Radok? Boramander? Zulif?

[Matariki]

http://languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu/nll/?p=2214

Christian Militia has some very special names for their ranks (from Hutaree's website):

RADOK
BORAMANDER
ZULIF
ARKON
GOLD RIFLEMAN
SILVER RIFLEMAN
BRONZE RIFLEMAN
LUKORE
MASTER GUNNER
SENIOR GUNNER
GUNNER

(And the winning comment to the article!):

"This chart has 12 ranks, and I doubt they have more than a few hundred members. To me that says it's functioning more like the ranks in a treehouse club. The kid with the treehouse gets to be "Radok" and his best friend is a "Boramander". The kid they don't like much is a "Lukore" except in the summer when they use his parent's pool, then he's "Gold Rifleman" and nobody is ever a "Silver Rifleman" because the Boramander's sister took the silver pen."

[Canuckistanian]

1. DaiMon?

[Cleita]

2. Living in a fantasy world, it would seem, complete with made up words.

Maybe they should be in an institution being treated for their lack of a grasp on reality.

[CanonRay]

3. I think I ate a Boramander once

Use a lot of pepper.

[Ozymanithrax]

4. Once they plan to murder a policeman and kill his family at the funeral...

they can practice their fantasy world in prison.

[Quantess]

5. How dorky!

Reminds me of something Dwight Schrute would come up with.

[MineralMan]

6. Sounds like KKK titles...

Grand Cyklops
Nighthawk


and so on.

[Matariki]

7. If the KKK was run by LARPers

[chat_noir]

8. Balloon Juice is having some fun with this

http://www.balloon-juice.com/2010/03/29/the-only-survivors-of-the-national-peoples-gang/

ZOMG 1! I’m in ur base killing your Zulifs!1


Purely coincedentally, those are also various donor levels from Bush-Cheney ‘04. Raising $50 makes you “Gunner”. To get to level Arkon requires raising $500 and selling 50 copies of “A Charge To Keep”.


“The kid with the treehouse gets to be “Radok” and his best friend is a “Boramander”. The kid they don’t like much is a “Lukore” except in the summer when they use his parent’s pool, then he’s “Gold Rifleman” and nobody is ever a “Silver Rifleman” because the Boramander’s sister took the silver pen.”


Arkon is a fictional character in the Marvel Comics Universe. He is the warlord and ruler of the extra-dimensional world of Polemachus.


Have you seen the mug shots of these people? Looks like a really shallow gene pool.

[Matariki]

10. Oh yeah - thanks for posting that!

so very funny.

But seriously, Bush-Cheney '04 had a donor level called "Arkon"??? Tell me you made that up...

:rofl:

[Forkboy]

9. Sounds like the NHL draft order.

[RagAss]

11. Cretins on parade.

[psychicwhoosh]

12. So, how many kills do I need to be an Akon?

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[canetoad]

13. `Twas brillig, and the slithy toves

Did gyre and gimble in the wabe

What, no Bandersnatch?