Beta Pi Blog, Vol.2008, No.32 - Tick-a-lo Wimens in History!

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I’m driving to WalMart to buy a ceiling fan, and my Blackberry signals receipt of an e-mail. Its an AOL Alert telling me someone has posted a comment to the Peta Pi Blog. So far, only Tick-a-lo’s have posted comments. My friends, as you know Beta Pi Blog is not a private blog. It matters not, because we are gentlemen, and anyone is welcome to look at the blog, no? Well, I’m scrolling down , expecting to see the name of some Tick-a-lo like Pierce Hodnette or Steve Starr, and to my utter surprise, my ex-college-girlfriend Sally Tucker had posted a comment.

And, since anyone who ventures to post a comment on this blog must know, those brave enough to post comments are written about (lovingly, of course). Today, in the annals, history is made. And I’m starting a new feature called . . .

TICK-A-LO WIMENS IN HISTORY:

Sally Tucker posted this comment to Vol.2008, No.30:


"Larry, you are one crazy bastard. I stumbled across this blog trying to find a picture of your son. I was disappointed to see no old pics of me at the ATO parties!  The mud chick is Becca something. She was in the nursing program with me. Sally"
Sally-the-beautiful, thank you my friend! I am indeed a brick-or-two shy (but then you’ve always known that about me). Thanks for expressing interest in Andrew’s music. Glad you discovered the blog. You have made history, being the first ex-tick-a-lo girlfriend brave enough to post a comment. To celebrate that, this is the first installment of a new feature "Tick-a-lo Wimens in History."
You are correct, the famed "mud-chick" was the awesomely gorgeous Becky Bruning, Pi Phi and former girlfriend to the Mighty Harpo (I think). Fear not, there will be several Tick-a-lo’s who will admonish me if that was an incorrect memory lapse.

Sally, I did post a picture of you -it is posted in one of the previous editions (see Archives), I know not which. I looked for pictures of you and found a few, although they are not pictures of you at parties - I suppose I was too busy dating you to take pictures. However, you and I were in those days having many "private parties" during which we once went to one of those goofy photo-machines. I have lots of very fond memories of you, my old friend.
And, I found a few of you in the VU Annuals. If you have pictures, send some to me.

One of my favorite memories of you is when you (being a life-long Nashville native) took me (a green carpet-bagger VU frosh) downtown to wander around in the Union Station. Today, Union Station has been restored to all its glory, and is a fashionable luxury hotel. When you and I went, it was near condemnation - you could just walk in the building and wander. There was pigeon do-do everywhere (it’s a wonder you and I didn’t catch some exotic disease). But, you were a Nurse, therefore I trusted you, and anyway - when I was a kid, I had pet pigeons and a pigeon coop, so I had a personal understanding of pigeon-poop. But rest assured, if I ever do come down with an exotic disease of the respiratory system, you and I will file a class action against Union Station (though I might end up disbarred in the process).

You also took me on a tour of historic Arcade in downtown Nashville (a glass-covered mall built after a European design).  Thus was born my love of old buildings.

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A few Reunions ago, I had the pleasure of running in to Sally, and my wife Ann was gracious enough to let me dance with her at the Reunion dance. Also that year, I got to dance with the ever-beautiful Becky Bruning and Karen Degerberg and Becky Denham! Yeah, baby! Any of you Tick-a-lo’s who scoff at coming to a VU Reunion (perhaps because you dislike the intense fund-raising pressure heaped upon us by VU) I can assure you, its worth it, just for the chance to dance with beautiful Tick-a-lo wimens, once again.

BETA PI BLOG ROSTER STATS: As of July 6 , 2008, the Blog roster total is 90 Beta Pi brothers, 82 of these Tick-a-lo men have e-mail addresses. If you have an e-mail address on a Brother - fugetaboutit!


VTL,
Larry Simons
Beta Pi, 72 (pledge year)