During a pretty ordinary conversation between myself and Mr RSAB2 we got talking about collective nouns for different animals, for example:
A parliament of owls,
An ostentation of peacocks
A company of widgeons
A murder of crows
A prickle of hedgehogs.
:boo: I was wondering if you great people out their could come up with a few new ones.
I'll start - how about:
a parade of pricks?
hows about a pontificality of Prelates
An observance of Hermits
An execution of Officers
A gaggle of women
A safeguard of porters
A skulk of thieves
a drift of Fishermen
a sublety of Sargeants
a poverty of pipers
a murmuration of starlings
an exaltation of larks
gilbert
Oooooo - Gilbert you are very good at this.
Mrs RSAB2 xxx
Now we're talking.
How about a brace of bonkers?
a "shudder" of orgasms?
ok... i made it up! lol
That's the idea!
Good work people, keep it up!
Mrs RSAB2 xxx
For this site the actually collective nouns might be appropriate
A BEVY of Beauties
A THICKET of Idiots
A CROWD of Onlookers
An ANTHOLOGY of Poems
A HOST of Angels
and of course a MOB of Kangaroos
But as quiz compiler and knower of many things you need not know I have to ask if you know the name for a collection of collective nouns???
Gilbert - I do beleive you are the proud owner of An Exhaltation of Larks and are therefore and expert on Veneral matters.
what about a sucking in of breath through teeth of builders coming to estimate .. ( or of second hand car sellers)
a column of accountants
a stud of poker players
a mass of priests
a mutter of mothers in law
a flap of nuns
a leer of boys
a sample of salesmen
a pummel of massuers
a ring of jewellers an unction of undertakers
a wince of dentsists
a lot of used car dealers
a shrewdness or apes
all are terms of venery
gil
westerross wrote and i cocked up the edit and quote facilty hence
an absence of builders?
a procrastination of delivery men
an 'I've got some bad news' of plumbers?
an " ill pay you when i get my wages next month" of customers,
an "oh i havent got the materials on site yet " of homeowners
a "my husband had a go can you finish it" of d i yers"
dont have a go at us builder types, raw nerve there old pal ! grr angry face followed by smiley face
Down Boys!!!
On a lighter note:
A romp of doggers!
Mrs RSAB2 xxx
A SURPLUS of Cock Pics
A FRAID of Jags :jagsatwork:
A rash of nettles.
A panic of England goalkeepers
A monotony of rappers
A vacuum of BB contestants
A nanny of EU regulations
and my personal favourite, which I will be asking the OED to officially adopt:
An endowment of donkeys
A gangbang of gropers(wahey!!)
a masturbation of doggers
:wanker:
a splash of bukkake guests :sticky: