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Thread #14039 Message #118604
Posted By: MMario
28-Sep-99 - 04:52 PM
Thread Name: Etiquette question
Subject: RE: Etiquette question
A scout camp I used to attend had a staff that for years "hazed" new and younger campers by sending them off for various items...."smoke benders" etc. My troop, not finding this particularly humerous, assembled a chest we would bring with us each year, which included most of the items -- or at least items we could claim were the desired ones. We had left and right handed screwdrivers, ditto for wrenches, we had smoke benders, sky hooks, weasel oil, barber pole paint, right and left handed saws etc. Really bugged the staff when they would send a tenderfoot back to our site and we would probide them with the requested item. Ironicaly, this started when our scoutmaster, who had not grown up in the area, tried to organize a classic "snipe hunt" and had 4 different teams come back with snipe!!! (He didn't know that there is actually a shore/marsh bird known as a snipe, or that they were found in our area)