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A friend I knew pledged an MIT frat in the 80's. The upperclassmen realized that you could get goat heads for like 50 cents a pound at one of the local stores.
by IvyMike 12y ago
A friend I knew pledged an MIT frat in the 80's. The upperclassmen realized that you could get goat heads for like 50 cents a pound at one of the local stores. For one of their hazing pranks, they gave each pledge a goat head and instructions to hide the goat head on campus, which whichever head was hidden the "best" would get a prize.
The resulting kerfuffle and news articles on the incident (including allegations of satanism on the MIT campus) is definitely something that frat will be proud of forever.
- patrickmay 12y ago"Fraternity", please. You wouldn't call a sorority a "sore", would you? You wouldn't call your country a . . . yeah, I'll drop it there.
- civilian 12y agoI would absolutely call my country a cunt.
- lotsofmangos 12y agoI am not sure that the frat system is really in a position at the moment to demand respectable nomenclature from others.
- kazazes 12y agoUnlike the other two, "frat" has no alternative denotation and is a common alternative to fraternity. By your logic we wouldn't be using "app" or "admin" or "limo" or "memo."
- therobot24 12y agoi notice a lot of fraternity members make the "you wouldn't call your country a ...", guess it's just the common chant (amongst others), though i don't understand why they consider 'frat' a derogatory statement
- pyromine 12y agoEven as a member of a fraternity, let's be honest calling it a frat is completely acceptable considering it's pretty colloquial.
- yebyen 12y agoThat is not what we were taught when we were pledges. They must have gotten soft. You guys have it so easy now. I am going to go out on a limb and say the number of people at Hacker News who pledged is probably small. Someone else posted "You wouldn't call your sorority ..." but that's just not how the joke goes. Sorry. Gotta do it. I'm telling the joke. Braced for downvotes. "You wouldn't call your country a..." And then I realized, that's the first or second half of the joke that got flagkilled :)
- irishcoffee 12y agoI pledged a frat at UMD, majored in comp sci. It was the best 8 weeks I'd never want to do again. I never, ever understood why people get so fucking offended when someone calls a fraternity a frat. It doesn't matter. It just doesn't matter.
- cmurf 12y agoNo, but I call frat boys both of those things. S.C.'s for short.
- DonHopkins 12y agoWell if you frat boys will stop calling black people n*ggers, then we'll stop calling you frat boys.
- yebyen 12y agoPoint taken
- hackmiester 12y ago> You wouldn't call a sorority a "sore", would you? Depends on the sorority, I suppose.
- nervousvarun 12y agoGoat be-headings are an issue in New Orleans now as well (it's also frat related): http://www.nola.com/pets/index.ssf/2015/03/report_of_goat_body_leads_poli.html http://www.nola.com/pets/index.ssf/2015/03/report_of_goat_bo...