Thank you ΓZ, for being a friend

Thank you for being a friend
Traveled down the road and back again
Your heart is true your a pal and a confidant.

And if you throw a party
Invited everyone you ever knew
You would see the biggest gift would be from me
And the card attached would say thank you for being a friend.

Man, the Golden Girls were HOT. I would TOTALLY jump the slutty one's bones if I had the chance. Think her name was Blanche? Total hottie.

I liked the tall spinster Rose,... or even her mother

Very sad to hear about Estelle Getty last week. I can say that I actually watched the Golden Girls a lot when I was active. When I'd wake up in the morning before class it was always on TV.

Ok Cube, 3 MAJOR things wrong with your sentence:

1. Watching the Golden Girls (unless it was the basis of some drinking game)

2. Waking up in the MORNING

3. Going to CLASS

Hey, I was High Beta for 3 semesters and High Alpha for 4 semesters so I had to be one of those guys who set the example! I also had 2 very painful years as president of IFC... which was the biggest headache of my Greek life.

As far as the Golden Girls, it was the only thing on other than Wings when I was active. Wait... now that I think about it I watched Wings even after I graduated. I remember waking up and getting upset for a few seconds when I woke up at around 10 a.m. on Tuesday, September 11, 2001 after working a late night radio shift.

The fraternity actually was incentive to make me wake up in the morning. In the time before I joined I would never wake up till around noon and frequently missed class... which explains why I didn't get my first degree for 6 years.

Hell, most of our brothers sleep through their first class... at NOON.

I had to laugh right now when i remembered the sophomore level "Art of the Motion Picture" course I took AFTER I'd already received my first bachelors degree. I had finished in December, so I had a bit of a crossroads as far as what to do next. I had been hired at the radio station on campus and had to continue taking courses in order to keep the job. The class was at 8:30 or 9:30 a.m. (I can't remember which). We had a brother who was at risk of dropping out so our High Kappa (thanks Alex) convinced him to take an easy course that would improve his GPA. Brother High Kappa took the class with him to help him and convinced me that as High Alpha I could also help out. I really didn't want to take it, but I figured it was a way for me to keep my new job and stay in school while I pondered my next move. It sounded easy -- we'd watch classic movies like Battleship Potemkin, Singin' in the Rain and Rashomon and study them, then be tested on them.

Wow, were we wrong. The teacher took her films seriously and we were picking each individual one apart. I'd estimate that at least 1/3 to 1/2 of the class dropped... which, in the end included our High Kappa. Unfortunately the brother who was in danger of dropping out gave up on the course and stopped going... but NEVER dropped, so his F cemented his being kicked out of school for his Blutarski 0.0 GPA after 2 semesters. I still remember taking the final and steaming about those two getting me to take the course then bailing on me. I actually worked hard (I really enjoyed the course, though it totally burned me out) and got a B. I was really proud.

Today I can pick any movie to death and it often illicits a "stop ruining the movie for me" from my wife.

Sometimes our hand sign can be confused with other "signs" - things I've learned:

Our handsign is also a sign in American Sign Language (won't mention which one for obvious reasons)...and my wife is deaf, so when we are talking around brothers, I've had to "explain" a few things to avoid being accused of secrecy-revealing....

There is also a large, latino-based gang that uses the same sign...which is frightening, because of safety issues...

In fact, a deaf couple in Denver about 10 years ago were shot and killed by gang members who thought they were being "insulted" by the hand signs the couple was using to communicate. The couple was elderly, so I highly doubt they were into throwing up signs for gang pride....ugh.

All the more reason to cool it.

FWIW, I thought these signs were stuff that we learned in secret and they're supposed to be kept that way. I remember driving on I-55 from school back to the northern Chicago 'burbs when I was an undergrad back in the Dark Ages. As I headed home I heard a car honking next to me.

When I looked @ the next lane, I saw a brother from another chapter flashing the aforementioned sign & shouting, "Good to see ya, bro!" (he spotted my letters in the rear window of my '65 Falcon). This was sort of a surprise, since I'd only been initiated for a short time & was surprised to see this public display of something that I thought was...well, known to brothers only.

In the last few years I've noticed more guys flashing the sign in photo opps. Evidently, IHQ's okay w/it...

Wait, I always thought that LXA was part of the Bloods.

So we don't have to wear red bandanas when we go to class after all?

I too was surprised the first time I saw the hand signs in pictures and go WTF?

I don't use it as it is private to me.

Spiderman doesn't hide his Lambda Chi pride

Yeah, but for some reason Peter Parker is always either wearing red and blue or black and white... never purple, gold and green.