Lambda Lambda Lambda, also known as Tri-Lamb, is a fictional student fraternity created for the American comedy film “Revenge of the Nerds” (Revenge of the Nerds, in the original title).
Originally, in the 1984 film, the Lambda Lambda Lambda fraternity was known for being exclusively black. After a series of events, in the middle of the film, a group of nerds manages to be accepted as members of this community.
You nerds start to use the expression "Lambda Lambda Lambda, nerds!" as a shout of encouragement and greeting among its members.
In Brazil, the expression “Lambda Lambda Lambda, nerds” was highlighted by the entertainment website's team geek Young nerd, who always uses this "war cry" at the beginning of his podcasts.
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Inspired by the movie “Revenge of the Nerds”, a group of students from the University of Connecticut, in the United States, in 2006 they founded a fraternity and named it Lambda Lambda Lambda (or Tri-Lambs).
The main objective of this small social fraternity is to promote friendship between the members, without any type of discrimination, whether racial, gender, religious, economic class or orientation sexual.
the lambda is the eleventh letter of the greek alphabet, used as a symbol for several equations and concepts within mathematical studies, physics, chemistry and biology, mainly.
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