Re: Blue knickers

Ewan Scott wrote:

On Thu, 29 Jun 2006 12:15:06 +0000 (UTC), aendr-news04@xxxxxxxx (A
Kerr-Munslow [Mad Hatter]) wrote:

In Guiding, the "blue knicker brigage" (sometimes "blue rinse") are a
bunch of stereotypically old (but they don't have to be old in years)
stick in the mud, no change here, by-law loving, jobsworth biddies.

A bunch of Guiders are currently trying to figure out the equivalent for
Scouters... purple y-fronts? teal long shorts? mushroom flares?

I know there exist teal helicopters, but I have the impression they're
more of an SAS style group who kidnap (forevermore) unlucky Scouters who
don't toe the party line. I'm not sure we have the equivalent in
Guiding, well we do but we don't have a name for them, they're so
hush-hush.

Anyway, clearly you lot are the authority on this issue, can you tell us
the answer?

Someone once referred to them as the greybeards. But I think that
classes all us with grey hair as the same and this is patently not the
case.

I think, "The Old Guard" probably sums it up.

I don't think 'greybeard' is the same thing at all. Greybeard simply says
'old', with an implication of the wisdom that comes with age. Whereas Old
Farts or Old Guard may well be young in years.

--
John Russell
CSL 1st Pinhoe Exeter Devon
http://www.pinhoescouts.org.uk/cubs/
Cubs don't care how much you know, but they need to know how much you care.

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