👗 Jonesy & Amanda Reminisce About Their High School Formals

Do you remember your high school formal?

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:01):
And Amanda gam Nation.

Speaker 2 (00:03):
My sixth form formula. I had seen a picture in
a magazine, the Princess Caroline of Monaco, and I wanted
to look like her. So I cut the picture out
and said to him, because all of us at our formals,
I think our mums made our outfits in those days.
You mums sewed. That's you know, none of this spending
stacks of money on frocks and things. So we mum
bought a butterick pattern, made me an outfit that didn't

(00:27):
exactly look like Princess Caroline of Monica. Last night I
felt embarrassed for for old Scott, who is my friend
who came along as my date for the night. I
went to school with Scott and there he is in
this terrible you know, the jacket with the big dark
velvet piping around the collar and stuff. He was held
up for ridicule. He's got into witness protection, crimes against

(00:49):
fashion for old Scott. Did you have a formal?

Speaker 3 (00:52):
No? No, I missed out on the whole form I
left Okayer.

Speaker 1 (00:57):
There was a there was a formal. There was a
girl when I was in a musical, there was a
girl from the other female school to a boys school
and was a musical carousel.

Speaker 2 (01:09):
And what role did you have?

Speaker 4 (01:10):
I was just one of the backup singers slash dances,
slash dances right up the back. But there was one
girl who was were kind of sweet on me and
I kin't like her. Wow, but all my friends, you know,
she looks like Marilyn remember that singing from the eighties.

Speaker 1 (01:27):
I was a man.

Speaker 4 (01:27):
It was a man, and so I dropped it like
a hot rock.

Speaker 1 (01:31):
Where's therese girls looking like There's no.

Speaker 4 (01:34):
Way I could go out with a girl that looked.

Speaker 3 (01:36):
Like a man.

Speaker 2 (01:36):
Boy George was more your style.

Speaker 4 (01:39):
So but I was keen on her, and I think
that she intimated about going to her formal But then
I just I just that was it didn't happen. Yeah,