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I was trying to avoid commenting on the GDI fray, but since its not dying...
Non-Greeks on my campus used the term GDI with pride. Greeks didn't generally use the saying much - it was the non-greeks who perpetuated its usage.
I'm fairly active in an alumni group from my university, and I still hear people - some of whom graduated 10, even 20 years ago - refer to themselves as GDI when the subject of Greek life comes up.
(And I've heard a roughly even split used between gosh darned and the other gd'ed.)
Maybe its a regional thing - are you from the South or some other area where Greek life is big? GDI might be taken offensively there, but at my large Midwestern university being "GDI" was like a badge of honor for those who chose not to be Greek. (On my campus, it would have been extremely rare for a person to not be able to get into a Greek organization. Yes, they may not have been able to get into one of their "top" organizations. But if a person had an open mind and wanted to be Greek, they would have had to have some sort of bizarre, serious complication not to be able to get into any house.)
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