Boy Scouts of America

[Guest]

I went all thru Scouts - just got back from my oldest sons first Father and Son Banquet for his scout troop.

He got a badge presented - I'm sooo proud.

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[VictoryGardener]

I just never caught on to backpacking.. yea we went fishing once.. I always turned the canoe trips into fishing trips for me and my brother or whoever was paddlin in front... we did go fishing once as a group.. to this guy's trout pond.. now this trip was somethin! I was the only one who fished... and the trout were HUGE and easy as hell to catch.. the smallest was 20 inches!!! they were raised in this pond... never saw a fisherman, fed cat food 3 days a week.. HUGE FISH! all rainbows... man that was one hellova fish fry... I miss that trip, even now.. its been like.. 10- 13 years

 

[VictoryGardener]

some of the dads that went along to fish... they all brought their fly rods.. I was the only guy who could catch anything... man.. it seems like the two things Im fairly good at are growing sensimilla and flyfishing... anything else- forget it

 

[Guest]

Never, but I remember making fun of the kids that did and decided to go to school wearing their uniforms.

Good times.

 

[VictoryGardener]

haha.. yea forgot about that...orthe stupid fuckers that were so freakin serious about the boy scouts and doing a good turn daily and all that

 

[Tarkus]

Yeah, I never understood why some kids liked to wear their uniforms to school. In elementary school, I guess.....some little kid in his cub scouts uniform. That ain't so bad. But I mean seriously now, High School?? Some of my friends would wear their uniforms to High School. Now that is just silly....

How many of ya'll made it to the Order of the Arrow? I myself was in the Brotherhood. Even got to help perform in some of the ceremonies (even though my troop was not in charge of that).

 

[VictoryGardener]

I made it to brotherhood as well... whats the third one??? I can't remember
I can remember it was fuckin hard to get.. cant remember what it was called

man.. it sounds silly now, but if feels so damn good when you get picked

 

[Tarkus]

It felt awesome to be picked. Even though they (like EVERYONE ELSE) mispronounced my last name. In fact, everyone in my troop that got in that year had their last name butchered.

 

[SmokeyPufmaster]

Whats up Tark, I'm a fellow scout myself. Life, Jasm and order of the arrow. I'm greatful for all I learned. Might have made eagle but was running up against the age barrier, before I quit. Nice to see some scouts here.

 

[Verite]

Took me forever to get my 'sell ten pounds' badge.

 

[Verite]

Yeah I found yer arrow badge too.. here it is.

 

[VictoryGardener]

I got my eagle 3 days before my 18th birthday!!! lol down to the damn wire!

 

[VictoryGardener]

thats not the OA badge... there was no badge.. it was a sash you wore around your shoulder.. that looks like an eagle scout badge.. I think we called it tsotsi tsogalii or somethin crazy like that

 

[Uncle Jesse]

i was in the Cub Scouts, never made it to Boy Scouts , Had a friend that was a
Eagle Scout , he Drowned trying to save another young man his age he was camping with!

 

[Tarkus]

Poor Buffalo, that had to hurt.
I felt sorry for all the troops that were so strict. A couple of my friends in other troops said they had to wear everything to every meeting. Socks, pants, badge sashes, hats, everything. My troop was doing good if everyone wore their shirts. My troop was extremely relaxed, the adults never really pushed us to do anything. But when we showed up to Camporees, for some reason we looked like one of the best troops. It is not as if everyone was looking all clean and proper, squared away with clean fingernails, we just did good in everything. We always came in first and second in the cooking competitions, and we kicked ass in every competitive event we entered. We always got banners and ribbons at camporees and came out looking like we knew what we were doing.
Anyone remember Scout Fairs?? Those were wild. We had to do ours at the Astro Arena, or whatever the big ass convention center for the Astrodome was called (now it is Reliant Arena). The largest Scout Fairs were held there, I believe. Jesus Christ, talk about a lot of people.......fun though. Almost 350 acres of scout booths....and one of the world's largest parking lots, 26,000 spots.

 

[zamalito]

I was a boy scout. I never made it to eagle. I was a life which was one step down. I was also a senior patrol leader. I had a great scout master. its funny because we were the most ragtag troop ever. When wed go to camp or other scouting events all the other scouts troops would be mostly white with matching uniforms. Most of us had the old green uniforms and a few of us had the new (at the time) brown uniforms. Our scout master encouraged getting old uniforms from thrift stores since they were cotton and more comfortable not to mention our troop was 90% poor southern kids. 75% of us were african american the rest was about half indian and half white. In fact it was the one organized group I'd participated in where the poor kids had the upper hand since we knew how to take care of ourselves, and loved starting fires, playing with knives and tying knots. Our scout master wasn't christian so homosexuality or christianity never came up. It's kind of funny because it's really sad because I believe nowadays its more of a preparation for dealing with the beauracracy of the military now and less a way of teching you how to take care of yourself and developing an appreciation for nature how I remember it.

The bsa is a private organization I believe their current homophobic attitude is an uneducated response to several pedophilia allegations. I remember my uncle telling me about how his scout master used to call "tick check" as an excuse to get young boys naked. We always kind of laughed about it but that kind of stuff did have a strong effect on their numbers. Though open homosexuality isn't a sign of even homosexual pedophilia after these allegations allowing homosexual scoutmasters would probably cause a serious drop in enrollment and since they are a private christian affiliated organization they have the right to do so. I'm not sure about female scoutmasters though. Firstly I think that bsa was a good way for children who were overmothered, had absent fathers or fathers who worked long hours to have a positive male influence. Female scoutmasters tended to mother the children and the few I'd met were really scary people.

 

[killa-bud]

i don't know if i'ed let my kids go in the woods with some old guy,but thats just me

pedophile+boys+woods=not so good

not saying there all ped's,i just wouldnt chance it

 

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[zamalito]

i don't know if i'ed let my kids go in the woods with some old guy,but thats just me

pedophile+boys+woods=not so good

not saying there all ped's,i just wouldnt chance it

It would've been funny if some scout master tried to molest us, a group of poor kids with knives who could tie knots and start fires and were all hyped up on bug juice. I don't think he would've gotten very far without getting tied up and stabbed and then burned at the stake.

 

[killa-bud]

lol