Forty Phrases every Scoutmaster should know:

  1. “Ask your patrol leader.”
  2. “Well, ask him again.”
  3. “Well then, ask your senior patrol leader.”
  4. “I don’t know.”
  5. “Where’s your buddy?”
  6. “Who is your buddy?”
  7. “Do you do that at home?”
  8. “We don’t do that here.”
  9. “Stop!”
  10. “Go!”
  11. “What happens next?”
  12. “Why?”
  13. “Does that belong to you?”
  14. “Checking my eyelids for leaks. Why? What are doing?”
  15. “You can do it!”
  16. “Don’t do that.”
  17. “Are you sure you do that at home?”
  18. “Over there.”
  19. “Over here.”
  20. “It is not here.”
  21. “I am not the quartermaster.”
  22. “I am not the scribe.”
  23. “I am not the committee chairman”
  24. “I am not… okay your get the idea.”
  25. “Because.”
  26. “I don’t answer those questions.”
  27. “It’s not stolen, it’s lost.”
  28. “Here it is, right where somebody left it.”
  29. “What did you expect would happen?”
  30. “So, that’s what happens.”
  31. “Perhaps it will go better next time.”
  32. “It may have been wiser not to do that in the first place.”
  33. “It may have been wiser to do that in the first place.”
  34. “You did what?”
  35. “Find something else to do.”
  36. “That’s funny.”
  37. “That’s not funny.”
  38. “When did that happen?”
  39. “How did that happen?”
  40. “Let’s not have that happen again.”