March 4, 2010

Dear Clusterflock

What is the opposite of militia?

comments

  1. Deron Bauman on March 4th, 2010 at 1:40 pm

    commune?

  2. Deron Bauman on March 4th, 2010 at 1:46 pm

    clusterflockstock?

  3. Dave Vogt on March 4th, 2010 at 2:06 pm

    clusterflockstock would be the most ineffective mustering of a militia ever.

  4. Sheila Ryan on March 4th, 2010 at 2:10 pm

    Towering Power of LUV Militia.

  5. Dave Vogt on March 4th, 2010 at 2:21 pm

    That reminds me of a segment of a work of fiction, something about a guy in the back room who keeps his arm greased to the elbow.

  6. Rick Neece on March 4th, 2010 at 2:22 pm

    ‘Mo lisha

  7. Sheila Ryan on March 4th, 2010 at 2:26 pm

    Dang, Dave. I never read the story on which the film was based. Either way, it was what you might call a powerful image.

  8. Cindy Scroggins on March 4th, 2010 at 2:42 pm

    I’m not so sure about clusterflockstock. You get Daryl and Sheila together, you got a armed force.

    Also, Daryl once had lunch with Chuck Norris.

  9. Sheila Ryan on March 4th, 2010 at 2:55 pm

    Yeah, Cindy, but me and Daryl, I think it would really just come down to plinking and laughing.

    And I didn’t exactly meet Chuck Norris, but I had to stay late at work one evening at Chicago’s so-called Cultural Center on account of he was filming The Octagon in the big room right alongside where I worked. I got to stand the other side of the glass doors and watch him running at me.

    What did Norris eat? What did Daryl eat?

  10. Michael Smith on March 4th, 2010 at 3:23 pm

    Will Chuck Norris be invited to clusterflockstock?

  11. Matthew McLeod on March 4th, 2010 at 4:27 pm

    you mean as a synonym for ‘military’?

    the latin civis : citizen, townsman, bourgeois, burgess.

    or if you mean ‘militia’ as ‘citizens trained as reserves’, then the logical opposite would be ‘deserter’.

  12. Matthew McLeod on March 4th, 2010 at 4:29 pm

    … and I meant to add, I’ve sought for years for the antonym to ‘serendipity’.

  13. Cindy Scroggins on March 4th, 2010 at 5:37 pm

    We’ll need to wait for Daryl to get back from school tonight to know where and what he ate with Chuck. I’ve never thought to ask. It was for some “I’ll Kick Your Ass Over Them Chairs” karate kind of thing, I think.

    And it’s true–you and Daryl would laugh too much to be any good at militia-ing. But you would be a force to reckon with.

  14. Sheila Ryan on March 4th, 2010 at 5:47 pm

    A-whooping and a-hollering and waving our pieces around.

  15. Rick Neece on March 4th, 2010 at 6:01 pm

    My boss, Kristopher, just out of college, worked in TV production in Dallas for a little while. He worked on “Walker, Texas Ranger.” He has stories of the Norris that I don’t know well enough to tell.

  16. Cindy Scroggins on March 4th, 2010 at 6:35 pm

    He’s Deron’s mom, you know.

  17. Lex A on March 4th, 2010 at 7:41 pm

    Without clicking through those links.. hipsters.. from Bushwick and/or Echo Park.

  18. Deron Bauman on March 4th, 2010 at 8:36 pm

    Mom!

  19. Cindy Scroggins on March 5th, 2010 at 9:56 am

    Chuck Norris won’t be invited, but I just might have something/someone else up my sleeve. And I’m not telling.

    Because I’m awesome.

  20. Michael Smith on March 5th, 2010 at 10:09 am

    I’d like to see Chuck Norris and Christopher Walken fight.

  21. Deron Bauman on March 5th, 2010 at 10:10 am

    is sanjose coming? will T.Rye be there?!

  22. Sheila Ryan on March 5th, 2010 at 10:12 am

    I want to see Chuck Norris fight an asteroid.

  23. Michael Smith on March 5th, 2010 at 10:20 am

    Perhaps Chuck Norris and Christopher Walken can team up to fight the asteroid. They wouldn’t be able to cheat like Bruce Willis did. Hand to asteroid combat only. No bombs.

  24. Sheila Ryan on March 5th, 2010 at 10:44 am

    Tag-team wrestling. Me and Rick. sanjose and T. Rye.

  25. Cindy Scroggins on March 5th, 2010 at 11:03 am

    Nope–neither sanjose nor T. Rye. Y’all’ll never guess.

    Also, I haven’t asked him yet. But who would turn down an invitation to clusterflockstock?

  26. Rick Neece on March 5th, 2010 at 11:16 am

    I’ll need to put on a pound or two more to properly fill out my singlet.

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