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[Max]

One trick to managing 14 year olds is that there is nothing they love more than vaguely insulting nicknames from their counselors.  Somehow this builds bunk unity like a charm.  Ho Chi (whose actual name is Adam) told us some weird story about his vietnamese barber, I think, so we went with the famed vietcong leader.

[AlohaDawg]

Weird.
He was the only one without a normal-seeming name.

[CortJstr]

One trick to managing 14 year olds is that there is nothing they love more than vaguely insulting nicknames from their counselors.  Somehow this builds bunk unity like a charm.  Ho Chi (whose actual name is Adam) told us some weird story about his vietnamese barber, I think, so we went with the famed vietcong leader.

At my camp the names never came from the counselors. One did try to give us baseball-ish names to fit with the theme of our suite (every counsellor's suite had to have a theme) but nobody ever used them. While there's a guy that we still refer to as Boston almost 10 years later. I couldn't supply his real first name if you paid me.

Dammit, now I'm all nostalgic about summer camp. I remember in 8th grade when we had a field day and regular team names were forbidden. So my suite called itself "Andre's House of Body Oil." We were soundly defeated in the silly games they make kids play at summer camp by "The Radioactive Meatballs." Shit, we had cheers and banners and everything. They even made us come up with a theme song. Good times.

I also suddenly want to play four square, spades, and egyptian rat screw. Ah summer camp, how I miss you.

[miles]

I see your naked cowboy, and raise you Bruce Campbell!

[...]

I am wearing my Ray shirt there. And my narcolepsy kicked in right in the middle of the air guitar solo I was performing for him.

Not really, it's just a shitty picture. Bruce looks entertained though.

Bruce Campbell visited Salt Lake recently, but I was out of town.  Did you see his movie?

Oh, and it actually looks like you are making the wanking gesture at something he is saying...?

[AlohaDawg]

I thought maybe he was playing air guitar...

[jough]

I saw Bruce Campbell in the Bourse Building in Philly when he was signing copies of his book, and while I didn't feel like standing in the line to get a book signed I did, like a dork, shout over to him "Hail to the king, baby." and he shot me with a gun made from his hand.

[wombat]

Cort, what the hell is Egyptian Rat Screw, dammit.  There's no way I'm going to risk Googling that.

[CortJstr]

Cort, what the hell is Egyptian Rat Screw, dammit.  There's no way I'm going to risk Googling that.

Wikipedia[/url]"]Egyptian Ratscrew [...] is a card game of the accumulation family, reminiscent of Slapjack and Beggar-My-Neighbour, but more complex. The game is played with a standard 52-card deck (or with multiple standard decks shuffled together with large numbers of players)