YAY!!!!! I know who you are talking about!!!! He is such a nice guy, the Purdy's lived in my old neighborhood and I went to third grade with Keith, as well as half of high school. :D

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It's funny, but my freshman year one of my guy friends just blurted that out to someone during a playful insult exchange and we used to say it ALL the time. Although the phrase has died out somewhat we always thought it originated down here, and I know my friend thought he came up with it. He's from GA and knows no one from your areas, I wonder if there is some other connection or if it is just a coincidence (spelling?).:p

I agree with Betarulz! that self-goverance is the way to go. However, rush shirts that degrade women are immature and present a negative image of fraternities. I once saw a rush shirt that had a drawing of a naked woman barely covering herself with sheet and the shirt said "She Was A Community Service Project." I think that lacks taste completely. I am a big proponent of first amendment rights so a fraternity or sorority can have whatever they want on their rush shirts, but just because we have the right to say what we want does not mean we should lose all cognizance of what is tasteful and how what we say reflects not just on our individual chapters and organizations, but greekdom as a whole.

Before I became an Alpha I reserched fraternities for weeks and months, and not the just the NPHC groups. One of the reasons I joined Alpha Phi Alpha was because I was drawn to the image portrayed by the organization of being gentlemen, of being professional. This is not to say that other organizations did not portray similar ideals as Alpha Phi Alpha, but I was turned off by some based on the image they put out. When my own brothers act in a manner that I feel is not becoming of an Alpha, I let them know. As a greek, I feel that rush shirts as I described above are unacceptable, and fraternities that wear such shirts are doing all greeks (and all men for that matter) a disservice.

It all depends on the type of guys in the frat. I know I wouldn't like it if some guy said, " Oh, thats just too offense, I might hurt somebody's feelings."

It's called building up the ego, and it's what is expected from the rush chairman if you have a class of "studs".

I'm not sure what you're trying to say here. Are you saying you would be offended if someone commented on a t-shirt you were wearing and said that what was written on your shirt might be in poor taste or offensive to others?

And I think you missed what I was trying to say. If a fraternity is using offensive slogans or slogans that are in poor taste they might attract men who really don't fit in and expemplify the value of the fraternity. I'm not saying that this will definitly happen, but it could.

Don't get me wrong I'm not easily offenede but I just something are in poor taste and you people may want to rethink what they are writting or saying before they say it or put it on a t-shirt. I can have a laugh at coky slogans, some I think are funny. Some I think are in poor taste.
By the same token there will always be people that constantly have their knickers in a twist.

Thats would be correct, thanks for clearing things up for me.

Lol, this is silly. wrong, tasteless. Still I'm laughing non-the less