They have The Girls Scouts. If they want better options of activities, like The Boy Scouts, why not just improve TGS. I swear Sherdog is the only female free zone left.
Boy scouts are for pussies anyways, at least these days.
You wouldn't believe the shit they had to do to earn badges a hundred years ago.
To obtain a merit badge for
Architecture a scout must
1. Present a satisfactory free-hand drawing.
2. Write an essay on the history of Architecture and describe the five orders.
3. Submit an original design for a two-story house and tell what material is necessary for its construction, giving detailed specifications.
4. Build a modern bridge or derrick.
5. Make a camp kitchen.
6. Build a shack of one kind or another suitable for three occupants.
To obtain a merit badge for
Angling a scout must
1. Catch and name ten different species of fish: salmon or trout to be taken with flies; bass, pickerel, or pike to be caught with rod or reel, muskallonge to be caught by trolling.
2. Make a bait rod of three joints, straight and sound, 14 oz. or less in weight, 10 feet or less in length, to stand a strain of 1-1/2 lbs. at the tip, 13 lbs. at the grip.
3. Make a jointed fly-rod 8-10 feet long, 4-8 ozs. in weight, capable of casting a fly sixty feet.
4. Name and describe twenty-five different species of fish found in North American waters and give a complete list of the fishes ascertained by himself to inhabit a given body of water.
To obtain a merit badge for
Agriculture a scout must
1. State different tests with grains.
2. Grow at least an acre of corn which produces 25 per cent. better than the general average.
3. Be able to identify and describe common weeds of the community and tell how best to eliminate them.
4. Be able to identify the common insects and tell how best to handle them.
5. Have a practical knowledge of plowing, cultivating, drilling, hedging, and draining.
6. Have a working knowledge of farm machinery, haymaking, reaping, loading, and stacking.
To obtain a merit badge for
Archery a scout must
1. Make a bow and arrow which will shoot a distance of one hundred feet with fair precision.
2. Make a total score of 350 with 60 shots in one or {25} two meets, using standard four-foot target at forty yards or three-foot target at thirty yards.
3. Make a total score of 300 with 72 arrows, using standard target at a distance of fifty yards.
4. Shoot so far and fast as to have six arrows in the air at once.
To obtain a merit badge for
Civics a scout must
1. State the principal citizenship requirements of an elector in his state.
2. Know the principal features of the naturalization laws of the United States.
3. Know how President, Vice-President, senators, and congressmen of the United States are elected and their terms of office.
4. Know the number of judges of the Supreme Court of the United States, how appointed, and their term of office.
5. Know the various administrative departments of government, as represented in the President's Cabinet.
6. Know how the governor, lieutenant-governor, senators, representatives, or assemblymen of his state are elected, and their terms of office.
7. Know whether the judges of the principal courts in his state are appointed or elected, and the length of their terms.
8. Know how the principal officers in his town or city are elected and for what terms.
9. Know the duties of the various city departments, such as fire, police, board of health, etc.
10. Draw a map of the town or city in which he lives, giving location of the principal public buildings and points of special interest.