JoeBob

If your survival situation does not involve hiding from an enemy, you're going to want to LEAVE TRACE so that you can be found.

I get a lot of ideas from here: http://www.inquiry.net/outdoor/games/relay.htm I like to divide teams to include a cross section: "One member of each rank, one parent, one leader, and one sibling. If you can't find a team, gather in the middle of the room, and leaders will put together the mis-matched."

"Plans are to revise the syllabus every so often to keep new and interesting platform and presentation techniques" Don't cha love it when they change the training so that they can make you take training again? JoeBob

Anybody else observe how the Lego Robotics meetings usually end up with two bots fighting it out? Testosteroni!

JBlake - You forgot 6) Frog Strangler - when the coffins that have floated out of the ground have live critters riding 'em, too!

How am I gonna retire these old US flags without fire? It will be my ashes on the fire if I have to wait for a pile of LEDs to completely consume the flag remnants... (In the Southeast we'll always have campfires. Just poking fun at y'all. But if you need someone in the future to help you out with flag retirements...)

Marshmallows can be toasted over an open candle. But I think I'd prefer to stay home and watch TV.

It can be argued that learning how to control an open fire is MORE important during a drought, when fire is dangerous. After National took the woodcraft out of Woodbadge, why are we surprised that National followed up by taking the fire out of campfire? I wonder what will be next?

How do you reconcile "The best possible way to dispose of fish entrailsas with any kind of wasteis to pack them out." with Leave what you find - In National Parks and some other areas it is illegal to remove natural objects. Aren't fish guts natural? (I love being devil's advocate!)

Thanks Dan, I had followed the link to the LNT site and read the syllabus. Interesting. It was basically "Police your trash", with a little bit of situational common sense. It took ten minutes, and was free. Not five days and $500 to $830! Thanks for trying to make me less ignorant.

I use a poncho liner to supplement my bags. Warm nights, I'm on top. Cool nights, my bottom is in the bag with the poncho liner around shoulders. Cold nights, the liner makes a draft baffle (your head only in a sweater makes the best baffle) Below zero, the poncho liner adds 10 to 15 degrees of comfort on top of the bag. (Weighted with coats or clothes to keep it from sliding off during he night.)

Gawd! What about LNT can take 5 days to talk about??? You can say it in three words: Police your litter.

Webelo = 'We'll Be Loy..."?

Shortridge is right. You can prevent downloading, but not copying. The snipping tool in Windows 7 or the 'Print Screen' button in earlier OSs enable anyone with a little savy to copy whatever shows on their monitor.

Is there a 'Humor' forum? Beavah, I'd like you input to the question in #6. Here is the glorious winner: 1. When his 38 caliber revolver failed to fire at his intended victim during a holdup in Long Beach , California would-be robber James Elliot did something that can only inspire wonder. He peered down the barrel and tried the trigger again. This time it worked. And now, the honorable mentions: 2. The chef at a hotel in Switzerland lost a finger in a meat cutting machine and after a little shopping around, submitted a claim to his insurance company. The company expecting negligence sent out one of its men to have a look for himself. He tried the machine and he also lost a finger.. The chef's claim was approved. 3. A man who shoveled snow for an hour to clear a space for his car during a blizzard in Chicago returned with his vehicle to find a woman had taken the space. Understandably, he shot her. 4. After stopping for drinks at an illegal bar, a Zimbabwean bus driver found that the 20 mental patients he was supposed to be transporting from Harare to Bulawayo had escaped. Not wanting to admit his incompetence, the driver went to a nearby bus stop and offered everyone waiting there a free ride. He then delivered the passengers to the mental hospital, telling the staff that the patients were very excitable and prone to bizarre fantasies.. The deception wasn't discovered for 3 days. 5. An American teenager was in the hospital recovering from serious head wounds received from an oncoming train. When asked how he received the injuries, the lad told police that he was simply trying to see how close he could get his head to a moving train before he was hit. 6. A man walked into a Louisiana Circle-K, put a $20 bill on the counter, and asked for change. When the clerk opened the cash drawer, the man pulled a gun and asked for all the cash in the register, which the clerk promptly provided. The man took the cash from the clerk and fled, leaving the $20 bill on the counter. The total amount of cash he got from the drawer... $15. [if someone points a gun at you and gives you money, is a crime committed?] 7. Seems an Arkansas guy wanted some beer pretty badly.. He decided that he'd just throw a cinder block through a liquor store window, grab some booze, and run. So he lifted the cinder block and heaved it over his head at the window. The cinder block bounced back and hit the would-be thief on the head, knocking him unconscious. The liquor store window was made of Plexiglas. The whole event was caught on videotape... 8. As a female shopper exited a New York convenience store, a man grabbed her purse and ran. The clerk called 911 immediately, and the woman was able to give them a detailed description of the snatcher. Within minutes, the police apprehended the snatcher. They put him in the car and drove back to the store. The thief was then taken out of the car and told to stand there for a positive ID. To which he replied, "Yes, officer, that's her. That's the lady I stole the purse from." 9.. The Ann Arbor News crime column reported that a man walked into a Burger King in Ypsilanti , Michigan at 5 A.M., flashed a gun, and demanded cash. The clerk turned him down because he said he couldn't open the cash register without a food order. When the man ordered onion rings, the clerk said they weren't available for breakfast... The man, frustrated, walked away. [*A 5-STAR STUPIDITY AWARD WINNER] 10. When a man attempted to siphon gasoline from a motor home parked on a Seattle street by sucking on a hose, he got much more than he bargained for.. Police arrived at the scene to find a very sick man curled up next to a motor home near spilled sewage. A police spokesman said that the man admitted to trying to steal gasoline, but he plugged his siphon hose into the motor home's sewage tank by mistake. The owner of the vehicle declined to press charges saying that it was the best laugh he'd ever had.

I'm quite pleased to see that the attempted re-naming of "Webelos II" to "Arrow of Light Scouts" did NOT take!

Paddling Cold Water Tangent: We wore wetsuits when kayaking the Colorado River in 110 degree summer days. The water temp (comming off the bottom of the lake) was 40-45 degrees cold! When a wave slapped you in the chest, it was so cold that you couldn't breathe. When we got toasty in our wetsuits, we'd just flip over to cool off.

Troopmaster has a photo feature. As a graphics pro, I use Photobucket, which can have passworded and public galleries. I'd use older photos for recruitment. Current photos of younger children raise the stalker issue.

Is aiming really necessary with a ThermoNuclear warhead?

1- Being quiet, when you are not yet in a leadership position, is a desirable character trait. I have a few parents that I wish would be quiet. 2- Being quiet offstage does not mean that the volunteer will not be dynamic onstage. 3- You can always give this person a 'try-out' by having him help you run a pack meeting. I like the tag-team concept. One person prepping while the other presents - no down time for the audience. 4- I'd recommend getting your replacement from Tiger or Wolf parents, so the pack doesn't have to start looking for their next CM right away.

Are you willing to change your mind on the 'introducing new arguments before resolving this argument'?

When I set out to sew my DL patch on the shoulder, I was determined to put in the effort to maintain usability of the pocket. Well, after flipping the pocket in and out a few times, I realized it can not be done. The CM patch just got sewn through everything. And my Blackberry rides under my OA flap.

Ivory soap, tongue depressors (or popsicle sticks), sandpaper, and red lipstick can be used to teach most of whittlin chip on school property. You can't teach the proper way to close a folding knife, or whittlin a real stick, but you can definitely cover the basics.

Hey now! I'm danged proud to be a Redneck! Don't y'all go defending my heritage. We poor white farmers are proud to be alive! Just don't go mis-categorizing white trash with long greasy hair as respectable Rednecks. The sun hasn't seen the backs of those necks fer a while. So call them Pasty-Necks.

Lawyers.