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| The history of these top 10 lists is kind of interesting.
I served as Cogioba District Boy Scout Roundtable Commissioner from
1997 until 2001. Every month, the Roundtable Staff would meet
with Carol Moore who at that time was serving as District Training
Chair. If it had been a particularly hectic month like January
1999 after the downtown tornado, we would sit down and put together
a top 10 list. By the time we were finished, we were laughing
loudly, had relaxed from the worries of the day, and were ready to
get to work. The lists were published in the Roundtable
Riot, the newsletter that we put together each month for Boy
Scout Roundtable. - Aunt Tony |
10 Most
Uncommonly Known Trees
- The Spineless Tree - Most commonly known as
the Scottish pine at Christmas.
- The Skunk Tree
- The Mighty Oat
- The Sick-a-mom Tree
- Did You Sit With Us Tree
- Maypole Tree
- The Shoe Tree
- Popular Two Lips Tree
- The Money Tree
- The Umbrella Tree
Ten
Items Needed on any Winter Survival Campout
- RV
- Microwave Oven
- Cell phone to order pizza
- Fax machine to send directions in case the pizza gets lost
- Kilowatt generator
- Labeled storage area so the TV remote doesn't get lost
- Satellite dish for the football game
- TV Guide to know when the football game is on
- Electric blanket
- Bubbles for the hot tub
Ten Ways to Tell That You
Are Too Serious About Scouting
- The sound of bagpipes will bring tears to your eyes
and it is because you like it.
- You plan to serve foil meals and Dutch oven cobbler
at your next dinner party.
- You go to work with your coffee cup hanging from your
belt.
- You raise your hand in the Scout sign at a heated
business meeting.
- Your son hides his copy of Boys' Life magazine from
you.
- You were arrested at the airport because you wouldn't
let the officer have your pocket knife until he said
"thank you."
- The receptionist at the Scout Office recognizes you
by your voice.
- You make room in your garage for the items you have
now determined are collectibles.
- It bothers you too much to sleep in a real bed.
- You decide to lash together your new gazebo in your
back yard.
Ten Leadership Traits Scouters Often Overlook in
Youth
- The ability to stay up until 4:00am on any
campout and keep all those around him awake.
- The ability to light a fire without burning
himself and those around him.
- The ability to take a backpack trip and complain
the whole way and then tell everyone how much fun
he had.
- To be able to overlook the way in which food is
cooked and eat it anyway, as long as he cooked
it.
- After staying up several nights in a row, the
ability to sleep through anything, no matter how
much noise the adults make.
- When given the opportunity, the ability to tune
out all subtle hints supplied to him, and even
miss most of the direct hints.
- The inability to detect the aura of unwashed
bodies after a campout.
- The ability to walk over (countless times) pieces
of litter in the monumental effort to conserve
energy.
- The ability to detect food cooking in the adult
campsites at any given moment in time.
- The ability to amuse Scouters during the most
difficult of times, especially when he know he
could be in the deepest, darkest of dire
straits. This leadership trait may be the
one that keeps many of us coming back.
Uncommonly Known First Aid Facts
- When splinting a leg, make sure the long pole is on the
outside.
- Sucking the poison out of a snake is no longer
recommended.
- The Heimlich maneuver was never used by UT against
Florida.
- When using clothing for make-shift stretchers, keep
victims noses out of the "pits."
- Checking for a broken arm does not mean breaking the
other to see if they look alike.
- Hypothermia is not an excited hot drink container.
- Never use bubble gum to plug a sucking chest wound.
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