[philmont] Absolutely amazed

I gotta respond on this one, or rather most of the ones since I primed the pump.   In all seriousness, this all goes to show the importance of stimulating our Scouts to think things out instead of stepping up with an answer for them EVEN if this means taking the wrong trail up Baldy or an extra ten miles into the next camp.   On our trek in 2002, I pourpously trained the crew on the use of Coleman backpacking stoves on the shakedown and then took MSR whisperlites, the absolute most popular backpacking stove just to let them figure the thing out and so they would gain experience in using them and to see yes they are different and yes they work pretty much the same way.   I think we owe it to these kids to help them think, work, do.   And if 50% of the applicants for jobs put McDonalds on their resume maybe that is what was wrong with our lead advisor in 2002.  He always wanted the crew to meet at McDonalds.  Mind set maybe?  OOOOOOOOOOOK!   OK, so Mark L makes a lot of $$$$$ doing dirty deeds for people adn now he wants to scarf off on my simple but important to me patch collection and has let the cat out of the bag that he's advocating possible violence.   Lemme see, they had bear problems around Miranda in 2006 and Calvin saw one cross the road ther in 98 and Calving has soaked Marks tent in honey and Mark is telling this list something about insurance policies with him on as a rider?   Let me see if I understand the rest of the story.   According to Linda Anderson, the program directors wife, they live in (at Philmont) a county (Colfax) where people kill each other over water rights.   And Cimarron does have a history of these things in the past.   And Calvin has suggest we go eat at the St. James.   And I do own a Colt .45.   And I do own variously more modern and ultimately more efficient firearms.   How man people did they carry out of the James feet first?   It's a Texas thing, we have images we must maintain.   And bing from Texas, I have a certainimage to uphold.   One other question.  Mark, have you been practicing the pledge of allegiance to the Texas flag?  If not, please do so so you won't be embarased at first light each day.   And about my spellchecker.   I usta be a whiz at typing error free, but then I lost eyesight in one eye and lost eye hand coordination and that's a bummer because typing is all eye-brain-hand coordination without active thought in the way.   I guess I could struggle to spell it all right but I have another image to uphold.   And quite frankly, it does not bother me in the least adn I'm not looking for any sympathy.  Sock it to me, I can take it.  Dish it out too!   Now lemme tell you a little story.   When I taught school in science, after finishing their work in class I encouraged the students to do homework from otehr subjects because sometimes Ms Prunella loaded them up.   Every once in a while a kid would aske me how to spell a certain word.  What I told them was to spell it as best they could and when they couldn't spell anymore just put a period there and that was what abreviation was for adn it was perfectly alright and legal to do and a teacher could not count off for it.   Well, you can imagine the howling and complaining that came from the English teachers when word got back to them about what I said.   I really thought it was kinda funny but they did not at all.   Get a life is what I say!   And so my life is in danger over some silly Boy Scout patches.   Well, maybe he gets the patches and I gets the blankie!   John LeBlanc

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