Phi Mu Hand Symbol

phimulady3 · #1 11-20-2007, 12:10 AM

A new big thing at our school is sorority hand symbols. Each sorority has one, and it usually includes the greek letters in it. It is very difficult to find a hand symbol for phi mu that doesn't look vulgar.

Here is one that our Phis last fall (2006) came up with on bid day. We have since nixed it since it might seem vulgar, but i thought it was cute.

This is one that someone found on a website from a Florida university. It is a quatrefoil! I love it! It takes 2 people, but it is precious!

Are there any other Phi Mu hand symbols out there???

BabyPiNK_FL · #2 11-20-2007, 12:41 AM

There is one that you can do by yourself or with two people. we learned it from UF girls at state day '06, however it's kinda complicated to do unless your fingers are esily flexible and learn quick! You use your middle and pointer finger to make a diamond (skin side facing out) then you fold your ring fingers up to make the bottom curves and fold your thumbs down to make the top curves. It does look like a quatrefoil if you do it right....

You can also do it skin side in...

phimulady3 · #3 11-20-2007, 11:55 PM

thanks! it took me a little while to figure it out, but that is really neat!

txPHIMU · #4 11-22-2007, 09:54 PM

what we did for a hand sign
make a hand like you were saying ok...where your ring and middle and pinky are free and your pointer and thumb are connected...then extend the thumb a little and the pointer should go to the middle of the thumb..
done correctly it looks like a p and a m

TNPhiMu · #5 01-14-2008, 05:58 PM

Here's one for you! It takes a min. of 4 people, but it's pretty fun!

sageofages · #6 01-14-2008, 06:23 PM

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Originally Posted by BabyPiNK_FL

There is one that you can do by yourself or with two people. we learned it from UF girls at state day '06, however it's kinda complicated to do unless your fingers are esily flexible and learn quick! You use your middle and pointer finger to make a diamond (skin side facing out) then you fold your ring fingers up to make the bottom curves and fold your thumbs down to make the top curves. It does look like a quatrefoil if you do it right....

You can also do it skin side in...

I got it right way....what fun!

BabyPiNK_FL · #7 01-14-2008, 07:18 PM

Aww! Thanks! I'm glad it's not too hard as I thought it was. It took me a while to get it. But I'll say that I don't like hand signs and don't do them often. People have a tendency to do them in bars & at parties and stuff. That's not cute. And then I see them all over facebook and stuff. The only place I think it looks cute is for example a cute sisterhood-y pic for a website (like the one above in TNPhiMu's post) or a slideshow for chapter development, recruitment-related, or something like that. Otherwise it looks (at least to me) weird.

PinkNProud07 · #8 02-12-2008, 08:34 PM

You could do what we do. With one hand make the Phi. using a straight pointer finger and curved thumb and middle finger to make the outside circle. Then make an M with the other hand using three fingers.

phimulady3 · #9 02-25-2008, 03:06 PM

I LOVE this one! Thanks!

PhiMu_Gator · #10 04-27-2008, 05:07 AM

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Originally Posted by PinkNProud07

You could do what we do. With one hand make the Phi. using a straight pointer finger and curved thumb and middle finger to make the outside circle. Then make an M with the other hand using three fingers.

wow! I love it! it's difficult to make phi mu with your hands and at my college everyone has cute symbols! here are a few we do at UF!

I'm the girl in the middle doing the "UF" hand symbol and the other two girls are making the two person traditional quat, they're from FSU and I met them randomly at Gasparilla! small world =)

LIOB

PhiMuForever · #11 05-10-2008, 04:18 PM

haha that's really cute!

say, what are they Phi Mus like at UF? I might go there for Graduate School!

Phi Mu. The original Pink Ladies!

PhiMu_Gator · #12 05-11-2008, 02:31 AM

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Originally Posted by PhiMuForever

haha that's really cute!

say, what are they Phi Mus like at UF? I might go there for Graduate School!

Phi Mu. The original Pink Ladies!

we have become so strong! we got back onto campus either in the 80's or 90's and now we're gaining a lot of speed! each pledge class is getting better and better and our girls are super active on campus. having active alumna would be so nice! we have the orlando area who supports us a lot and many girls go onto grad school at uf from our chapter, but we'd definitely welcome you with open arms & hearts. also, from an academic point of view, grad school at uf looks great on transcripts

sirfidelfan · #13 12-29-2008, 08:02 PM

The other sororities on our campus have hand signs but our chapter has never really had one. About a year ago we started doing the "I love you" sign language sign as our symbol to represent "Phi Mu Love". It caught on really fast! Everyone on campus now recognizes it as "Phi Mu Love". We like using it as our sign because it cannot be perceived in a negative way whereas other signs could be.

Kansas City · #14 12-30-2008, 10:25 AM

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Originally Posted by sirfidelfan

The other sororities on our campus have hand signs but our chapter has never really had one. About a year ago we started doing the "I love you" sign language sign as our symbol to represent "Phi Mu Love". It caught on really fast! Everyone on campus now recognizes it as "Phi Mu Love". We like using it as our sign because it cannot be perceived in a negative way whereas other signs could be.

It also sounds A LOT easier to do quickly when you pass another sister on campus. I never could get the quatrefoil hand symbol to look very recognizable.

BabyPiNK_FL · #15 12-30-2008, 11:30 AM

Yeah, I have really grown to dislike the other one. It feels like I'm trying to do something that's impossible! And the really cute one requires two people! Perhaps someone can invent an easy "hand lion"? LOL. Or maybe a one person star?