Ridiculous

Friday night, as I turned off the Netflix streaming to go to bed, the television switched briefly to a showing of Superman III. You know, the one with an evil Supe and Richard Pryor...well, being Richard Pryor? I turned the movie off just as Richard Pryor started his Patton impression. Saturday morning, Thomas turned the television back on, and lo and behold, there's old Richard, rallying the troops...

...and Thomas on the floor, laughing his head off, certain that we'd screwed up the space-time continuum. Ridiculous.

Sunday afternoon, we put on an old 1960s Batman, where the Caped Crusader tangled with the Green Hornet. In it, the object of the boys' mutual affection is kidnapped, and leaves behind only a bowl of alphabet soup that her pink dog, Apricot, had been munching on. Batman is certain it's a clue, and sure enough, the bowl spells out a lengthy call for help, complete with punctuation. Ridiculous.

Just now, though, I have seen something so ridiculous that it puts those two examples to shame. Folks, I have seen this: The $13,997 Prom Dress. Seriously.

Photo Credit: dressgoddess.com

The bodice of this dress is encrusted with more than $13K worth of hand-sewn diamonds. Seriously. It's available in sizes 00 through 12, and uses the La Femme gown style as a base. That dress, by the way, is available for $398. If I recall correctly, my prom dress cost a little over a hundred dollars. I'd be tempted to scrounge up a Bedazzler and save a few (thousand) bucks to put toward (read: pay for) college.

Ridiculous.