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You have all heard of a "swarm of bees" or a "gaggle of geese", or maybe even a "murder of crows." There are several websites that have been collecting them.
How about our very own list of collective nouns. Can be of animals, plants, types of people, maybe even inanimate objects.
If you find one on one of the web sites that you really like, enter it here, but how about some original ones (and if it is an alliteration, it's even better)?
like:
a baramin of creationists
an orgy of ofros (just to nip that one in the bud)
ninewands
09-04-2008, 07:40 PM
Not original, but I always liked these two:
An exaltation of meadowlarks
A murder of crows
Brother Daniel
09-04-2008, 07:43 PM
A megaphone of street preachers?
An equivocation of postmodernists?
(I like the baramin one. :notworthy:)
ninewands
09-04-2008, 07:44 PM
A disclaimer of lawyers?
Gagundathar Inexplicable
09-04-2008, 07:47 PM
A shrewdness of apes
A cruft of hackers
A parliament of owls
Goldie
09-04-2008, 07:48 PM
A google of geeks
ninewands
09-04-2008, 07:49 PM
A sweat of laborers
Goldie
09-04-2008, 07:52 PM
A giggle of girls
(I'm into "Gs" at the moment :) )
well then:
a grog of gins
Goldie
09-04-2008, 07:57 PM
A Crutch of Christians
Goldie
09-04-2008, 07:59 PM
A hogwaller of Republicans
Autodidact
09-04-2008, 08:43 PM
A chaos of atheists.
Matty
09-04-2008, 08:59 PM
"trivia" nerd alert
Because of a phenomenal Gerald the Gorilla sketch on Not The Nine O Clock News the commonly accepted term for a group of baboons was actually changed from a troop or congress to include "a flange" and is now used interchangeably and even more commonly by most zoologists.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_MpbMm0433I&eurl=http://engineroomblog.blogspot.com/2007/12/its-not-flange-its-congress.html
Autodidact
09-04-2008, 09:03 PM
A trivia of nerds?
A minutia of scholars?
A kennel of Alaskan hockey moms
Gagundathar Inexplicable
09-04-2008, 09:24 PM
"trivia" nerd alert
Because of a phenomenal Gerald the Gorilla sketch on Not The Nine O Clock News sketch the commonly accepted term for a group of baboons was actually changed from a troop or congress to include "a flange" and is now used interchangeably and even more commonly by most zoologists.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_MpbMm0433I&eurl=http://engineroomblog.blogspot.com/2007/12/its-not-flange-its-congress.html
1) Responding to the 'shout out' to nerds, I must say that that video had me laughing out loud.
2) You gotta be kidding me about the renaming of the collective noun for a group of baboons. All because of this one skit? I had heard of a rumpus or a troop or a congress (now THAT'S appropriate) but a flange? WTF?
Holy crap! You're right, according to the OED of all damned things. Wow.
Thanks Matty. Would never have believed it.
ninewands
09-04-2008, 09:36 PM
Actually, I think a "Congress" of baboons was singularly appropriate. After all, either a "troop" or a "flange" might actually do something useful.
A fleet of sailfish?
Autodidact
09-04-2008, 10:12 PM
A blabber of politicians.
David B
09-04-2008, 10:15 PM
I know post modernists has been done, but I would prefer an obfuscation of post modernists.
David B
Autodidact
09-04-2008, 10:49 PM
A superstition of creationists.
Brother Daniel
09-04-2008, 11:18 PM
I know post modernists has been done, but I would prefer an obfuscation of post modernists.
That's better than mine. Let's go with yours.
ninewands
09-07-2008, 12:22 AM
A symphony of songbirds
Autodidact
09-07-2008, 04:10 AM
O.K. I've got a winner, if I do say so:
A circle of Presuppositionalists. Ha ha ha.
ravenscape
09-07-2008, 06:16 AM
a quoth of ravens.
dug_down_deep
09-07-2008, 05:42 PM
A set of mathematicians.
A brick of naive realists.
dug_down_deep
09-07-2008, 07:08 PM
A lie of politicians.
Goldie
09-07-2008, 07:09 PM
A cuddle of kittens
Goldie
09-07-2008, 07:10 PM
A prick of politicians
Autodidact
09-08-2008, 04:35 PM
An orgy of groupies.
Autodidact
09-08-2008, 04:35 PM
A hypocrisy of Republicans?
dug_down_deep
09-08-2008, 04:50 PM
A rash of dermatologists.
dug_down_deep
09-08-2008, 04:51 PM
A coven of Alaskan governors.
ninewands
09-08-2008, 05:26 PM
a quoth of ravens.
Methinks I actually prefer those that already existed to this one, raven ...
ravens An unkindness of ravens
ravens A conspiracy of ravens
ravens A murder of ravens
ravens A storytelling of ravens
Now, "murder" no doubt derives from "a murder of crows" even though a raven and a crow are not the same species of bird.
I might also add that I don't think I know of any "unkind" ravens (at least not in this company), so I could dump that one. But I think a "conspiracy of ravens" works, as does a "storytelling," and might even tie into your "quoth," even though it's a wee bit clumsy-sounding.
ninewands
09-08-2008, 05:28 PM
A coven of Alaskan governors.
Catty ... I LIKE it, but it's STILL catty!
:D
Untheist
09-12-2008, 02:36 AM
A law school of sharks
A seminary of parrots
A politic of pigs
ravenscape
09-12-2008, 06:32 AM
a quoth of ravens.
Methinks I actually prefer those that already existed to this one, raven ...
ravens An unkindness of ravens
ravens A conspiracy of ravens
ravens A murder of ravens
ravens A storytelling of ravens
Now, "murder" no doubt derives from "a murder of crows" even though a raven and a crow are not the same species of bird.
I might also add that I don't think I know of any "unkind" ravens (at least not in this company), so I could dump that one. But I think a "conspiracy of ravens" works, as does a "storytelling," and might even tie into your "quoth," even though it's a wee bit clumsy-sounding.
meh. They're not Poe-ish enough, though I do like a conspiracy of ravens. How about a nevermore of ravens?
Gooch's dad
09-12-2008, 02:59 PM
An Ecstasy of ravens
Gagundathar Inexplicable
09-12-2008, 04:44 PM
A coven of Alaskan governors.
That is being unfair to neopagans.
Hurrrumph!
dug_down_deep
09-15-2008, 09:04 PM
A coffee-clutch of neopagans.
Autodidact
09-15-2008, 10:57 PM
A jury of donuts.
Autodidact
09-21-2008, 11:04 PM
An asylum of creationists.
Autodidact
10-23-2008, 10:38 PM
A smear of Republican candidates.
Preno
10-23-2008, 10:39 PM
a nunnery of nouns
David B
10-23-2008, 10:46 PM
A 'scholastic' of the sort of person who bumbles on about what actually constitutes a racist word while ignoring the big picture of whether someone has been rightly suspended under the charter.
[quote=Charter]TR! does not support unlimited free speech. TR! realizes that freedom of speech is an important part of any freethought community. TR! also realizes that the community can be fractured if insults and harassment constantly poison discussion. It is TR's position that rational discussion is best served by addressing the post and not the poster. TR! realizes that no-one can be perfect all the time, but it is the responsibility of members to practice self-control, and avoid unreasonably offending other posters.
Bolding not in charter.
David B
dug_down_deep
10-27-2008, 04:18 PM
A parenthetical of David B's.
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