child hood item meme: The Viking Patrol!

[thoreau]

"take a picture of one of your favorite childhood possessions you still have out in your home and tell us about it"



Ah - proof that my fetish for red heads with big mustaches started very early. This was a flag for THE VIKING PATROL that my Mom helped me make when I was 12. I loved it - and it was a huge hit on the Oak Harbor Boy Scout circuit in the late 70s. I love the "taking a break from raping and pillaging - Bruce the Viking sat for his portrait" feel.

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[grizzlyzone.livejournal.com]

Ah, so YOU got custody of the flag.

Just out of idle curiousity, what did your brother get?

[low-fat-muffin.livejournal.com]

He was with that archnemesis "eagle patrol" :)

Oh, the memories

[badgerpdx.livejournal.com]

I have this LOVE/HATE memory fight with Boyscouts. MANY of my happiest childhood memories (not to mention some of my first "intimate memories" are closely tied to Boyscouts (and before you think weird thoughts...the fooling around was with scouts my own age, not the scoutmaster...although,in retrospect, there were some meritbadge counselors at Camp Long Lake I would have happily snogged).. At said Camp Long Lake, in Dundee, WI (the start of the Milwaukee River, FYI) in the mess hall, there is a wall filled with fire shovels and patrol flags from "Arrowhead" which was the scholarship camp for future BS leaders. I was the nominee from my troup. Being an artist, I did the flag for my patrol for the week long camp: "The Caribou Patrol" (Nicknamed the Cariboo-boos...I don't know why). I quit Scouts shortly thereafter due to some racist issues with my troupe's scoutmaster... but it still fills me with pride that on the wall of the mess hall at Camp Long Lake, is a patrol flag I did when I was 16.

(I do kind of wish I had soldiered on and finished my Eagle badge).

OH MY GOD... I just remembered that all through Scouting, I was in the BADGER PATROL! How funny is that? I had COMPLETELY FORGOTTEN!

[rsc.livejournal.com]

proof that my fetish for red heads with big mustaches started very early.

Did you have thing for Yosemite Sam?

[bootedintexas.livejournal.com]

i believe it was your love of liquid embroidery that got the viking into existence. admit it.

[low-fat-muffin.livejournal.com]

well - yes - that too. but really whats not to love about liquid embroidery? AND red mustached brutes smiling for a portrait?

[low-fat-muffin.livejournal.com]

My Viking fantasies began when I read that they picked the weakest member of their crews and made him the sodomy target on long sea journeys. I think I found that somewhere when I was like 8 year old - and (bingo) I wanted to know all about the Vikings. :)

[scream4noreason.livejournal.com]

After seeing Star wars I rushed home and wrote(and illustrated)the sequel.It filed an entire exercise book.I wish to go I still had it.It was way better than anythign with Jar Jar in it.

[vaneramos.livejournal.com]

I'd be at a loss. I don't have anything from my childhood, except a few books from my teens.

[rsc.livejournal.com]

My 4th-grade class spent a lot of time studying the Vikings, but the idea that we would have learned anything about "sodomy targets" just boggles my mind.

[low-fat-muffin.livejournal.com]

which books are they? and why do you keep them?

[low-fat-muffin.livejournal.com]

well I think I found it elsewhere. on a microfiche in someone's paper. LOL! not in a textbook.

[vaneramos.livejournal.com]

I thought I had the Earthsea Trilogy, but I see only The Tombs of Atuan on the shelf. I must have loaned the others to my daughters. A Wizard of Earthsea is still my favourite novel. On the other hand my childhood set of The Chronicles of Narnia is still intact. It too was seminal.

[cuboz.livejournal.com]

That's amazing!

Unless I discover something hidden in a cupboard next time I visit Mum in New Zealand, I don't think I have ANYTHING from early childhood!