Grahame Posted May 20, 2009 Report Share Posted May 20, 2009 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 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
boomana Posted May 20, 2009 Report Share Posted May 20, 2009 I've had a flood of former professional roles. I'm pretty sure you don't want nouns from some of them. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Grahame Posted May 21, 2009 Author Report Share Posted May 21, 2009 I've had a flood of former professional roles. I'm pretty sure you don't want nouns from some of them. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dusty Chalk Posted May 21, 2009 Report Share Posted May 21, 2009 "...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". Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
guzziguy Posted May 21, 2009 Report Share Posted May 21, 2009 A basement of dunces? I always thought that it was a congress of dunces. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jinp6301 Posted May 21, 2009 Report Share Posted May 21, 2009 A Confederacy of Dunces - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dusty Chalk Posted May 21, 2009 Report Share Posted May 21, 2009 A basement of victims? ...of fresh meat? ...of gullibility? An orgy of nymphs? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Grahame Posted May 21, 2009 Author Report Share Posted May 21, 2009 A delay of HD 800's Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Aimless1 Posted May 21, 2009 Report Share Posted May 21, 2009 or a gaggle of geeks Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Monkey Posted May 22, 2009 Report Share Posted May 22, 2009 A basement of asshats. A flight of fail. A stack of Stax. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hopstretch Posted May 22, 2009 Report Share Posted May 22, 2009 A flight of fail. Particularly egregious singular effort -- "A Homer"? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Voltron Posted May 22, 2009 Report Share Posted May 22, 2009 Particularly egregious singular effort -- "A Homer"? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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