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

Dionysus · #1 06-29-2002, 11:47 AM

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.

DON'T be a dork! If you have something to share do NOT reveal any secrets of your GLO! And, if I crossed the line w/ some of them, tell me, and I will delete it.

FHwku · #2 06-29-2002, 11:55 AM

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.

PM_Mama00 · #3 06-29-2002, 11:59 AM

Flowers catching on fire, and since our Initiations are early morning, LOUD stomach growling is always bad. There's another thing, but I just can't say it on here but it's too funny and only Phi Mus would appreciate it!

carnation · #4 06-29-2002, 12:45 PM

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!

Serenity · #5 06-29-2002, 01:02 PM

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Originally posted by carnation
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!!!

Kevin · #6 06-29-2002, 01:42 PM

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.

SATX*APhi · #7 06-29-2002, 02:23 PM

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!

Senusret I · #8 06-29-2002, 05:46 PM

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.

carnation · #9 06-29-2002, 07:10 PM

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...

pbpck · #10 06-29-2002, 07:39 PM

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.

ivysis · #11 06-29-2002, 11:02 PM

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....

PhiMuNursie · #12 06-29-2002, 11:35 PM

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...

PM_Mama00 · #13 06-30-2002, 01:47 AM

During Rush a few years back, our Rush Director bought us all these cute white feathered princess tiaras. We put them in our memory boxes for Pref nite. My big sis put hers on when she was preffing a girl, and when she went up to do her speech we all kinda lost it.

Phi Mu girls...all I gota say is who made up the word, and who knows how to spell it so here I got... con-shee-en-shus-lee. Ugh, that word sux and gets us every time!

mrblonde · #14 06-30-2002, 01:57 AM

conscientiously

SuperSister · #15 06-30-2002, 08:44 AM

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