Laugh So Hard Your Guts Hurt

Boring day? These hilarious memories will put a smile on your face and take you back to your days as an undergrad. Relive your wild days and share your memories with us at here.

"The story I tell most often involves Bob Lukasik and Bill Cleary, who were roomies in Room 8. One fine evening, we were sitting around partying and got the munchies. Bill attempted to open a bag of Golden Flake, notorious for their strong seal. After two or three failures, mostly due to his hands slipping off the bag, Lukasik said "Gimme that" and grabbed the bag from Bill. Bob was sitting in one of those old orange fibreglas chairs with the armrests. He placed the bag in his lap, spread his arms wide and clapped his hands together on the bag, blowing out the bottom and leaving him sitting there with a pound of chips in his lap. As Cleary and I completely lost it, Bob picked up the now-empty bag by it's corner and, after a slight pause, said "Must be one'a them child-proof bags". We were able to salvage most of the chips by dumping Bob forward onto the cable reel table, but we had a tough time eating 'cause we had the giggles for most of the rest of the evening..." - Jim McNamara ‘82

“Fred Levin convincing guys that I had lavaliered a girl and getting my rear thrown thru the ice on the swimming pool next door was, looking back on it now, a lot of fun. Edelman pulling his phone out of the wall because he’d been convinced that the phone company had extended the lines wasn’t bad either.” - Alan Dechovitz, '72

“I think one of the funniest events was when, during a summer quarter, all the guys living in the house piled into my Chevrolet convertible (at least 10, if not more) and drove into Atlanta to have supper at an all you can eat restaurant. When we all were seated and started ordering, and ordering and ordering, we thought the owner would explode. We spent several hours there partaking of the restaurants fare. The two funny things were seeing all of us in the convertible and the amount of food we consumed. I think the restaurant cancelled the all you can eat idea.- Morton L. Metersky, PhD, ’58

"Having to get to a cemetery w/o any money, find a specific headstone and return to the house, all in the same night.  Unfortunately, I did that toofast.  Got back to the House and was thren sent out to get a human skull in a keg of ice, did that too fast, but by that time the fraters had run out of ludicrous ideas and they sent me back to the dorm to sleep.  This was pledge initiation in 1954.  I hope things have changed.  Of course, if you want to be a good engineer, you have to be resourceful,  I figured after solving these momentous problems I would eventually graduate.  I did as an Aero Engineer.” -Mort Metersky, PhD, '58

"My sophomore year and the first year that the fraternity had really been back on campus, we entered the Tug competition. We were a few hundred pounds under the weight limit and had very low expectations and didn't really have time to prepare at all. We were devising strategies for how to lose our first matchup as gracefully and nonchalantly as possible. Somehow, we managed to win. Not prepared at all for this circumstance, we stood around and quickly devised a very disorganized cheer. We got slaughtered in the second round, but that win pretty much made our month."-Ben Deneweth, '06

“Without doubt, James Brown and his band was a great party.  James was the Selig Chemical delivery man.  In addition to his picturesque relatives on the instruments, one of his daughters dressed in a spandex 2-piece bathing suit moving only from the waist up.  Her cousin was in a weird orange one piece bathing suit and spike heels.  She only moved from the waist down.  That’s entertainment!” - Alan Dechovitz, '72

“For some reason or other a bunch of us wanted to go to Stone Mountain for sun rise.  I hitched a ride with Poncho Levy on the back of his Kawasaki 500 – 105 mph at 400am.  My favorite thing was arriving home with my head attached.” - Alan Dechovitz, '72

“When my wife and I took a 16 day road trip through the southwest hitting the Grand Canyon, Bryce, Zion, Arches, Mesa Verde and Santa Fe, plus Canyon lands and other stops along the way.” - Morton L. Metersky, PhD, ’58

“My mother helping Wesburg make a Passover Seder for the brother’s.  It was a very nice evening I’ll always remember.  Did Angel Soto read the questions.  I like to think so.” - Alan Dechovitz, '72

“Aero Design Lab and the camaraderie of the 16 members of the class. We have had three reunions at Tech so far and will probably try to get together for out 50th anniversary in 2008.” - Morton L. Metersky, PhD, ’58

"One of my best memories from my fraternity days was ringing the bell to accept my bid along with my brother."-Chris Weilandt, '94

"Acceptance without judgement - i'll always remember that feeling."-Steven Waldman, '73