Title: INTERNET SCOUTING
Author: Michael F. Bowman
Company: Attorney at Law

SCOUTS-L
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CHRISTMAS
GREETINGS
AND OTHER
SEASONALS

 Denmark        	Gledileg Jol
French Canadian	Joyeux Noel  
France	Joyeux Noel
Germany        	Fröehliche Weihnachten
Hawaii	Mele Kalikimaka
Holland (Dutch)	Vrolijk kerstfeest
Iran (Farsi)	Ed Shoma Moborak
Iceland        	Gledileg Jol
Italian        	Buon Natale
Korea	Gi Bune sung tanh dwae seh yo
Mexico         	Feliz Navidad
Portugal       	Feliz Nat
Scottish-Gaelic	Nollaig chridheil
Spain	Feliz Navidad
United States		Merry Christmas,  Happy Holidays,  Seasons Greetings

Date: Wed, 8 Nov 1995 02:34:41 -0500 (EST)
From: "Michael F. Bowman" <mfbowman@CapAccess.org>
To: John Gallant <jag@PT.COM>
Subject: Re: Culturally Sensitive Xmas

John,

Thanks for the kind words. Glad you liked the idea.  Our Pack not only 
had Jewish Cubs, but Hindu and Islamic.  The variety of treats was great 
and not lost on anyone.  Likewise many Scouts had a game or other item to 
share.  Great fun and I learned a lot too!  I actually got the idea from 
Purdue Univeristy where they did this on a Univeristy-wide basis at 
Christmas time instead of focusing only on one holiday.  Got to be that 
people would come from hours away just to see and taste the food.  Don't 
know whether they still do it, but it was great then and has worked with 
Packs since.

Speaking only for myself in the Scouting Spirit, Michael F. Bowman
DDC-Training, GW Dist. Nat Capital Area Council mfbowman@CAPACCESS.ORG

Date:         Sun, 17 Dec 1995 16:10:06 PST
From: Peter Van Houten <peterva@SOLAR.VND.TEK.COM>
Subject:      Answers to Christmas Songs
To: Multiple recipients of list SCOUTS-L <SCOUTS-L@TCUBVM.IS.TCU.EDU>

************************* W A R N I N G ******************************

Attached are the answers, because of popular demand to post them I'm
doing it early.  If you're still working on them and don't want to
cheat than do not read this message, but save it for future reference.
************************* W A R N I N G ******************************

 Congratualations to John Pannell of Three Fires Council, Il for
 being the first with all but one correct answer.

 As you know most were fairly easy, but the hardest two were:

 #24. The apartment of two psychiatrists

 #39. Small, wingless bloodsucking insects that have a pater in the
      armada.

 I hope it was fun for everyone!

 If I don't get the opportunity this week I'd like to extend my
 most sincere wishes of good health and happines to you and
 your family, and that the forthcoming year be filled with many
 trails of joy and good scouting experiences.

 In Scouting . . .

 Peter Van Houten

************************* W A R N I N G ******************************

Answers are beginning after this -- Don't say I didn't warn you!

************************* W A R N I N G ******************************

1. Quadruped with Crimson Proboscis
   [Rudolph, The Red Nosed Reindeer]

2. Eight PM to six AM without noise
   [Silent Night]

3. Minuscule Hamlet in the Near East
   [O Little Town of Bethlehem]

4. Benevolent Despot
   [Good King Wenselaus]

5. Adorn the Vestibule
   [Deck The Halls]

6. Exuberance Directed to the Planet
   [Joy To The World]

7. Listen! Aerial Spirits Announcing
   [Hark, the Herald Angels Sing]

8. Trio of Monarchs
   [We Three Kings]

9. Yonder in the Hayrack
   [Away in a Manger]

10. Cherubins, Audited from Aloft
    [Angels we have heard on high]

11. Hallowed, Post Meridiem
    [O Holy Night]

12. Assemble, Everyone who Believes
    [O Come All ye Faithful]

13. A combination of all colors on Dec. 25
    [White Christmas]

14. Tintinnabulation
    [Jingle Bells]

15. A dozen 24 hour yule periods
    [Twelve Days of Christmas]

16. Befell during the translucent bewitching hour
    [It Came Upon a Midnight Clear]

17. Homo sapien of crystallized vapor
    [Frosty the Snowman]

18. I desire a pair of Incisors on Dec. 25
    [All I want for Christmas is my two-front teeth]

19. I espied my maternal parent osculating St. Nick.
    [I saw mommy kissing santa claus]

20. Perambulating through a Dec. Solstice Fantasy
    [Winter Wonderland]

21. Exclamation, Member of the Round Table with missing areas
    [O Holy Night]

22. Boulder of tinkling metal spheres
    [Jingle Bell Rock]

23. Vehicular homicide was committed by Dad's mom by a Rangifer
    Tarandus
    [Grandma got run-over by a reindeer]

24. The apartment of two psychiatrists
    [Home for the Holidays]

25. The lad is a diminutive percussionist
    [Little Drummer Boy]

26. Sir Lancelot with laryngitis
    [Silent Night]

27. Punch out the Passages
    [Deck The Halls]

28. Cup-shaped instruments fashioned of a whitish metallic element.
    [Silver Bells]

29. Exlamation, small israeli urban center
    [O little town of Bethlehem]

30. Kong, Lear, and Cole - that's us!
    [We Three Kings of Orient are]

31. Duodecimal enumeration of the passage of the yuletide season.
    [The First Noel]

32. Leave the broadcast from an Elevation.
    [Go Tell It on the Mountain]

33. Our fervent hope is that you throughly enjoy your Yuletide
    season.
    [We Wish You A Merry Christmas]

34. listen, the winged heavenly messengers are proclaiming tunefully.
    [Hark the Herald Angels Sing]

35. As the guardians of the wooly animals protected their charges in
    the dark hours.
    [While Shepherds Watch Their Flocks by Night]

36. I beheld a trio of nautical vessels moving in this direction.
    [I Saw Three Ships]

37. Jubilation to the entire terrestrial globe.
    [Joy to the World]

38. Do you perceive the same vibrations that stimulate my
    auditory sense organs?
    [Do you hear what I hear]

39. Small, wingless bloodsucking insects that have a pater in the
    armada.
    [Feliz Navidad]

40. May the Deity bestow an absence of fatigue to mild hale
    humans.
    [God Rest ye Merry Gentlemen]

41. Uncouth dolf with flaming color is aware of the Nature of
    precipitaion darling.
    [Rudolph the Red Nose Reindeer]

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"My flesh and my heart faileth; but God is the strength of my heart
and my portion for ever." Ps 73:26
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Date:         Mon, 4 Dec 1995 14:19:14 GMT
From: Hutcheson George M <RX29470@DEERE.COM>
Subject:      Holiday Beverage Recipes

Here are some non-alcoholic beverages for the holiday season.  Not
that I'm against grog you understand (big grin), but sometimes it's not
appropriate. Besides, any drink called a Brain Hemorrhage is bound to
be a hit with boys!  The coffee-based ones are probably best for adults
but the others could be used as a special treat.

These recipes are the winners of the annual Great Pretenders contest
sponsored by the Safety and Health Council of Greater Omaha, NE who
graciously gave permission for reproduction here.

YiS
George Hutcheson                Pack 44/Troop 42
rx29470@deere.com               Cedar Falls, Iowa

Santa Sipper  (Muldoon's Pub)
Equal parts of:
  Fresh strawberries
  Bananas
  Cool Whip
  Sprite
Add ice and blend until smooth

Wildman's Punch (Johnny's Cafe)
1 part cranberry juice
1 part orange juice
splash grenadine
Fill glass with 7-Up and garnish with orange and cherry flag

Chocolate Coffee Ole' (Austin's Steak House)
1/2 cup coffee
1/2 cup hot chocolate
1 tsp sugar
2 drops almond extract
2 drops peppermint extract
Top with whipped cream and sprinkle with chocolate chips

Johnny's Brown Cow (Johnny's Cafe)
3 scoops vanilla ice cream
1 tsp cocoa
1 expresso
Blend until smooth, add whipped cream and sprinkle cocoa on top

Brain Hemorrhage (Omaha Country Club)
Fresh strawberries
2 oz 7-Up
Blend with ice
2 oz Pina Colada mix
Blend with ice
Place in glass in two layers

Brauma Berry Cheesecake (Austin's Steak House)
1 scoop ice cream
1 scoop vanilla yogurt
1 scoop strawberries
2 drops almond extract
1 graham cracker, crushed
Add 1/2 scoop ice.  Add enough milk to thin blend, Garnish with whipped
cream, fresh strawberry, and graham cracker

Non-alcoholic Bloody Mary (Happy Hollow Club)
Dash of A-1 steak sauce
Dash of lime juice
Dash of olive oil
Dash of celery salt
3 counts of worchestershire sauce (no, I don't know what a count is)
Fill glass with tomato juice, add tobasco to flavor and blend ingredients
together

Jungle Madness (Johnny's Cafe)
2 scoops vanilla ice cream
1 ripe bananna
1 part orange
Blend together and place an orange and cherry flag on top

From mfbowman@CapAccess.org Fri Dec 22 01:00:27 1995
To: CHUCK BRAMLET <chuckb@aztec.asu.edu>
cc: Multiple recipients of list SCOUTS-L <SCOUTS-L@TCUBVM.IS.TCU.EDU>
Subject: Re: Listening to each other and making assumptions

The authenticity of your story may be suspect, but the message is clear 
and a good one.

Here's another Navy-lore story, which I've heard on Christmas a few times.

The setting is the Med during heightened tensions of the Cold War Era 
when reports of ship contact incidents were becoming too frequent.  In 
this situation a U.S. guided missile cruiser had just narrowly averted a 
sideswipe by a Soviet cruiser on her port side.  Immediately on seeing 
the approaching danger the Captain had sounded General Quarters - rig for 
collision.  As the two ships began to separate, the Captain sounded 
General Quarters - Battle Stations from the ships speakers and swiveled 
all of the ships gun turrets and missiles directly at the offending 
Soviet ship.  Watching through binoculers the Captain saw his Soviet 
counterpart freeze momentarily soaking in sweat.  Then the Soviet ship 
urgently signaled "Comrade, surely you do not mean to start a war - is it 
not Christmas?"  The U.S. Captain signalled back "You'll be the first to 
know."  Tension increased visably on all faces as the Soviet ship brought 
its weapons to readiness.  At that point the U.S. Captain piped across 
the ship's speakers "God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen" and watched with a 
smile through the binoculers as the Soviet Captain stared backed open 
mouthed in utter surprise.  The U.S. Captain ordered "We Wish You a Merry 
Christmas" to be played as he brought his cruiser to starboard by 90 
degrees and prepared to leave.  The Soviet Cruiser prepared to follow 
at which point the U.S. Captain launched two briliant star shells - one 
green and one red.  On the horizon two answering shells blazed forth - 
one green and one red.  

Speaking Only for Myself in the Scouting Spirit, Michael F. Bowman
a/k/a Professor Beaver (WB), ASTA #2566, OA Vigil Honor '71, Eagle
Scout '67, Serving as Deputy District Commissioner for Training,
G.W.Dist., Nat. Capital Area Council, BSA - mfbowman@capaccess.org

From mfbowman@CapAccess.org Sat Dec 23 00:49:16 1995
From mfbowman@CapAccess.org Sat Dec 23 01:33:44 1995
To: 
    Multiple Recipients of the List SCOUTS-L <SCOUTS-L%TCUBVM.BITNET@PUCC.PRINCETON.EDU>
cc: jambo97@hoplite.org, ncac-l@tagus.com
Subject: Gathering in the Spirit of Scouting 

Over the months past we have gathered together here as a ragtag lot from 
points ranged around the globe with a rich variety of experience and 
eagerness to help youth to grow to their fullest enriching all humanity. 
We have shared the sorrows attendant on illness and death and the rich 
joy of seeing growth and achievement.  We have traded ideas, opinions, 
and good natured humor.  We have learned equally from older hands opening 
up their experience and from newer hands asking wonderfully challenging 
questions to keep us all questing for more.  In doing all of this we have 
without thinking grown closer and have taken back to our communities more 
than any of us could have given alone. 

Sitting back a moment to briefly reflect on these things while looking 
into the embers of our virtual campfire you can almost see BP smiling 
back and feel the warmth of knowing that we have been rekindling the 
Spirit of Scouting a hundred times over to take back and spread the flame 
of Scouting in the hearts of our youth transcending all the things that 
might otherwise divide us. What a rich gift that is for each of us who 
seek to serve in the Spirit of Scouting.  

As we find ourselves in the midst of this holiday season of joy, hope, 
and goodwill to all, I extend my hand across the distance to clasp yours 
in a warm shake to say thanks for all that you have done in Scouting and 
all that you are preparing to do.  May your home be filled with warmth, 
happiness, and contentment as you celebrate the holidays and may your new 
year bring you satisfaction in knowing that you are continuing to make a 
difference in the lives of young peole who will shape our future destiny.
Peace be with you all.

Speaking Only for Myself in the Scouting Spirit, Michael F. Bowman
a/k/a Professor Beaver (WB), ASTA #2566, OA Vigil Honor '71, Eagle
Scout '67, Serving as Deputy District Commissioner for Training,
G.W.Dist., Nat. Capital Area Council, BSA - mfbowman@capaccess.org