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Top Ten Reasons Why Not to Be An Eagle Scout


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Earl S. Hines, the federal magistrate who serves as one of our dozen Assistant Scoutmasters, asked the 16 new Eagle Scouts of Troop 85 to compile a Top 10 list, a la David Letterman. He read the results as a part of the keynote address in Sunday's Eagle Court of Honor.

Top Ten Reasons Why Not to Be An Eagle Scout

10.Scout uniform is not a "babe magnet."
9. Outdoor latrines have no walls.
8. Miss the chance to see every facet of Murphy's law in action on a single campout.
7. Avoid flack from your friends for missing whatever goes on during the weekend of your campout.
6. Never get to sleep three guys in the same wet sleeping bag.
5. Miss the opportunity to spend two months of each summer in your teen years applying every antibiotic cream,
lotion and spray offered by the medical world on boils, infections, rashes and poison ivy.
4. Avoid the B.S. from Scoutmaster.
3. You won't have to make a 7 a.m. campout departure the night after prom.
2. Have more time to run with your gang.

And the No. 1 reason Not to Be An Eagle Scout....

1. You'll be like the other 98 percent of Scouts!

Dave Rogers
ASM, Troop 85
Beaumont, TX

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