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Tom Blanton emailed me: “I’ve discovered a new tool in Photoshop that reveals things in pictures that couldn’t be seen before. Check out this new version of your scout picture.”
Never expected to see this photo hit by a “truth squad.”
This helps explain why I failed the final exam for Temperance Merit Badge. *
On the other hand, it also explains why I did well some years later when required to walk a straight line… and didn’t have to carry along my buddy Jim Beam for the performance.
[* True story: My great-grandmother was a founding member of the Women’s Christian Temperance Union. I reckon the Bovard clan has mellowed since her time… or maybe “pickled” is a more accurate verb.]
Ahhh Yes, the Sour Mash Merit Badge. It was generally placed , in conformance with Regulation, adjacent to the “Roll A Spliff Like A Cigar ” badge and the “Identification of “Most Effective Undetected Spot to Watch the Girl’s Showers at Camp” badge and , of course, the “Surviving Banishment By the Putz In Charge” badge. We flew the Gadsden Flag.