Thursday, January 6, 2011
Proto Fratting: Famous tongue-in-cheek take on fraternity men at University of Virginia 1979
Virginia is both the Mother of Presidents and the mother of modern fratting it seems. Ancient GDI archives tell us this even if the GDI's could not fully understand what they were witnessing.
Some older documentation goes back to the 1970's, shown here in the poster above. (Click to see a larger image.) If we change the high-water pants, perhaps nix the circa 80's layering of button-down shirt over polo when wearing a blazer (layering is still a good thing but we must be aware of trying-to-hard), and maybe get something going on with the hair: voila! Proto Preppy is Modern Fratting Man. The two share 99.89% of the same genes.
The backstory of the poster: a UVa student, Tom Shadyac, Sigma Chi I believe, decided to cash in on the hate by making posters, making tons of money before going on to be a wildly successful film producer. You lose again fraternity haters!
Some GDIs asked us what was "gatoring" or how to do "the gator" was when they saw the poster. We told them to go jump in reptile infested waters up to their eyeballs. Our apologies, we should have seen that as a teachable moment. I guess the youngsters don't have parents. Charlie, if you will demonstrate...
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As a Valley student (not Wahoo) slightly older than the preppie displayed, I can assure you that your parody attempts are feeble. But, you might direct your proto GDI to https://sites.google.com/site/gatorpile for an in-depth study of the Alliagator and its gatoring variants.
I'm fine with that, and sorry for the delay in posting, but to be clear, the parody (of the poster) that you think is feeble is not my own, but is a famous, million copy selling poster. I'm not of the age to know if it is accurate. As for the gator, the folks aren't parodying I think, they are genuine folks who had a snort or two at a party. Thanks for keeping the gator alive and sending the information my friend and for your comment and link. We'll use it liberally.
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