Collective Nouns

[Flowboy]

Hi all,

As we have such collective nouns as a coven of ravens, a frolic of otters and of course a parliament of owls. (In fact there is a collective noun for "three cows together in a lea"!) As people always want order in things, has anybody got some appropriate collective nouns for people?
Such as;
A confusion of advisors
An abberation of interest rates
A school of bankers
A thong of Brazilian beach goers?

Regards

Rob

[AlexS]

A fanfare of strumpets.

[Skew ChiDAMN!!]

A forum of lunatics? :p
A brace of woodworkers
A gaggle of housewives
A shock of electricians

[Christopha]

A barrow of brickies.
A grout of tilers.
A quack of doctors.
A Cute Collection of Carpenters of course!
A wobble of woodturners?
A reciprocation of scrollsawyers?

[echnidna]

scumbags
wankers
pollies

[Cliff Rogers]

Everything new is old again, this subject has been done before.

PS. Alex, where did you see them? :trumpet:

[Honorary Bloke]

A scrum of sheilas?

[Iain]

Pride of loins:doh:
And one I saw recently 'A wunch of bankers'.

[Grunt]

A clot of doctors
A lie of lawyers

[Flowboy]

A tirade of telemarketers
An embargo of emails
A bent of Gumbies

[thetassiebfg]

A giggle of girls
A bully of boys

[Doughboy]

a mess of toddlers
a folly of fools
an asylum of parents
a geek of IT workers

[BigMackDaddy]

Hi All, my first post after lurking here for ages, but I couldn't resist mentioning my favourite:

An anthology of prostitutes.

Cheers,

Big Mack

[Flowboy]

A geometry of Octopus
A dinner dance of Penguins
A blink of Opticians
A knitting of eyebrows
A vanishing of black holes

[Clinton1]

a spank of sadists

[Doughboy]

A flicker of tongues
A laugh of comedians

[Grunt]

A pod of whales
A pack of dogs
A herd of sheep

[ernknot]

a hob of brickies,
an elbow of plumbers,
a trowel of plasterers,
a mix of bakers,
a blessing of priests,
a nattering of nuns,
a wallow of wankers, and so on

[John Saxton]

not to mention

A cluster of stoned rockers
A bank of chiselers
A nest of thieves


and

A stumped pride....that is the british lion 5.0


cheers:)

[bsrlee]

The plural of 'Octopus' is 'Octopodes' :p :p :p :p

[Terry B]

A scope of astronomers
A cylinder of anaesthetists
A staff of pianists

[rrich]

Hi all,
A thong of Brazilian beach goers?


Wouldn't "A thong of birds on a Brazilian beach" be better?

[Flowboy]

Hi Rich,
Yeah I had to think about that one. Have to careful not to "genderize" and also, its not just the birds that thong.:oo: . Some things just aren't meant to be seen in public.


Regards

Rob

[AlexS]

The plural of 'Octopus' is 'Octopodes' :p :p :p :p

An exactitude of pedants.:D

[ozwinner]

An underlay of hurried Spanish carpet layers.