Archive for February 4, 2008

BOFH: Carbon Neutrality (Episode 4)

Posted in Personal Stuff by John E. Pannell on February 4th, 2008 at 5:42 am

God bless the British for their cutting sense of humor!   A computer geek friend of mine acquainted me with this “series” of columns.   This one begins:

“What’re they for?” the PFY asks as the Boss rolls in a trolley load of brightly coloured plastic bins.“They’re for our recycling initiative,” the Boss responds. “Red for plastic, white for paper, yellow for cardboard and blue for polystyrene.”

“What about glass?” the PFY asks.

“Glass is to be sorted by colour into bins in the basement,” the Boss replies.

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    Lodge 459: 2008 Spring Fellowship

    Posted in Catawba 459,SR-5 Lodges by John E. Pannell on February 4th, 2008 at 5:20 am

    Catawba lodge has adopted a super heroes theme for this year’s activity patches.       The first event of the year, Spring Fellowship, is not until the weekend of March 14th, but I have already been sent an image of the patch that will be issued.   The Spring Fellowship features “Meck” costumed as The Flash.

    The fleur d’lis is kind of hard to see in an images, especially if you don’t know where to look. It’s on The Flash’s right boot.     The patch has a “laser cut edge” and was produced by Shelby Patch Company.

    Thanks to Larry Banks, I have also been sent images of the  rest of the 2008  activity patches for Catawba lodge.     I will post these later.     Blue Book data for the Spring Fellowship patch is as follows:  

     

    Issue Bdr Color/Type Bkgd Name fdl/BSA Comments
    eX2008-1? M/C C M/C RED YEL fdl; Spring Fellowship 2008
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