All I know is, if I ever sat like that, my mom would have screamed "CLOSE YOUR LEGS, WE CAN SEE YOUR UNDIES!" at me, even if I was wearing pants or a long skirt. ;)

You guys have coasties at Texas Tech, too? :D

The wide-spread legs bit was a shocker for me, too! I got told, "Honey, knees together, please," which meant "Put those knees together or you will be in the next handbasket to Hell!" :p A tad overstated, but it worked - my mother believes that one only yells in the house if it's on fire!

About the banana - I'm assuming a banana was a much more difficult thing to obtain in the 1800s? I mean, I've read enough 19th century American children's novels to know that an orange was considered a delicacy/awesome Christmas gift back in the day in many parts of America. So surely a ripe banana was even rarer? At least in Illinois?

Just guessing and wondering then what the context for the banana might be.

Historian much? lol

See, my mom would've just blurted out the "next handbasket to Hell" stuff- probably accompanied by a sharp "Ah-ah-aaaaaaaaaaah!" She would remind me to be ladylike in a not-very-ladylike manner at all... so I learned my manners as quickly as possible to prevent her from feeling the need to declare anything, LOL!

I still just love this thread! It's one of my favorites on this board!

My favorite is the woman in the center holding the banana, and the other woman who is looking like she's going to take a bite![/QUOTE]

That reminds me of the ZTA mystifying photo.

http://www.zetataualpha.org/images/MystefPic.gif

Which was taken in 1899 and is the first offical ZTA photo, with the 9 founders and their first 3 pledges.

Looks like those ancestors were quite the cut-ups in their salad days...kinda like today's "crazy" pix! 112 years' difference...girls are still the same!

Well my mom did it kindof as a joking thing. Not the close your legs part, but the yelling part.

That reminds me of the ZTA mystifying photo.

http://www.zetataualpha.org/images/MystefPic.gif

Which was taken in 1899 and is the first offical ZTA photo, with the 9 founders and their first 3 pledges.[/quote]


I was thinking the exact same thing! You beat me to the post! :D

That's what I was thinking.
ETA: I got to see them at convention!

Florida State Bid Day 2004
 

http://i145.photobucket.com/albums/r...5aqRtOj_ph.jpgFairly recent, but one of those very hot bid days in Florida.

(Bold mine)

I don't know how I missed that, but it reminds me of a soccer game I attended. I met some friends there, and one of them brought another friend, let's call her Amber. I had heard of her, but didn't know her.

Just before the game, we all stood for the National Anthem and Amber noticed that a young boy (8-9 years old) in front of us did not remove his baseball cap. She knocked the hat off of the kid's head, yelling, "You take your f***ing hat off for the f****ing National Anthem, a$$***e!"

I'll be willing to bet dollars to doughnuts that he never leaves his hat on for the Star Spangled Banner again!

My chapter, 1985. I'm in the bottom row, second from the right. My sister-daughters are on either side of me. My sorority sister, Suzette, right behind me, passed away late last month.

http://i285.photobucket.com/albums/l...etaalpha85.jpg

OMG, the Hairstyles!
OMG, the Clothes!

Thanks, Dee. You just put a huge smile on my face and gave me ammunition to say, "see, we weren't the only ones that looked like that"

Same beautiful smile:D