This was a little while before there was widespread internet usage...hehehe!!!

(damn....I am aging myself...HAHHHAHAAHA!!)

but still...if you're greek, you should know the alphabets, i mean damn.

Right!

DS, you are not aging yourself (LOL), but before the internet age there was this thing called the library that had books and I am not sure since I am not a dinosaur, but I think the alphabet were in books or at least carved into a slab somewhere.

LOL......Just kidding. But seriously.....NO EXCUSE for her not knowing.

He really isn't aging himself. The internet wasn't widely used by damn-near-everyone even in the mid to late 1990s. So that would include me as one of the people who was 20 before I discovered that this mess existed.

We were given the Greek alphabet on a sheet of paper. Those who gave it to us didn't get it from the internet.

I really meant that he was not aging himself. I only LOLed because he said it. I also really meant what I said about the library. My mother and I went to the library a WHOLE lot when I was little and there was no internet, only a card catalogue....lol.

I went to private school as a child and I swear they would just make up assignments to make us write (but it made me a better writer so I can't complain too much). Anyway, I recall an assignment where I had to write a paper and cite it using the full citations from card catalogs and state which library I went to. T.E.D.I.O.U.S.

remind me of my campus. .. it seems today. people only learn the three letters in their handbook. and thats about all the greek they need to know

what does ox mean? is your mascot an ox?

do you haze?

and the most stupid/ funny one i've ever been asked: "what's the goat for?"

uh....what's the goat NOT for?

^^^ exalt - goat comments

To Blu and all others that commented...

I don't know how the rest of you all were 'raised' ( the only word I can think of right now...no offence.) But if that wasn't the first thing you learned before you went thru intake, it was one of the very first things you had to learn (at my campus at least) before you showed interest.

Not only should one know how to say them in order...but dayum...learn to recognize them!

Someone related to me how someone didn't understand how or why it was important it was to learn but just give up essential information....

To me, learning the letters is the KEY to get all the essential information!

Oh I was agreeing with everything you said. :)

^^My bad. LOL

Aww, 2 distinct NPHC orgs being nice to each other, very cute. Regarding this topic, as a Non-Greek, I have received personal/annoying questions from various BGLO and LGLO's regarding the topic of being paddled:

1. Why don't you want to be paddled?
I never said I didn't want to be paddled, and I sure as hell never said that I wished to be paddled, so stop assuming shit.

2. Are your friends afraid of being paddled?
Ask them.

3. Do you think you're going to be paddled?
It doesn't matter. Paddling is not my #1 fear. =\

:confused:

RMITY?

LMDAO!!!!!

RMITY?

:D

LOL

Is it?

LOL

BlueNYC kills me with his video post. and RMITY? LMAO

Bwahahahahahaha!

what is RMITY?

ETA: Thanks R. I have been thinking that myself.

no

You still suck for not announcing who got busted.

ETa: BWAHAHAHAHA

I had to bump this to add this odd question:

"Do you do weird things with animals?"

What they meant by that, I have NO idea. And I really didn't wanna find out.

I also get the "what's AET?" question. I tell them it's a sigma. Sadly enough, my school was huge on engineering, and half the kids who would ask me had all taken calc. There are sigmas all over the place in those courses, and they still referred to it as an E. Sad.

And when people (generally students) would ask me about paying for my friends, I'd always respond in the same way... "I didn't pay for my friends, I invested in a lifetime of camaraderie, service, and tradition, shared with people across the world. What did you spend your money on? A new Playstation?" (or whatever the major "toy" is at the time). Usually people don't know what to say. it's fun.

^^^ LOLOL I hate people like you but I love them as friends! Won't you be my neighbor ASTalumna06? :)

What tier are you?
Oh, wait a minute. That is from someone on GC.

I'm glad this was bumped! I would have never read it otherwise.

My favorite replies when people find out I'm in a sorority:

• "What? But you seem so nice!" (As if I have to be a stuck-up snob to be a sorority girl.)
• "How many frat guys did you have to sleep with before they let you in?"
• "But you're SMART."
• "You're in which sorority? I thought they were all ugly!"

Sorry, I'm getting in here late so someone may have said it, but what about:

"Do you really have naked pillow fights?"

Duh, of course we do! ;)

Every Friday night!

haha one of my guy friends seriously thought girls had naked pillow fights.

the first day of our pledging process i stepped outside and onto a piece of wood, spraining the hell out of my ankle...

...so imagine the next day i show up at my parents house on crutches.

mom: i thought you said they werent going to whoop your a**...
dad: yeah, you said you werent into that type of thing.
me: i didnt let them whoop my a**. i let them break my ankle, like Kathy Bates in Misery.

That one really gets to me. But when I started to correct the boy (who went to a school without greeks), he said, "Please don't deny guys of their fantasies."

Now, he mentions one of the myths, and I just go along with it, but with a LOT of sarcasm - just so he knows how stupid these fantasies are!

Enjoying myself with the old post bumping today.

Two questions I seem to get quite often from GDIs:

How much were you hazed?
Whether I was or not, what's it matter to you?
Do you guys wear robes?
None of your business if we do or not.

So the answers are obviously:

A lot.

and

Yes.

LOL