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I'm British. I've never been to a Prom. We don't have them, or at least we didn't until just recently. However, I've seen enough movies to know how they work and to understand the angst of having a date, and having to ask a date. These ideas are based on the premise that you a) don't care if you look like an idiot and b) don't care if they say no. Also, with some of them, it would probably help if you had a stack of money somewhere. Under your bed, perhaps...

1.Become a pizza delivery person. Spell out your question in pepperoni and deliver it yourself. It doesn't get any more romantic than that unless, of course, your potential date is a vegetarian. In that case spell it out in mushrooms instead. All vegetarians eat mushrooms, it's the law.

2.Take out a full-page newspaper ad Dear ?, will you go to the prom with me? Thanks, Love ? Just make sure it's a newspaper they read. Most high school students probably don't read the Financial Times so there's no point putting it there...

3.Get the school cheerleaders to incorporate it into a chant at the next game. You never know, it might catch on and become a national trend with you at the forefront!

4.Write it on your eyelids, stand in front of your potential date and blink a lot like the student in that Indiana Jones movie!

5.Wear a sandwich board and walk round school with it all day. Have it say, "Dear ? Please will you go to the prom with me?" on the front and "Thanks for not laughing" on the back.

6.Hire advertising space on your beloved's favourite channel and film yourself in a wacky promo, asking them out. (Look, I said some of them would need money!)

7.Alternatively, you could ask the TV station to run a scrolling marquee across the bottom of the screen during your beloved's favourite show.

8.Hire an airplane to either drag a streamer behind it or (if you're really rich) spell it out in coloured smoke!

9.Alternatively, paint your request in ten-foot letters on the gym roof, put your beloved in the airplane and make sure the pilot flies them over it.

10.Hire a barber-shop quartet to surprise them by singing your request in close harmony. In fact, join them yourself those stripy waistcoats will be back in fashion one day, you mark my words.

Hey, your beloved may not say yes it's possible they may never speak to you again but I guarantee they'll never forget that they were asked.

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