Weird rush stories

[aephi alum]

Originally Posted by TLLK

I was the Preference Chair my senior year and was determined to have orchid leis for the party. In previous years, the chapter had strung carnations together with dental floss. They looked good for about 20 minutes and then the flowers would slide down the floss and lump together at the bottom.

Oh dear.

So, I was a rho chi my senior year (yup, we were still called rho chis). I was chatting with a fellow PX (different sorority) and she told me this story.

For one of their parties, they set up tables with bowls of goldfish as their centerpieces. One year, whoever was responsible for storing the goldfish before parties started didn't do so properly. So, that morning, before their first party of the day, the sisters set up all these goldfish bowls. About ten minutes before the doors opened, one of the sisters went up to the day chair and said, "Um... fish are dying..." Sure enough, a lot of the fish were belly up! They had to clear the centerpieces quickly and flush the fish down the toilets.

[carnation]

Posts 26 and 47 (from Delta Zetas) have always been 2 of my most posts.

[Cheerio]

This 23 year old thread has nearly 1400 posts, so I'm not about to go through them all to find it, but I'm willing to admit I've seen myself being posted about as the 'weirdo' in at least one post by a greekchat member in this thread Yes, I'm also too embarrassed to say what type of Rush Mistake this PNM made.

[carnation]

In a story from when you were a PNM?

[TLLK]

Originally Posted by aephi alum

Oh dear.

So, I was a rho chi my senior year (yup, we were still called rho chis). I was chatting with a fellow PX (different sorority) and she told me this story.

For one of their parties, they set up tables with bowls of goldfish as their centerpieces. One year, whoever was responsible for storing the goldfish before parties started didn't do so properly. So, that morning, before their first party of the day, the sisters set up all these goldfish bowls. About ten minutes before the doors opened, one of the sisters went up to the day chair and said, "Um... fish are dying..." Sure enough, a lot of the fish were belly up! They had to clear the centerpieces quickly and flush the fish down the toilets.

Oh no! The poor fish were dying and they only had minutes to move them!

[carnation]

Oh no. This thread has been gutted.

[honeychile]

Originally Posted by carnation

Oh no. This thread has been gutted.

[Cookiez17]

Nooo this was one of my faves!

[chi-o_cat]

What happened?

[Cheerio]

It had 1400 posts and was a 24-yr-old thread.

Please correct me if wrong: I will guess John or the mods likely have gone thru and cut down in size a lot of the long/older threads in past year, some of it done to help keep GC powered against bot attscks

[carnation]

John is letting me go through the posts and choose the best ones to put back! YAY! Some of those will never age, like the 2 by Delta Zetas near the beginning.

[*winter*]

Yay! I haven’t looked at this thread in a long time, but I remember many years ago, when I was bored on a work trip…I read damn near the entire thing. I was in tears laughing!

[navane]

Originally Posted by carnation

John is letting me go through the posts and choose the best ones to put back! YAY! Some of those will never age, like the 2 by Delta Zetas near the beginning.

Oh that's great news!

There are tons of stupid old threads on GC, we didn't need to cut this one. At least now we can keep some of the good ol' stories because this thread is an absolute classic. Thank you for doing this!

[honeychile]

Two threads that can easily be pruned are Word Association and Song Name Game. It's not as if anyone is going to go back to see what was previously posted.