Nicknames
 

I have a question...
Do your GOLs give your members give each other nicknames and if so how do you decide?

Yes
 

You usually get it from stupid things you do.....or from how you look, but they give them out at the end of your pledge semester....Some funny ones are
Brad "Mr Bigglesworth" Thompson, Cause he has Alopechia and cant grow hair
Brad "Beefy Tits" Cortez, obvious
James "Titliewinks" Clesi, not sure
Chad "Fat Sow" Fields, cause he is fat and looks like a female pig
Brad "Piglet" Fields, cause he is his biological little brother
James Mitch "Cumstien" Laughlin, from the movie Caddyshack
Jonathan "Moose Knuckles" Serigne, cause he wears tight shorts
and the funniest of all is
Chris "Pettie I blew my extra chromosome out my trumbone at band camp" Miller, cause he looks mentally challenged and played in band in highschool

cool..
Our nicknames come from our family line (whoes your big sis) we have the alcohols and the cartoons.... guess which group i am in... :)

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50-50 chance.....the cartoons? I dont know?

My nickname is taint.

It comes from when 4 of us were driving from Edmond, OK to Lexington, VA one night, about 3-5 in the morning driving through Arkansas watching bugs go splat on the windshield. I said "taint" and my brother in the next seet started cracking up... So we discussed taints, grundles, etc... Somehow I emerged from the conversation with the nickname 'taint'...

Heh, I dated a Lambda Chi whose nickname is Shit. Try introducing HIM to friends and family!

BTW, he got the nickname when he went through...he has an eyebrow ring, so to remember him, the brothers just called him "shit on his face," which was later shortened to just "Shit." Needless to say, he wasn't crazy about it...

we have a ton of nicknames in my sorority. mine is just my last name. we have a girl nicknamed "goat" her last name is milman. one of my pledge sisters called her "millygoat" but it got shortened to goat. we've got all sorts of others but that's the best one! ;)

We call one of the girls in my sorority Glitter Girl, because during recruitment she had to miss a day, and so she wrote this letter that was all glittery, so that we would remember her. It worked, and we still call her glitter girl two years later!

During our pledge retreat we give each other names and they can get pretty crazy. We're not supposed to discuss what they are really outside of Pi Phis though. :)

Jess

Our chapter officially gives you a nickname immediately after you are initiated. (Our school decided that nicknaming pledges was hazing.)

Your Big Brother names you based on your actions and personality as a pledge. Sometimes there is a theme on the family tree, or a specific branch of the tree. My Big was "Nocturnal Colonel."

There are a lot of TKE's on my campus who's real names I don't know because they only go by there nicknames. I was introducing one of our new members to a guy called Cheeks, and didn't realize that I didn't know his first name until I tried to tell her what it was!

There was this senior at BU who was a delt and everyone called him shoe...but I have NO clue what his first name is! He even sat next to me at dinner when we invited the Delts over to dinner!

We dont pass out nick names because we feel that it is just plain stupid. There are a couple of people who have nicknames but they had those names before they pledged. It is a rare occurence when someone gets a nick name while they pledge or get initiated that sticks.