You know you are a sorority member when . . .

[carnation]

You're a sorority member when...

You don't know or have forgotten the original words to the campfire song "Today", only your sorority words. Somewhere on GC we shared them years ago.

"The arrow, the angel, the wine and the blue, the friendships, the laughter, the good times we knew.."

Supplied by my Chi O daughter standing here, "The owl, the carnation, the cardinal and straw.."

[lovespink88]

Originally Posted by Alumiyum

My chapter is really into Brown Eyed Squirrel (Brown Eyed Girl) so I have at many times found myself singing "squirrel" instead of "girl" and doing motions all by myself (or just involuntarily squealing when I hear it) while the people around me obviously begin to wonder if I'm nuts. Ha! Nuts!

HAHA! I totally do with popular songs that we've used for recruitment. We used "Sexy Bitch" one year, but changed the words to "HEY! Be an Alpha Xi, an A-XI-D!" (we shouted over "sexy bitch" really loud, I swear!)

I can also never hear "Welcome to the Jungle" again without turning it to "Welcome to the Xi House".

[Alumiyum]

Originally Posted by lovespink88

HAHA! I totally do with popular songs that we've used for recruitment. We used "Sexy Bitch" one year, but changed the words to "HEY! Be an Alpha Xi, an A-XI-D!" (we shouted over "sexy bitch" really loud, I swear!)

I can also never hear "Welcome to the Jungle" again without turning it to "Welcome to the Xi House".

Haha...yeah the only time I helped with a Lip Jam skit was my freshman year and Def Leppard still makes me cringe with embarassment. So there's that and Brown Eyed Squirrel...plus I Want You to Want Me bcause that's our Chi O chapter's song and any time either of our songs was played at a party the other of us made sure the other ours was, too. I heard it almost as much as Brown Eyed Girl.

Originally Posted by BraveMaroon

I still hide my drink behind my back in photos. Even if it's not alcohol.

I'm 36.

Oh, and as far as I know, only the GPhiBs at UGA snapped back in my day.

I forgot about that...I hide wine glasses/beer bottles/etc. and Solo cups still. Which is good I guess since my FB will be almost totally alcohol free when I apply for a real job. But when I'm not at a party with Greeks I do get weird looks for that.

I also forgot that I'm extremely attuned towards anything red/buff/green...my mom laughs at me when we go shopping because anything with that color combination might as well be jumping straight into my face. Squirrels, too. And sometimes bronze, pink, and blue since one of my best friends/old roomates is a DG. I kept finding anchors and bpb items for her when she lived with me.

[Tulip86]

Always making sure everyone is in te picture, no "half" faces.

Always wondering if people I meet were greek in college.

Drifting to jewelry in our colors

Being really happy when meeting new students who are considering recruitment

[SWTXBelle]

Yes, snapping goes way back - loooooooong before "Legally Blonde".

[AGDee]

I never heard of the snapping thing until recently, here on GC. I find squirrel stuff to be pretty abundant, actually, if you look in the right places The Internet has helped a lot with that.

I concur with "When you hear a college name, you think 'we have a chapter there'".

One year, I tried to do my NCAA Basketball bracket based on where we had chapters..lol.

[als463]

Originally Posted by AGDee

I never heard of the snapping thing until recently, here on GC. I find squirrel stuff to be pretty abundant, actually, if you look in the right places The Internet has helped a lot with that.

I concur with "When you hear a college name, you think 'we have a chapter there'".

One year, I tried to do my NCAA Basketball bracket based on where we had chapters..lol.

I love what you said about the NCAA Basketball bracket! The truth is that during football season, when the bowl games come around, for the bowls that Penn State or Syracuse are not in-I cheer on the teams that have Phi Mu chapters! Now, if both teams have a chapter of my sorority-I feel like either college is a winner! So, I guess I do the same thing as you!

You know you're in a sorority when...You are talking to someone about something and you just happen to throw in, "My sorority sister (so-and-so) used to do that," or "One of my sorority sisters lives near there." You find yourself not meaning to but, you still throw in about your sorority sister.

[ThetaPrincess24]

Originally Posted by AGDee

One year, I tried to do my NCAA Basketball bracket based on where we had chapters..lol.

Lol! I thought I was the only one who had done that before!

[ThetaPrincess24]

Sorority colors is how I initially became a New Orleans Saints fan.

Last year when they were in the Super Bowl, I didnt know who to cheer for, so I thought, well both Kappa Alpha Theta and Beta Sigma Phi have black & gold as their colors. The Saints are black & gold, so I will cheer for them.

It worked! The Saints won! There are some other reasons as to why I have stayed a fan, but colors is how I became a fan. I'll probably end up cheering for the Steelers for the same reason!

[tld221]

Originally Posted by Alumiyum

When my first Greek cousin got into AOII my mom and I decided that the panda is the second hardest mascot to buy aside from the squirrel. It was so hard to find her panda presents.

Try searching for poodle items that are NOT pink or NOT fugly.

[AOII Angel]

Originally Posted by tld221

Try searching for poodle items that are NOT pink or NOT fugly.

i can imagine that is difficult!

[PhoenixAzul]

Originally Posted by tld221

Try searching for poodle items that are NOT pink or NOT fugly.

My sorority's mascot is the siamese cat...we eventually gave up finding "cute" cat gifts, and just began collecting "Ugly Cat Gifts", which each class presents at their activation. The house is full of the the most terrifyingly ugly siamese cats I have ever seen. There are more than a few that we hide before house tours so we don't scare off the PNMs.

[Drolefille]

We are the Sigma Ks
Living One Heart One Way
Sigmas just can't be stopped
We are Sigma Kaa-pa.

To Nelly's Hot in Here

[crusse10]

Originally Posted by Drolefille

We are the Sigma Ks
Living One Heart One Way
Sigmas just can't be stopped
We are Sigma Kaa-pa.

To Nelly's Hot in Here

Took me roughly a minute to fit the words to the melody. Damn it's been a long time since I heard "Hot in Herre"

[KSUViolet06]

To this day I can't hear The Beach Boys "Surfin' USA" and not replace the lyrics with the Sigma version.