We Initiate New Experiences W.I.N.E.
 

Hi, my name is Kiafia. I pledged Wine Psi Phi at Boston College, spring of "75". For you haters out there, judge not and ye shall not be judged. No one out there has a monopoly on good deeds or good deeds doings. Let us do our thing and you do yours and maybe we can all do some good for the community.:cool:

Why would you start a thread telling people to not judge you and your non-NPHC wannabe organization?

:confused:

Please correct me if I am wrong. Isn't it a wannabe NPHC organization? I always thought that and a few others (that I won't mention) were like that. You know, kind of like the "Doves" or whoever those Phi Beta Sigma groupies were that were coming on here and saying, "I'm not a Zeta Phi Beta but, I LOVE Phi Beta Sigma...blah-blah-blah." If I am wrong, please correct me. I have to say; however, that it was a bit weird for the first post to be about telling the rest of us not to be haters. What an odd thing to say.

And agzg, I also pledged "WINE" this holiday.

Every member of this group comes on here and in their first post refers to all of us as "haters"... and then they wonder why we end up hating them.

I have no problem talking about tiers and reputations when it comes to my Vintagority, Chateau Lafite. Everyone else is intimidated by our complexity and the size of our climate controlled cellar. If your founders didn't come from France that's really unfortunate and we don't accept transfers who try to affiliate by riding the Night Train Express. Franzia is so lower tier, and Arbor Mist isn't much better.

There are plenty of other groups out there for those who don't meet our rigorous standards for membership. Epsilon Gallo is so bottom tier since they are at campii like Carlo Rossi, Andre Sparkling Wine, and that farmer hick chapter Boone's Farm. Even more absurd, their Bartles & Jaymes chapter isn't even recognized; wine coolers are full of malt liquor, which is not made from grapes. Many find Phi Malt Liquor an affordable alternative with a lot of variety. Mickey's, St. Ides, Colt 45, Olde English, King Cobra, and Steel Reserve are some of the more well known chapters, it is common knowledge that to be initiated one has to down the 80 ounces and complete the challenge known as "Edward Forty Hands" their spiritual founder.

I don't have the time to get into that new group where people keep getting arrested or hospitalized, Four Loko, but they will probably be shut down like Zima was. Oh and at my vineyard we don't call people haters, we call them vinegars. They are bitter and full of acid because they couldn't get into Malt, Wine, Beer, or even Kombucha.

iDied.

Ditto.

Also, does anyone else already have a phrase associated with the acronym IDGAF? I'd be as likely to make that an important part of my fraternity as WTF or SOL. Maybe it's more uncommon than I think. The "IDGAF Nation" on their website kills me.

Hee hee

Y'all are just full of rejectment because the men of Chi Ognac chose to honor me as the Oak Barrel Beauty this year and I decide who will and won't be passed any Courvoisier or have access to the bottle of Hennessy on the shelf.

So my chapter decided to be nicer to the fat Vintagorities and no longer call them "fat" but "full bodied" if they have cute faces but need to be a little less complex if you know what I mean. The others we're calling "Ripples" since they are only seen at Fred Sanford's junk yard or covered up by a paper bag if in public. Then the most unfortunate of them all, the "After Darks" because that's the only time to have a social with them, after dark so nobody sees you.

Thanks for the link. Now, I definitely stand by what I said earlier because every member that has been on this board (as our girl AST has pointed out) always comes on here claiming that everyone is a hater--for no reason. I would normally keep my "hating" to myself but, this just annoyed me. I have to say that VS had me in tears laughing, too. Thank you for that VandalSquirrel.

That's fine, but that still doesn't necessarily make the group a wannabe NPHC group.

The lane done veered off the road entirely

^^ giggle

But if you take the fat Vintagorities, your chapter will be committing social suicide! OMGeee!

I let out a cackle at the imagery. I will remain in my lane.

I have no apology for my wino talk, I had a pretty high fever and that's how I expressed myself since the drugs weren't working.

I feel like every time we see a historically black, non-nphc organization, they are automatically labeled a ''nphc wanna-be.'' We cannot deny that the organizations which make up the current nphc are the most well know historically black organizations and that , IMO, is a reflection of their success. (I say current because the organizations which make up the nphc itself are liable to change in the future.) However, when we have groups like G Phi G, S Phi S, and after reading this post and the former I will add Wine to that list, who put so much energy and emphases in saying 'no we are not a GLO or no we are not nphc and when we had 140 chapter members on so-n-so campus 30 years ago we were better than the nphc orgs,' they themselves legitimize the claim. Secondly, if they are trying to reorganize then why are their members coming on GC trying to start cyber drama? If you believe your organization is so righteous, and displays the true meaning of brotherhood, then why to you feel the need to amplify the downfalls of others to make yourselves look good? Why not foster the merits of your own org and focus your energies on the good you claim to do. Lastly, your founders had to know that including the acronym W.I.N.E in your name would cause non-members to associate your org with alcohol, so if you want to maintain that this association is a matter of ignorance you should probably point that finger in another direction. :rolleyes:

GC NPHCers did not say W.I.N.E. are wannabes. :)

I don't know how W.I.N.E. is treated in real life because I have never heard of them until GC. I am avoiding any wine sipping jokes.

I'm sipping on gin and juice.

Laid back, with my mind on my fever and my fever on my mind.

Well, VS, I about snorted my own gin and juice back out my nose reading your posts, but I hope you get better soon! NICE turns of phrase there and the way you fit the booze in--classic!

Too much WINE will do that to ya...

You guys need to chill.
 

In reading most of these posts, I can't help but smile at some and nod my head at others. I'm a Brother of Wine Psi Phi Social Fraternity and it seems that there are a few misconceptions as to what my fraternity is really about.

On behalf of the Frat, I apologize if some Bros have come off a little salty. Many of you on this site are younger than pretty much all of the Brothers of WINE, and due to this, have never heard of us. We weren't a national organization when we were founded--more like regional--so there are some areas where even older people don't know who we are. If you have older people in your fam who went to colleges up and down the eastern seaboard, chances are they know who we are. The 60's gave birth to many "Social" orgs on predominantly black campuses including Wine, Groove, Iota (Yes, Iota stared as a "Social Fraternity"), Esquires and others unfairly categorized as "Mock" organizations by many members of NPHC orgs. Wines were never 'wannabes' as someone posted on this thread; many blacks during the Black Power Period chose not to label themselves as "Greeks". Frankly, our founders could have named the frat Epsilon had that been their choice. Many campuses didn't allow fraternities to form unless they had Greek letters in their names, thus the PSI and PHI in our name. Our founders simply saw a need to organize but didn't want a Greek title. Greek-lettered frats modeled themselves using Masonry, but that didn't make Phi Beta Kappa Masonic 'wannabes'. Non-Greeks modeled themselves after Masonry and Greeks. That doesn't make us 'wannabes.'

IDGAF is a secret motto for us. People didn't text in the 60's, so IDGAF back then wasn't assumed to mean what I'm sure you all assume it means. Had our motto been, Learn, Motivate, Achieve and Objectivate, I'm sure we would catch comments over LMAO too. Some Brothers may play around and say that we don't give an F as much as some Kappas say they can always 'find new p___y', or a Sigma claiming to be a 'god over mutts, apes and bunnies'. Sometimes it just is what it is. We know what it really means and if non members want to play around with what they think it means, it's a free country, have at it.

Wines are taught when they pledge to view the world as one family under one God. We're all interconnected in some way so its best to treat each other with respect. I don't hate on Greeks, so I don't expect them to hate on me. I respect your frats, so please respect mine.

Yes, we're in the process of bringing WINE out of its dormant period. I won't discuss in detail, since its fraternity business. Other than that, If you have questions about my frat, hit me up.

Peace to everyone and IDGAF to all of my Brothers.

The NPHCers who posted in this thread are already chill. :)

There is truly no need for explaining anything. I hope you participate in other aspects of this message board beyond defending your organization, which needs no defense.

Duly noted.

I'm well aware that my org has been off the map for a good long time and many have no clue as to what it is--leave alone understand what its about. I'd just rather come in the door humbly as opposed to walking in pissing people off.

Then chill. Do not turn Wine Psi Phi into one of those organizations that people only hear about when members randomly show up to explain and defend.

I prefer Andre Sparkling Wine to most others, so I guess that makes me a groupie.

Oh you won't have to worry about that.

Not because that is not happening but because that is only for the members of Wine Psi Phi to worry about. ;)

(I'm not picking on Wine Psi Phi. You all have Temptations' Silent Night on your national website. You're all good with me. I shall not leave that website until the end of this song.)

LOL!!! Yeah, I saw that last weekend. We're trying to get all of you in the spirit.

There is no WINE specific forum on this site so If what I'm about to post is illegal call me a criminal today...

Pics of some of my grad chapter Brothers.
http://s1283.beta.photobucket.com/us...ing-1.jpg.html

http://s1283.beta.photobucket.com/us...rch-1.jpg.html


Old School
http://s1283.beta.photobucket.com/us...2_n-1.jpg.html

Oh well, I see little squares instead.