Piggyback Question RE: Ritual "Things"

[Adelphean1851]

Originally posted by adpiucf
1) It's hard to house train a 1/2 ton animal! We've tried to rent lions from Siegfried and Roy in years past, but this presents logistical issues with transporting them to the east coast chapters from Vegas.
2) We tried a regular tabby cat, but you just lose the effect.

Do the SAE's want to back me up on this one?

For the record EP chapter University of Nevada Las Vegas. Has always rented trained lions from Seigfried and Roy for ritual, this is why we have the lowest initation mortality rate of all Alpha Delta Pi chapters. However after the past years tiger incedent I hear they are switiching to the Lion Habitat at the MGM Grand.

[honeychile]

Originally posted by KillarneyRose
Honeychile, were you at Pitt when the sororities all used to intiate their pledges the same night and, due to a scheduling mixup, the ADPi lion and the DPhiE unicorn were both in the Amos Hall elevator at the same time?

I hear it was not pretty once those doors opened

No, but the way I heard it, it's the reason that the "industrial" elevator siding was put in, and most actives took the stairs for about a year or so afterwards!!

Have you ever noticed the two urns on our mantel? They hold the ashes of the lion & the unicorn (which both had to be cremated afterwards).

[veemers]

Originally posted by texas*princess
lol! honeychile, it's ALL about the blue catsuits!!!

Man, and I thought *we* were the only group that wore the blue catsuits. Oh well. Our Evel Kneval (sp?) capes are cooler.

ETA: Since we're local, we just do our own outfits.

[SigK_Bama]

The year before I pledged, some of the older initiates told some pledges that they had to wear purple underwear with their white dresses for Initiation. Some of the pledges actually believed the actives and showed up with bright purple panties on. We laugh about it every year.

[sageofages]

Originally posted by SigK_Bama
The year before I pledged, some of the older initiates told some pledges that they had to wear purple underwear with their white dresses for Initiation. Some of the pledges actually believed the actives and showed up with bright purple panties on. We laugh about it every year.

too funny!!! This reminds me of a cute story with my "bio" sister. She works at Honda of America in Marysville, OH. They have to wear white coveralls on the job. This happened about 2 years after she started working there . One day a couple guys she works with came up to her and said they had a bet with some other guys on the line (she was on the line then) about what color underwear she would wear, and if she would wear red underwear so they could win the bet they would give her $100. The other group had bet she would wear yellow underwear. She said about 1.5 hours later the yellow group offered her $150 to do the same. She said she knew some big bucks must have been involved in the bet. Her answer....the next day she wore red and yellow striped underwear and laughed her butt off .

[veemers]

Originally posted by sageofages
too funny!!! This reminds me of a cute story with my "bio" sister. She works at Honda of America in Marysville, OH. They have to wear white coveralls on the job. This happened about 2 years after she started working there . One day a couple guys she works with came up to her and said they had a bet with some other guys on the line (she was on the line then) about what color underwear she would wear, and if she would wear red underwear so they could win the bet they would give her $100. The other group had bet she would wear yellow underwear. She said about 1.5 hours later the yellow group offered her $150 to do the same. She said she knew some big bucks must have been involved in the bet. Her answer....the next day she wore red and yellow striped underwear and laughed her butt off .

That's one smart cookie. I admire thinking like that.

[Peaches-n-Cream]

Originally posted by honeychile
No, but the way I heard it, it's the reason that the "industrial" elevator siding was put in, and most actives took the stairs for about a year or so afterwards!!

Have you ever noticed the two urns on our mantel? They hold the ashes of the lion & the unicorn (which both had to be cremated afterwards).

Poor little unicorn.

[honeychile]

Originally posted by Peaches-n-Cream
Poor little unicorn.

Don't worry too much about the unicorn. I hear that he gave as good as he got!

Noble creatures, both of them!

[AGDLynn]

Her answer....the next day she wore red and yellow striped underwear and laughed her butt off .

Red and yellow?? Green lines?

She had those left over from her AGD initation

[adpiucf]

My favorite rumor.

One of our chapter advisers had been an initiate of our chapter. She was an in-house legacy, and her older sister was an active collegian when she joined in the 80's.

Her biological older sister lived in the house, and had a poster of a camel on roller skates on one of her walls. She managed to convince the new member that our ritual included roller skates and that the true mascot of the sorority was a camel, and not a lion. She really believed it!

After she was initated, her sister gave her a pack of Camel cigarettes and a pair of roller skates as a joke.

[polarpi]

Originally posted by vandy_violet
In my chapter, we have the guard train the lion so that the President's big entrance on it goes smoothly. The music chair also practically hazes us making us learn to sing "The Circle of Life" and the other Lion King songs in four part harmonies.

Wait, I thought that was only *my* chapter that did that.....I'm going to have to get on the person who took over as music chair from me and my co-chair....she must have let the cat out of the bag!

Now, to go practice singing "Oh I just can't wait to be *Queen*" until the next initiation rolls around.....

[James]

We have to do all our Ritual "Clad in Light" so to speak . . to prove we are males.... makes winter initiation unpleasant.

Originally posted by KillarneyRose
Forgive me if I am wandering too closely into secret territory...

If there are certain "things" your members (or some of them) must wear during your Ritual (for example, robes or gowns or pink lycra catsuits ), where do they come from?

Can you buy them through your National? Do you have to make them? Are you allowed to take the pattern to an outside seamstress and have them made there?

We are given a pattern, but the items we wear have to be made by an initiated Delta Zeta since they're pretty distinctive.

On a kind-of-related note, what would you think about pledges paying a certain amount, as part of their initiation fees, to purchase their own personal robe, gown or catsuit? I really like that idea because it would cut down on the "uh oh, what can I wear" dilemma most sisters have run into.

Thanks for your input; and Happy New Year!

[alphaiota]

wow, james wasn't that tough figuring you lost yours?

shelley j
sigma k

[BSUPhiSig'92]

I hated doing ritual when I was chapter president. The golden jockstrap with the ceremonial bejewelled codpiece chaffed something awful! Plus our ritual chair always kept the aerosol cheese refrigerated!!!

[tinydancer]

Originally posted by Peaches-n-Cream
Poor little unicorn.

And that's why you've never seen a unicorn to this very day...
(my apologies to Shel Silverstein and the Irish Rovers)