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monster 10-17-2019 10:06 PM

Your Collective Nouns
 
We all love Collective Nouns and coining them. So please create and share collective nouns for.....

1) Your profession
2) One of your Hobbies
3) People who suffer from one of your ailments
4) People who do the last household chore you did
5) People who eat/drink the last thing you ingested


1a) A Barcode of Scan Coordinators
1b) An Aggravation of Parents
2) An Unfinishment of Crafters
3) A Stretch of Too-Flexible People
4) A Fold of Launderers
5) A Chug of Beer-drinkers

Clodfobble 10-17-2019 10:24 PM

1.) A Nitpick of Writers
2.) A Deadline of Workaholics
3.) A Shimmy of Epileptics
4.) A Scrub of Dishwashers
5.) A Bleat of Lamb-broilers

Flint 10-17-2019 11:07 PM

An Undefined Variable of IT people
An Unemployment Check of Drummers
An Unintentionally, Unnecessarily Obtuse Definition of people who have Aspergers
A Quiet Gathering of Rabbit-Poop Stewards
A Festively Plump Troupe of Nutella-Sandwich-on-Potato-Bread Nibblers

Griff 10-18-2019 06:24 AM

A stress ball of care coordinators.
A torn scrotal sack of mountain bikers.
A sorry what of the deafened.
A shock of amateur electricians.
An urgent bladder of coffee drinkers.

Gravdigr 10-18-2019 12:00 PM

1) A copse of tree-trimmers

2) A cloud of potheads

3) A moaning of arthritics

4) A Dawn of dishwashers

5) A clot of fried-ham-eaters

Gravdigr 10-18-2019 12:02 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by monster (Post 1040047)
1b) An Aggravation of Parents

I like that one!

limey 10-18-2019 03:55 PM

1) A dictionary of translators
2) A squeeze of concertina players
3) A wheeze of asthmatics
4) A microwave of cooks
5) A crunch of crisps (chips)




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Undertoad 10-18-2019 04:27 PM

Quote:

A microwave of cooks
An order of cooks

henry quirk 10-18-2019 06:02 PM

1) Your profession: a scrutiny of researchers

2) One of your Hobbies: a meat wagon of pulp writers

3) People who suffer from one of your ailments: a swell of pleuritics

4) People who do the last household chore you did: a whisk of sweepers

5) People who eat/drink the last thing you ingested: a jitter of coffee-drinkers

monster 10-19-2019 09:03 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Flint (Post 1040050)
An Unintentionally, Unnecessarily Obtuse Definition of people who have Aspergers

:lol: so Thunderboy.

monster 10-19-2019 09:18 PM

I offer some alternatives and related terms inspired by the above:

A Neologism of Writers
A Pebkac of IT helpline professionals
A 404 of Webmasters
A Twitter of Influencers
A Desperation of Coffee Drinkers :D

monster 10-19-2019 09:22 PM

What about

6) your pet
7) people who live in your state/country
8) The insect that annoys you the most



A Hairball of Cats
A Glub of Fish
A Mitten of Michigandans
A Whine of Brits
A Whine of Mosquitoes

tw 10-20-2019 11:44 AM

Collective nouns. "Collectives" are socialism as it breaks down into communism.

If Joseph McCarthy was still alive, then this thread would be banned.

fargon 10-20-2019 12:35 PM

tw, Bite my ass.

Gravdigr 10-20-2019 01:18 PM

An assholishness of TWs

:jig:


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