+1 for the obscure reference in the headline..

-1 because the movie "Dodgeball" is hardly obscure.

+1, because I love "the Ocho!"

/nice finishing time for the winner.

Didn't I read about this in OSQ?

It's nice to see frat boys thinking about someone other than themselves for a change. Maybe there's hope left for mankind afterall.

/probably not

Let's hope this goes better than "Hold your Wee for a Wii"

MasaiKeana: It's nice to see frat boys thinking about someone other than themselves for a change. Maybe there's hope left for mankind afterall.

Through 4 years in my fraternity we did more community service than probably 95% of Americans. Just like every fraternity on campus, and most throughout the country. What the fark have you done?

Great Odins Raven: Through 4 years in my fraternity we did more community service than probably 95% of Americans. Just like every fraternity on campus, and most throughout the country. What the fark have you done?

How is stripping down to your underwear and spanking each other with paddles considered community service?

My wife and I live about 30 minutes from the NC State Belltower (the starting line) and were surprised at the turnout.

Personally, I wouldn't do it because while I love Krispy Kreme, I don't think I could eat 12 of them much less run 2 miles afterwards.

Still, the money they raised will help many people. Kudos NC State runners!! Props.

MasaiKeana
This wasn't started by frat boys. It was started by students from the most prestigious scholarship in the school who were chosen based on leadership and service. The "frat boys" just latch on when there's donuts and running involved.

/or beer

Great Odins Raven: Through 4 years in my fraternity we did more community service than probably 95% of Americans. Just like every fraternity on campus, and most throughout the country. What the fark have you done?

Although I hate to get into another Fraternity-Fark-War, I agree.
Its a shame to admit but I certainly did more community service suring my fraternity days than I have since graduating.

/Never stripped down to my underwear or got spanked
//sounds like someone is bitter for having not gotten any bids! Maybe next year, skippy?

The U.S. Olympic team could use this guy. From TFA:

The first runner, Auburn Staples, took only about 8 minutes to run the first two miles.

Staples, an N.C. State senior, finished his dozen in about seven minutes and sprinted back down Peace Street. Standing 6 feet and weighing 141 pounds, Staples finished first, in 24 minutes, 31 seconds.

So, two four-minute miles on the way there, and two four and a half minute miles on the way back with a dozen doughnuts bouncing around in there.

That's unpossible.

what is the deal with frats, I never saw the point.

over here in the UK the closest thing we have are societies, which have heavy drinking socials and stupid stuff... Ski society, drama society and so on.

Ski racing is fun when you have to finish a beer on the way down the slope to finish your run. Hilarity ensued.

buntz: Its a shame to admit but I certainly did more community service suring my fraternity days than I have since graduating.

So did you do it because you wanted to, or because you wanted to tell people on campus about how much service your frat did?

I'm just curious, because when I was in school, that seemed to be the typical defense when some frat-boy got drunk and died at a party.

You know, the, "we're not ALL bad" defense.

I think Kobayashi does a 15mile run a day

Fraternities are sororities for men.

Yeah, Yanks_RSJ. Don't you frat people know that if you're not doing it 100% out of the goodness of your heart, it doesn't really count? Gimmicks to promote giving actually hurt people and the organizations they "help". I don't know how, but it must be true...fraternities are involved.

Tsurotu
Depends on the particular university - at some of them, 90% of the student body are in fraternities/sororities. For some people, it's about having a cool residence hall away from the dorms. For others, it's a networking/homework help/career help thing, both while in school and after graduating. In general, extroverts join frats, introverts don't.

My dad totally owns a car dealership! DON'T MESS WITH ME!

You better drink up, pledge!

stevarooni: Yeah, Yanks_RSJ. Don't you frat people know that if you're not doing it 100% out of the goodness of your heart, it doesn't really count? Gimmicks to promote giving actually hurt people and the organizations they "help". I don't know how, but it must be true...fraternities are involved.

At what point did I imply it didn't count? All I asked was why they feel it necessary to point it out as if forced volunteerism in the quest to glorify their fraternity somehow makes them better people.

The truly charitable lend their time and money without sending out press releases to announce it.

F'N A COTTON...F'N A!

Other universities could do this too.

Imagine "Hold your puke for Duke" or "Hold your spew for FSU."

Francofile

Thanks for clearing that up, I guess it's pretty odd we don't have them here over the pond. Our whole system is different though, what with city universities and so on here (not dorms or halls of residence, but student housing). I guess the Uni I'm at now best reflects what a stereotypical American university would be like. Most students living on campus around a central number of academic buildings.

/proud member of the UK's highest beer to person consumption ratio University
//probably a future member of AA
///Keele University Law student!

Yanks_RSJ: So did you do it because you wanted to, or because you wanted to tell people on campus about how much service your frat did?


I did it because one of the aspects of the fraternity's function was to perform community service. No one in any greek organization that I know of walked around telling people about what community service they did that weekend.

I'm saying now it's a shame I didn't maintain the level of service I did when I was in a fraternity.

NCSU is hardly a frat school.

The truly charitable lend their time and money without sending out press releases to announce it.

Anonymous charity is definitely considered the highest charity by many, but giving along with a doughnut barf-o-rama is still "true" charity. There's some selfishness involved, some attention whoring...and yet there's still money going to a charitable cause. Less than if all of the money involved in the event were given in a single check to the charity, but a hell of a lot more than if nothing were done.

superluminal girl

The "frat boys" just latch on when there's donuts and running involved.

/ There, that took care of that.

I like the mock frarority names.

/Eta Lota Pi Donuts?

Yanks_RSJ: The truly charitable lend their time and money without sending out press releases to announce it.

In which case the run would still only have 12-100 runners and only raising $800.

Seriously, just stop. You're blatantly transparent.

I dont think it matters why charity is done. Why do you focus upon whether it is for self promotion ergo: I am more charitable than you are because I am selfless.

This sort of crap does not matter.

What does matter is that money goes to a good cause, helps the less fortunate and those who cannot often help themselves. Not personal karma.

I ran it the past two years, when it was mostly a whimsical kind of thing. This year, there were some serious runners, the type who will eat half portions of everything for the next week to 'lose' the weight they 'gained' from donuts. Kind of ruined the whimsy of it. Good to see it no Fark, though.

/And yes, it is a biatch to run after eating 12 KK donuts with milk. It's a pretty hilly run.

Nobody is jealous of your farking frat. Much cooler parties happen in apartments and houses. Much smarter people are are in an honor society, or not in a frat at all. Much hotter girls are at the bars. Nobody is jealous of your cheap dorm-style housing, crappy cafeteria food or super-secret handshakes. You live in a co-op with farking greek letters painted on it and attention-whores partying on a couch in the front yard. BFD.

Real donut shops don't have charity runs, man.

The run is staffed by volunteer seniors? Not volunteer minimum wage slaves, er, I mean KK workers? Capitalist running dog purveyors of crap!

I am more inclined to think that KK runs the run for its own benefit, self-promotion included, to shore up its crap business model.

//Krispy Kreme -- Crap spelled with Ks!

I ran this thing yesterday. Dear god, the run back kicked my arse! No pukie though.

The guys that organized this are some nice kids, and kudos for raising $10,000 for the NC Children's Hospital. Got a picture of the madness at Krispy Kreme on my blog.

http://sourcetosea.net/Blog/Wanderings.html

Yeah, I'm gonna have to call shenanigans on that time as well...maybe they meant that it is one mile there and one mile back for a total of two miles? That might make more sense...

PEPPER NEEDS A NEW PAIR OF SHORTS!!

Breaker Moran: I am more inclined to think that KK runs the run for its own benefit, self-promotion included, to shore up its crap business model.

So? Money to charity is good. Who cares if publicity is involved, publicity doesn't buy food, publicity doesn't house the homeless, or provide research grants to ease the sufferers of terminal and debilitating diseases. Let them have their 'publicity'.

I think I'd puke if I ate more than 2 Krisy Kreme donuts, never mind the running part.
Have only ever had one Krisy Kreme donut. And I didn't want a second one. Ever.

p, p
There's the two P's I left out of "KrisPy"

baiken: I think Kobayashi does a 15mile run a day.



Depends on who asks him, I bet.

They need to try this at the real KK down on Ponce in ATL. Let's see here. Start at the Majestic, run past the war zone, up past the police station/old Sears building, Pittypats on the right, around the curve, and viola! Krispy Kreme, in all it's original glory. Scarf down the doughnuts, and back to the Majestic, with all the fun that is sure to ensue with all the puking around near Zesto's there at Monroe, with all the uhhh...wildlife that tends to hangout on the streets in that area, all the way back to the end.

Dognuts.

Screw running. Just try to eat a dozen Krispy Kreme without puking!`Practically vile things. They aren't even really donuts; They're glazed fry-cakes.

You want donuts? Find a Dawn Donuts if you can. . . Or barring that, Tim Horton's. Krispy Kreme are sugar-laden air-puffs compared to a real donut.

The first runner, Auburn Staples, took only about 8 minutes to run the first two miles

This dude should be in the Olympics if he can run 2 miles in 8 minutes....

Someone is gonna die doing this crap..

Then someone is gonna sue everyone involved..

well if someone dies during this contest, it will provide just the kind of smugness boost that schlingfo and tatsuma live for.

i know ill be praying for them.

Any headline mentioning "The Ocho" rules.

You know what also rules?

"Chlorine" in the Gene Pool, as this contest demonstrates

DRTFA, but I just have to say that Pepper might have been Jason Bateman's best role EVAR. OMG he was hilarious.

OK now I RTFA -- did anyone catch this?

FTFA: (well, actually the sidebar to the right)
125: Number of hours a 60-watt light bulb could be powered from the calories in a dozen doughnuts

That is sort of scary. I also call Shenanigans on that winner's time. Uh, NO!

whistleridge, Johnny Swank

WOW. Respect, guys. I would never be able to do anything close to that.

/must be fun to watch