Sidekick or entourage?

In My Humble Opinion
1

Which would you rather have?

I’m thinking sidekick (of the competent, Robin, variety, not the bumbling, Barney Fife, variety), because I’m too codependent to get off on the jockeying for my favor amongst the members of an entourage.

2

When you’re trying to leave inconspicuously through the window, an entourage is much harder to manage than a sidekick.

3

I always aspire to having an entourage, but I’m usually stuck with a sidekick.

OK, OK, actually I aspire to having a sidekick.

Oh, alright, I’ll admit it, I’d be happy with someone who wanted to go out to a movie with me once.

I’m not THAT pathetic, honest

4

Sidekick.

Inevitably there will be someone cooler than you in an entourage, and he/she will steal your glory.

Look at Michael Jackson…He used to have Sheryl Crow in his group of people. Who sells more records now?

5

I have a sidearm. I also have a sorta-kinda “entourage”. But, I don’t think I’d want a sidekick. I’d want all the credit for myself.

Tripler
O! For I am death, destroyer of worlds, and lover of fine cheesecake.

6

I would want an entourage. A sidekick requires too much personal attention, while an entourage could amuse themselves while I was taking care of Big and Important Things.

7

I’ve always wanted to be the evil power behind the throne. How does that classify?

8

I think I’d like an entourage. To boost my ego enormously. And to do all my work for me.

This would be a competent entourage, yes?

9

Hey – it’s your entourage.

10

This thread is better suited for IMHO. I’ll move it for you.

Cajun Man - SDMB Moderator

11

What about **lackys[b/]?. I’d rather have them.

12

Well my entourage includes the following:
Trusted lietenant - Close friend, good for carrying out evil plans and serving as a “wingman” in bars
Wise mentor- Kind of an older advisor who I can turn to for
Hot chick - Enough said
Large goon - Just a really really big guy.
Consierge - Always need someone who can dig up “hard to find” items.
Buffoon - Can’t be all business all the time. You need someone whos a little mire functional than a jester yet still fun to hang out with.
Syncophant- Nothing boosts the ego like having a bootlick around.
And of course I’ll need the usual assortement of lawyers, PR experts, hired goons, lietenants, elite hired goons, floozies, biatches, and weather machine operators.

13

Can my entourage consist of scantily clad, well-oiled young studs? I don’t need a bunch - 3 or 4 would do. And if my husband gets upset, I can tell him one is the gardener, one is the pool boy, one walks the dogs, and one is my chauffeur. OK, we don’t have a pool, but still…

14

I want a posse. They can just walk around behind me, wireless mikes in hand, bobbing their heads, occassionally punctuating what I have to say with “Yeah!” Maybe they can even introduce me: “Yo yo yo yo yo! Docta Jizz-ay in the hizz-ouse!”

Yes, it’s true. I really want to be Snoop Dogg.

Dr. J (Beeyotch!)

15

You don’t know what a real entourage is. How about 3000 people?:

16

Well, if you’re going to have an entourage…

I’ve also been asking people this IRL, and am getting mostly fairly banal answers – but one woman I asked asked her husband, who emphatically said “sidekick – too dangerous to have an entourage” (viz.: Julius Caesar), which I think is definitely worth taking into consideration.

17

Neither. Loner all the way. (Not counting my wife, of course; I’m her sidekick :wink: )