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General Forums => Aces High General Discussion => Topic started by: daddog on January 12, 2003, 03:33:42 PM
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Just wondering... :) If you were what was your rank?
Flossy? Girl Scouts?
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My dad was an Eagle scout - My brother almost got that far.
I was one step BELOW a boy scout.
Jordi
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1978 -> 82 ( 101st Louveteaus)
82->88 (101st Eclaireurs)
88 -> 92 (Deputy for 98th)
Very fun pastime, I can only recommend it for the younger ones :)
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I got kicked outta cub scouts for eating a brownie....
:D
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Jungpfadfinder
Was fun time in the forest but we got sick of that after a few years, got us a 9,50m sailing boat and sailed day and night all of our free time.
Best time of my life :)
Blitz
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I was a Weebelo (or however the hell you spell it). It was so dull, I figured Boy Scouts couldn't be much better.
I spent my youth watching Bert & Ernie!
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The Tuckster
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As a boy scout, I participated in the "Carve-Wood Mini-car Downhill Race"......... I won an award for making a car on wheels with no breaking system, that actually refused to go downhill on a slope :D
Ah.. my dreams of becoming an aeronautical engineer was shattered in those young days!
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Got boring when getting into eagle scout...
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Well i made it to life ... then sort of moved far as that went
however i was a leader Cub master for my sons
pack .... hows that ??
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Made Life Scout, did all my projects and was set to receive Eagle......then the scoutmaster moved away, no one wanted to take over the troop, and that was that.
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oh comon now. Nobody from 4h?
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As a boy scout, I participated in the "Carve-Wood Mini-car Downhill Race"......... I won an award for making a car on wheels with no breaking system, that actually refused to go downhill on a slope
This is a classic memory, lemme go off, this is just too good. Although it was the Cub Scouts for me, Im guessing 6 –8 year olds.
This race was held in the local small town Methodist Church, and we were all given what was as best I can remember a block of wood, and plastic wheels joined by a piece of flimsy rod. The idea was to sculpt the block into a car shape, paint and finish it as best you could, and compete in a wooden track downhill race. To this day, I remember that local old men ready for death by my best assumption at the time (pry actually 40-50 years old) built this terrific wooden race track that was just a large sloped track with lanes. Start them at the top, let gravity take the fastest car to the finish line.
Being a huge procrastinator which I have never out grown, I ran out of time and focus, so basically installed the wheels on the block of wood and gave it a bad paint job. Like Kweassa, it left black slid marks down the planks, and they had to remove it so the other kids could race next, lol.
Thing is, and at 8 or whatever, I STILL remember the biggest dork of all time in our class and troop that couldn’t tie his shoes, who’s Dad just happened to be a accomplished craftsmen with a great garage fulla tools, showed up with a car that looked like a mini-production model of a some futuristic bullet car, with a paint scheme that would make Earl Scheib blush.
It didn’t win, got second, but thanks for the flashback. I couldn’t possibly remember the details or if I did wouldn’t understand, but Im sure there was some old man with his kid and a bottle of primitive WD40 just RIVETED to the outcome.
We pry beat him up afterwards anyway.
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Cub Scout. Punching out the Den Mothers son ended my scouting adventure.
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Anyone in Boy Scouts
I apologize if this is sick but....
Guy I went to college with was molested by a troop leader (or whatever they are called)...
My roomate left college for financial reasons and a gay guy moved into my room. Screw calling profiling not PC. This guy was gay. It was freaking obvious. Not just a little, petite, gay guy. This guy was 6'2" with muscles and[/b] a lisp. Slightly disturbing.
Anyway, two rooms (a suite) shared a bathroom. Once a told the other guys in the suite about him one of them freaked out (the molested one). The other was an architech major who was never there anyway.
So 'freaked out dude' got extremely drunk and told me what had happened to him in the Boy Scouts. The next day he talked to campus housing and was released from his housing contract and moved out.
I moved into the next suite (across the bathroom as it was) which was a bigger room and since the architech major was never there anyway (he went home for weekends) it was a good thing. The gay guy was left in my old room by himself.
So things worked out it could be said.
So for you to say were you "in" boy scouts is a little scary.
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Mrs. Harrington made terrific cookies, and her sons were my best friends, and lots bigger too. Punching them would not have ended my scouting adventure, but led to no good eats and a bellybutton whippin.
You are 2Slow.
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Originally posted by daddog
Flossy? Girl Scouts?
LOL.... yep I was a Girl Guide, as we call them here in the UK. Started when I was about 10 and worked my way up to Patrol Leader over the next few years. I stayed until I was 16, but didn't want to leave, so started training as a Guider (leader)..... eventually left after meeting Zeb and getting married, but they were some fun years. :D
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Oh yeah boyscout here.. from age 12 to 15... made it to 1st class.. ..
Our troop was great.. we went camping every month on weekends.. One of the first trips we went on.. I was still a tendertootsie.. One of the older boys blew off a finger playing with M80s.. This happened as we were still hiking down the hill. The troop leader started hauling bellybutton down that trail.. I was amazed! All the fathers were either Korean or WW2 veterans
Later after we had our tents up, it started to rain.. first a light drizzel then a downpour. The tent I was sleeping in got flooded. Then all the tents got flooded.. tents crashing down... the troop leader.. whos already had a long day, decided to break camp. All the cars were stuck in the mud... We're talking serious mud here..2 or 3 feet!.. We all had to get out and push.. wasn't easy.. Some of the fathers who normally don't cuss... were big time cussin'.
A couple of trips after that I got initiated... they made some kind of sticky paste and plastered it all over me.. I had to run across the campground to gather my clothes.. hehehe I guess if they had initiations like that today someone would get a lawsuit.
Once a year we'd go to boyscout jamboree... Here it was hundreds of troops all gathered together.. Boy that was fun.. except when I picked up a grill from an open fire.. ouch! 3rd degree burns.. Of the top five major pains I've had in my life, that''s one of them.. This includes busting my feemer bone.. the burn hurt worse..
Another time.. I don't remember if this was yearly.. the thing at Devonshire downs.. Daddog might remember, he went to collage in Northridge but I don't know if he grew up there.. Our troop had to build a log cabin. One of the fathers knew where we could chop down some trees.. So with hand axes.. we tried and tried.. maybe the trees these days are more solid.. or maybe people were way stronger back in the old days... but that was a squeak to make even one cut!... we finally gave up and broke out the chain saw. Moving those logs wasn't easy either... each one weighed about 600 pounds.. one of the boys almost got killed when a log rolled off the truck we were using.
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I was in the Boy Scouts till they held me upside down to pin an award to me and I was subsequently dropped on my head. Needless to say I was removed by my frightened mother.
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I was in cub scouts then Webelos but quit before boy scouts. Can't remember why. But I do remember a few years later goin parking outside my old scout cabin. lol I did learn something in scouts-where the good parking place was! :p
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I was in beavers and cubs. My father was one of my beaver leaders and cub leaders.
Beaver leaders are name after this family in this weird beaver book. The family was nicknamed by the beavers. The father was "Hawkeye", the mother was "Rainbow", the son was "Rusty", and the daughter was "Bubbles".
My dad was diddlying Bubbles. He thought he was Rusty, but oh no, the other beavers all called him diddlying Bubbles. He didn't give a toejam, but I certainly did, at the time anyway.
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Thats a lotta beaver runnin around.
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<-Eagle
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Originally posted by DamnedCoach
<-Eagle
Me too.
dh
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...so; Flossy... are Girl Scout Cookies made from real Girl Scouts?
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I never was in scouts when I was a kid. Now I am a Cub Master:)
Gunner
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Originally posted by DamnedCoach
<-Eagle
Non comformist STAR............
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Rank?? sounds a bit awkward term for scouts :) ... but anyways, yes I was one too.. from age of 8 till maybe 25..
Did it all... Cub scout, Boy scout 3rd 2nd and 1st class, then as a Scout Patrol leader and Explorer (or Venturer, Rover, Ranger.. different terms) at the same time. Then as Master scout and a Troop (Group) assistant Leader.
Maybe the peek of all those years was attending the World Jamboree in Canada (close to Calgary) in 1983 at age of 16 :) But also several hikes in Finnish Lapland (north) at later years were great. Seen lots of camping and hiking and I still try to go for a week to Lapland with a friend or two each year if I can.
They were very fun years :)
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Originally posted by Hangtime
...so; Flossy... are Girl Scout Cookies made from real Girl Scouts?
No idea - I was a Girl Guide! :)
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Was a Boy Scout (1st class), then Explorer Scout. My son is now a Life rank, workin on Eagle project and I'm one of the Asst. Scoutmasters. We go camping 1 weekend a month nearly every month. Gonna be freezing our butts of in Louisianna next weekend.
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indian guides when I was really young.
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Originally posted by hblair
Thats a lotta beaver runnin around.
Go ahead, mock my pain. :(
*sneef*
;)
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Originally posted by daddog
Just wondering... :) If you were what was your rank?
Flossy? Girl Scouts?
Yes, star.
Am a Scoutmaster now, was Cub Pack Leader for 2 years. My guys are all 12-14, after that they start to lose interest fast. However, of the 20 or so young men in my group, I'd say 8 will go Eagle and probably have 2-3 this year do so.
Sakai
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Cub Scout then joined BSOA and quit at the first meeting...it was in a church and I didn't like them forcefeeding me their religious BS.
I had fun in the Cubs though. My mum was our troop leader.
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Eagle around 1973/74. Troop 4 El Paso, Texas
Great times :)
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Eagle Scout-1998
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What was that thing between cub and boy scouts?
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Originally posted by ZZTop
What was that thing between cub and boy scouts?
webelos
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Sea Scout
Ordnary Seaman
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I was in the boy scouts for about the total sum of one day, I went to the meeting and some old guy was telling me what to do and didn't have very much patience, so I left.
The place was about six or seven miles from my house, which at that time wasn't to bad of a walk since I did it all of the time. The only problem was I didn't tell anybody, and when my mom went to pick me up and I wasn't there she freaked out. The police picked me up a couple of hours later while I was still making my way home, I had stopped by a friends house on the way back to my house for a couple of hours.
After I got home and told my mom the whole story, she didn't punish me. But the best part in my opinion was I didn't have to go back.
Another time I became involved with the avaition explorers, my friend and I had a business of washing and waxing airplanes at the local airport, which was good money, and we made alot of contacts with people that owned airplanes, so we both went flying quite often.
One of our deals was with the local flight school to keep their aircraft clean, when the explorers found out about our side job with the flight school that was sponsering the avaition explorers the rank and file members wanted in on our flight school business. My friend was president and I was a vice-president of the explorers.
We decided sure, and set a day in which we were to wash and wax two light singles, one medium single, and two medium twins. None of those sorry people even showed up, but the wanted to know how much flight time the "unit" had earned, the answer was zero. After that we both quite showing up for meetings, but kept our business going for a couple of more years.
As for the explorers, they voted us both out of office, but the sponser dropped them, and the unit disbanded shortly after that.
Well, sorry for the rambling, it has been awhile since I had thought about those times.
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Dont remember much (too many drugs) :rolleyes: but was a Cub Scout and seem to recall the Webelows? thing...
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I was a scout when I was younger.
A group of us and some of the father's broke off from the normal troop and started some sort of legal offshoot - still affiliated with BSA.
It was the only way we were allowed to replace the rollar skating merit badge with Paintball trips. :D
Just shy of Eagle.
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eagle scout,, parents were the "den" parents though.
It was pretty fun actually. I grew up in Fredricksburg Va and there was lotsa Civil battlefields and the like. My dad arranged for a history prof. from a local college to meet us down off river road near Chatham Manor. Apparently this guy planted Civil war bullets and even a cannon ball. He gave the history deal then suggested we might find some stuff in the woods. Chatham manor was set on Chatham heights over looking the town. The union had turned the manor house to a hospital and artillery positions were scattered about the heights.
Anyway we were looking through the woods and started finding stuff. Man I was into it to. I think I was like 11 or 12. Well every one found a bullet but 1 kid and then we found the "cannon ball" that the prof was gonna take with him to "study". The prof must have wanted to leave as he was hurrying us a long so he kept directing the one kid who hadnt found a bullet to a certain spot. Well it didnt help the kid couldnt find anything so the guy went over and "found" a bullet and gave it to him.
It was like when I first found out Santa wasnt real. The shrecker was lying to us. He had to of planted the stuff. It was a real let down. He denied it but I knew it was bs.
Heck I miss Virginia. It was a great place to grow up. History from one end to the other.
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OK you asked ,
I did it all, except Explorers...
Cubscouts before Weblows
Scouts, Eagle in 1970, Vigil Honor in 1972, 13th World Jamboree in Japan in 1970 , Camp staff 5 years <3 as a youth 2 as an adult> At Camp Geronomio and the R-C in Arizona 50 mile trek in Yellowstone Park
Adult, Troop Liason with the companys troop in Germany, , Den instructor for my son, District commitee Roadrunner Dist Longhorn Councile >,Currently Asistant District Commisioner in Rio Grande District Great Southwest Councile, Cub Daycamp Director Camp Commisioner at Camp Frank Rand , Ect Ect Ect.....
Scouting has been pivitol in my life , Saved my but in Iraq during the Gulf War, Got me promoted/ Hired at least 3 diffrent times, We have our "Klondike Derby" on the 26th of this month where I am the "Inspector General" If you are in the neiborhood we will be at the 10 K trail head on the east side of Sandia crest, come visit my tent is the 10 by 20 oval with the wood burning stove in it, If you are ever on the way yo Philmont Let me Know.
and still can't spell.......
Gunns,
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Did the Cub Scout thing
Discovered the Civil Air Patrol and went on with that, learned about airplanes and no silly pinewood derbies no more :)
Being close to a large Air Base meant for good facilities for meetings and chances to go on KC-135 refueling flights...kick ass!
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Eagle scout here..think was 1982/83.
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Eagle Scout - 1984 i think. I'm still involved in Scouts as a leader now. It gives me a good way to use my free time. It is always fun to get wedding and graduation invitations from previous Scouts you have helped by being a positive influence in their lives. It is sad that people with deviant social behaviors have been attracted to Scouting, and tarnished its very fine reputation.
Hey gunnss, I've been to Camp Geronimo many times. Great place, and many fond memories. Keep up the good work.