# Creative ways of asking a girl to prom **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [May 4, 2001, 1:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/creative-ways-of-asking-a-girl-to-prom/64291 "2001-05-04T01:32:21Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 14\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![anoneemouse](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/22d042/32.png) [@anoneemouse](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/anoneemouse)\ **Post date:** [May 4, 2001, 1:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/creative-ways-of-asking-a-girl-to-prom/64291/1 "2001-05-04T01:32:21Z")
What’s the most creative way you can think of, as I can’t think of any! ---
**Author:** ![Zanshin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/e274bd/32.png) [@Zanshin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zanshin)\ **Post date:** [May 4, 2001, 1:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/creative-ways-of-asking-a-girl-to-prom/64291/2 "2001-05-04T01:35:13Z")
Ummmmmm… maybe I’m missing the point here, but why does asking a girl to prom have to be an extremely creative effort? I’d think most women would rather be asked in a sincere fashion - you walk up to them, calmly express your attraction to them and ask them if they’d accompany you to prom. Simple, direct and you don’t have to worry about impressing 'em… you’ve already done that by NOT pulling any stunts or trying any funny lines. ---
**Author:** ![Arken](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/dfb087/32.png) [@Arken](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Arken)\ **Post date:** [May 4, 2001, 1:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/creative-ways-of-asking-a-girl-to-prom/64291/3 "2001-05-04T01:44:47Z")
But if that fails, try coming to her door wearing nothin’ but a smile. ---
**Author:** ![tracer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tracer/32/20578_2.png) [@tracer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tracer)\ **Post date:** [May 4, 2001, 2:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/creative-ways-of-asking-a-girl-to-prom/64291/4 "2001-05-04T02:13:39Z")
He’s trying to ask her to the **prom** , not to the nudist colony! ---
**Author:** ![JillGat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/9fc29f/32.png) [@JillGat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JillGat)\ **Post date:** [May 4, 2001, 2:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/creative-ways-of-asking-a-girl-to-prom/64291/5 "2001-05-04T02:16:25Z")
This belongs in IMHO. JillGat ---
**Author:** ![Arken](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/dfb087/32.png) [@Arken](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Arken)\ **Post date:** [May 4, 2001, 2:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/creative-ways-of-asking-a-girl-to-prom/64291/6 "2001-05-04T02:21:01Z")
> [@](#): > > He’s trying to ask her to the prom, not to the nudist colony! If you think there’s a difference, you went to the wrong high school. 😉 ---
**Author:** ![Ms2001](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ms2001/32/18463_2.png) [@Ms2001](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ms2001)\ **Post date:** [May 4, 2001, 2:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/creative-ways-of-asking-a-girl-to-prom/64291/7 "2001-05-04T02:27:52Z")
I haven’t done anything exciting myself… in fact, when I went to prom, the girl asked me. But I have a friend, “P”, who did something interesting. He had photography class with his girlfriend, so he laid out some letters on a background and filled an entire roll of film with his message, one letter per frame: “WILL YOU GO TO PROM WITH ME? P” Then he switched her roll of film with his. She developed it, saw the message, and said yes. ---
**Author:** ![anoneemouse](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/22d042/32.png) [@anoneemouse](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/anoneemouse)\ **Post date:** [May 4, 2001, 4:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/creative-ways-of-asking-a-girl-to-prom/64291/8 "2001-05-04T04:11:58Z")
last year, i made a T-shirt that said, “(my name) asked me to prom and all I got was this stupid T-shirt.” And then I just left that shirt in a box on her doorstep one morning and got a yes. In retrospect, I should’ve saved that idea for this year… ---
**Author:** ![Monster104](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/c6cbf5/32.png) [@Monster104](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Monster104)\ **Post date:** [May 4, 2001, 4:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/creative-ways-of-asking-a-girl-to-prom/64291/9 "2001-05-04T04:33:09Z")
I had a lot of trouble getting my date to prom. The problem wasn’t people saying “no” to me…the problem was that the different girls I wanted to ask were asked the day before I was going to ask them (In each individual case). So, Monday this week I was talking to one of my female friends, and the subject of prom came up. No one had asked her yet, so I asked her right there. No prior planning, just spontaneous (although, I was thinking of asking her, just not then). So…while this doesn’t help you any… Something really awesome done at my school was this guy had filled the back of this girls car (Ford Explorer) with styrofoam peanuts. He hid in there with a sign on the back window that said “If you want the first clue of who is going to ask you to prom, open the back doorr”. Well, she opened the door, he jumped out with flowers and such. It made such a mess! ---
**Author:** ![Tamex](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ccd318/32.png) [@Tamex](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tamex)\ **Post date:** [May 4, 2001, 5:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/creative-ways-of-asking-a-girl-to-prom/64291/10 "2001-05-04T05:29:16Z")
Gee, all my prom date did was call me up and ask, “Are you doing anything the night of prom?” He was a bit nervous, so I let it go :). I agree with **Krunk** –you should worry less about the creative and more about the asking. Isn’t prom pretty soon? Around here, prom season has already started, I believe. ---
**Author:** ![Evnglion](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/f04885/32.png) [@Evnglion](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Evnglion)\ **Post date:** [May 4, 2001, 12:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/creative-ways-of-asking-a-girl-to-prom/64291/11 "2001-05-04T12:50:22Z")
I say you fly her to the moon, and let her play among the star, let her see what spring is like on Jupiter and Mars, cause she is all you long for, all you worship and adore. [sub]Kudos to anyone that knows what I am talking about[/sub] ---
**Author:** ![Hokienautic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/73ab20/32.png) [@Hokienautic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hokienautic)\ **Post date:** [May 4, 2001, 1:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/creative-ways-of-asking-a-girl-to-prom/64291/12 "2001-05-04T13:40:22Z")
So what are you trying to say, Evnglion? I mean, can you put it In Other Words? 😉 ---
**Author:** ![tracer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tracer/32/20578_2.png) [@tracer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tracer)\ **Post date:** [May 4, 2001, 3:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/creative-ways-of-asking-a-girl-to-prom/64291/13 "2001-05-04T15:39:38Z")
Evnglion wrote: > [@](#): > > let her see what spring is like on Jupiter and Mars, Just remember:[ul][li]The Martian “year” is about 2 Earth-years long, so “spring” only comes once every 24 months and lasts for 6 months.[/li][li]Although Mars has an axial tilt similar to the Earth’s, which does indeed give it “seasons” like we have on the Earth, it also has something the Earth does not: a highly eccentric orbit. At its closest approach to the sun (“perihelion”), Mars is 1.3 times closer to the sun than when it’s at its farthest distance from the sun (“aphelion”).[/li][li]What does this mean to you, the consumer? It means the seasons are radically different in Mars’s northern hemisphere than they are in Mars’s southern hemisphere. Perihelion occurs when it’s “winter” in the northern hemisphere and “summer” in the southern hemisphere; aphelion, by contrast, occurs during the northern summer and the southern winter. This means the seasons are mild in the north but exaggeratedly strong in the south. At the bottom of Mariner canyon (which is in the southern hemisphere) at mid-day during the southern summer, the temperature can reach a whopping 70 degrees Fahrenheit – hot enough to almost be _comfortable_, were it not for the fact that the Martian air at the bottom of Mariner canyon is about as rarefied as the air on Earth at 60,000 feet altitude and consists almost entirely of carbon dioxide.[/li][li]And, of course, there are no flowers on Mars, so there’s nothing romantic that blooms there in the springtime. Unless you consider sandstorms romantic.[/li]Don’t even get me started on Jupiter.[/ul] ---
**Author:** ![Tamex](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ccd318/32.png) [@Tamex](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tamex)\ **Post date:** [May 4, 2001, 8:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/creative-ways-of-asking-a-girl-to-prom/64291/14 "2001-05-04T20:29:57Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Evnglion \* > \*\*I say you fly her to the moon, and let her play among the star, let her see what spring is like on Jupiter and Mars, cause she is all you long for, all you worship and adore. > > [sub]Kudos to anyone that knows what I am talking about[/sub] \*\* I know what you’re talking about, Evangelion–er, I mean **Evnglion**. But wasn’t Second Impact last September? Know any babies named Shinji or Asuka? I have all the tapes. It’s one of my favorite anime :).