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02-15-2011, 02:08 PM
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The Alpha Chi lyre is THREE STRINGED. Three. Not five, not four, three. Drives me bananas when it has the wrong number of strings.
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02-15-2011, 02:31 PM
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Minor quibble, relatively speaking - but our colors are lavender and maroon - and that means we get a lot of hot pinks and purples thrown in to the mix. And they're fine as an accent color, but what's so wrong with lavender and maroon?
I'm just saying.
I also get irritated when people refer to us in writing as EK. Sigma and Epsilon are two totally different letters.
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02-15-2011, 02:48 PM
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The Theta kite can fly whichever way that the wind is blowing, but our pansy is only of the black and gold variety.
Interesting and informative thread. Thanks.
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02-15-2011, 02:49 PM
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The Alpha Chi lyre is THREE STRINGED. Three. Not five, not four, three. Drives me bananas when it has the wrong number of strings.
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YES! My mom still gets excited, years later, when she finds a lyre with 3 strings for me if she's out somewhere.
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02-15-2011, 03:06 PM
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Minor quibble, relatively speaking - but our colors are lavender and maroon - and that means we get a lot of hot pinks and purples thrown in to the mix. And they're fine as an accent color, but what's so wrong with lavender and maroon?
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Which makes me wonder -- how many GLOs use specific shades of a particular color? We just say our colors are red, black and gold and I've seen various shades of red in particular use (and appropriately so), but if you follow the guides from our visual identity manual, it should specifically be red, black and gold.
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I also get irritated when people refer to us in writing as EK. Sigma and Epsilon are two totally different letters.
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That's not a Sigma Kappa quirk, though. That's other people being stoopid. 
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02-15-2011, 03:10 PM
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ASA is officially Crimson and Pearl White, with Palm Green and Gold as secondary colors.
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02-15-2011, 03:17 PM
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Azure blue has as many definitions. It's sky blue, people! Clear as an azure sky! It's closer to aqua than powder blue - unless you have nasty looking skies!
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02-15-2011, 03:49 PM
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Well not sure if this is a quirk or what...but if you look at the back of an AOII badge you can spell out the letters LOVE. The LOVE is seen through the way our letters are superimposed (stacked) on each other. Hard to explain but I could totally show someone in person.
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LOL. And what do they look like?
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In response to shields...I have seen a shield with AOII on it, a shield with a rose on it....the best is when a Panhellenic Website tries to create one. Just use the rose, we are fine with just the rose!
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Reason: ETA didn't see my sister had already posted about our color
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02-15-2011, 04:00 PM
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Well not sure if this is a quirk or what...but if you look at the back of an AOII badge you can spell out the letters LOVE. The LOVE is seen through the way our letters are superimposed (stacked) on each other. Hard to explain but I could totally show someone in person.
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Help me out here!
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02-15-2011, 03:19 PM
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Which makes me wonder -- how many GLOs use specific shades of a particular color? We just say our colors are red, black and gold and I've seen various shades of red in particular use (and appropriately so), but if you follow the guides from our visual identity manual, it should specifically be red, black and gold.
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AOII is Cardinal Red.
I don't know if this is a symbol quirk, but I get annoyed by people who try and create shields/coat of arms for us. AOII doesn't have one- yet I occasionally see AOII merchandise with a fake shield thing on it.
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02-15-2011, 03:33 PM
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I don't know if this is a symbol quirk, but I get annoyed by people who try and create shields/coat of arms for us. AOII doesn't have one- yet I occasionally see AOII merchandise with a fake shield thing on it.
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LOL. And what do they look like?
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02-15-2011, 06:26 PM
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Quote:
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Which makes me wonder -- how many GLOs use specific shades of a particular color? We just say our colors are red, black and gold and I've seen various shades of red in particular use (and appropriately so), but if you follow the guides from our visual identity manual, it should specifically be red, black and gold.
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Sigma Chi specifically says "old gold" for our blue and gold. I have seen all different shades of blue, including light, royal, and navy.
I have to admit I always chuckle when I see Beta Theta Pi's colors described as "delicate shades of pink and blue".
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02-15-2011, 10:18 PM
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I have to admit I always chuckle when I see Beta Theta Pi's colors described as "delicate shades of pink and blue". |
Speaking of which--I have gone to various campus celebrations, etc., and some Pi Phi chapters are using pink and light blue balloons. It's not that hard to find dark red balloons anymore! Pink and light blue are what the DGs (and the Betas, I guess) should be using!
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