Be Careful What You Wish For

Last December at Mick Golden's birthday brunch I pitched the idea to a group of guys I was sitting with that we start Man Scouts. Why not have Boy Scouts for men? This was a joke of course. We nominated one guy's wife to be the Den Mother to make us Kool-Aid and cookie treats for all our Man Scouts meetings. She'd also need a minivan, of course, to drive us to all our neato field trips to the Ford F-150 Assembly Plant and minor league baseball games!!! And then we had to wonder how long it would take for the Ford assembly plant guys to kick our panise asses and the Man Scouts uniforms that went with them.

As an aside, someone asked why don't they have Girl Scouts for women? Mick Golden said, "They already do. It's called a book club." Funny stuff.

Anyway, I guess nothing and everything is new under the sun. My friend (we'll call him Zandypants) just sent me an e-mail informing there are all ready two Manscouts chapters in the country. But neither is like the Man Scouts I envisioned.

The first, there's Manscouts.org which appears to be more manly than anything I envisioned, and a little scary in a Fredonia sort of way.

And then there's http://www.manscouts.com which is scary in a Soddom and Gamorrah sort of way.

As Zandypants said in his e-mail, "Take your pick, but choose wisely, my young friends."