The ideal answer covers both questions!

Yes, we were beaten heavily by our masters wearing over sized pointy hooded black robes.

But were you wearing robes too?

They were nakies.:eek:

What gets me is when people criticize you for being Greek for no good reason except that they themselves aren't Greek and think they don't need it, are too good for it, etc. I know it's not for everybody, and that's OK. Being independent isn't for everybody either, and that's OK too. Live and let live, people. IMHO, the people who criticize Greeks the most are those who, deep down, wanted to be Greek but, for whatever reason, didn't pledge.

I used to know a guy that said he used to be a member of "OX" (just like the animal) fraternity. Is it a wonder that he "used to be a member?"

It might have to do with the goat myth.

We had a lot of people refer to it as the "Ox House" (and they even had a logo with an ox on it) but the brothers themselves never said "Hi, I'm an Ox"....it was always "Hi, I'm a Theta Chi."

Guy that has known me for about 6 yrs: you joined a sorority? so, are you like a valley girl now?

Fixed :P

Bump!

"Wait... how are you a Greek alumnus if you're still in college?"

Ohh I like this thread! I was only initiated about a month ago but the list goes on and on for the ridiculous things I've heard, but the most annoying things tend to be statements rather than questions.

"So tell me, how did they haze you?"
"I don't want to buy my friends" (As many other people also mentioned)
"I don't want to be told what to do"
"I heard fat girls can't wear letters" (This one still is :eek::eek::eek: to me)
"I would hate being around so many girls"
"The girls in your sorority are bitches.. you have to agree, right?" (:mad: not true at all and kind of hurtful)
"I would never join Kappa, I heard they're all blonde" (I guess people don't realize when they say this to me that I'm naturally blonde, but doesn't impact who I am as a person at all. Not to mention that there's only about 30 other blondes in a chapter of 130)

Ok, my rant is now over :p

From a young lady who was unsure if she was or was not a member of an NPC:

What sorority were you in? :rolleyes:

Usually from other NPCers:

What org is that?

GDIs:

What does all that stuff on your jacket mean?

What did you have to do to get in?

Can you do your call?

From some of my GDI friends:
"How come you guys don't have real Greek letters?"
"Do you guys have a secret handshake?"
"How often do you get paddled?"

Just did a quick runthrough on NIC, NPC & NPHC. The organizations that do represent themselves by Greek Letters (as opposed to Acacia, Farmhouse, etc) which *look* like Latin Alphabet letters *only* in each are
Alpha Chi Rho
Kappa Alpha Order
Kappa Alpha Society
Nu Alpha Kappa
Tau Kappa Epsilon
Zeta Beta Tau

Zeta Tau Alpha

Alpha Kappa Alpha

"Why would a sorority pick letters that look bad in English and Greek?"
"Why does your shirt say 'EAT'?"

1. It wasn't the first set of letters the found picked; it was changed
2. It's SDT, not STD.
3. They weren't called STDs back in the day, they were called VDs and probably other random names.
4. You can't tell the different between the letter A and a delta/triangle?

I get ERP all the time, or worse, ETP/pregnancy jokes. My brother thinks it's hilarious.

Soror, pregnancy jokes? trying to figure out.

"But you've always been a great student! Why would you join a sorority?"

If I had a dime for every time I heard that when I was in school, I would have been able to retire right out of college!

I'm guessing that Sigma Gamma Rho "looks like" ETP, which get flip flopped to EPT (Early Pregnancy Test), but I don't know...

I think you may be right on that one! *facepalm* :D

I'm a new member too, and this is so spot on!

Perhaps these are more "comments" about Greek Life, but I personally get annoyed by:

"I heard that x no. of women congregating together constitutes a brothel"

and

"Why would I want to pay to have friends?"

Sigh....

hahah it's funny b/c I get people asking sometimes: "What is... EOE?... EIE? E...OIE?... E-circle-with-a-line-E?"

I also had a group of girls run up to my Brothers and I once screaming: "OMG!!!! I LOVE SIGMA ALPHA EPSILON!!!!" Φ =/= A

I know somebody here on GC posted something along the lines of that being the best damn deal they ever had.

I actually had a guy I went to high school with look at me and read my shirt as he said, "Eye-Owm, what is Eye-Owm?" He saw the "Phi" and thought it was an I and an O combined. It was weird he said that instead of recognizing it was a sorority. Generally you see images of Greeks in movies and I figured that he would have picked up on that. I guess not.

True story: I had someone I went to high school come up to me in a Walmart in my hometown and say "A...Triangle...uhhh....what's that?" *forehead smack*

Related: a sister's dad was from England and drove down Greek row soon after she moved into our chapter house. He drove past Delta Tau Delta and said 'Triangle T Triangle' and then past Sigma Alpha Mu and asked why Sam had his own house. We could NOT stop laughing

Yup, that. Again, my brother was 16ish at the time, but I'm sure he'd still get a rise out of it now.

Definitely have gotten "what's K triangle?" Before.

It's funny. I had a friend who was interested in DTD but he didn't know what the letters were, so he just drew them out in the air for me. I thought it was funny but also smart since he obviously knew the Tau wasn't a T, no matter how it looked.

Here's another: just the other day, I had my car in the mechanic shop and as I was taking stuff off my car (my license frame has my Zeta letters on it) and the guy clearly didn't know that the "O" was a "Phi".

And another: Before I became a member of Z Phi B, people would always ask me if A Phi O was a sorority and why was I in a fraternity or they didn't know women were allowed in frats. Also A O Q was the common one I would get since I do wear my A Phi O letters around my neck.

Some things just irk the heck out of me.