Troop Leader Nicknames
David Gorman
names. Now the Troop has a new Leader team with me, Dave, as SL, and my
ASL's called Dave and Dave. If somebody shouts "Dave!" at our next meeting
there is going to be a disaster. Any sensible ideas for Leader nicknames?
We can't use "Skip" for one nickname because our DSL, who visits us
frequently, is known by that name.
Help please before we all have to change our names by deed-poll!
Dave, Dave, Dave
3rd.h...@lineone.net
James Smith
>
> The Scouts in our Troop have traditionally addressed Leaders
> by their first names. Now the Troop has a new Leader team with
> me, Dave, as SL, and my ASL's called Dave and Dave. If somebody
> shouts "Dave!" at our next meeting there is going to be a
> disaster. Any sensible ideas for Leader nicknames?
Do you already have nicknames from outside Scouting that you can
use in Scouts? or traits/hobbies/surnames which you can use for
nicknames.
> We can't use "Skip" for one nickname because our DSL, who visits
> us frequently, is known by that name.
Baggy
PS It's odd most times I've seen this trouble is with "Dave"... Just
waiting for the same problem to occur with "Chris" at one point about
six years ago I had eight Chris's in my Cub Pack, and one of the other
groups in the District had six!
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Iain "Boss" Stuart
<david....@lineone.net> writes
>Any sensible ideas for Leader nicknames?
>frequently, is known by that name.
>
>3rd.h...@lineone.net
>
How 'bout one of you bing "Boss" ? It works for me !
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Paul Scott
>
> The Scouts in our Troop have traditionally addressed Leaders by their first
> names. Now the Troop has a new Leader team with me, Dave, as SL, and my
> ASL's called Dave and Dave. If somebody shouts "Dave!" at our next meeting
> We can't use "Skip" for one nickname because our DSL, who visits us
> frequently, is known by that name.
>
>
> Dave, Dave, Dave
> 3rd.h...@lineone.net
Why not use surnames. You're Dave Gorman so get them to call you DG.
The problem comes if you've got more than one 'G' for a surname. You
could use middle initials, but that could be embarassing if someones got
a 'sensible' name chosen by their parents!
Best of Luck,
Paul Scott
Ex SL 8th Royal Eltham Scout Troop
Steve Smith
the last summer camp (just before I came to the troop) that they would all be
called Bob. The fact that none of them were actually called Bob did not seem
to deter them from this.
To tell the difference between them, they ended up as Fat Bob, Young Bob,
Beardy Bob, etc. Some of them stuck to this day.
Steve.
C.Andrews
> frequently, is known by that name.
ship. This came about as a previous DSL use to be at our Group and
everyone called him "Skip"
Or what about Dave, David and Danny
All the Best
Chris
Matthew Savage
>
> For some reason lost in the mists of time, the leaders in my troop decided on
> the last summer camp (just before I came to the troop) that they would all be
> called Bob.
Must be ffans of Monty Python...
"Bob, have you got Bob's torque wrench?"
"No, Bob borrowed it".
"OK - Bob, have you got the torque wrench Bob says you borrowed from
Bob?"
"No, I gave it to Bob"... and so on.
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Matthew
ASL 10th Feltham
David Ackrill
the following:
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>C.Andrews wrote:
>
>>> We can't use "Skip" for one nickname because our DSL, who visits us
>>> frequently, is known by that name.
>>
I used to know my Scout Leader by his name - Ray.
I've always prefered to be known as Dave, whether by Ventures, Scouts
or Cubs.
It's not what they call you, it's how they respect you that counts,
and that comes from how they perceive your qualities. Maybe they
respect someone they call 'Skip' better than they do me, but that's
not the name, that's the quality of the person!
Dave
Chris Atkinson
<j...@maths.ed.ac.uk> writes
> Just
>waiting for the same problem to occur with "Chris"
Chris A.
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Dr John Stockton
1998 08:23:47 in uk.rec.scouting, Karl Pollak <pol...@nospam.com> wrote:
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>C.Andrews wrote:
>
>>> We can't use "Skip" for one nickname because our DSL, who visits us
>>> frequently, is known by that name.
>>
>>ship. This came about as a previous DSL use to be at our Group and
>>everyone called him "Skip"
>
>Executive Officer (a.k.a. No.1). Boatswain is more often than not a petty
>officer.
No. The next rank may be E.O. in newfangled upstart Navies belonging to
countries which scarcely existed half a millennium ago; but not in UK
tradition. I suspect that commissioned boatswains are only a
transatlantic thing, too. This is, remember, uk.rec.scouting.
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Chris Wilkinson
<pol...@nospam.com> writes
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>C.Andrews wrote:
>
>>> We can't use "Skip" for one nickname because our DSL, who visits us
>>> frequently, is known by that name.
>>
>>My GSL is known by the name of "Bosun" which is one below that of skip on a
>>ship. This came about as a previous DSL use to be at our Group and
>>everyone called him "Skip"
>
>I hate to argue (not really) but the first rank below Captain (Skip) is
>Executive Officer (a.k.a. No.1). Boatswain is more often than not a petty
>officer.
>
I am a GSL and they call me Chris except for one boy who insists on
calling me Sir and has to be reminded every time by the other Scouts
what he should call me.
CHRIS
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Dave Mayall
wrote:
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>Dr John Stockton wrote:
>>I suspect that commissioned boatswains are only a
>>transatlantic thing, too.
>
>It was not me who suggested that boatswain is a commissioned officer. My
>use of the phrase "more often than not" was an apparently vain effort to
>be a bit diplomatic.Seeing as a boatswain would take order from any and
>all officers, he obviously had to be of a lower rank.
I read a rather interesting old book (1890's) which described in
detail the then current rank structures (even more complex than now),
which asserts that RN warrant officers (boatswain for example)
actually held commissions unlike Army WO's who didn't. Midshipmen,
whilst senior to a Warrant officer, do not hold commissions.
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Dave Mayall
SL 7th Stalybridge
Dr John Stockton
1998 18:24:33 in uk.rec.scouting, Karl Pollak <pol...@nospam.com> wrote:
> The first reference to a naval Lieutenant is in 1580 when one
> was born in each ship as the Captain's understudy.
I didn't think that they started that young ... borne?
>Yes, thank you John, Sir. Silly me, here I was thinking we were all
>Scouts. Next time I'll apply for a visa before I post here.
You don't need that; just an occasional interpreter.
Mike Parmley
> Steve Smith wrote:
> >
> > For some reason lost in the mists of time, the leaders in my troop
decided on
> > the last summer camp (just before I came to the troop) that they would
all be
> > called Bob.
>
> "Bob, have you got Bob's torque wrench?"
> "No, Bob borrowed it".
> "OK - Bob, have you got the torque wrench Bob says you borrowed from
> Bob?"
> "No, I gave it to Bob"... and so on.
IIRC this was from Not The Nine O'Clock News not Monty Python.
The punchline being something like ...
'The new BL <model name>, hand built by roberts'.
<pedant /off>
YiS
Mike
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Mike Parmley wrote in message <01be0660$cc08abe0$5129a9a3@parmmi01>...
>Matthew Savage <ev9...@dial.pipex.com> wrote ...
>> Steve Smith wrote:
>> >
>> > For some reason lost in the mists of time, the leaders in my troop
>decided on
>> > the last summer camp (just before I came to the troop) that they would
>all be
>> > called Bob.
>>
>> Must be fans of Monty Python...
>> "Bob, have you got Bob's torque wrench?"
>> "No, Bob borrowed it".
>> "OK - Bob, have you got the torque wrench Bob says you borrowed from
>> Bob?"
>> "No, I gave it to Bob"... and so on.
>
>IIRC this was from Not The Nine O'Clock News not Monty Python.
>
>The punchline being something like ...
>'The new BL <model name>, hand built by roberts'.
><pedant /off>
I think he was referring to the 'University of Woolamaloo Philosophy
Department' sketch by the python team where everyone was called Bruce. The
new arrival from the UK (whose name temporarily escapes me) was re named
Bruce to prevent confusion.
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SL 40th Fife
Sad Python Fan.