There's been a cute little story line floating around recently, with the Herald's coverage of "hard-hearted Cape Cod school officials" (ouch), who tried (unsuccessfully) to stop students from bringing dates who had criminal records to the prom, and this Globe article that discusses not only the background checks, but also metallic analogies and dance moves:

"Proms, you always worried about, but there was an innocence to them. Now, kids these days have more brass, they're more sophisticated," said Paul Dakin, superintendent of schools in the Boston suburb of Revere.
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At Capital High School in Charleston, W.V., the principal dismissed 70 people from prom this year for breaking the school's dance code with the "booty pop," in which females bend over and males press up to their rear ends.

Oh god, for the love of all that's holy, don't screw with the booty pop! Derriere-based dancing is a prom tradition that streches at least as far back as 2 Live Crew's 1990 classic Face Down, Ass Up. And we here at Puritan City applaud these sophisticated little alloy experts. The brass industry is as American as apple pie.

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