I broke my hand on the bag of ice while I was making him dinner. We email back and forth every
once in a while. I had to have him resend me this because it was saved in the hard drive of my laptop.
Oh fast forward 10 years to Carl Hayden's reunion.
They made a book up and asked all the class of 92 what their favorite memory was and he said that his prom date's dog bit
him. How sweet, I am forever immortalized in Carl Hayden's history. I just had to share because the history of this pic is so funny.
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| Icons of 1992 |
Think that you remember 1992?
Ex-squeeze me? Wayne's World hit it big (We're not worthy!) and underdogs had their day. Ross
Perot demonstrated that short, squeaky billionaires could make a run for the presidency, and make pretty charts too. Chris
Elliott hit the primetime jackpot playing himself, a thirty-something paperboy living with his folks who needs to Get a
Life!
And then there was the Dream Team '92 Olympics in Barcelona, Spain. American basketball pros take on the
world but come on weren't you secretly rooting for those pint-sized Croatians.
The scandals of today seem trivial in
comparison to the tabloid terrors of `92...Joey Buttafuoco and Amy Fischer make Long Island a laughing stock, while Woody
Allen lives out his movie fantasies, romancing his adopted daughter Soon Yi. If that wasn't enough, Madonna released Sex
and...ho, hum, we only read it for the writing. Right Said Fred provided the anthem of 1992, "I'm too Sexy," and The Real
World launched a trend of television voyeurism: This is the true story...of seven strangers...
I Love You, You
Love Me...Barney became the dinosaur adults loved to hate. Whitney Houston made The Bodyguard, crooning, "IIIIIIIIII
will always love YOUUUUUUUUUUUU" forever in debt to her lifesaver Kevin Costner. Now that's wack.
Lest we forget Billy
Ray Cyrus, who danced a mean two-step and wore a killer mullet, while engaging us with that endearing ditty: "Don't Break
My Heart, My Achy Breaky Heart". What about that other heartthrob Fabio...the man who was the living face of the romance novel.
Dreamy.
There were a few women to watch out for in 92. Sharon Stone opened her legs and America embraced her Basic
Instinct. Single White Female taught an important lesson about kicking out the roommate when the puppy slips out
the window, or she'll sleep with your boyfriend and impale him with her pump.
Arrested Development took over the airwaves
along with Sir Mix-A-Lot who put the booty on a pedestal with "Baby Got Back." Rapping pre-teens Kris Kross pioneered the
backward fashion trend and made us "Jump." Mortal Kombat made us jumpy, and so did Quentin Tarantino's Reservoir Dogs,
with a colorful criminal gang on a botched job that leads to a bloodbath.
Then there were Dan and Dave who made the
big stakes Reebok ad campaign until Dan didn't qualify for the Olympics. Ren and Stimpy made cartoons into cults with the
insane Chihuahua and his "eediot" sidekick cat while Murphy Brown took on our "eediot" sidekick VP Dan Quayle.
Top hits on record in 1992
Popular Television Shows in 1992
Top Grossing Films of 1992
- Aladdin
- Home Alone 2: Lost in New York
- Batman Returns, starring Michael Keaton and Michelle Pfeiffer
- Lethal Weapon 3
- A Few Good Men, starring Tom Cruise, Jack Nicholson, and Demi Moore
- Sister Act
- The Bodyguard, starring Kevin Costner and Whitney Houston
- Wayne's World, starring Mike Myers and Dana Carvey
- Basic Instinct, starring Michael Douglas and Sharon Stone
- A League of Their Own. starring Tom Hanks, Madonna, Penny Marshall and others
Academy Awards of 1992
Best Picture: Unforgiven - Malpaso Productions, Warner Bros.
Best Director: Clint Eastwood - Unforgiven
Best Actor: Al Pacino - Scent of a Woman
Best Actress: Emma Thompson - Howards End
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