Word of the Day: myrmidon

myrmidon (n)

Someone who carries out, without question or ethical qualms, a master's orders.

"I dimly recall the bag being removed from my head in the mountaintop cave of a wild-eyed bandit chieftain with a twirling jet-black mustache and the psychotic intensity of Eduardo Ciannelli in Gunga Din. Brandishing a scimitar, he had apparently gone ballistic over some shoddy abduction work by his trio of simpering myrmidons."
--Woody Allen, "Tandoori Ransom"

Abduction....

One of my wyfe's friends who we haven't seen in a while (she moved to the Hudson Valley of New York State) told us that she was abducted by...them. Only she didn't like the words "abducted" or "abduction" or "abductee". She preferred to call herself an "experiencer". Apparently, she didn't think of her experience (whatever it was) as negative, or not entirely. She also refused to give us any of the details. She was a painter, and she gave us a small painting with little images of flying saucers subtly mixed into the color fields. You can see part of this painting behind my head in my current Facebook profile picture. She also included a phrase in tiny letters in one corner of it: "They are us." Whatever that means.