bid day traditions

AlexMack · #1 07-27-2007, 07:07 PM

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Originally Posted by adpiucf

I'm sure this pony cheer thing is just fun and silly, and is not the crude or sexual thing some of you perverts are thinking.

You dirty minds need some Orbitz gum.

And you need to get travelling out of your head! That's Orbit gum :P

I've seen some more pictures. Definitely not dirty, just weird.

cuteASAbug · #2 07-27-2007, 07:43 PM

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Originally Posted by porkfriedrice

And you need to get travelling out of your head! That's Orbit gum :P

I've seen some more pictures. Definitely not dirty, just weird.

Total highjack, but didn't the girl from those commercials play Bobbi on the Gilmore Girls?

AlexMack · #3 07-27-2007, 09:38 PM

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Originally Posted by cuteASAbug

Total highjack, but didn't the girl from those commercials play Bobbi on the Gilmore Girls?

Bobbi?

honeychile · #4 07-27-2007, 10:08 PM

This is older, but we did lots of pictures (the New Member class, the New Member/Violet Sister duo, any New Members who were a "group", etc, etc), then the brothers of Phi Delta Theta came over to do "Kiss and Carnation". They had a carnation for each New Member, and would present it and a (chaste) kiss to each one - a very pretty tradition. We then had an All-Greek Mixer - a very BAD idea for Bid Night!

UGAalum94 · #5 07-27-2007, 10:16 PM

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Originally Posted by honeychile

This is older, but we did lots of pictures (the New Member class, the New Member/Violet Sister duo, any New Members who were a "group", etc, etc), then the brothers of Phi Delta Theta came over to do "Kiss and Carnation". They had a carnation for each New Member, and would present it and a (chaste) kiss to each one - a very pretty tradition. We then had an All-Greek Mixer - a very BAD idea for Bid Night!

I understand the nightmare you got into with the weeping members that one year, but the all Greek event just seems like such a good idea. If not bid day, certainly a big event soon after bid day or something.

I just know that at my campus there was a lot of rhetoric during recruitment about "it's great to be Greek, Panhellenic, blah, blah, blah," but when it actually came down to it, I don't think we were ever together until Greek Week, if then. Sure you had socials and events at homecoming, but unless I'm misremembering, very little was all-Greek, ever.

RU OX Alum · #6 07-28-2007, 02:53 PM

make them chug pickel juice

just kidding

KSUViolet06 · #7 07-28-2007, 02:57 PM

Bid Day is held across the street from our house, so when it's over, we have to walk back. We teach the new members a cheer before we head back and they cheer with us at the top of their lungs as we're walking back. It's pretty fun because there are 3 other sororities that live near us, so we go back and forth with cheers as we're walking.

TSteven · #8 07-28-2007, 01:42 AM

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Originally Posted by honeychile

We then had an All-Greek Mixer - a very BAD idea for Bid Night!

Now why is that? Granted I've got my late 1970's post rush mind set going on. But the All-Greek mixers that I remember were fun and positive. A celebration of being Greek as it were.

The reason I ask is that NPC rush (as it was called then) ended during the middle of IFC rush. Most of the pledge classes - after they did their bid day stuff - would make the rounds at some of the fraternity rush parties to "introduce" themselves. I personally loved meeting all the new sorority members.

BabyPiNK_FL · #9 07-28-2007, 10:02 AM

"Ride that pony" is an excellent way to get to know names. We did that at my new member retreat and it was amazing. If you didn't know a name before they were called in the center to dance then you certainly knew it by the time they came out! It's super fun and hilarious and I think it'd be an awesome bid day tradition, but ONLY if you have 40 or less people present. After that it'd just take 100 million years to complete.

alrphimu · #10 07-28-2007, 10:49 AM

come on baby, ride that pony....

the sad thing is when girls in jr. high or the beginnings of high school have to make it sexual. we're talking about riding a pony. not grinding. i personally love ride the pony. and sally walker -- anyone played that? "little sally walker, walkin' down the street...she didn't know what to do so she stopped in front of me! she said hey _____ do your thing, do your thing, SWITCH! hey girl do your thing, do your thing switch!"

cuteASAbug · #11 07-27-2007, 10:10 PM

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Originally Posted by porkfriedrice

Bobbi?

She worked with Logan in Season 6.

AlexMack · #12 07-27-2007, 10:46 PM

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Originally Posted by cuteASAbug

She worked with Logan in Season 6.

Yeah I need to catch up like woah. I have no clue who Bobbi is. I kinda tailed off watching when Rory went off the rails because it ticked me off so much.

SoCalGirl · #13 07-28-2007, 12:55 AM

The ride the pony thing makes me picture my high school chearleading squad getting pumped for games. I'd watch them and think wuh? But they seemed to enjoy themselves and it did look like fun.

That link to the pictures is at Longwood in case anyone is still wondering about Longwood Jumpers!

I don't think GG Bobbi is the Orbit chick. I'm not sure but I don't think so.
'K I'm wrong! I checked IMDB. http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0104376/ She is the Orbit chick!