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Love your story, OOM!! Thanks for sharing!

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Originally Posted by Mndl (Post 2235203)

What a great story! Yay for ZTA:). I've gotta ask since I pledged Zeta in 1990 also; what was the skit, because I remember a couple that we did that were just bad:D

Ha! ha! ha! the skit was like a disney / pinocchio theme where "jiminy cricket active" sang "when you wish upon ZTA" to the little rushee who lied about not liking the chapter.... please tell me you guys NEVER did that one... no PNM should have been exposed to that skit.... :D:D:D

I have had serval request to "release the code"... Because Ole Miss is so competitive, has changed very little in 20+ years and IMHO is rife with waaaaaayyy too much tent talk and preconceived notions I do not want to add to any of that and / or color any PNM's mind...therefore I do not feel comfortable in revealing the code on the public page. If you absolutely can not live without it PM me....

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Originally Posted by OldOleMiss (Post 2235177)

Okay a couple of comments on your comments before I give you the last installment- Elvis Lover- YES! I have kept a journal since High School- it has been a fun (and sometimes painful) ride down memory lane pulling them out to "re-live rush"-- a lot of details have come from that- like how sweet the girls at Marshalls and JC Penny's were, but oddly enough I remember VIVIDLY most of my rush- especially things like Nordstroms leaving me on the sidewalk.

NOW in regards to Nordstroms and the sidewalk- MaryPoppins is 100% Correct- this was 1990-- and if I recall correctly we were the first Recruitment to use that "new fangled" thing called SCANTRON! ha ha ha.... I and Nordstroms was not the only mix-up that occurred that year! I also realized the next year when I participated on the "other side" that the girl at Nordstroms was probably just as flustered and embarrassed as I was, she just didn't recover quick enough to handle it right. If you think about it I messed their entire party up-- she couldn't bump who she was suppose to bump, no one was there to bump me, etc.. etc.. etc.. so while I was humiliated at the time... I quickly got over it. :-)

Clemsongirl- first and foremost YAY!!! on your recruitment! I have been following your story and am THRILLED for you and ADPi- that is one lucky house!!! ALL of my cousins went to Clemson-- including the 2 GLO mentioned here for doing my recs. They LOVED every min. of it!!! (and one was an Aquarius ;-) ). Secondly ha! ha! ha! Canadian- yes, I suppose the poor girl really would have lost her mind with you. A guy friend of mine from college was from Virginia- he tells a similar story about going through Fraternity Recruitment... we still laugh about our "yankee heritage".... and my husband would LOVE you-- GO SOX! :-)

Okay.... that being said let me try and finish up here.....

You are very sweet.

She should have apologized, though, for the mix-up and for being flustered. If you mess up, you can let it all hang out, as long as you are kind to the person who is a guest/customer.

And yay! for Zeta. I really liked the Zeta chapter at my school, and I really the one at SLU, too.

I pledged ZTA in 1991. Our rush skit was a Little Mermaid themed one. I guess we had a Disney thing happening back in the day.

Wonderful story! What I enjoyed most was that you wrote with the ideals of a freshman, but with the maturity of an adult. I'm so happy that you got "crowned"!!

Great story! As someone who "rushed" the last year it was before classes started in 1996 I can relate! I too was left at a house and then the sweet girl who picked me up was sick and she coughed the entire time! Maybe one day I will write my rush story!

I am so glad to call you my sister. And for you young'uns, I remember the Little Mermaid Skit and saw it performed at our Ok. State chapter in the early '90s when I was an advisor there. That was a fabulous skit! I am, however, glad that my Ole Miss sisters got rid of that Pinocchio one-sounds like a stinker!

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Originally Posted by OleMissGlitter (Post 2235267)

Yes please!

Whatever happened to Tippiechick? Wasn't this her chapter?

Yes, Tippie is from the Ole Miss chapter.

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Originally Posted by Shellfish (Post 2235276)

Whatever happened to Tippiechick? Wasn't this her chapter?

Tippie's still around...I don't think she gets on here that much though...but she's doing well!

Yes please on the rush story OleMissGlitter-- and too funny on the Little Mermaid skit- a friend of mine rushed The same year I did and I remember her talking about seeing the Little Mermaid skit at her college...

Thank you so much for sharing OOM! I loved your story!