AK-Eagle Posted January 30, 2004 Share Posted January 30, 2004 yep I meant cheek... How do you edit a post? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
saltheart Posted January 30, 2004 Share Posted January 30, 2004 Decisions, decisions....and now yet another.... Do I wear the red ones? Or the Black? Or do I break out the ones with the family tartan? Am I wearing my troop uniform? Or my Training Staff uniform? Which hat will I don? Shall I be holding up long pants or shorts with the suspenders? My, my...so many decisions!! Shall I wear the ones with the "X" back? Or the "Y" back? The ones with the silver adjustment clip? Or the Brass? The ones with the clips? or the ones for the buttons? (Uh-oh...scout pants don't have the buttons...choice made.) The red ones go well with the training staff epilets, the tartan ones don't... The black ones go well with...well, with just about all the epilets...and the badges.... Uh-oh...the badges...the wide suspenders tend to cover many of the uniform adornments...better go for the narrow ones... But...the narrow ones cut into the shoulders more... Gads....what to do?? Thanks, eisely...just when I thought I had everything in order.... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
captainron14 Posted January 31, 2004 Share Posted January 31, 2004 SUSPENDERS!!!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
OldGreyEagle Posted January 31, 2004 Share Posted January 31, 2004 Please Please Please, a little decorum please, they are not suspenders, they are braces... SO, why DO firemen wear red braces?(This message has been edited by OldGreyEagle) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hops_scout Posted February 1, 2004 Share Posted February 1, 2004 Some people in the military wear them too:) to keep their belts up:) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fat Old Guy Posted February 1, 2004 Share Posted February 1, 2004 "Please Please Please, a little decorum please, they are not suspenders, they are braces..." Only in that funny little country calle England. Over there suspenders are what women wear to hold their stockings up. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Owl62 Posted February 5, 2004 Share Posted February 5, 2004 My vote is for suspenders too - for common sense reasons.... And there is nothing that I can find in the Insignia Guide that forbids the wear of suspenders..... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fuzzy Bear Posted February 6, 2004 Share Posted February 6, 2004 This guy came into a bar carrying a mouse. The bartender said, "Hey, we don't serve mice." The mouse said, "Wait a minute, I'm not really a mouse." The bartender was taken aback by this furry little creature speaking up. He said, "You can speak, I have never heard a mouse speak before. Tell me more." The mouse began to tell the bartender his life's story. They hit it off so well that the mouse came to the bar every night just so he and the bartender could talk. The moral of this tale is that even though you have never heard a mouse speak doesn't mean you should be so quick to judge him. He just might have story. Crack, suspenders, who am I to judge? The Mouse Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fuzzy Bear Posted February 6, 2004 Share Posted February 6, 2004 Hey, we don't serve mice in here!(This message has been edited by Fuzzy Bear) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
OldGreyEagle Posted February 6, 2004 Share Posted February 6, 2004 Some beer was spilled on the bar room floor And the bar was closed for the night A little brown mouse came from a hole in the wall and sat in the pale moonlight He lapped up the beer from the bar room floor And back on his haunches, he sat An' all night long you could hear him roar Bring on the bar room cat The cat came in at the break of dawn And ate up the little brown mouse An' the moral of this story is Never take a drink on the house Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
packsaddle Posted February 6, 2004 Share Posted February 6, 2004 The mental image is almost as bad as America's growing crack problem. Can you get them in paisley? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
willysjeep Posted February 26, 2004 Share Posted February 26, 2004 Interesting story. There was a fella on summer camp staff many years ago who only wore gallouses to keep his pants up. He got razzed one year about them not being uniform, so the next year he had a pair of OD green suspenders for everybody on staff. Thet matched the scout pants perfectly. I think they were called "the boss" or something. Really interesting design. They only had two clips and clipped onto your pants right on the side. So, for a few years there were "official" suspenders on summer camp staff at least. OD green worked great for scouts, but I shudder to think of them in gold for cubbers. I say go for what works. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kenk Posted May 4, 2004 Share Posted May 4, 2004 As a suspender wearer AND a Cub Scout leader, I wanted to point out that I wear BLUE suspenders that match the blue ribbons on the epilets (sp?). When (if?) I move on to Boy Scouts with my son, then my plan is to switch to the RED suspenders, again, to match the epliets, though I have wondered if wearing DARK GREEN suspenders would be less distracting from the uniform. The problem there is I have yet to find green suspenders. Blue, tan, maroon, black, and red seem to be the most commonly available colors. I did hear my council's training coordinator complain about the number of scout leaders the are overweight and the bad message it sends to our boys about maintaning their health. I myself was offended by that comment since I have struggled with my weight since early childhood, having tried every diet under the sun and experienced the yo-yo diet issues. I was a fat Cub Scout, a fat Boy Scout, and now a fat Scout leader. Is Scout leadership only for the lean? I hope not, since I feel I have a lot to offer ... so long as my pants stay up. Back to the suspenders ... there is nothing worse than watching a man with a big belly constantly pulling up it pants. THAT is why I wear suspenders. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fat Old Guy Posted May 4, 2004 Share Posted May 4, 2004 "epilets (sp?)" epaulets or epaulettes, from the French word for shoulder. In any case, the colored do-hickeys are properly called "shoulder loops" which are worn on the epaulets. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LPC_Thumper Posted May 6, 2004 Share Posted May 6, 2004 Thanks for the lesson... I have only been doing the adult scouter thing in 3 decades (HOW DID I GET SO OLD??), about a year ago I finally figured out the red/green/blue/blaze/silver/gold things are called 'loops.' I vote suspenders, remember folks there's a thing called YPT Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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