Bad Idea Jeans -- Scout Merit Badges

In My Humble Opinion
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I was in the Cub Scouts for a couple of years and seem to recall that most of the merit badges were for pretty mundane stuff… collections, campfire skills, reading… They could really do a lot better. But they could also do a lot worse, and this might be far more amusing. Can you come up with bad ideas for merit bages? I’ll get the ball rolling here (before it comes to a mind-shattering stop twenty minutes from now):

  • Stool Pigeon (merit badge)

  • Fundamentals of Gravedigging

  • Boogercraft

  • Junior Gambler

  • Young Bartender Proficiency Badge

  • Kama Sutra badge

  • Noogie, “Indian Burn” and Sleeper Hold expertise

  • Junior Toxicology

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–monkey spanking by flashlight

–nighttime hand in warm water bladder testing

–snipe hunting

–ballot punching (Florida specific)

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Armpit Noises

E-mail bombing

Writing a Virus

“Outing” (in light of the recent controversy)

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– Removing bloodstains from clothing

– Ninja assassin

– Sleeping

– Weaseling out of difficult assignments

– Not paying attention

– Fencing merchandise

– Wasting time

– Sitting on the bench while the talented kids play

– Smarting off to authority figures

– Sushi preparation

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Underwater breath holding

Intoxicated kayaking

Unassisted Flying

Lion Taming

Cub Bear Kidnapping

Mushroom Collection and Cooking

Car Surfing

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~Stealing

~Advanced Arsonry

~Witnessing

~Panty Raid Courage Badge

~Tattoo Design

~Conjuring Deamons

~Prostitution

~Governmental Overthrow

~Mud beating

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  • Wilding

  • Russian Roulette (also known as the “Deer Hunter” badge)

  • 10, 50, and 500 visits to a brothel

  • disguising flaming poop on a neighbor’s porch

  • “Leathercraft 2K” (making bondage gear)

  • creative usage of laser-pointers

  • fun with diesel fuel and fertilizer

  • collecting neighborhood pets for medical research

  • Elvis impersonation

  • Judy Garland impersonation

  • and for the Eagle Scout upgrade to the lowly Boy Scout “gravedigging” merit badge: Necrophilia

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Crossdressing

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Roshambo mastery

Baseball bat fencing

Binging/purging

Grifting

Jaywalking

Ear collecting

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Just curious, Guy Incognito. Wondering if you could shed some light on what the Roshambo badge looks like?

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Bong construction

Smuggling techniques

I.D. forgery

Electronic surveillance

Extortion

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  • Money Laundering

  • Scaring Documentary Filmmakers

  • Bestiality

  • Insurance Fraud

  • Trolling

  • Junior Inquisitor

  • Espionage

  • Grand Theft Auto

  • Cannibalism

  • Autoerotic Asphyxiation

  • Blindfolded Archery

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You people CRACK me up!
Thanks all, I needed that!!

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Mouse collecting

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  • Homoerotic Masturbation (Individual)

  • Homoerotic Masturbation (Team)

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Rattlesnake Baiting

Homicide badge

Underwater Synchronized Basket-Weaving

Chemical Warfare

Interrogation

Sado-Masochism badge

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[li]Olympic Style Pornographic Filmmaking (The Alain Siritzky Award)[/li]
[li]Kamakazie Piloting (awarded posthumously)[/li]
[li]International Terrorism (The Oshama bin Laden badge)[/li]
[li]Freelance Abortionist[/li]
[li]Young Alcoholic profenciency badge[/li]
[li]Television Watching[/li]
[li]The Ruperd Murdoch Science Advisory Badge[/li]
[li]Panhandling (if it isn’t different from Grifting [see above])[/li]
[li]Tax Evasion (special award if you secure yourself a presidential pardon)[/li]
[li]Evil Clonemaking[/li]
[li]Flag Burning[/li]
[li]Cross Burning[/li]
[li]Nike shoemaking[/li]
[li]Snakehandling[/li]
Musical Theater

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  • Bomb Making

  • Witch Hunting

  • Atom Splitting

  • Playing God

  • Rioting

  • Badge Forgery

  • Plagiarism

  • Organ Harvesting

  • Cult Formation

  • Making it Look like a Suicide

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Lunch Money Extortion

Pimping

Facism (In some ways, the Scouts are already there)

Catball

Moonshining

Incest (merit badge for more than one family member)

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  • Precision Projectile Vomiting

  • Synchronized Drowning

  • Percussive Flatulence

  • Amateur Taxidermy

  • Armenian History

  • Neo-Post-Modernism

  • Locksmithing