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From: Hachiroku ハチロク on 31 Jul 2010 00:41
On Fri, 30 Jul 2010 20:52:43 -0700, nm5k wrote:

> Back in my day, they had a few wimmens
> as Cub Scout pack leaders

Oh yeah! And we had a cutie! Nice. Put a HOT woman in charge of boys on
the edge of puberty! ;p



From: nm5k on 31 Jul 2010 00:58
On Jul 30, 11:41 pm, Hachiroku $B%O%A%m%/(B <Tru...(a)e86.GTS> wrote:
> On Fri, 30 Jul 2010 20:52:43 -0700, nm5k wrote:
> > Back in my day, they had a few wimmens
> > as Cub Scout pack leaders
>
> Oh yeah! And we had a cutie! Nice. Put a HOT woman in charge of boys on
> the edge of puberty! ;p

Ours was one of the others cubs mother.. She seemed quite old
to us at that time.. :/
I remember they had the meetings in the basement of their
house, and her husband was into building big wooden RC
airplanes. We spent as much time checking those out as
we did listening to her. He had big monster planes that
looked quite real.
I also liked his car, which was a big long, wide Pontiac
Bonneville convertible. It's the kind of rag top John Wayne
would have driven.. John Wayne actually did have a thing
for Pontiac's.. He often drove a large Pontiac station wagon..
No joke...








From: JoeSpareBedroom on 31 Jul 2010 03:39
"Ray O" <rokigawa(a)NOSPAMtristarassociates.com> wrote in message
news:i304ce$osu$1(a)news.eternal-september.org...

> The BSA now requires trained leaders on all overnight outings.

"Now"? It took them how long to realize they needed trained leaders? BSA was
founded in 1910. Single-celled organisms learn faster than that.


> As far as choosing and approving the leaders, that is done by the pack,
> troop, or crew committee and approved by the unit's chartering
> organization, such as a religious or civic organization.

There's a scary thought.



>>> BTW, there are no regional BSA camps.
>>
>> Then assign whatever name you like for BSA facilities which serve many
>> different troops and declare themselves as connected with a particular
>> council. I don't care what you call it. The function, as witnessed in the
>> real world, is the same.


You pretended not to see this one.


>> At some age, kids learn that adults are allowed to function by a
>> different set of rules than children. You and I apparently disagree on
>> the exact age.
>>
>
> The point is not whether or not an adult is capable and safe walking
> through a camp alone. Having adults walk through camp alone while
> telling the kids that they have to have a buddy is a poor example in the
> eyes of most educators,

"most educators". Prove that immediately.


From: Ray O on 1 Aug 2010 15:58

<nm5k(a)wt.net> wrote in message
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On Jul 30, 9:51 pm, "Ray O" <rokig...(a)NOSPAMtristarassociates.com>
wrote:

>
> If your son enrolls in a youth sports team and the coach turns out to be
> an
> incompetent idiot, you look for another team. The same can be done with
> Boy
> Scout troops.


His version of Boy Scouts doesn't sound anything at all like
the version I was in for several years in the 60's, early 70's.
But I don't doubt that the Scouts have been infiltrated by
more than a few sissified goofballs in the past few years.
Just like everything else these days.. :( IE: wimmens
in the Boy Scouts. Back in my day, they had a few wimmens
as Cub Scout pack leaders, but I don't remember any at all
in the Boy Scouts. They sure didn't come along on camp outs
unless it was some kind of family visit day..
The Girl Scouts had their own camp gigs to do..
We had manly men leaders when I was in the Boy Scouts.
We learned how to do manly stuff like how to build and light
a fire with only one match, or even no matches for the more
advanced pyro's.
We didn't go for the namby pamby jackwagon stuff..
I remember one camp out, one of the scout leaders brought
a whole station wagon full of rifles to demonstrate.
I'm talking about 20-25 of them of various calibers..
That was my first experience seeing an elephant gun in
operation. BOOOOOOOMMMMMM!!!!!!

Can you imagine what would happen if they did that today?
Some namby pamby would be on the phone to 911 and
the SWAT team.. :(
Heck, we did .22 rifle training at summer camp..
We generally had a blast every camp out, and ditto for
the week long summer camps.
We camped a lot. One camp out, we had a tornado hit the
camp.. I remember watching a Coleman camp stove on a
stand taking off and never being seen again.. The tent
walls were flapping, whap, whap, whap, in and out.. :/

I remember camping in the snow with sub zero
temps. It really wasn't too bad, except your feet got cold
at about 5 AM even with dry socks.. Never a dull moment.
I'd get my butt out of bed and start a fire using the same
coals from the previous nights fire. No sense in wasting a
perfectly good match.. :/
To this day when camping, I'm usually the one that builds
and lights the fire. Old habits die hard.. :/

*********
My sons and I have had many good times camping. Hopefully, they will be
able to pass the skills they've learned on to others.
--

Ray O
(correct punctuation to reply)


From: Clive on 2 Aug 2010 10:54
In message <i343g8$e3a$1(a)news.eternal-september.org>, Ray O
<rokigawa(a)NOSPAMtristarassociates.com> writes
>Ray O
I'm sure your name is Vac, as in Ray-O-Vac;-)
--
Clive

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