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Ryan Griff recently completed an Eagle project of collecting soccer equipment and was featured under the headline “Eagle Scout Scores”.  That should help recruitment and advancement.
Sadly, they fixed the headline in the online edition to “Eagle Scout Scores Multiple Goals” which is much harder to twist to an innuendo.

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Robert Kopa-something-or-other from my Troop had his Eagle Court of Honor yesterday and the normal collection of delegates from state and local government were present, one being the attaché to Dennis O’Brien, the PA Speaker of the House. He talked about how he didn’t know what to say and used the following amazing quote [...]

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I finally emptied out my pick-up of the things I collected during the camporee, one of which was a red nalgene bottle filled with that I was told was “bad raspberry iced tea”.  I emptied out the jug into the sink and was taken aback by the strength of the wave of stench coming from [...]

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There were a lot of streaks on the floor today from someone’s shoes, I asked and the co-worker I recently can’t stand cut in with the following:
Him: They’re probably yours.  You’re so fat you can’t help but leave shoe marks.  It’s ok, Terry.
The oddity was, that immediately before he said this, another coworker admitted that [...]

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There was a woman in work today from the UK who sat behind me at lunch.  She was rather well spoken but kept confusing the differences between British English and American English.  She’d say a word followed by “What you call a” and then some horribly antiquated term for the same.  Here were my favorite [...]

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More CIS 1055 presentation notes:

Skype pronounced sky-pee.
Email is the most common form of communication. (Take that, speech!)
During a presentation on Second Life, the group played a video of the world-building model on YouTube where “Starry Starry Night” was playing in the background.  The scene being built in the video was Van Gogh’s Starry Starry Night [...]

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I’ve been trying to get Call Graph to work with Skype so that I can record calls.  Oddly, with the software on, I was making double calls where I’d get the person and their voicemail.  In reviewing the recordings I found that I was recorded, and the voicemail prompt was, but the person I was [...]

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This post does not have humor as its primary purpose.  Live with it.
If you’ve seen the commercials for “Expelled” you’ve seen Ben Stein raise his hand and “where life came from?” as some sort of polemic directed against evolution.  This is simply ridiculous as it’s not evolution’s job to explain that.  Evolution steps in the [...]

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I purchased a chicken cheesesteak today from the local Quikchek or what ever butchered spelling it uses and was miffed when I got the wrong sandwich.
Me: This is a turkey grinder, I ordered the chicken cheesesteak.
Sandwich Lady:  We’re out of chicken, so I switched it with another meat from the same animal.
He reasoning was so [...]

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My co-worker out on maternity leave has become the proud mother of a healthy baby boy.  As is tradition, the office in boxes were spammed with descriptions, health updates and pictures.  One of my co-workers without Internet access came in, saw the plethora of messages, read them and then shouted “yes!”
Me: So, happy for her [...]

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