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== [[Real Life]] == |
== [[Real Life]] == |
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* The Cub Scouts Of America [http://www.csmonitor.com/Innovation/Horizons/2010/0428/Boy-Scouts-of-America-offers-pins-loops-for-video-game-prowess now offers pins and loops] in [[Video Games]]. The [http://uk.gamespy.com/articles/108/1086555p1.html response] of the Gamespy website's Mike Starkey also fits this trope: |
* The Cub Scouts Of America [http://www.csmonitor.com/Innovation/Horizons/2010/0428/Boy-Scouts-of-America-offers-pins-loops-for-video-game-prowess now offers pins and loops] in [[Video Games]]. The [https://web.archive.org/web/20100501172840/http://uk.gamespy.com/articles/108/1086555p1.html response] of the Gamespy website's Mike Starkey also fits this trope: |
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{{quote|[[When I Was Your Age|Back in my day]], we had to walk nine miles to get to school every morning, and nine miles to get back home -- uphill both ways. And we didn't have these fancy Videogame Belt Loops or Pins in the Cub Scouts. If we were lucky, [[The Spartan Way|we'd get sent into bear country alone for a week with no food or water]]. [[Hilariously Abusive Childhood|And if we made it out in one piece]], the troop leader would ask us why we weren't man enough to earn the Eaten Alive badge.}} |
{{quote|[[When I Was Your Age|Back in my day]], we had to walk nine miles to get to school every morning, and nine miles to get back home -- uphill both ways. And we didn't have these fancy Videogame Belt Loops or Pins in the Cub Scouts. If we were lucky, [[The Spartan Way|we'd get sent into bear country alone for a week with no food or water]]. [[Hilariously Abusive Childhood|And if we made it out in one piece]], the troop leader would ask us why we weren't man enough to earn the Eaten Alive badge.}} |
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* The Boy Scouts now have a [[Geocaching]] Merit Badge. |
* The Boy Scouts now have a [[Geocaching]] Merit Badge. |
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** Honorable mentions go to ''Truck Transportation'', ''Farm Mechanics'', ''Pulp and Paper'', and the politically questionable ''Indian Lore''. |
** Honorable mentions go to ''Truck Transportation'', ''Farm Mechanics'', ''Pulp and Paper'', and the politically questionable ''Indian Lore''. |
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* UK Girl Guides have the option to work towards their [http://www.girlguiding.org.uk/ |
* UK Girl Guides have the option to work towards their [https://web.archive.org/web/20131020184526/http://www.girlguiding.org.uk/Guides/gfibadge/badges/chocolate.html chocolate badge.] |
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