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To: Scoutmaster

What does your tagline mean?


46 posted on 07/21/2007 5:27:20 PM PDT by RockinRight (Fred Thompson once set fire to a crowd of liberals simply by smoking a cigar and looking upon them)
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To: RockinRight
What does your tagline mean?

Inside joke. In the 1970's cartoon "Super Chicken" (one of the "George of the Jungle" cartoons), whenever the sidekick Fred would question a ridiculous order or hesitate, Super Chicken would say "You knew the job was dangerous when you took it, Fred."

As a Scout leader, whenever one of my assistants comes to me to whine about parents, or Scouts, or the Council, or you name it . . . I always smile and say "You knew the job was dangerous when you took it." Soon, even the Scouts started using it as a reply when somebody whined or complained.

It finally reached the point where, at the end of each Scouting year, I would give my Assistant Scoutmasters/Assistant Cubmasters a t-shirt that said "you knew the job was dangerous when you took it," with some Scout emblem. Prestige is to go camping in a fifteen-year old "dangerous" t-shirt.

More than you needed to know, right?

55 posted on 07/21/2007 5:42:17 PM PDT by Scoutmaster (You knew the job was dangerous when you took it, Fred.)
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