Webelos was Re: "outside of a dog" (UNCLASSIFIED)

[Jonathan Lighter]

Ca. 1958 in NYC "Webelos" stood for Wolf, Bear, Lion, Scout, and nothing
more.

JL

On Wed, Jun 16, 2010 at 7:16 PM, John McChesney-Young
<jmccyoung at gmail.com>wrote:

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> On Jun 15, 2010, at 8:28 AM, Bill Mullins wrote:
> >>> > Â When I was a cub scout (about 40 years ago), it was given as "We Be
> >>> > Â Loyal Scouts". Â I wonder what the Cub Scout Manual from that era
> says.
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> On 6/16/10 12:00 AM, Arnold Zwicky<zwicky at STANFORD.EDU> wrote:
> >> when i was a cub scout (about 60 years ago), it was given as Wolf Bear
> Lion Scout.
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> and on Wed, Jun 16, 2010 at 4:04 PM, Amy West <medievalist at w-sts.com>
> wrote:
> > I think it's really cool that we have this marker that can be used to
> > date old scouts.
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> I have some doubt about the utility of this as a dating technique,
> because in my 40-ish-year-old memory of cub scouts, the origin was
> Wolf Bear Lion and I'm pretty sure I got it from the manual or other
> official documents. I wonder whether the oral tradition may have
> varied geographically? I was in southern California.
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> John
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