May 20, 200917 yr comment_236453 Inspired by recent goings on in the Slow Forum thread, I was reminded of the joy that are Collective Nouns. There are plenty of examples out there, both real and imagined. Any that you particularly like, or are apposite for this forum or its members? Some I could think of were An asylum of head-casers.A dazzle of Justin's Designs. A of Ray Samuels Designs ? For the brits amongst us, given recent economic developmentsA wunch of bankers. For the Developers: [*]Collection<Object> Maybe Vicki has a few favo(u)rites from her former professional role. Some links to get you thinking The Collective Noun Page Collective Nouns Report
May 20, 200917 yr comment_236459 I've had a flood of former professional roles. I'm pretty sure you don't want nouns from some of them. Report
May 21, 200917 yr Author comment_236477 I've had a flood of former professional roles. I'm pretty sure you don't want nouns from some of them. Report
May 21, 200917 yr comment_236487 "...It's important to have a job that makes a difference, boys. That's why I manually masturbate caged animals for artificial insemination..." A basement of dunces? An index of illiterates*? *Those individuals who find it challenging to truly comprehend "reading". I forget where, but one thesaurus has "California" (or something close to it) as a synonym for compilation, collection, or aggregation or something. Considering how many members are Californians, I would think that that would be an appropriate use of the term for some subset of "all head-casers". Report
May 21, 200917 yr comment_236511 A basement of dunces? I always thought that it was a congress of dunces. Report
May 21, 200917 yr comment_236526 A basement of victims? ...of fresh meat? ...of gullibility? An orgy of nymphs? Report
May 22, 200917 yr comment_236914 A flight of fail. Particularly egregious singular effort -- "A Homer"? Report
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