July 29, 2005

The Next Head of the Boy Scouts

Well, there are several candidates:


The Gladiator from Gladiator

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Positives
  • Extensive military experience.
  • Mental toughness.
  • Proven record of transforming rabble into effective fighting units.
  • Knows what it takes to build an Empire.
  • Can take the heat.
Negatives
  • Not Christian.
  • Apparent problem with authority.
  • Could become a threat if given too much power.
Quote: "What we do in life, echoes in eternity."


Gorn Captain


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Positives
  • Good "leadership image".
  • Stoic.
  • Lives by a moral code.
  • Good personal combat capabilities.
Negatives
  • Not Christian.
  • Unschooled in basic fire team tactics.
  • Closet pacifist?
  • Bitter about losing Supreme Court nomination to Provider #3.
Quote: "I will be swift and merciful."


General Giap

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Positives
  • Knows strengths and weaknesses of Americans.
  • Proven record of transforming rabble into effective fighting units.
  • Particularly strong managing large decentralized forces.
Negatives
  • Not Christian.
  • Currently 93 years old.
Quote: "I appreciated the fact that they had sophisticated weapon systems but I must say that it was the people who made the difference, not the weapons. There was also a human factor involved."


But the one I like best is:

William Wallace

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Positives
  • Christian.
  • Proven record of transforming rabble into effective fighting units.
  • "The hardships he experienced in his youth made him view with indifference the severest privations incident to a military life." - Carrick
Negatives
  • Enthusiastic, but tactically suspect. Did not have an answer to English archers at Falkirk.
  • Closet libertarian?
Quote: "It's all for nothing if you don't have freedom. "

posted by Anonymous at 5:33 PM

1 Comments:

Blogger JAB said...

The Boy Scouts have fallen far from their Tom Sawyer origins - check out the American Boys Handy Book, written by one of the founders. It's a how-to guide for productive, self-reliant fun and trouble, from making a cabin raft to candle ballons to aquariums to snow ball fight rules (including a nifty trick on how to lock your captured friend around a tree). No proto-fascist stink of conformity at all. It is actually about real fun and learning about nature.

I recommend it to anyone with kids, if you're around to explain some of the now culturally-inappropriate phrases. Just don't looking for me when the candle balloon burns down the neighborhood.

An girlfriend gave me this as a gift once, which should tell you something.

July 30, 2005 at 12:07 PM  

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