Pearls Before Swine by Stephan Pastis for May 03, 2016

Is the troop doing side work for Tony Soprano?

Quite an undertaking for scouts so young… and there is your merit badge..Mortuary Science..…and I am an Eagle Scout with many merit badges.

I guess somebody asked too many questions, Pig. (hint)

I think there should be a merit badge for that. Getting rid of inconvenient corpses is a useful skill. Especially if you are the reason there is a corpse.

Wish it was Hunny Bunny

I hope it wasn’t Stephan committing comicide!

Gee, I don’t know. Does a “made guys” gang tattoo count as a merit badge?

Guard Duck did they get there foxhole digging merit badges first ? That way they will know how to dig the hole to bury the body.

It would have been nice had the body been wearing a backwards baseball hat….we could only hope.

Guard Duck is the least responsible scout leader ever.

I admire L’il Guard Duck’s leadership. His girls will never have to worry about being bullied. And burying corpses is a useful skill.Personal aside: some years ago, when Mom and Dad were making a late night trip to the airport to pick me up on my return from a trip, driving through the Forest Preserves they saw what Mom thought might be a body-dump in progress. The next day’s news proved she was right….

I only made it to Life or Heart or whatever the hell rank before Eagle.

I hope that’s a congressman in that bag

Remember:

A friend is someone who will help you move;A GOOD friend is someone who will help you move a body.

Welcome to The Family. Grabs by the back of the head. Plants kiss on both cheeks.

Guys, these are *Girl" Scouts. At least Pig is doing something with them. When I was in GS, all the troop leaders did was sit around and drink coffee, while we girls “played”.

That became an obvious tell in the Godfather series. If Michael kissed you and said you were like a brother, you were dead within a scene or two.

He’s teaching them people skills

TCB patch or tat.

there will probably always be job openings in grave digging. but funeral pyres and cremation might be a better ‘scout activity’ as you could always have a two for one badge earning if you combined like cremation and cooking badges, or funeral pyres and fire fighting badges. just saying

Presumably the stiff is someone who forgot to pay for those thin mints?

Is Wednesday Addams a member of that troop?

Did anyone perform last rites for Angry Bob? Or Ted from “Dilbert”?

Shudder!

xxx

Wonder if that’s the biker dude for we’ve not seen him in awhile. Oh, my!

Stephan, I wouldn’t buy any girl scout cookies for awhile. And don’t expect a birthday card from the GSA anytime soon.

Depends on how technical you want to get about Boy Scouts. Strictly Boy Scouts, then if memory serves when I was in Tenderfoot was the lowest. But if you want to go Boy Scouts, Cub Scouts, and Tiger Scouts, then Tiger is the lowest. Was never a Tiger Scout, and unless things have changed you don’t need to be as Tiger to get into Cub Scouts. But I do remember when I was in Boy Scouts you had to at least be a Bobcat from Cub Scouts to get your first rank cause we had one kid join the troop who had never been in Cub Scouts and I helped him make Bobcat.

Cooking the books, cleaning the crime scene and mending the public image are very important skills for any young lady.

Sorry, thought that was a serious question. Second Class is as far as I got too. Couple of reasons for that. First, and most important, it was a choice between Scouts and school. One of those not doing well in school so either find a way to pick up and maintain a C average while doing scouts as well or drop scouts and concentrate on school. Wasn’t really a happening thing to do both at the same time for me, sadly since I enjoyed being a scout.

Second, the local troop committee was sucking the fun out of the scouts. Scouting ain’t all about having fun, there’s also work to do to advance. But having fun was always a part of the program that kept me in as much as anything. Yet the troop committee wanted things their way. For one they got rid of a Scoutmaster who actually made being a scout enjoyable because he refused to let them tell him how to run things. Which included advancing their sons even though they weren’t passing the requirements for the merit badges they needed for advancement. Then they wanted to decide what activities we did rather than letting the troop decide. It was just getting to the point where I just wasn’t looking forward to attending meetings, especially as I wasn’t in a position to find another troop I could make the meetings for.

that got dark real fast

Whoo dat