What's the story behind your SN?

[LPIDelta]

LPI= Lovely Purple Iris (sorority flower)
Delta= At my alma mater, we're most simply know as "Deltas"

[BabyPiNK_FL]

BabyPink=my favorite color (not pepto pink, not hot pink, but baby pink-think baby blue but pink).

It is also representative of the color of the sorority I wanted to join (and eventually did) - Phi Mu's "rose".

FL is cos I'm from the greater Miami area.

[socialite]

Originally Posted by MysticCat

In the first decade of the history of Phi Mu Alpha, an enigmatic black cat, known as the "Mystic Cat," became part of our lore. Our national magazine was first called "The Mystic Cat" (now "The Sinfonian"); the Mystic Cat appeared on the cover of our 1908, 1914 and 1931 songbooks, and for a while, new members were sometimes nicknamed "kittens." The lore and imagery of the Mystic Cat has enjoyed a revival in recent years.

There were also numerous songs and poems about the Mystic Cat, including this "Nonsense Song" from the 1914 Songbook:

The most mysterious mystery is our mighty Mystic Cat,
He prowls about our chapter rooms and waxes sleek and fat;
We wonder what and where he is, but all to no avail --
He's a mystery from his mystic nose to the tip of his mystic tail.

Does he only venture forth at night and shun the light of day?
Does he vanish like a spectre before the sun's first ray?
We never see his mystic form but while we watch and wait
We feel his mystic presence like some omen grim of Fate.

Oh, Mystic Cat, enigma dark, thou phantom of the night,
Reveal thyself unto our eyes in all thy mystic might.
Oh, sable-coated feline, Though thy form we never see,
We’ll worship at thy mystic feet for all eternity.

The funny thing, given his name, is that all these years later, no one really knows anything about the origin of the Mystic Cat. It was never written down. There are guesses, but it appropriately remains a "most mysterious mystery."

Are you sure his name isn't MR. MISTOFOLEES????

gawd i crack myself up.

[piphiangel314]

Originally Posted by socialite

Are you sure his name isn't MR. MISTOFOLEES????

gawd i crack myself up.

Heh. I was thinking that too...
But I think the Mystic Cat thing is really cool! I love lore such as that.

But my name is pretty simple too...Pi Phi is pretty explanatory, the angel is Pi Phi's unofficial mascot, and 314 is my birthday (March 14). Pretty easy.

[epchick]

Let's see if I can effectively describe the intricasy (sp?) of my SN:

EP= El Paso
chick= cause i'm a girl.

Hopefully, you all understood.

[MysticCat]

Originally Posted by socialite

Are you sure his name isn't MR. MISTOFOLEES????

gawd i crack myself up.

LOL.

But to paraphrase Diane Chambers, I hate "Cats" with the white hot intensity of a thousand suns.

[tinydancer]

It's my favorite song in the world. Evidently, a couple of other people feel the same about it

[AOII Angel]

AOII- duh!
Angel- My name is Angela, and one of my attendings in residency called me his Angel.

[NutBrnHair]

Originally Posted by MysticCat

But to paraphrase Diane Chambers, I hate "Cats" with the white hot intensity of a thousand suns.

I must remember this for future occasions!

[pbear19]

Originally Posted by ForeverRoses

What's funny is whenever I see your name I think of polar bears not panda bears!

Ha, that's new! Usually I've gotten pooh bear in the past. I tried to come up with something when I signed up that wouldn't make everyone assume I am an AOII, but still reference panda, since I have such a huge collection of them.

[PinkRose1098]

Mine is very very hard [sarcasm now folks]

Pink Rose - the flower of Alpha Xi Delta
1098 - my initiation number. I was the 1,098th member initiated into my chapter.

[Scully]

Mine is my AEPhi pledge name. And it stuck because with four girls named Melissa in our chapter, I don't think any of us were called by our given name!

[christiangirl]

Originally Posted by Senusret I

Senusret I

Loosely related to my fraternity and strongly reflects my own life and aspirations.

Lol, I have always wanted to know where your name came from and forgot to ask. Dionysus, too!

Originally Posted by ForeverRoses

My name comes from a line in a song that was sung at preference "A rose ever blooming" switch it up and voila "ForeverRoses".

"Lo, How a Rose E'er Blooming?"

[AlphaFrog]

Alpha = Alpha Sigma Alpha
Frog = I've collected frogs for at least 15 years. Frogs are smart, they eat what bugs them.

[christiangirl]

^^^eat what "bugs" them...heehee

BTW, my name actually comes from the lyrics in my sig. There's a Christian Hip Hop group that I love and my fave song from them is (ta-da) "Christian Girl." It's a rap ballad about the type of woman they want to fall in love with. I worried slightly that when people saw that SN, they'd assume I was an uber-sheltered, hyperreligious freak that damns everyone to hell (which most users did). I think I've effectively established my normalcy, but you never know.