Oh dear.

So, I was a rho chi my senior year (yup, we were still called rho chis). I was chatting with a fellow PX (different sorority) and she told me this story.

For one of their parties, they set up tables with bowls of goldfish as their centerpieces. One year, whoever was responsible for storing the goldfish before parties started didn't do so properly. So, that morning, before their first party of the day, the sisters set up all these goldfish bowls. About ten minutes before the doors opened, one of the sisters went up to the day chair and said, "Um... fish are dying..." Sure enough, a lot of the fish were belly up! They had to clear the centerpieces quickly and flush the fish down the toilets.

Posts 26 and 47 (from Delta Zetas) have always been 2 of my most :eek: posts.

This 23 year old thread has nearly 1400 posts, so I'm not about to go through them all to find it, but I'm willing to admit I've seen myself being posted about as the 'weirdo' in at least one post by a greekchat member in this thread :o Yes, I'm also too embarrassed to say what type of Rush Mistake this PNM made.

In a story from when you were a PNM?

Oh no! The poor fish were dying and they only had minutes to move them!

Oh no. This thread has been gutted.

:eek::(

Nooo this was one of my faves!

What happened? :confused:

It had 1400 posts and was a 24-yr-old thread.

Please correct me if wrong: I will guess John or the mods likely have gone thru and cut down in size a lot of the long/older threads in past year, some of it done to help keep GC powered against bot attscks

John is letting me go through the posts and choose the best ones to put back! YAY! Some of those will never age, like the 2 by Delta Zetas near the beginning.

Yay! I haven’t looked at this thread in a long time, but I remember many years ago, when I was bored on a work trip…I read damn near the entire thing. I was in tears laughing!

Oh that's great news!

There are tons of stupid old threads on GC, we didn't need to cut this one. :o At least now we can keep some of the good ol' stories because this thread is an absolute classic. Thank you for doing this!

Two threads that can easily be pruned are Word Association and Song Name Game. It's not as if anyone is going to go back to see what was previously posted.

^^^ Although it's ok to check back for a few posts in either thread to make sure your answer doesn't repeat a recent, connected answer.


Ah, yes, my old rush mistake :o. A little background:

In pledge days of yore, neophytes were given tasks to complete for points to earn toward a goal of initiation. Such tasks included but were not limited to: having Coffee Dates with every sister in the chapter; decorating a Pledge Book for said sisters to sign; carefully carrying Pledge Book AT ALL TIMES incase an initiated sis saw you and asked to see it; guarding same Pledge Book with your life incase a fraternity man saw it and tried to steal it (you'd have to do some crazy things for him and his bros to get it back!); getting the signature of the president of each campus fraternity; attending seven weekly study hours; spending four hours of Homecoming Week pimping the outside of your sorority house and/or decorating your Homecoming Parade float; you get the idea.

I surely wasn't the first pledge back then to feel afraid I would never make it to initiation due to my failure at some task. Many of those listed tasks are called HAZING now, no longer required of today's New Members (formerly known as Pledges).

One day back then, a sorority was working their COB Rush station in the student union. It was my Aunt's sorority, UWM! I wanted to know more about the UWM group on my campus, and was feeling I'd never make to initiated status in my own group.

So, I spoke with a few of the UWM women without telling them I was already a pledge to PDQ. Our rush conversation ran smoothly until their advisor joined us, inquiring my reasons for wanting to join. I boldly told her I was looking for a different sorority to join because I didn't feel I'd measure up to mine, so I was looking for another one "just in case".

The UWM advisor was more kind to me than I deserved, and I never tried pledge another group again. i eventually successfully initiated into my PDQ home.