{"id":11091,"date":"2013-10-24T11:43:18","date_gmt":"2013-10-24T16:43:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.sportsfirings.com\/?p=11091"},"modified":"2013-10-24T13:55:50","modified_gmt":"2013-10-24T18:55:50","slug":"quote-of-the-day-also-discussion-question","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sportsfirings.com\/?p=11091","title":{"rendered":"Quote of the day (also, discussion question)"},"content":{"rendered":"

Updating a more recent story, some Maryland state troopers are further upset with state AG Doug Gansler, who they have accused of being a horrible backseat driver, because he called their leader a “henchman” of his political opponents. That’s bad but better than being called a “lackey” or “flunky,” at least according to the results of an alcohol-fueled debate I once had about the hierarchy among minions. Henchmen rank more highly and so bear more responsibility for dirty deeds, or so we concluded. I think.<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Okay. So it sounds like the hierarchy may run something like this:<\/p>\n

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  1. Sidekick.<\/li>\n
  2. Henchman. (Or “henchperson”. Or should it be “person of hench”?)<\/li>\n
  3. Peon.<\/li>\n
  4. Lackey.<\/li>\n
  5. Flunky.<\/li>\n
  6. Pawn.<\/li>\n
  7. Toady.<\/li>\n
  8. Minion.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    That sound about right to everyone? Discuss in comments. I guess the way I see it, “minion” is the term for both the super-set covering the entire sidekick-henchman-lackey-flunky hierarchy, and the title for the “entry level” position. “Honey, good news! I just got promoted from ‘minion’ to ‘lackey’! Now we can afford premium beer!<\/a>”<\/p>\n

    Edited to add: a friend of WCD points out that we left out “toady”, so I’ve added it to the list above. I’m tentatively placing it one step above “minion”.<\/p>\n

    Also: “pawn” and “peon”. List revised, but the positions given are just starting points for discussion.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    Updating a more recent story, some Maryland state troopers are further upset with state AG Doug Gansler, who they have accused of being a horrible backseat driver, because he called their leader a “henchman” of his political opponents. That’s bad but better than being called a “lackey” or “flunky,” at least according to the results […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14,23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11091","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-clippings","category-law"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sportsfirings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11091","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sportsfirings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sportsfirings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sportsfirings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sportsfirings.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=11091"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.sportsfirings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11091\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11097,"href":"https:\/\/www.sportsfirings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11091\/revisions\/11097"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sportsfirings.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11091"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sportsfirings.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11091"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sportsfirings.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11091"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}