Top 10 Signs You Are A Die Hard Omega

[CrimsonTide4]

About a month or so ago, there was a Strawberry Letter on Steve Harvey show, "Will the Real Omega Man Stand Up?" From that letter, my mind took a journey and created a la Steve's Top 10, Top 10 Signs You Are A Die Hard Omega. Of course there are more than 10 so I added honorable mentions.

Bruhs, this was created in love, not to throw stones. But of all the D9 fraternities, you all are the most demonstrative of your love for Omega, IMO. You all rep Omega so hard that it is hard not to notice.

I sent this as an e-mail to my Omega friends and they all agreed with me or said they have been tamed a bit.

Please feel free to pass along to other Omegas you know.




Top 10 Signs You Are a Die Hard Omega




10. Your e-mail account and password are both Omega related. All e-mails are composed in purple font.
OmegaMan1911_4_Life@ yahoo.com
NuttinButTheDawgInMe@ hotmail.com
AtomicDawg1911@ gmail.com
GoldBoots@ aol.com
SetOutAHop@ blackplanet.com
Funky4Corners@ lycos.com

Password: JustLoveCooperColeman
November171911
HowardUAlphaChapter
BloodSweatTears

9. Favorite day of the year is 11.17.1911. Favorite colors are purple and gold. Favorite song is Atomic Dawg. Favorite football team is the Vikings. Favorite basketball team is the Lakers.

8. You throw up the hooks and bark at every Que you see on the road, at church, at the mall, the library, a wedding, a funeral, a parade, on TV.

7. You change the spelling of words, i.e. cucumber is now QUEcumber and calculator is calQUElator.

6. You use “Roo” like most people say hello, goodbye, thank you and you’re welcome.

5. Your car has an Omega Psi Phi front plate, Omega Psi Phi license plate, Omega Psi Phi license plate frame, and Omega Psi Phi sticker in the rear window along with the Omega Psi Phi shield that sticks on the car.

4. Your doorbell and cell phone ring tone all play Atomic Dog. You even figured out how to get your instant messages to play Atomic Dog when a new IM is received.

3. You wear fatigues and gold boots to church. You wear the dog collar on Communion Sunday.

2. You have more Omega artwork on display than family photos.

1. In church, everyone says Amen or Hallelujah or Thank You Jesus, you bark.



Honorable Mentions
You name your children after the founders, even your daughters.

You forget your mate’s, parents’, and siblings birthdays but never forget Founders Day or your line brothers’ birthdays.

You have a burned CD that plays nothing but Atomic Dog.

You have every Omega chapter website as a bookmark.

You’ve signed every chapter’s website’s guestbook.

You have more paddles than you have belts.

You let da Bruhz cut in front of you in traffic but not other fraternities.

You have an Omega Psi Phi Bible cover that your mother, aunt, or grandmother knit for you.

You used to own a cat. Now you own a pit bull named Omega.

Your credit cards are maxed out buying more Omega nalia, but you have defaulted on your student loans.

You barked at the title of this e-mail.

You forward this on to every Omega you know.




Written by Carla Sarratt
DSQ
4 ~ Omicron Theta ~ Spring 1997

[ladygreek]

Soror, that is too funny. Especially #1. Roo to the Bruhs!

[Pretty Kitty]

That was funny!
And I am dying at how I too....have committed some of the honorable mentions...

[DoggyStyle82]

I'm guilty of some of those and it bothers me that I have so much purple gear. But we can't wear red so what is a dog to do.

Now what can we do for the Deltas...........?

[Wolfman]

One particular activity which could go on this list is the practice of camparing "hits"(ie, brands) when "die hard" Ques get together in some fraternal gatherings. It'a a bonding activity analagous to women comparing pocketbooks or shoes, I suppose!

[FeeFee]

Originally posted by Wolfman
One particular activity which could go on this list is the practice of camparing "hits"(ie, brands) when "die hard" Ques get together in some fraternal gatherings. It'a a bonding activity analagous to women comparing pocketbooks or shoes, I suppose!

Now that's funny - CTHU!!!

[CrimsonTide4]

Originally posted by Wolfman
One particular activity which could go on this list is the practice of camparing "hits"(ie, brands) when "die hard" Ques get together in some fraternal gatherings. It'a a bonding activity analagous to women comparing pocketbooks or shoes, I suppose!

LMAO!! That is so true. You all tell how you got it, what you were wearing when you got it, who was there, and the sounds made when you got it.

[Wolfman]

Originally posted by FeeFee
Now that's funny - CTHU!!!

A funny story about this particular "die hard" Que activity. On one occasion, when the "Omega oil" was flowing freely, a group of younger bruhs were comparing their "hits" with a bit of the male braggadoccio in play. In fun, one early '60s brother decided he wanted to shut them all up. He got up and went into the midst of this group, unzipped his pants and showed them his prized "hit." The younger bruhs scattered like the men who left the scene of the woman caught in adultery after Jesus wrote on the ground.There was no more conversation about hits!

[CrimsonTide4]

Originally posted by Wolfman
A funny story about this particular "die hard" Que activity. On one occasion, when the "Omega oil" was flowing freely, a group of younger bruhs were comparing their "hits" with a bit of the male braggadoccio in play. In fun, one early '60s brother decided he wanted to shut them all up. He got up and went into the midst of this group, unzipped his pants and showed them his prized "hit." The younger bruhs scattered like the men who left the scene of the woman caught in adultery after Jesus wrote on the ground.There was no more conversation about hits!

OH MY DAYUM.

[FeeFee]

Originally posted by CrimsonTide4
OH MY DAYUM.

Like my West Indian friends would say - PARTY DONE!!!!!!

[CrimsonTide4]

21. You show off your hits more than you show pictures of your kids.

[cjoanell]

Originally Posted by CrimsonTide4

21. You show off your hits more than you show pictures of your kids.

LOL, sounds like my professor who just got another... oh wait, he did the last one, a few weeks ago, himself....

[RitaMae1908]

I just want to say that I am glued to my computer screen... Wolfman what a great example of an exemplary Man, no less an Omega Man, you are! You go boy! I'm loving yours stories almost to tears. I am just moved by the love of your brotherhood. Many folk that are in outside looking in want to trivialize (sp?) and shed a negative light on our beloved BGLOs. The media especially could see the good in what we do if they just looked a little harder. It's easier to be negative I guess.
Thank you for sharing your stories...
I think we're due another one

[Wolfman]

Originally Posted by RitaMae1908

I just want to say that I am glued to my computer screen... Wolfman what a great example of an exemplary Man, no less an Omega Man, you are! You go boy! I'm loving yours stories almost to tears. I am just moved by the love of your brotherhood. Many folk that are in outside looking in want to trivialize (sp?) and shed a negative light on our beloved BGLOs. The media especially could see the good in what we do if they just looked a little harder. It's easier to be negative I guess.
Thank you for sharing your stories...
I think we're due another one

A few weeks ago, the local grad chapter I'm a member of recently started a youth mentoring program for at-risk African American/Latino middle school male students. We has our kick off celebration and initial session. During the celebration, the room was filled with mother (from single parent houseolds), grandparents and local elected officials. Our keynote speaker was a 20+ year Que from another chapter in the Metro NYC area. He is a father, minister,author,activist, and involved in the advocasy of our youth and so many more things. He held both the mothers and their sons enrapt by the "testimony" of his life and his word to them about manhood and raising black men. This is a testimony of a Que who became an Omega when a student-athlete and father of a baby. The following links tell a part of his story of what a real "Die Hard" Omega is about: Manhood, Scholarship, Perseverance and Uplift.

http://www.globalblacknews.com/lambball.html
http://www.ThabitiEnterprises.com

[Wolfman]

Originally Posted by RitaMae1908

I just want to say that I am glued to my computer screen... Wolfman what a great example of an exemplary Man, no less an Omega Man, you are! You go boy! I'm loving yours stories almost to tears. I am just moved by the love of your brotherhood. Many folk that are in outside looking in want to trivialize (sp?) and shed a negative light on our beloved BGLOs. The media especially could see the good in what we do if they just looked a little harder. It's easier to be negative I guess.
Thank you for sharing your stories...
I think we're due another one

A "Die Hard" Que like will party anytime.

In his autobiogrpahy, Bro. Rev. Benjamin L. Mays, Ph.D., the late president of Morehouse College, who had a tremendous formative influence on generations of black men, including MLK, Jr., related this story. In the early '20s when he was serving as a pastor of a baptist church in Atlanta, he went to a Que picnic on a Sunday afternoon after he got out of the pulpit. Someone from the church saw him dancing at the event with some woman. Well, they took this back to the board and there was a big stink about it, and he almost got fired. But a "Die Hard Que" has to do what he has to do: Be OWT!