NetNews Usenet Archive 1992 #16/NN_1992_16.iso/spool/rec/scouting/2255

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From: [e-mail] (Ronald Oakes)
Subject: Little Johns (was Re: Patrol names)
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In article <[e-mail]>, [e-mail] writes:
|> Our troop has had a couple of 'interesting' Patrol names.  The first was the
|> Ranger Bob patrol - apparently this is/was some minor character on some
|> teen-oriented TV comedy.  Their Patrol emblem was the BSA Frontiersman
|> patch.  They eventually changed their names to the Flaming Outhouses - I gather
|> it started as an inside joke.  Naturally(?), it my son's patrol both times.

Did they perhaps have an encounter with a "Little-John?"

A Little-John is a propane powered toilet that burns #2, and goes out if used
for #1.  For many years Camp Frank Rand (Great Southwest Council -- Located
neary Chimayo NM, 100 or so miles south of Philmont) had two of these in most
of the sites.  When used properly, they actually only smelled for a few minutes
and made for little waste.  But with Boy Scouts, they often went out and caused
other problems.

I heard that they were finally eliminated a year or so ago, after the last time
I was there.

Of course, the camp I went to arround here last week only has old pits that the
scouts complain about having to clean -- and occationally use.

Ronald B. Oakes
  Scoutmaster, Troop 91
  Palatine IL