# Who should be the Prom King of IMHO?

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-should-be-the-prom-king-of-imho/21063>\
**Category:** In My Humble Opinion\
**Created:** [June 1, 2000, 1:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-should-be-the-prom-king-of-imho/21063 "2000-06-01T01:03:59Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 16\
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**Author:** ![Milossarian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/3ec8ea/32.png) [@Milossarian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Milossarian)\
**Post date:** [June 2, 2000, 11:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-should-be-the-prom-king-of-imho/21063/21 "2000-06-02T11:48:14Z")

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I’m one of those guys that always drives the king and queen around in the convertible, hurting on the inside.

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**Author:** ![ultress](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/7c8e57/32.png) [@ultress](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ultress)\
**Post date:** [June 2, 2000, 1:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-should-be-the-prom-king-of-imho/21063/22 "2000-06-02T13:05:35Z")

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My best friend, **aha**

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**Author:** ![Eve](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/9e8a1a/32.png) [@Eve](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eve)\
**Post date:** [June 2, 2000, 1:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-should-be-the-prom-king-of-imho/21063/23 "2000-06-02T13:06:46Z")

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I’m torn:

Wally or Arnie or Ike?  
They’re three guys I certainly like . . .  
Wally’s a sport and he makes my heart race;  
Arnie’s as funny as Joan Rivers’ face—  
But Ike has my address and always packs mace!  
Which one do I vote for; which two do I spike?  
Wally or Arnie  
Wally or Arnie  
Wally or Arnie or Ike?

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**Author:** ![soulsling](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a5b964/32.png) [@soulsling](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/soulsling)\
**Post date:** [June 2, 2000, 1:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-should-be-the-prom-king-of-imho/21063/24 "2000-06-02T13:25:58Z")

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the ladies can certainly find out for themselves if they like **DRY, John**. 😃

i like to keep’em guessing. their own medicine type of thing ya know?

and **DRY** , Shayna sang for me! HA! 😃

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**Author:** ![Silo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ac91a4/32.png) [@Silo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Silo)\
**Post date:** [June 2, 2000, 10:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-should-be-the-prom-king-of-imho/21063/25 "2000-06-02T22:27:52Z")

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## Official Tab:

## 1 vote for Wally 1 vote for aha

(So far it’s a tie.)

C’mon peoples!  
Must get more votes in!

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**Author:** ![Jeannie](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/e480ec/32.png) [@Jeannie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jeannie)\
**Post date:** [June 3, 2000, 12:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-should-be-the-prom-king-of-imho/21063/26 "2000-06-03T00:48:50Z")

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> > I am announcing here and now that I am willing to be bought. That’s right, I will sell myself. I will take offers starting now.
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> When I first looked I thought I saw THAT post, I thought Jennie was admitting to being in the trade…(now I realize otherwise), but suppose I bought you for oh…say $39.99, i’ll do it but ONLY under the condition that you buy me back for $39.99. Deal?
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Hmm…if you’re going to misquote me (and get my name wrong), at least make a better offer 😉

Oh, and we can deal here, but I want a discount, m’kay?

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**Author:** ![Silo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ac91a4/32.png) [@Silo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Silo)\
**Post date:** [June 3, 2000, 2:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-should-be-the-prom-king-of-imho/21063/27 "2000-06-03T02:14:40Z")

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Jeannie, here’s Twenty bucks:

```auto

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|20 20|
| "In Cecil we trust" |
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| twenty) :P (twenty |
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|20 20|
+----------------------------+

```

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**Author:** ![DRY](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/a87d85/32.png) [@DRY](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DRY)\
**Post date:** [June 3, 2000, 11:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-should-be-the-prom-king-of-imho/21063/28 "2000-06-03T11:10:16Z")

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> the ladies can certainly find out for themselves if they like **DRY, John**. 😃
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> i like to keep’em guessing. their own medicine type of thing ya know?  
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Oh, yes. The old “make-the-ladies-think-you-might-be-gay-but-you-might-not-and-a-special-woman-like-her-might-be-just-the-ticket-to-bring-out-my-studliness”.

Works every time.

Err…so I hear. :eek:

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> and **DRY** , Shayna sang for me! HA! 😃  
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“O, how bitter a thing it is to look into  
happiness through another man’s eyes!” ☹  
–As You Like It, Act V, Scene ii

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**Author:** ![SwimmingRiddles](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/43a26b/32.png) [@SwimmingRiddles](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SwimmingRiddles)\
**Post date:** [June 3, 2000, 2:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-should-be-the-prom-king-of-imho/21063/29 "2000-06-03T14:04:20Z")

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I’m pulling a JohnLarrigan and voting multiple times. Soulsling gets a vote for the tireless work in the Prom Queen race, and for voting for me. JohnLarrigan gets a vote, because I ripped off his voting method, and also because he, too, is the coolest kid on the block. And Dry gets half a vote, simply because he quotes so much Shakespeare. Yea, I know, it’s via Barrlett’s, but it doesn’t matter. Quoting Billy S. is quoting Billy S.

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**Author:** ![Czarcasm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/czarcasm/32/4050_2.png) [@Czarcasm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Czarcasm)\
**Post date:** [June 3, 2000, 2:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-should-be-the-prom-king-of-imho/21063/30 "2000-06-03T14:53:09Z")

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No multiple voting, folks.

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**Author:** ![DRY](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/a87d85/32.png) [@DRY](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DRY)\
**Post date:** [June 4, 2000, 9:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-should-be-the-prom-king-of-imho/21063/31 "2000-06-04T09:45:03Z")

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> And Dry gets half a vote, simply because he quotes so much Shakespeare. Yea, I know, it’s via Barrlett’s, but it doesn’t matter. Quoting Billy S. is quoting Billy S.  
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Actually, it’s not all via Bartlett’s. Some plays (all the English history plays, as well as Hamlet, Julius Caesar, Macbeth, Othello, Romeo and Juliet), I know pretty well. And I don’t look them up via Bartlett’s but online.

A very good source for Shakespeare’s text’s can be found at [http://tech-two.mit.edu/Shakespeare](http://tech-two.mit.edu/Shakespeare)  
But the romances and some of the more obscure non histories (Love’s Labor Lost, Cymebeline)…yeah, it’s Bartlett’s. (I’m starting to run out of Bartlett’s quotes, by the way)

I’d quote from the Lion in Winter more often, but my VCR is on the fritz ☹ , and I don’t have my copy of the screenplay at work, which is where I often post.

Thanks for the half vote :), even if Slythe didn’t count it! :mad:

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**Author:** ![handy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/b5a626/32.png) [@handy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/handy)\
**Post date:** [June 5, 2000, 12:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-should-be-the-prom-king-of-imho/21063/32 "2000-06-05T00:33:05Z")

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Another pathetic attempt to seperate the wheat from the chaff here. However, aren’t you supposed to nominate people first & then vote?

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**Author:** ![Diane](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/2acd7d/32.png) [@Diane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Diane)\
**Post date:** [June 5, 2000, 12:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-should-be-the-prom-king-of-imho/21063/33 "2000-06-05T00:44:49Z")

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> Oh, yes. The old “make-the-ladies-think-you-might-be-gay-but-you-might-not-and-a-special-woman-like-her-might-be-just-the-ticket-to-bring-out-my-studliness”.

If you were here I would sing my favorite Bloodhound Gang song for you.

I still think the men should line up and dance for us.

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**Author:** ![Kat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/b19c9b/32.png) [@Kat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kat)\
**Post date:** [June 5, 2000, 2:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-should-be-the-prom-king-of-imho/21063/34 "2000-06-05T02:50:18Z")

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My vote’s still open here. What’s it worth to you?

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**Author:** ![DRY](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/a87d85/32.png) [@DRY](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DRY)\
**Post date:** [June 5, 2000, 9:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-should-be-the-prom-king-of-imho/21063/35 "2000-06-05T09:37:56Z")

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> If you were here I would sing my favorite Bloodhound Gang song for you.  
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I have to admit–I have NO idea what you mean by this…😕

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**Author:** ![DRY](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/a87d85/32.png) [@DRY](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DRY)\
**Post date:** [June 5, 2000, 9:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-should-be-the-prom-king-of-imho/21063/36 "2000-06-05T09:56:18Z")

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see my response in the “male slut” thread:

[http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?threadid=26470](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?threadid=26470)  
😉

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