Greek life at the Southern Ivies

[Nanners52674]

Originally Posted by lillady85

Thanks. I didn't know if it was a funny, old fashioned way of calling cough syrup something else.

No I live in Connecticut, have my whole 21 years and I personally have never heard tonic used to mean club soda. . . I am however very familiar with wicked, jimmies, frappes, and my two personal favorites from high school packy and cocked. . .

[amanda6035]

Originally Posted by Nanners52674

I am however very familiar with wicked, jimmies, frappes, and my two personal favorites from high school packy and cocked. . .

Oh boy....I've never been to new england (for real)....and until this post, I've never heard of any of those words (except wicked).

...I never thought I'd say this, but thank goodness for urban dictionary. jimmies = sprinkles? That's hilarious.


U.D. didnt have frappes though. what is that? frappuccino?

[Nanners52674]

Originally Posted by amanda6035

Oh boy....I've never been to new england (for real)....and until this post, I've never heard of any of those words (except wicked).

...I never thought I'd say this, but thank goodness for urban dictionary. jimmies = sprinkles? That's hilarious.


U.D. didnt have frappes though. what is that? frappuccino?

Frappes = Ice Cream Shake NOT a milk shake (which is simply milk and syrup mixed together) a frappe is milk syrup and ice cream

Packy = Package store and u better make sure you get there before 9. . . Unless you want to have to buy half pints from the bootlegger in Hartford

Cocked = Wasted, Smashed, Hammered, Blitzed

*Frappes and Jimmies are more Massachusetts terms that I picked up from summers on Nantucket*

[Elephant Walk]

Originally Posted by Nanners52674

Cocked = Wasted, Smashed, Hammered, Blitzed

Weird enough, OR used this word for the little "How to Frat Hard"

I think the line goes "Tell the dean you've been off drugs for six hours and you're so cocked you're not sure if the dean isn't a cougar so could he roar for you. Smile for the cameras."

That's not verbatim, but whatever.

[MysticCat]

Originally Posted by XSK_Diamond

When I was in high school, I had a houseparent that called the Civil War/War Between the States the War of Northern Aggression.

Confession -- that's really what I meant to say, but I ended up typing "War Between the States" instead. I guess subconsciously I just couldn't let myself go that far.

[SWTXBelle]

Well, since Civil War isn't a very accurate name (the CSA did not try to take over the whole country) I never liked using it, and of course I grew up hearing many others:

The Late Unpleasantness
The War
The War for Southern Independence
The War to Supress Northern Aggression
The War to Supress Northern Arrogance
The War Between the States

I believe TWBTS is the most common.

[EEKappa]

Reading this thread makes we want to dig out my "Harvard, Emory of the North" t-shirt that I bought in the bookstore when I was a freshman and wear it to a Red Sox game next spring.

According to my Vanderbilt alum friend, they sold the same shirts at her bookstore too.

[MysticCat]

Originally Posted by SWTXBelle

The Late Unpleasantness

My grandparents used that one, usually a little tongue-in-cheek. I still love it.

My 11-year-old thinks Civil War is an oxymoron.

[XSK_Diamond]

LOL! It was weird when my houseparent said it. I just kind of had the deer-in-the-headlights-blinking-slowly look while what she said sank in. Then I laughed. For some reason it was very funny to me. But, I have an odd sense of humor, anyway.

Originally Posted by MysticCat

Confession -- that's really what I meant to say, but I ended up typing "War Between the States" instead. I guess subconsciously I just couldn't let myself go that far.

[ree-Xi]

Originally Posted by Nanners52674

Frappes = Ice Cream Shake NOT a milk shake (which is simply milk and syrup mixed together) a frappe is milk syrup and ice cream

Packy = Package store and u better make sure you get there before 9. . . Unless you want to have to buy half pints from the bootlegger in Hartford

Cocked = Wasted, Smashed, Hammered, Blitzed

*Frappes and Jimmies are more Massachusetts terms that I picked up from summers on Nantucket*

Where I grew up in CT, sprinkles/jimmies = "shots"

After 8pm (the time packies closed back in my day), we headed up to the Agawam Spirit Shop in MA from Hartford.

I lived in MA for 10 years, which is where I picked up "tonic" and "bubbler".

[TSteven]

Y'all talk funny!

[tallgreekalum]

Originally Posted by Nanners52674

No I live in Connecticut, have my whole 21 years and I personally have never heard tonic used to mean club soda. . . I am however very familiar with wicked, jimmies, frappes, and my two personal favorites from high school packy and cocked. . .

That's because much of Conn isn't really New England
Tonic-Flavored carbonated water (cola, root beer, moxie(a whole 'nother story etc.

Soda- we mix it with whiskey.

Pop- what we call our father (pronounced fah-thuh)

Grinder- a sandwich made on a long bun(you might call it a sub, po' boy etc) also known as a spucky

Packie- where you go to buy 'naries (be-ah)

Bulkie- a roll used to make sandwiches or served with butter for breakfast.

Bubbler- a water fountain

Pickup-what we do with the opposite sex on Sat nt.

Milk Shake- milk and chocolate syrup, shaken

Frappe (Frap) add ice cream to the shake

Jimmies- you put them on top of ice cream,

In the immortal words of Winston Churchill, "we are one people, separated by a common language"

And yes, we've heard of the "southern ivies" Vandy, Duke, Wake Forest, Emory, etc.

[oncegreek]

There are plenty of people in California who refer to Harvard as the "Stanford of the East," and MIT as the CalTech of the east. I won't even get started on what folks from USC and UCLA say about each other... or folks from Northern and Southern California.

However, I can vouch for the fact that on beautiful, sunny days in January (perfect sun, surf, temps in the 70's) waaay back in the eighties, at least a few students at UCSB would raise the old Corona bottles in a toast, and say,
"You can keep Harvard...... we have the beach."