Most funny/unsual/inappropiate thing that happened during a ritual.
 

I've been through my share of "pledging", petitioning, and initiation rituals. All, but a few I went through, something funny, inappropiate, or unusual happened.

*After the owners of our student center repeatedly told us not to use candles. During one ritual (I won't specify which GLO, I've been in 3), we used candles, someone dropped one and burned a hole in the carpet!

*A non-member accidently walked into one of our rituals.

*I had a sneezing fit during a petitioning ritual.

*I had a giggling fit during another.

*In that same petitioning ritual, the president from our big bro chapter read the scripts of the initiation one, he got the scripts confused.

*Oh yeah, me being escorted out of a initiation ritual.

*Someone broke wind during the most quiet part of initiation in one of my GLOs.

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immaturity
 

1. Flatulance (sp?) is our usu. culprit...We think farts are funny.

2. The Big Guy from international visited us during his rounds,
which coincided, coincidently, with a few people watching an
an adult film.

Independents used to live in each sorority dorm at Auburn...they lived on the top floor and were supposed to stay away from our chapter room. One was manning the desk while we were in initiation and she opened the chapter room door and screamed, "PHOOONE CALLL FORRRR AMY SMIIIITH!" Thank God no initiates were in there at that moment!

During prefs, one member's hair caught on fire from her candle. During pledging, another member who had just donated blood passed out right behind the pledge. I can still see that pledge's horrified face as she turned around...I always wondered if she thought right then that it was part of the ceremony!

LMAO!! That is HILARIOUS!!!

So much funny stuff but can't talk about it... If not a Sigma Nu you wouldn't understand anyhow.

Worst I can say is sometimes we get our words messed up... We're a brand new chapter and have only had our ritual for 3 months now..

I'm sure if I get some time there will be good stories.

During one of our ceremonies, we were all there with out eyes closed and lit candles in hand. A girl's candle was crooked, so w/her eyes closed, she thought she'd be smart and "try to bend it straight." Riiiiight! She broke the candle and somehow the flame got out of hand. While we were there with our eyes closed, all the initiated members were trying to blow out this candle that got way out of control. It was too, too funny. I think it was one of those "had to be there" events.

At one of our initiations this past semester (we had 2), one of my pledge sisters kept falling asleep! I was sitting right behind her, so I kept whispering her name and kicking the legs of her chair to wake the girl up! I had sisters from across the room telling me in silence to wake her up! Gosh, her head kept doing the bobbing thing. It was crazy. We all laughed about it afterwards, but it should never have tooken place!

One officer flubbed a line. . .

Then the officer next to him had a giggling fit because of it. At first she was okay, but then she couldn't go on, so I had to take over her part.

I was so mad then, but it is funny as heck now.

I just remembered something that happened to this guy I was dating in college. He was president of his fraternity and during initiation, he was supposed to say, "And here is our pin," and shine a light on it. Only there was no pin...his evil brothers had taken it to see how he'd play it off in front of the initiates...:o

On bid night, we do our pledge oaths with the new girls. And in it there are some very anachronistic ritual type words. Of course our president says repeat after me and the pledges will repeat each line after she says it. Well, one line was particularly long and filled with "difficult" words. The president said the line and the pledges just stood there silent and embarassed. This happens every year at the same line!

We had a ritual when I was a pledge at some of our girls' townhomes. They had crazy neighbors on the ultimate frisbee team who decided to blast some serious jungle music during a VERY serious ceremony. When we heard the guys jumping around, dancing and singing next door, the actives lost it.

We also have a lot of distasters due to the fact that pledges can never look behind them during rituals. They always have to close their eyes. When they have to be lead down flights of stairs in formal ritual attire(heels and all)...well...every year we hear a yelp as a pledge eats it down the stairs.

On pref night, we have something where we light eachothers candles in a circle. But since it's a fire hazard now to use real candles, we have to use these plastic ones that you twist the base and a light comes on, emulating the "flame" of the candle. Well, as we went around the circles, we got to one girl and her candle wouldn't light! It was awful. We just had to keep singing round after round after ROUND of "sister, sister, hello" until her "lit," which wasn't until she had to actual shake it and hit it. Kinda broke the solemnity of the moment.

Just this year at formal, I was called up to the front at dinner to lead chapter in "Ring Ching Ching" and I guess I had a few too many drinks. As I walzed across the dance floor, I struck my fork against my crystal flute and it shattered all over the floor. The hotel management was not exactly elated about that one.

I have horrible candle and word flubbing stories, but this is better (just because it is fresh in mind i think). Here goes:

This last year was my senior and my fiance's 5th year. At his formal in springtime his fraternity crowns a "rose queen". This is someones girlfriend who has done a lot for the fraternity and been involved. Well, he proposed a few months before formal (i said yes) and he kept hinting at rose queen. I wasnt so sure I would get it because there were a couple other girlfriends who were really cool and stuff also. So I wasnt holding my breath (granted I did want it). Well there is this other girlfriend of one of the senior brothers. She has kind of dated a few of the brothers before this one (and she had been dating the most recent for less than a year). She wasnt very involved, unless you count showing up at parties. BUT she kept asking me for details about rose queen. I had overheard the brothers one night when I was at an out of house party that she hadn't even been nominated for RQ. So I had some inside info. Well for the month or so before formal she kept coming up to me and pumping me for info. I just told her I didnt know anything, but I had a feeling it would be Jane (just to get her off my back). So one day she asks me again and I tell her the same thing and she almost bursts into tears and tells me that she just HAS to be RQ. I just back away....

So formal comes up. She corners me in the hottubs the second day of formal (the night of the dance and announcement of RQ) and tells me she picked out her formal dress to make the roses stand out later that night. (They give the RQ roses). She even tells me that the dress is black but has a red under trim so the roses can show off! Knowing what I do, I just tell her that sounds nice.

At the dance....The announcement of RQ comes at the end of the night, after many many many drinks. I am standing in the bar while they are trying to make an announcement. Well my fiance is trying to get me into the ballroom, but I was scared I would drop my drink. So finally he takes it, downs it, and tells me...ok lets go now. I walk in and they announced I was RQ.

So here is the funny/inappropriate conclusion....the other girl throws a FIT! She is crying and yelling at her BF while they are serenading me. It was hillarious. I shouldnt have laughed, but I really couldnt help it. The rest of the night (and probably now still) she has a different nickname. She was a little nuts....

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A couple years ago at Prefs I was standing in the back of the room behind the PNMs who were watching the ceremony. This prefs was especially emotional in comparison to others (other years in our chapter) and the PNMs were really into it, listening intently. Well during one part this girl was sooo into the ceremony, she didn't notice a balloon was drifting from the ceiling. BUT I did...:) SO the balloon string brushes against the girl's shoulder, she lets out a yelp and nearly hits the ceiling, I'm about to die laughing during this solemn ceremony I thought I would have to leave. It was so awful, but hilarious from a sister's point of view!

We have this one ceremony where we all were standing in a circle doing our thing the night before initiation, so clearly everything is very serious and not supposed to be amusing at all. Well, the seniors around me were gettin rowdy this year and one of my friends grabs this BIG monstrous stuffed lion from behind her in the circle (we have them laying all around the house) and instructs one of the pledges to ride the lion and starts dancing during the ceremony. Of course I'm about to fall over and the new member didn't know what to do, so she gets on the lion in the MIDDLE OF THE CEREMONY! The three of us (old girls) had to leave the room for a minute and the rest of the chapter didn't know whether to laugh or stay solemn. It was probably one of the most humorous Fireside's that we've ever had and definitely the most memorable with the poor new member riding the lion and everyone else standing around her not knowing how to react.

Tara
I have a Phi Mu castle...

conscientiously :D

At a ritual one of our sisters was heading down a set of steps (with the entire sorority watching her of course!) wearing very high and chunky shoes . . . she took a flying fall off of them. Thank God that she didn't have a lit candle and wasn't hurt! Now I'm very careful to wear non-dangerous shoes to rituals ;)

For our Pref night some of us had to memorize our speaking parts for the ceremony. One of my sisters had said her part fine in the previous two parties, but at the last one, she started out okay, and then completely forgot the rest of what she had to say! We tried not to laugh, but we couldn't help it. Needless to say, my sister had to make up something on the spot.

This happened the semester before I was initiated, but this story always comes up when it's time for Initiation!

One semester, two novitiates had a little too much fun after Fireside. They stayed out late and didn't get enough sleep for the 9AM Initiation. The following morning, they could barely stand up and keep their eyes open. Both sisters nearly passed out mid-ceremony.

It didn't help that a member of IHQ's INTERNATIONAL COUNCIL was present at that Initiation! She was in town for her niece's wedding and was able to make it to the Initiation ceremony.

So now I need to remind those without common sense--IF YOU KNOW THAT A MEMBER OF YOUR INTERNATIONAL COUNCIL WILL BE AT YOUR INITIATION CEREMONY, IT ISN'T WISE TO PARTY PARTY PARTY THE NIGHT BEFORE!!! :eek:

BEST STORY EVER
 

Our fire alarm went off during our ritual! It freaked us out. We tried to call the fire dept. to say it was a flase alarm but they had to come anyway.

So the worst part isn't that we had to put everything away and it sucked but that our exec had played a prank on the in house girls and put porno mags all over the house.... :eek:

well, we thought we got them all down but the firemen found the left overs when they were turning off the fire alarm. Our president was so RED!

HA HA HA HA

Once we were in the middle of a ritual, and all of a sudden a car screeches into the driveway with lights flashing! Someone manning the door yells that its the Sheriff's Dept. (we'd been having problems with the neighbors calling the cops every time we had more than 4 cars parked at the house). Well, the poor Candidate that was in the middle of his ritual had to be yanked up, blindfolded and stuffed into a closet; while the Ritual team raked everything into a box and stuffed into another closet.

It turned out that the car was not a Sheriff at all, only one of our more rowdy brothers showing up late for the rituals! Apparently he wasn't paying attention and about passed the house, so he locked down the brakes and skidded into the driveway with his hazard lights flashing!

During initiation a fly landed on the nose of our president during a VERY VERY important part and at the same time one of our sisters stomach began growling! It was so funny half the place was laughing and there stands our president with a fly on her nose and she so lost it. It is definitely the most memorable moment!!

Another time as we were leading a newly initiated sister out she was so confused and said (she thought she was whispering but really the music stopped right then and it was loud) and says "Don't I have to do something to a live animal?"
We all lost it... poor thing felt really dumb afterwards but it was okay, me made her feel better.

Re: BEST STORY EVER
 

that's funny. did the firemen say anything?

There were quite a few, some legendary, some forgettable.............

Kappa Upsilon chapter initiation bloopers

1) Fall '00- (My pledge period) Our pledgemaster replaced the candles for initiation with trick candles! Even our eldest advisor thought it was funny.

2)Spring '74- The president's glasses were mysteriously misplaced, so he had to read his parts practically squinted. Because of this he mispronounced a few words and added "fornication" to the president's part of the speech (still in use to this day:))

There are a few others that I either can't mention or the stories have to much story behind them. PM me for more.

In my local sorority's new member ceremony, there was a point where the new members have to say something in unison. One of my pledge sisters wasn't quite paying attention, so when we got to that part, the rest of us spoke but she didn't say anything. The initiated sisters noticed, stopped the ceremony, and waited for her to realize that she was supposed to say something... she was so embarrassed...

One year at pref, we had set up a balloon arch consisting of a string of helium balloons tacked down at 4 points, so it looked something like: (I hope this comes out well)
We were in the middle of a very quiet part of the ceremony when one of the central points came loose - SNAP! followed by the thud of several balloons hitting the ceiling. A few minutes later, during a sister's speech, the other one went. Luckily all the balloons stayed attached to the string, and the two outer points stayed anchored... otherwise we'd have had to find a way to get several dozen balloons out of a waffle ceiling...!

Re: Re: BEST STORY EVER
 

nah, they just looked at us like we were freaks.

*bump*

These are great!

My initiation was plagued with mishaps, some more humorus than others...

1. The members of my pledge class and I had the actives write down what meal preference they wanted (meat or vegetarian). On our list we had more sisters interested in veggie than meat. Somehow, on I-night, *everybody* wanted meat! We couldn't figure out what to do so we just browned some ground beef, put a little bit on each plate of spaghetti, and then covered it in sauce and stirred it around. "They won't notice..."

2. When we were washing the dishes from dinner, we broke five glasses. When the first one broke, we totally spazzed out! "Put it in the trash, no one will notice..." But then the second one broke, and the third...we were so scared but told the presdient anyway. She just laughed and told us not to worry, glasses always get broken!

3. This one's kinda gross, but one of my pledge sisters was sick and almost threw up like five million times throughout I-night. The actives let her sit out part of the night, and through it all she was making more jokes about it than anyone else!

Those are the main ones, I guess. There were definitely more; it was one heck of an evening!

i was almost set one fire once during a ceremony...

This is a great thread!!

I was under soo much stress from my other classes, so my pledge class gave me one line to read from a poem: like our wings, our bond are too strong to pull apart. What did i say 'like our bond our wings are too strong to pull apart' sonds kinda gruesome.

Of course, something else had to happen to me when we went national. There is one part where we had our eyes closed, which normally everyone is ok with-with me it was an issue. I had surgery to remove 3 nerves from both my feet so i can't feel most my feet, and i had really high heels on. i thought i was fine balence wise, after 1/2 year of physical therapy. So i was standing up, closing my eyes, and about 2 seconds later, i feel foward. And almost took out the national pres and the ritual stuff with me.

During ritual one year, our President got too close to a candle and her dress caught on fire! :eek: She didn't notice it until someone shouted, "You're on fire!"

during our model meeting, one of the sisters sort of messed up on one of her lines and i started laughing. i couldn't stop laughing for the rest of the meeting. the worst part is that it was a very somber time figuring it was the last initiation and model meeting our chapter ever had. we closed a few weeks later.

shelley j
sigma k

ps - any of you sisters eat a dove lately. i'll explain if you pm me

We ask our New Members to close their eyes as they are being lead into the room because it's just such an amazing surprise (you Phis know what I mean!). The best part is watching them open their eyes. I know I took a step back when I did because I was just so overwhelmed. Last spring, a girl said "S***" when she opened her eyes and then gave the thumbs up (her signature quirk) when we asked her a question. We try so hard to be serious but God was it funny.

Then last fall a girl said "Oh S***" REALLY loud when she opened her eyes. The President was so mad and was going to yell at her after the ceremony, but we told her to calm the heck down because she wasn't trying to be rude or not take the ceremony seriously. I hate when people get all bent out of shape like that. Yes, you should take your ritual seriously, but you can't be so damned uptight that it ruins the sisterhood.

Eh, that's about all. No catching stuff on fire (YET).

My initiation last month was held at the president's house. She has two cats, both with bells on their collars. They were chasing each other in and out of the living room making such a ruckus and nearly took down one of the plants near the couch. Everyone was just kind of watching them and hoping that they didn't notice the candles and start a fire. The jingling of the bells was so loud and distracting! Eventually, they calmed down and just sat in the middle of the room. One of the sisters just couldn't hold it in anymore and burst out laughing, causing a chain reaction. Pretty soon we were all cracking up and making jokes about her cats now being sisters since they're both girls and have been through ritual. :D

My chapter and candles are just not meant to be together.

We all burn ourselves during formal pledging, without fail.

During Firesides, we set the candle on the floor now to avoid danger.

During the last initiation, the girl standing next to me set her hair on fire and blurts out "ISHT!" during a very important part for the new initiates. I punch her to get her to shut up, and she goes "IT HURTS!!!!"

During our last formal pledging, at the "I, state your name" part, a woman actually repeated it verbatim, rather than "I, Susy Oldbutt."

Slide to the left...
 

This past October, we held our initiation in a hotel ballroom which happened to be right next to another ballroom in which a wedding reception was going on. The ballrooms were separated by those huge movable walls, which are by no means soundproof. We could hear everything from the bride and groom being announced, to announcements about the buffett, and toasts. Then came the music. Initiation is a very serious time, and it is very hard when the "Chicken Dance" is being played in the background. I think we all lost it when they started to play the "Cha Cha Slide" (sort of a new electric slide/line dance song). Even our alum were having a hard time keeping a straight face. Next year we're thinking about incorporating the dance into ritual. "Three hops this time..." :p

No kidding; I now know why the electric candles are so popular!

During one DXE (local) initiation, one girl who had 80's spiral-permed, sprayed hair had her hair catch fire in the chapter room. Sisters to her sides helped her put it out, but *man* burnt hair smells *nasty*! :eek:

I have a funny recruitment moment to share, though. My chapter's CR is on the end of the dorm, and people habitually band on the window to have someone in the CR let them in the side door. Usually not a problem, except it happened *during the skit* the first round of skit night (when someone's mom was trying to drop stuff off, I think?). BANG-BANG-BANG! The person leading the skit tried to incorporate it-- "I guess someone really wants to join, huh?" and then it happened AGAIN! I was trying soooooo hard not to bust out laughing... I think the skit leader did really well reacting to it, but you never know what the PNMs must have thought!

That is so Animal House!

Our Initiations are in the early morning, and my little, who has blood sugar issues, has fainted at every one since her own, and at the exact same moment in the ceremony! We've done everything short of hooking her up to a glucose IV and still, without fail, down goes Megan about 2/3 of the way through.

While not really a Greek ritual, here's one memorable goof I did during a Masonic initiation ritual:

I was the Senior Steward at an Entered Apprentice (first) degree over at the lodge I belog to (Will Rogers #53, Claremore, Oklahoma), and at a certain point in the ritual where the candidate for initiation is presented at the door to the lodge room there is a few lines the Senior Steward recites when the door is answered by the Senior Deacon. I reply with the prescribed words for my part, absolutely letter perfect... except it was Texas Masonic ritual instead of Oklahoma. (They're similar, but different.)

And you'd never guess who happened to be attending the ceremony that evening -- two past Oklahoma Grand Masters who were accomplished masters of Oklahoma Masonic ritual. The brethren of my lodge never let me live it down for the rest of the time I was in Oklahoma! :)

HEEHEEHEEHEE

(tinydancer giggling at you because she has to learn her Martha opening before our Eastern Star meeting tomorrow night. We were installed yesterday.)

:D

Don't feel too bad... I gotta start memorizing the Chaplain's part and my mom's learning Ada. Plano 703 installed their officers last Saturday.

(recites the old test pilot's prayer: "please dear God, don't let me f*ck up!")

Good luck to you both. I was Adah last year. Maybe I could trade with your mom (HAHA);)