PostSecret - Page 2

#1 11-26-2006, 09:19 PM

This one was one of my all-time favorites:

I'll probably pick up the books one of these days.

DolphinChicaDDD · #2 11-26-2006, 11:23 PM

My favorite:

Cause sadly, a friend and I have chatted about this.

I own the first book, and I'm looking into buying the second soon.

#3 11-26-2006, 11:36 PM

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Originally Posted by DolphinChicaDDD

My favorite:

Cause sadly, a friend and I have chatted about this.

A girl I went to college with did this, and excluded her own SISTER just because she was rather plump. Somehow it got back to the plump sister, and the entire family pretty much disowned the new bride after the fact.

honeychile · #4 02-21-2006, 11:52 AM

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Originally posted by LeslieAGD
I thought the 9/11 postcard was absolutely horrible!
How could someone do that to their loved ones?!?

Well, if you were a criminal, or planned to do something criminal, it would have been the perfect "out" - especially since some of the victims were never able to be identified.

I found this on Snopes, as an example of why we need "gallows humor" and it's considered possible:

"The first divorce directly related to the September 11th terrorist attacks has been filed in a NY court.
It appears a guy with an office on the 103rd floor of the World Trade Center left home for work on Sept 11. When he got to Manhattan, he decided to spend the morning at his girlfriend's apartment in the Village. When he got to her place, he turned off the phones, TV and radio and spent the entire morning in bed with her. At about 11:00 am, while still at her place, he turned his cell phone back on to retrieve his messages.

A second later it rang. His wife was on the phone crying and screaming at him, "I've been trying to call you for over two hours!! I've been worried sick about you! Are you OK?!?" He answered calmly that he was fine.

The wife then asked, "Where are you?"

The guy said, "Where do you think I am? I'm in my office!"

JemmaUK · #5 04-03-2006, 04:11 PM

Oh my, how funny! I love it!

minDyG · #6 11-15-2009, 11:17 PM

There is a post card up right now that reads "As I stood in line in the bookstore my freshman year, a sorority recruiter passed me over in favor of the two prettier girls in line directly behind me. Now, 5 years later, I'm starting graduate school with a teaching fellowship. I won't be able to help thinking about those recruiters when I grade the sorority girls' papers." The card is bordered with a list of GLO's including sororities and fraternities, both NPC, IFC, and NPHC. Also, the back of the image shows up when you hover your mouse over it and the postmark appears to indicate that it was mailed from 30904, which, interestingly enough, is an Augusta, GA zip (crazy!). I just found it interesting and thought I'd share.

ASTalumna06 · #7 11-16-2009, 12:51 AM

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Originally Posted by minDyG

There is a post card up right now that reads "As I stood in line in the bookstore my freshman year, a sorority recruiter passed me over in favor of the two prettier girls in line directly behind me. Now, 5 years later, I'm starting graduate school with a teaching fellowship. I won't be able to help thinking about those recruiters when I grade the sorority girls' papers." The card is bordered with a list of GLO's including sororities and fraternities, both NPC, IFC, and NPHC. Also, the back of the image shows up when you hover your mouse over it and the postmark appears to indicate that it was mailed from 30904, which, interestingly enough, is an Augusta, GA zip (crazy!). I just found it interesting and thought I'd share.

I saw that. It was a little disappointing to read. I find that all of the postcards that I read about sororities on that site are negative ones. I'm hoping that I'll see a postive one someday

MTUSIGTAU · #8 12-01-2009, 07:12 AM

Here at Tech one of my professors made us do this as a project for her class. It was interesting.

xomanadaxo · #9 12-02-2009, 05:30 PM

We actually did a "post secret" bonding thing with my sorority. Someone passed out index cards and we all wrote a secret on them, then went up and put them in a box. They were shuffled and redistributed so that everyone read someone elses' card...that way no one knew whose was whose. It was a really cool exercise that helped us all realize not everyone is perfect. After all, we all have secrets!

Postsecret is totally my Sunday addiction. I get so sad when I've read all the ones for the week...I always crave more!

ihearttrisigma · #10 12-02-2009, 06:20 PM

I love Post Secret, and like the poster before me, I check every Sunday. I've actually found many secrets on bits of paper in a bunch of the books at various Barnes & Noble. I read about people doing this, and one day figured I'd see if I would find any, and I did! The most touching one I found was, " Even if you die tomorrow I won't go to your funeral."

deltag_girl · #11 10-31-2010, 11:52 PM

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Originally Posted by xomanadaxo

We actually did a "post secret" bonding thing with my sorority. Someone passed out index cards and we all wrote a secret on them, then went up and put them in a box. They were shuffled and redistributed so that everyone read someone elses' card...that way no one knew whose was whose. It was a really cool exercise that helped us all realize not everyone is perfect. After all, we all have secrets!

Postsecret is totally my Sunday addiction. I get so sad when I've read all the ones for the week...I always crave more!

we did this too! and it was an ah-mazing activity! we (myself-adviser, my standards adviser, and the VP in charge of the activity) read them out loud to the chapter. they were heartbreaking, funny, sad, and just emotional overall.

the hardest ones to read were the ones (yes, multiple) about being raped.

one new member even felt her bond grow after this activity since she could relate to another secret and then felt if that sister could feel comfortable at the house then so could she.

i highly recommended doing this for a fun chapter! and then, of course, we mailed them all to postsecret!

Mevara · #12 05-29-2012, 07:23 PM

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Originally Posted by deltag_girl

we did this too! and it was an ah-mazing activity! we (myself-adviser, my standards adviser, and the VP in charge of the activity) read them out loud to the chapter. they were heartbreaking, funny, sad, and just emotional overall.

the hardest ones to read were the ones (yes, multiple) about being raped.

one new member even felt her bond grow after this activity since she could relate to another secret and then felt if that sister could feel comfortable at the house then so could she.

i highly recommended doing this for a fun chapter! and then, of course, we mailed them all to postsecret!

This sounds like a great activity... I will recommend it to our chapter.

pshsx1 · #13 05-29-2012, 10:02 PM

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Originally Posted by xomanadaxo

We actually did a "post secret" bonding thing with my sorority. Someone passed out index cards and we all wrote a secret on them, then went up and put them in a box. They were shuffled and redistributed so that everyone read someone elses' card...that way no one knew whose was whose. It was a really cool exercise that helped us all realize not everyone is perfect. After all, we all have secrets!

Postsecret is totally my Sunday addiction. I get so sad when I've read all the ones for the week...I always crave more!

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Originally Posted by deltag_girl

we did this too! and it was an ah-mazing activity! we (myself-adviser, my standards adviser, and the VP in charge of the activity) read them out loud to the chapter. they were heartbreaking, funny, sad, and just emotional overall.

the hardest ones to read were the ones (yes, multiple) about being raped.

one new member even felt her bond grow after this activity since she could relate to another secret and then felt if that sister could feel comfortable at the house then so could she.

i highly recommended doing this for a fun chapter! and then, of course, we mailed them all to postsecret!

Wow. That's a great idea!!

TPA85 · #14 01-17-2010, 02:09 AM

Finally a positive Greek secret!!! Just posted about half an hour ago.

"I knew things were changing when my Fraternity Brothers threw a guy out of the house for making fun of me for being gay."

pshsx1 · #15 03-21-2010, 12:31 PM

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Originally Posted by TPA85

Finally a positive Greek secret!!! Just posted about half an hour ago.

"I knew things were changing when my Fraternity Brothers threw a guy out of the house for making fun of me for being gay."

That's great! I want to see that one!

I just stumbled on this on Google: "My 'Brother' did gay porn to save our Fraternity." and then it had the name of the fraternity at the bottom and their coat of arms.