Top 10 Signs You Are A Die Hard Omega

[DSTinguished1]

Originally posted by Wolfman
No, Rev. Que tried to keep them under control, reminding them where they were at! That's what he said.

Another one for the list:

Ques are hyper competitive in all things as it regards Inter-Greek activities.

Story: This past year a group from my grad chapter participated in the Susan G. Komen Bowl for the Cure Bowling Event to raise money for Breast Cancer Research, sponsored by a local AKA grad chapter. We got our team together and paid our money for one main reason: we wanted to win! There were teams from local universities, community groups,companies and Greeks. Of course when the introduction of the teams came up we all barked and cut up, and an undergrad set out a hop in the lane. During the bowling, while everyone else was having fum, we were trash talking to each other and having a good time. (Last year some of us went to the parking lot to partake of some "Omega oil" before the bowling started!) Anyway, at the end of this fun, family atmosphere fund raiser, the announced the results. We were on edge--we wantethe trophy. Nobody else really cared. It was brought to a fever pitch when it was announced that the Nupes had gotten 2nd place. Then the first place winners were announced. We won! And pandaemonium broke out! We always have a good time--a loud, raucus, good Que time wherever we're at!

Man I love the Ques! I just saw this whole scene in my head...

[mccoyred]

Originally posted by Wolfman
Glad you ladies got a kick out of the story! This is a true story that I witnessed in my Que sojourn. Omega is the greatest fraternity because of the intensity of the male comradeship, love and sharing, combining extreme Christian belief and reprobate behaviour, sometimes by the same people! It's always interesting being a bruh! Not for the weak of heart, self-righeous or uncommitted!

Every Bruh I know! I love it!

[FeeFee]

Originally posted by DSTinguished1
Man I love the Ques! I just saw this whole scene in my head...

I did too and CTHU!!!

[Wolfman]

Now, I can't tell everything!

This past March,we had our nationally mandated Formal Memorial Service. We memorialized a brother that I want to tell a story about. (We held it at his church.) He was made in the '40s at a local HBCU and taught high school for many years;he also was actively involved in the community and his church.He was in his '80s, and he dated women in their '40s.

He had to be put in a nursing facility on several occasions. We would have a chapter visit at the facility to cheer him up and live out our brotherly duties. This brother loved a good party and was Que to the bone. He always attended our Mardi Gras Formal Dance--he loved it! When we went to see him at the nursing home, we laughed and joked; and, as his got into the spirit of moment, he tried to "set out a hop" in the meeting room where we were at! Before we prayed, sang our hymn and ended the visit, he asked us about the date of that year's Mardi Gras Dance. We told him. He promised he would be there. We were being nice to him and went along with him on this. We thought that this would be good for his morale--we didn't think he'd get out of the nursing facility, let alone be able to attend our Mardi Gras.Lo and behold, when the Mardi Gras Dance came around, the brother was there at the dance in his tux, buying drinks for women (with his young girlfriend), and on the dance floor with all the other bruhs! You can't keep a good Que down!

[DSTinguished1]

Originally posted by Wolfman
Now, I can't tell everything!

This past March,we had our nationally mandated Formal Memorial Service. We memorialized a brother that I want to tell a story about. (We held it at his church.) He was made in the '40s at a local HBCU and taught high school for many years;he also was actively involved in the community and his church.He was in his '80s, and he dated women in their '40s.

He had to be put in a nursing facility on several occasions. We would have a chapter visit at the facility to cheer him up and live out our brotherly duties. This brother loved a good party and was Que to the bone. He always attended our Mardi Gras Formal Dance--he loved it! When we went to see him at the nursing home, we laughed and joked; and, as his got into the spirit of moment, he tried to "set out a hop" in the meeting room where we were at! Before we prayed, sang our hymn and ended the visit, he asked us about the date of that year's Mardi Gras Dance. We told him. He promised he would be there. We were being nice to him and went along with him on this. We thought that this would be good for his morale--we didn't think he'd get out of the nursing facility, let alone be able to attend our Mardi Gras.Lo and behold, when the Mardi Gras Dance came around, the brother was there at the dance in his tux, buying drinks for women (with his young girlfriend), and on the dance floor with all the other bruhs! You can't keep a good Que down!

Woww that is a great story. Almost made me a little emotional.

[FeeFee]

Originally posted by Wolfman
Now, I can't tell everything!

This past March,we had our nationally mandated Formal Memorial Service. We memorialized a brother that I want to tell a story about. (We held it at his church.) He was made in the '40s at a local HBCU and taught high school for many years;he also was actively involved in the community and his church.He was in his '80s, and he dated women in their '40s.

He had to be put in a nursing facility on several occasions. We would have a chapter visit at the facility to cheer him up and live out our brotherly duties. This brother loved a good party and was Que to the bone. He always attended our Mardi Gras Formal Dance--he loved it! When we went to see him at the nursing home, we laughed and joked; and, as his got into the spirit of moment, he tried to "set out a hop" in the meeting room where we were at! Before we prayed, sang our hymn and ended the visit, he asked us about the date of that year's Mardi Gras Dance. We told him. He promised he would be there. We were being nice to him and went along with him on this. We thought that this would be good for his morale--we didn't think he'd get out of the nursing facility, let alone be able to attend our Mardi Gras.Lo and behold, when the Mardi Gras Dance came around, the brother was there at the dance in his tux, buying drinks for women (with his young girlfriend), and on the dance floor with all the other bruhs! You can't keep a good Que down!

Aww, I caught a visual of this story and it made me feel all warm and fuzzy inside.

[DSTdimepiece]

See, that was touching!

[Wolfman]

I like to talk about elder brothers in these stories;for they are the shoulders we stand on. There are Omega men(and Greeks) who when they die, much of our past will have passed on with them if we don't remember them.

When I was in Southern California, an elder brother, who has gone on to his reward, liked to talk about "the old days" after Frat meetings. He just wanted someone to share these stories with. He told us about the time that Bishop Edgar Love, a Founder of Omega Psi Phi, stayed at his home when he visited the West Coast in the '50s. (We forget that once upon a time we could not stay at some of the finer hotels and thus we sometime lodged at each other's homes--this is not ancient history!) Anyway, the brother told us how impressed he was with Founder Love. He was a very gracious man.

This same brother told us about why he pledged Omega. Where he came from he said of the Alphas:if it rained, an Alpha would drown because he he held his nose up so high. Of the Kappas:"they were all alcoholics."(An aside: in the book "Black Haze," the author, a Nupe, says that the "Pretty Boy" stereotype is a recent phenomeon of Kappas, whereas before Kappas were known as heavy social drinkers. So this assessment from this brother may not have been just a off hand prejudiced remark.) Finally, this brother said that the Omegas were known as the "Do-gooders" for their social outreach efforts.

And a dear friend and brother who passed a few years ago was the quintessential Omega man. His name was Paul Woods.(Ques who have been around for a while would know of whom I speak.) After I recommitted my life to Christ I gave up the Frat. I began my journey back by hanging out as his house and relearning the beauty of Que fellowship. He treated evervone fairly and was open to any brother. He told stories also. About how one of Omega's founders chastised brothers for having "exotic dancers" at a function during a Conclave, telling them that this was "his fraternity." And how Jesse Jackson had brothers crying during one of the meetings with his down home homiletical eloquence. And how he lived at the Frat house in D.C. in the early '60s, and his roomate was the only caucasian to have pledged Omega at Alpha chapter in Howard--he was on the same line as H. Patrick Swygert, the present President of Howard.

Stories!!!!How a brother in Los Angeles knew about 100 ditties to go with the song "Come brothers and Join in the Chorus," a Que drinking song that most Ques don't even know these days. Outside of Atomic Dog, the hymn ("Omega Dear") and the Omega Sweeheart Song, and some common chants, most younger brothers aren't conversant with the rich Omega tradition in music and song. Gone are the days in which Ques didn't step and Omegas were known for singing. A elder brother told me that one time when he was an undergrad and they were serenading girls in a dorm at an HBCU, one girl was so overcome that she fell out of the window. And the '60s brothers who influenced my line, used to tell us stories about their step shows, to motivate us. They said that when they stepped, coeds used to tear off their panties. So, when we stepped when I was an undergrad, we dressed in our boots and diapers, a la Parliament/Funkadelic--pre-Atomic Dog.

[ladygreek]

^^^^ Did you do the "Tit Tit?" And I remember when Parliament/Funkadelic came to my campus and performed in diapers.

[mulattogyrl]

I like these stories, Wolfman.

[btb87]

Originally posted by mulattogyrl
I like these stories, Wolfman.

Me too!

[FeeFee]

I *heart* these stories too.

*feeling fuzzies*

[CrimsonTide4]

Me four.

[Wolfman]

Originally posted by ladygreek
^^^^ Did you do the "Tit Tit?" And I remember when Parliament/Funkadelic came to my campus and performed in diapers.

Tit tit, no;but we did the "Que bug," which is a step routine, known variously by other names, with chants involving simulated sexual intercourse on the ground.

A story to contextualize this. In the early '80s, in my district, undergrad chapters were being suspended for lewd and lascivious step shows. In a meeting, one brother commented how he took his young son to step show and was supremely embarassed. It was too much--of course stated from the perspective of a middle age man now.If there has been an improvement, in general, it's been that you don't see as much of this over-the-top stuff. To be frank, it just doesn't fit in with this age in which sexual harassment is defined as even oggling someone!And in which you or your org has to cough up some cash for "stupid stuff" becuase of a lawsuit. If men can't be moved by moral suasion, the loss of money, property, or prison time can make some think twice about some activities. Ask the Kappas why they are no longer the "Playboy fraternity." Trademark infringement issues and the prospect of getting the pants sued off them by Playboy Inc. made them "read the riot act" to the undergrads and they curtailed the use of the image,etc.

[jojapeach]

*sitting "crisscross applesauce" on the storytime rug*

I am LOVING this! I even get to learn while I'm having fun. LOL Thank you for the stories, Wolfman.