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The Friday of the Camporee was scheduled to include an instructional campfire.  Most kids don’t know how to assemble a skit from scratch nor how to make a bad one suck less, so Joe and I decided to show them.  We put together a collection of songs, games, and cheers (exactly zero of them, I hate cheers) but wanted a new skit.  I scoured the web for new materials and after checking at least two hundred links I found a single new run-on.

Two guys are throwing propane back and forth.  3rd guy comes by, asks what they’re doing.  Response?  Passing gas.

Hard to believe that a skit involving throwing a propane can near a fire was the only one I hadn’t seen.  This is why I entitled this section “Run-ons: Where funny goes to die”.

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“Due to global warming all pictures of the sun in requirements for Soil and Water Conservation must be drawn with an angry face rather than a happy face”

“Stabbing yourself in woodcarving will no longer be accepted for the wound dressing requirement of First Aid merit badge”

I still want to do the byproduct of combined merit badges.  Public Speaking + Rock Climbing with a podium scaling a wall is still my favorite.  Archery + Fishing or Shotgun Shooting with Fishing with a cod or herring in the trap thrower is probably #2.

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I’d really like to run a Headline News segment to open camp in some way incorporated each week’s troops into consideration.

Idea: Due to the demands of Troop (largest troop of the week), the airband competition now has a Air Marching Band award.

I don’t know if it’s too narrow, but hey at least I’m not making fun of the smallest troop.

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From Sam Capagrossi, a skit idea.

Everyone knows the JC Penney skit whereby people come in succession with interesting clothing and a bystander asks the source of these threads to which the constant reply is “JC Penney”.  Finally, a sparsely dressed man appears, is asked for his name, and wryly responds “JC Penney”, hilarity ensues as the audience realizes that the clothing did not come from a department store but from a destitute syphilitic hobo.  I don’t know if the skit calls for a syphilitic but it always does in my head.

Anyway, what if it were set in Roman times and the victim is TJ Maximus?