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hey everyone!!! i just joined the greek chat site and i wanted to tell all my sisters helloooo! haha i have some funny stories about pledges guessing what TFJ is, i love it!

Well hello there sister
where are you from? :)
I'm from Epsilon Rho, up at the University of Southern Maine. I joined in Spring 2004. :-D

Hello! Nice to see you here! I'm the CA from Iota Zeta in NC.

I think that my favorite faux-TFJ was blatantly not what it actually was but just made me laugh as a new member.... "Totally Friggin Jammin"

it was obvious that it was a total joke but it's funny cuz we are prettttty jammin :cool: hahahaha

HAHHHH! Love it.

hello and tfj, to all my sisters in axid. i am a new alumae from the iota epsilon chapter at the university of nevada las vegas. i joined greek chat about a week ago.

Welcome! I'm Amanda from the Iota Theta chapter =)

One of my favorite was not from my class but from 2 classes before me. My NMOC told us one of the girls actually thought it "Teach for Jesus" we just busted out laughing.

Hilarious!!!! I love these fake TFJ's

TFJ for real to all my sisters out there!

well we all know the real meaning of TFJ and its very special to us which is awesome that we all have that tie
btw THANKS FOR JOINING!!!!!!
thats how i first knew what it was and until our whole chapter was initiated we had no idea what it meant
~Amanda
Iota Mu
Lycoming College

haha thanks for all the welcomes! I do agree that TFJ is so special! When i was a pledge my frosh year my roommate in the dorms would get sooo angry that i had stuff with TFJ written on it and neiter of us knew what it meant. Then when i finally found out, and told her it was a AXD thing, she was ever more pissed. All the pledges and I would always try to think of what it meant, and lets just say we were waaaayyyy offf! hahaha.

hey sisters..i am not gonna lie to you..we tell most people its Thanks for joining..but on to the selected few(mostly each other) we say..They F*@k jocks..

We claimed "Time for Jesus"...

Our house used to have a TFJ plaque by the main door until one sister started.dating an particularly bright ATO. He came obnoxiously close to guessing what the letters mean (as in two of the three were correct) because they had something similar. We lied and told him OF COURSE he couldn't be right. And then we took down the sign.

THANKS FOR JOINING!!!!!!
thats how i first knew what it was and until our whole chapter was initiated we had no idea what it meant
~Amanda
Iota Mu
Lycoming College[/QUOTE]


After installation you still didn't know what it meant. But I don't think anyone did. lol, love you little

After installation you still didn't know what it meant. But I don't think anyone did. lol, love you little[/QUOTE]


thanks big....to be honest before i got initiated i really didnt know that TFJ was important it was only after initiation that the SIG members were excited to know what it really means....love u too big!

We have the letters hanging on our walls and we tell the New Members it means Thanks for Joining. I sat down while I was a New Member and figured out waht I thought it could be. My big was teasing me abotu not knowing and I told her what I thoguht it was and I apparently was right because she was SOOOO madand she thought someone let it slip! It was really funny!

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I'm from the Iota Delta chapter and I wanted to say that I recently just found out what TFJ REALLY means, for the longest time i was told it meant "thanks for joining", and i believed it.

Xi love and TFJ to all!

Yeah, our new member class wouldn't stop badgering our NMOC about what TFJ means. She finally broke down and, in a very dramatic way, told us that it meant, "Thanks for joining." At initiation, we were thrilled to finally learn what it REALLY means. We pretended to be mad at our NMOC, but then we had a group hug and we got over it.

Personally, I like the really meaning better than any fake meaning that people make up to fool people.

TFJ!

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After waiting almost a year and constantly being tease with TFJ and "thanks for joining, We were finally installed as a chapter and all of us had tfj in our aims and our facebook. My boyfriend kept bugging me what does it mean.

So finally I told him it was for our first fox's Thomas frank and john. He still doesn't know the difference.

So our most recent new member class knew what TFJ meant a week before initiations. Naturally, we as sisters were very upset.
I was not impressed. :mad:

Your post was already removed once by an administrator. You realize that this is a public forum, that more than ONLY Alpha Xi's can see this thread? And by posting that website you are allowing everyone to see it. We have colony members who participate on this thread, and now you've just made it possible for them and everyone else to see it. Instead of stopping the problem and preventing more people from seeing it, you're posting a link so everyone and their grandmother's best friends can go check it out.

Amanda,

I am sorry. I couldn't remember if I had posted it before. I was not intending to cause a problem, I simply wanted to make others aware of this issue. I apologize for the mess up.

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Good job!! Thanks!!

HI! I just joined too. im from the Beta Epsilon chapter in Monmouth, Illinois.:D

AlphaXiBaby232 joined in 2006 lol

Welcome to GC!!
TFJ!!!

^^ :(

Sisters who may be new to the boards...please remember that this is a public forum that anyone can see.

ClemsonMom - you may need to find a sister in an alumnae association near you. Because this is a public forum, we have no way of knowing who you are.

This is one of those things you would have known by listening to what was going on during initiation. Maybe that will help.

TFJ is pretty major, I don't see how that could be easily forgotten

You would think...

This really depends on your new member experience. If a chapter doesnt "tease" their NMs with TFJ, the NMs may not necessarily know to listen for it....and then of course, you've got those people who go in one ear and out the other, or arent paying attention during initiation, and as soon as it's over they say "Okay, so is someone going to tell me what TFJ is now?" Seriously? Where you not just paying attention? Do you think the ceremony is just a bunch of words to take up a chunk of time out of your day? Ugh.

I suggest you ask your daughter's friend to explain it to you. I think that using "tfj" as a closing or signoff is relatively recent (a decade or so old???) phenomenon. A discussion with some of your chapter sisters could lead you all to figuring out what it means. :)

Pardon my crash...

She was initiated while Jimmy Carter was in office. Trust me, in 30+ years you might not remember everything from your pledge period/initiation either.

/crash

I was in chapter over a decade ago (yikes) and TFJ was well known then and I know plenty of alumnae who know what it means. On the flip side (and on one of the EXTREMELY rare occaisions that I agree with 33girl), alumnae who are not involved as an alum and have been removed probably wouldn't remember. However, this is a great opportunity for her to re-engage and be encouraged to rediscover TFJ.

Wow I got PWNED. ha ha. :p It's all good.

So the one time I dont add one last snarky sentence to my comment, and of course it changes the whole meaning of what I wanted to say...

I didnt mean for my post to sound like I was directing my question at Clemson Mom to imply that she wasnt paying attention. I meant that I knew a girl, from my own chapter, who as soon as the ceremony was over, she asked that question "Okay, what does it mean..." I didnt want to say that on here, but as a result of not saying it...my comments was misinterpretted. For that, I apologize....

I still cant imagine that 30 years from now I wont remember what it means....Other things, maybe, I'll forget....but THAT? No.

Our most recent pledge class really thought it was Thanks For Joining for the longest time...it was great!

-Nicole
Delta
Bethany College

My chapter didn't tease us with TFJ at all. In fact we didn't even know that we were supposed to be wondering about it.

I think unless you're looking for it you can definitely miss it during initiation. I know I missed the ritual, probably because my big kept telling me the ritual involved water bottles and flour so I was looking for that but....

I finally found out that there was even a TFJ during the next pledge class' initiation.


-L
Zeta Chi
UNCW

But . . . but . . . in Pledged, Alexandra Robbins said it means "Thanks for Joining," so that has to be right . . . doesn't it? :confused:



:p

When I was a new member we all thought it was "Together Forever Joined!" isnt that cutee!??! hahah but i def love TFJ the real one wayyy moreee!!!

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Hey! I'm from the zeta omega chapter at University of West Ga!!! I just initiated and I love every minute of it. I just joined greek chat =) so it's nice to meet all my sisters and TFJ!

Xibaby! Welcome to the chat! and big TFJ to you also<3

My adviser is an alumna from your chapter :D
Congratulations and TFJ!!