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- From: andy@ccwf.cc.utexas.edu (Andrew Hackard)
- Newsgroups: misc.writing,rec.humor
- Subject: FUNSIES: Antonymous Collectives
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- Date: 1 Sep 92 01:45:54 GMT
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- Organization: Attack of the Quayle Potatoes
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- Many people have in the past posted lists of collective nouns, both real
- and fake, appropriate and humorous. I'd like to try something different
- -- a list of the LEAST appropriate (but, ideally, still humorous) collective
- nouns.
-
- A quick primer: Collective nouns are nouns used to describe groups of
- objects, e.g. a school of fish, a pod of whales, a flock of geese. The
- terminology sometimes ranges to the odd end of the spectrum, and this
- has led multiple people to invent new collective nouns, from the
- automotive (a ring of Saturns) to the mathematical (a group of abstract
- algebras) to the silly (a school of marms).
-
- Examples of what I'm shooting for here:
-
- -- a battalion of pacifists
- -- a congregation of atheists
- -- a steady stream of cataracts
- -- an orgy of virgins
-
- You get the idea.
-
- No prizes to be awarded, except the admiration and respect of your Usenet
- peers. Go to it, and may the worst collective win!
-
- -- Andrew, who may shortly be sorry he got this idea
-
- --
- "Me and you, a two man crew,
- side by side we are united,
- we will never be divided...."
-
- Au revoir, mon cherie.
-