NEWS: Boy Scout Earns All 122 Badges

CULTURE: Boy Scout Earns All 122 Badges

If you're having trouble getting into college and those perfect SAT scores aren't helping you, maybe James Calderwood of Chevy Chase, MD, can. His advice: earn all 122 available merit badges that the Boy Scouts offers, and the college acceptance letters will pour in.

He earned so many that the Scout issued sash couldn't hold them all so he was forced to sew three together to let you know who you're dealing with when he rolls into your town. The Boy Scouts do not keep records of badges earned, but it is extremely rare that someone manages to accomplish this, perhaps only 20 to 30 boys in the near 100 year old Scout history.

The accomplishment has really turned on College Admissions Departments across the country.

While the achievement sounds a little crazy, you can listen to an interview of Calderwood on NPR and realize that maybe it wasn't earned by some super obsessed dork, but a normal kid with diverse interests and the opportunity to accomplish something fun that has afforded him a unnatural amount of cool experiences for his age. Listening to him you start to think earning the badges actually sounds fun and this might be a pretty interesting guy.

I had like 30. I had more than enough for eagle, but then I discovered pussy. It's all been downhill since.

Definitely a big accomplishment though. That must have swallowed his life.

Holy Crap.

I bet his mom sewed the sashes together.

Chevy Chase, MD?

Chevy Chase?

Wow. That's probably more interesting to me than the rest of the story.

I'll bet he's nailed more than one Eagle Scout groupie at camp, too. But they probably don't have a badge for that.

It's there, but you sew it on the inside of the sash--they don't like to advertise that shit.

The badge goes on yr dingdong. It's called genital warts.

That's Hot!

Its ironic the 122nd badge is the "Virgin For Life Badge" and he's allready a lock for it huh?

i wonder how many scoutmaster handjobs in the back of a yellow van that equals?

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holy repressed memory batman!

Dammit. That shit is funny.

I think the "Cry When You Masturbate" merit badge is a prerequisite for the Virgin merit badge.

Man, I do NOT miss the Scouts at all.

Is that different from the "Weep While You Swallow" badge? I forgot.....

Huh. No sewing merit badge. I swear that I heard the guy had a mean cross-stitch.

holy shit he needs a hobby

Yeah, but most of those groupies were his fellow Boy Scouts. So, that's basically just business as usual.

Well, he DID earn his sewing badge.

Sounds like he has 122 of them.

That is fucking crazy.

No shit. I don't think he's short on the hobby front.

I wonder if he got a badge for getting laid?

I doubt it.

That's Girl Scouts actually. Den Fathers usually administer those tests to the girls that don't sell enough cookies.

they might!

You should all get a merit badge for making the same tired joke.