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Chameleonbear said:
MMMMMM fish jerky!
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yeah....no. I've had fish (and squid) jerky and that stuff is definitely NOT the same thing. Lutefisk, Hakarl.....it's more like fish jello - that smells like it's been fermenting in a dumpster for a couple months. Makes me seriously question the sanity of those people. Not that I would ever do so to their face - if they've got the cojones to eat that, who knows what craziness they're capable of.
 
I cheated on Benton's this morning.

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spikebot587 said:
Note to self, don't procrastinate. I have less than a month to finish my eagle scout requirements and apply for college in order to be eligible for scholarships. Sigh
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I can't count the number of my Eagle Scouts that sat on their butts and waited till the last minute. It was a running joke with us... But infuriated my Eagle coordinator... Get'er done, young man.

Doc
 
Doc_Savage said:
I can't count the number of my Eagle Scouts that sat on their butts and waited till the last minute. It was a running joke with us... But infuriated my Eagle coordinator... Get'er done, young man.

Doc
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Yeah, I dropped the ball. I have a little less than a month, luckily all I have left is one merit badge
 
Gear maintenance. Ugh. Just finished a sewing repair on the tent we took to the Northeast Gathering last weekend. Then wrestled the behemoth back into its bag. Ready for a beer and a nap. It looks like crap, but at least it's done (had to sew one of those hooks that snaps onto the pole back on) and I (hopefully) won't find any other surprises when I set it up the next time. while pushing the needle through two layers of webbing and fabric I noticed my EDC Skeletool CX is rusting.....I feel sometimes as if I'm falling down the rabbit hole of upkeep.....in a state of constant free-fall, rather. Gotta go cut the lawn. Gonna try out the new Kershaw Outcast that came yesterday, re-profiled by none other than one of our own, Bill Siegle. I'll get some pics up later.
 
Stopped by the local flea market yesterday, it's been purty barren lately but me and the boy went looking anyways. Was digging through a pile of Chinese knock off SAKS and stumbled on an actual older Ad Copy SAK Classic. Did not even look like it had been used ever and it was marked for almost nothing! So I paid the pennies and let the boy have it. He has a SAK Rally but no Classic. Now we all have a classic, mine is black, wife's is solid pink, daughter's is transparent pink, and the boys is red!
 
Can't go wrong with Victorinox. There's a victim farmer in my pocket quite often, as is a cadet. On every Keychain I have there's a classic, as well as in the first aid kit in my car and the one in my backpack. Bought a few extra for my girlfriend, mom, dad,.. They're everywhere around the house.
 
Galeocerdoshark said:
Can't go wrong with Victorinox. There's a victim farmer in my pocket quite often, as is a cadet. On every Keychain I have there's a classic, as well as in the first aid kit in my car and the one in my backpack. Bought a few extra for my girlfriend, mom, dad,.. They're everywhere around the house.
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True that. I EDC a farmer I won't go without. It's always there and I don't forsee it going anywhere. Vics are what I always recommend or pick up for people wanting a knife. Plus they are in every pack or kit I've got. I like my Leatherman tools too, but you can never go wrong with a Victorinox.
 
crimsonfalcon07 said:
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Not to mention, you can always upgrade stuff later if you want. It's an AR-15. Legos for grownups.
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Wait, I thought AR-15's were Barbies for grownup?

spikebot587 said:
Note to self, don't procrastinate. I have less than a month to finish my eagle scout requirements and apply for college in order to be eligible for scholarships. Sigh
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Doc_Savage said:
I can't count the number of my Eagle Scouts that sat on their butts and waited till the last minute. It was a running joke with us... But infuriated my Eagle coordinator... Get'er done, young man.

Doc
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spikebot587 said:
Yeah, I dropped the ball. I have a little less than a month, luckily all I have left is one merit badge
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Speaking as one who finished his Eagle Board of Review 3 months before his 18th birthday... I have more respect for the ones that earn it later through their own initiative than the "wonder boys" that get Eagle rank (I won't say "earn", but maybe I'm a curmudgeon) from Troops that grind out Eagle Scouts like sausage. I say good on ya' Spike!
 
GSO1962 said:
Wait, I thought AR-15's were Barbies for grownup?







Speaking as one who finished his Eagle Board of Review 3 months before his 18th birthday... I have more respect for the ones that earn it later through their own initiative than the "wonder boys" that get Eagle rank (I won't say "earn", but maybe I'm a curmudgeon) from Troops that grind out Eagle Scouts like sausage. I say good on ya' Spike!
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I'll have to comment on this one - Not all early Eagles come from such troops. I EARNED my Eagle 2 months before my 16th birthday. Went on to EARN multiple palms as well. No "wonder boy sausage grinder" Eagle - I was the first Eagle in our Troop in 3 years. We had 3 make it the same month because they copied my method. How did I do it?? By steady work - I started working on a new merit badge every month with a goal of completing at least 1 merit badge every month with a time limit of 3 months per merit badge. Same thing with my project - determined what it was going to be and gave myself 3 months to finish it. It helped that I didn't play sports - declared too small to play football, too short to play basketball, to slow to run track and town politics kept me from being select to a Little League team, which pre-ordained I would not get to play baseball, so I had both the spare time and the incentive to kick everyone else's butt in Scouts.
 
zzyzzogeton said:
I'll have to comment on this one - Not all early Eagles come from such troops. I EARNED my Eagle 2 months before my 16th birthday. Went on to EARN multiple palms as well. No "wonder boy sausage grinder" Eagle - I was the first Eagle in our Troop in 3 years. We had 3 make it the same month because they copied my method. How did I do it?? By steady work - I started working on a new merit badge every month with a goal of completing at least 1 merit badge every month with a time limit of 3 months per merit badge. Same thing with my project - determined what it was going to be and gave myself 3 months to finish it. It helped that I didn't play sports - declared too small to play football, too short to play basketball, to slow to run track and town politics kept me from being select to a Little League team, which pre-ordained I would not get to play baseball, so I had both the spare time and the incentive to kick everyone else's butt in Scouts.
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ZZ - I wouldn't call 16 "early"...I was thinking more about the 14-year olds. Unless you are an "uber child", I don't think you can develop the maturity and experience that I associate with the Eagle rank in 3 years...5 years, yes...3 years, no. Leadership is learned by experience, and I don't think 3 years is long enough to really learn unless, perhaps, you are a 95th percentile stud. It takes longer than that for the Army to turn a Lieutenant into a Captain (or in Navy terms, an Ensign into a Lieutenant). I've seen too many Eagles at 14 that I know they all aren't really the top 5% of our youth (give or take). They all typically come from the same few Troops in a District.
 
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I hear ya, i know quite a few that got there eagle at 14, and one who got it at 13(not sure how) and out of all of them (about 10 or so) there's only one who I think deserved it. In fact, his project was scuba diving down and cleaning up a lake that had been filled with debris after a tornado
 
Dang it. I already hated thieves but now I hate them even more.:mad::mad::mad::mad::mad::mad::mad::mad:

I'm still cleaning up my warehouse property so I can sell it. Awhile back, someone (1 or more people) broke in and what they didn't steal, they trashed.

While cleaning some more today, it dawned on me that one of the things that was stolen was the LVTP7 tread section I was given back in 1979 by the Marine unit deployed on my ship when they made me an honorary Marine for saving a sinking LVT and the Marines in it. They had painted it gold and in red letters painted their unit number, the date they gave it to me, with my name and rank over "Honorary Marine".
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I'm sure they stole it because it was 30 - 40 pounds of solid steel they could sell for 5¢ or 6¢ per pound but to me, sentimentally, it was priceless.
 
zzyzzogeton said:
Dang it. I already hated thieves but now I hate them even more.:mad::mad::mad::mad::mad::mad::mad::mad:

I'm still cleaning up my warehouse property so I can sell it. Awhile back, someone (1 or more people) broke in and what they didn't steal, they trashed.

While cleaning some more today, it dawned on me that one of the things that was stolen was the LVTP7 tread section I was given back in 1979 by the Marine unit deployed on my ship when they made me an honorary Marine for saving a sinking LVT and the Marines in it. They had painted it gold and in red letters painted their unit number, the date they gave it to me, with my name and rank over "Honorary Marine".
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I'm sure they stole it because it was 30 - 40 pounds of solid steel they could sell for 5¢ or 6¢ per pound but to me, sentimentally, it was priceless.
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Shit, dude. I've had sentimental stuff stolen but nothing like that. I can't imagine losing something like that to some thieving a-hole.
 
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