You know you're a Neo when......
 

^^^ That was definitely me.

You know you're a neo when all your first posts on Greekchat have a lot of exclamation points.

Your car looks like a moving GLO with letters in the front, back, rear window, hanging from the inside rearview mirror, and about two hats that can be seen through the back window, all at the same time.

Look who's talking. I have a Kane in the back that can be seen through the back window. I also post in red. Hmmmm. I'm definitely not a Neo though. LOL. :D

One of our Undergrad chapters took a line in the SPR. of last year. When we had one of our fundraisers they were there trying to do EVERYTHING! We called them "Super Neos"! They feel like they can change the world overnight!

one of my sands is still called Superneo to this day and were over a year in.

i wore my jacket on new year's night. it was FREEZING! wont do that again!

you show face at every party there is...even if it's thousands of miles away from you...definitely like some of the neos i know LOL

~You wear some form of letters every day.

~If you're not in letters, you're wearing your organization's colors instead.

~You've changed your name on facebook such that your line name is now your middle name.

~The "About Me" section in your facebook or MySpace profile contains a giant letterset made from the numbers that make up your org's founding year.

~Your screenames on MySpace, AIM, and GC all have something to do with your org/line name/line number. (I'm not a neo anymore, but even I'm guilty of this!)

~You can't stand to take a picture without throwing your org's handsign. (Guilty again!)

~At the first party you attend since you've crossed, you can't help but to stroll.

I'm honestly cold when it's 85 degrees outside ... I swear! :o

Now, what's sad is that I do have ALL the 'nalia for my car - except I don't have a car. It's all just sitting in a drawer, all new and shiny, waiting for me to buy the car - which, don't worry, WILL match the 'nalia :D

That's what they're supposed to do because I damn sure am not busting my behind when there are NEOS around. :)

I had a paddle in the rearview window, a license plate cover, and a magnet on the back of my car. I was forced to remove the magnet because it was too much. :o

We didn't have crossing jackets but I wore my line shirt too much. The red bled on the letters because I eventually had to wash it. :)

I also had those huge and gaudy pins. The huge wooden Greek symbols one and a big plastic Fortitude one. I was instructed early on NOT to wear those but to use them as keepsakes. :o After I had already worn both of them.

I wore my APO wood pin on a blazer like twice and once on my winter coat while traveling to convention.

For some reason, I have a big mirror Alpha pin..... I don't know where it came from, but it is finna get regifted.

On my car, I have a rear license plate holder, a front license plate (the holder on that is my car model), and a sticker on my rear panel. I also carry TWO umbrellas (I switch back and forth) and a keychain.

However, I rarely WEAR 'nalia unless it is a sorority or Greek function but I wear our colors and/or unofficial mascot almost everyday.

When I was a NEO, I wore more 'nalia and didn't have all the other stuff. I am afraid that I was guilty of double and triple 'nalia, though. :cool:

When you want to do the call ALL the time....

I'll agree on handsign, letters, etc.

O yea and wanting to roadtrip like a mofo.


I crossed 2.5 yrs ago and people still call me a Neo b/c I wear letters ALL the time. :D

only Neos double para...

i.e., Line Shirt & Dog tags/Tiki HANGING OUT!!!

i was a semi-super neo...
i went and got some para, had a few shirts airbrused, Put my letters on my bookbag, got a bookbag that had the crest and everything on there, mad tikis/dog tags(i got like 3 different ones), the wristbands, and got a tattoo(my shit is fiyah by the way!!!)

you did a whole lot for being a "semi-super neo."

and though i know better than to double para, i think there's different ways in wearing para that determines "tacky double para" to "ok, that's not so bad..." examples:

--a jacket and a t-shirt, thats RIDICULOUS.
--a jacket and a tiki, still RIDICULOUS.
--a pin and a tiki, not only RIDICULOUS, but that would just clash.
--a pin and a tote bag, i wouldnt make a big deal over.
--a t-shirt and something over the top (ie a rhinestone beltbuckle - which i think is played out like a mofo but this Alpha neo i knew just HAD to bust it out), i'd just let the bigger/flashier piece of para stand out.

would anyone be mad over a neo who just went overboard with colors versus letters? ie, a neo who, for example, gets blue highlights? or someone who wore their colors EVERYDAY, on purpose?

I've worn a jacket and a t-shirt before. The letters on the t-shirt weren't extremely big so I don't if it was too much or not. It was also at a Delta function...

Anyway when I crossed I was definitely a super-neo. Went to almost every program and party hosted by BGLO. Hung out at the Black Cultural center in 'naila. Decked my car out...took random photos of me throwing up the pyramid...LOL! It was great:D

Hahahaha, I know this is about BGLOs, but I'm looking at the "super neo" lists and I remember being SO BAD about that when I first got into KD. I got nicknamed "Kappa Delta" by a few folks my first semester in because I wore letters everywhere. I had the tote bag, the t-shirts, the flip-flops, the drop on my charm bracelet...it was ridiculous. I even kept some of my mom's giant earrings from the 80s that she wanted to sell in a garage sale because they're green and white and they match my jersey! (They're these huge green polka-dotted disks that are about as big as my ear, too...and I still wear them with pride!)

I was just so glad to be in and wanted EVERYBODY to know I was a KD! :)

Nope. We've had a couple of non-BGLOers respond. I think the general sentiment is about excited new members. Even if the terminology is different. ;)

When's the last time you wore those earrings? :D

Not true. LOL.

When you don't know what Neo means?

Still cool, though.

...last semester.

*blushes* ;)

When everytime you get dressed or try on an outfit you throw up your hand sign in the mirror. :o lol

guilty!

When you have 5 :eek: keychains on your keys and carry them around with pride. One of my neos did this and well....let's just say she won't do that again!

I'm guilty of the double naila' :D But I would never let my prophytes see it ;)

LOL, I am definitely guilty of the above two statements!!

I had to quote this because I've seen more of this with the Spring 08 undergrad and grad lines. :mad:

Rhinestones are annoying, anyway. Grown arse men with rhinestone buckles or even REAL diamonds on huge organizational buckles or necklaces/chains? Annoying. Gaudy. Too much. Yikes.

funny you brought this up, because a couple days ago the para vendor we hired to sell at an event we hosted (a Sigma) was trying HARD to peddle this tacky SGRho beltbuckle. first of all, i dont know anyone who wears novelty beltbuckles. it looked like an SGRho cheat sheet: founding info, mascot, flower, jewels, founder names... WTF. if you can fit all that on a beltbuckle, that is just a mess. maybe im in the wrong region but it really is a no-go.

(i proceeded to tell ol boy that he was dead wrong for showing up with some hot mess like that. his response: well, i have 4 SGRho items and i haven't sold not one yet. umm, if you are selling at an SGRho event where we will--ironically--make up the majority of the crowd, how bout you have items you can actually sell?)

to bring this back on-topic, it was so bad not even the neos were buying this guy's stuff.

You start doing step moves by yourself in public areas that are totally out of place because you think it looks so cool. For instance in your dorm room, or while randomly walking down the street, or even in the weight room (one of my line bros did this when he was supposed to be spotting me, it was SOOO embarrassing because everyone started looking at us)

I know it's not "neo" perse, but something that I noticed many of our neos used to do because they'd always join the step team right after they cross and were CRAZY about it (but did not quite understand yet what's appropriate and what's not).



Also, introducing yourself to a random stranger with your nickname rather than your real name (HI! I'm Sexual Harassment Panda, nice to meet you!). Tho this is specific to Asian Greeks I guess, because I remembered from past discussions that other orgs don't often go by nicknames.


What's "sands"? Is that a BGLO term?

That Sigma vendor is yet another vendor who has limited or crappy SGRho items. How insulting for him to vendor at an SGRho event like that. The belt buckles sound hideous.

I think I had a couple of gaudy tshirts when I was a neo. Even a HUGE plastic Fortitude pin with letters that was suitable for bookshelf display but not to be worn. Slightly worse than the huge wooden pins, that I had, and I also the small wooden pins. It took a year or so for me to understand that cheesy and gaudy are the same with or without Delta on it. :)

We have line names and some chapters also have nicknames.

I always giggled when Sorors and nonSorors shared their line names in their introduction to me. We weren't taught to give a long drawn out intro with line names and stuff. Don't bore people. So I still pick on Greeks who share their line name to introduce themselves. I picked on this Omega Neo this weekend and said "I just need your real name...all that other stuff is...special."

I'm sure "Sexual Harassment Panda" would've annoyed me and made me call you a "cornball" if you introduced yourself to me like that. ;)


Generally a BGLO term that means different things depending on where you're from/are.

Haha yea I know you all have nicknames, I meant the difference is that Asian Greeks actually call each other by nicknames (with Lambdas, it's actually *unusual* to introduce yourself to another bro by your real name unless you're in the West Coast). In my neo days, since ALL I DID was hang out with other Asian Greeks, I don't remember ever being referred to as Charles at all. All I'd ever hear was "hey hooters" all the time, unless I was at home, in which case my mom and dad and brother would not do that.

But the problem is sometimes bros are so used to introducing themselves by nicknames that they mistakenly do so even to a non Greek. Which gets kinda awkward and funny at the same time, especially if their nicknames are one of those derogatory funny ones.

What's the difference by the way, between line name and nickname? Or is this also something "that means different things depending on where you're from/are" that I'm just not supposed to know :)


edit/
oops, I realized what you may have meant was that there are nicknames for the chapters themselves

This will vary by chapter, area, or the individuals. There are BGLO members who are known by their line names or nicknames and people have no idea what their real names are.

i saw a picture of this dude who was tripled nalied out at a picnic in august. had crossing jacket and everything.

you wanna trade with everyone.

wait.....that's not strictly to neos.

:unsure:

http://www.pledgepark.com/images/smilies/wassat.gif @ sexual harrasment panda.

Don't ask don't tell? :confused:

i don't even wanna know the story behind that name.

http://www.pledgepark.com/images/smilies/wassat.gif

Oh ok. I only had the impression earlier because I remember asking this question on an older thread, and recall that every BGLO member that replied said they never went by nicknames.

Sexual Harassment Panda is actually considered a pretty cool nickname. I know quite a lot of lambdas who would loove to have a nickname like that. I think stanrang21 knows what I'm talking about (since he knew some purdue lambdas)

UHHHH.......I THOUGHT A LOT OF THEIR "NICKNAMES" WERE KINDA SUS.

LIKE VERY SUS.