• lucullus@discuss.tchncs.de
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    9 days ago

    For a long time I was a group leader at our scouts troop, at that time for the age group of 13 to 16 years (myself being like 28 at that time). This happened on our summer camp. We had small rituals for morning and evening, just something to get the group together and starting/ending the day with everyone. As I have enough creativity to write decent short stories and the overall theme of the camp being knights and castles, I wrote a short story about the knight Kunibert, who accounts to the reader about how he slayed a dragon and rescued a maiden from it. So, what does a dragon have? Big teeth, fire breath, sharp claws,… and of course a horned tail. So I also wrote about the horned tail. But in german the word for tail is also slang for penis. While writing I really wasn’t aware how it sounded. Until I read the story to the kids.

    That was a bit weird, but also fun. Next day we let the kids write the next episode of the story. They included Kunibert putting his “big horny tail” on the table at the castle, trying to brag with its size, despite it starting to stink horribly, since he didn’t clean it before.