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05 Mar 08 - 11:56 PM (#2280865) Subject: BS: Make up new words for animal groups! From: Little Hawk Okay. We have a gaggle of geese, a murder of crows, a pack of wolves... How about this then: A torpid of turtles. That's my new word for a group of turtles. Here are some more: A habit of nuns. (Not that nuns are animals, but we can do some new words for groups of people too. Why not?) A hornet of rhinos. A leaping of lizards. A stringwiener of dachshunds. Go to it...see what you can come up with. |
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05 Mar 08 - 11:58 PM (#2280866) Subject: RE: BS: Make up new words for animal groups! From: Peace I'm startin' to worry about you. A stampede of mice. |
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06 Mar 08 - 12:08 AM (#2280871) Subject: RE: BS: Make up new words for animal groups! From: Little Hawk Just "starting" to? Ha! ;-) A chuckle of chimps. |
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06 Mar 08 - 12:21 AM (#2280874) Subject: RE: BS: Make up new words for animal groups! From: open mike the "real" names for bunches of critters are comical, too. i included a bunch and some links to more in a thread recently. i heard someone today say "a convocation of robins" whales and porpoises travel in pods, i tend to use "herd" for many groups... such as the lady bugs I have in my yard. how about a lamp of lightning bugs what is is that comes in "gangs"? a waddle of penguins? |
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06 Mar 08 - 12:25 AM (#2280875) Subject: RE: BS: Make up new words for animal groups! From: number 6 A horde of people. A bunch of monkeys ... that one is for Chongo. biLL |
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06 Mar 08 - 12:25 AM (#2280876) Subject: RE: BS: Make up new words for animal groups! From: Bee A squabble of squirrels A cacophany of grackles |
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06 Mar 08 - 12:27 AM (#2280877) Subject: RE: BS: Make up new words for animal groups! From: number 6 grackles ?!?!?! :{ biLL |
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06 Mar 08 - 12:33 AM (#2280880) Subject: RE: BS: Make up new words for animal groups! From: number 6 an epistle of carrier pigeons a stud of mules. ok ... i'm outta here. biLL |
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06 Mar 08 - 12:33 AM (#2280881) Subject: RE: BS: Make up new words for animal groups! From: Bee Those long tailed blackbirds, fairly large, gather in flocks in the trees and screech like banshees, number 6. Bigger than starlings, smaller and slimmer than crows. Often have iridescence on heads and wings, if you see them close in the right light. |
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06 Mar 08 - 12:34 AM (#2280883) Subject: RE: BS: Make up new words for animal groups! From: Bee And get to bed right now, BiLL! |
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06 Mar 08 - 12:36 AM (#2280885) Subject: RE: BS: Make up new words for animal groups! From: number 6 I confess Bee, I immediately googled after reading your post .... I offer no excuse for my ignorance. :) biLL |
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06 Mar 08 - 12:53 AM (#2280891) Subject: RE: BS: Make up new words for animal groups! From: CarolC A rash of fleas. A party of piranha. A slime of slugs. A pantsfull of ferrets. |
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06 Mar 08 - 02:36 AM (#2280910) Subject: RE: BS: Make up new words for animal groups! From: Liz the Squeak A racket of magpies (that's racket as in 'stop that racket or I'll come up there', not the sort you play tennis with) A chest of tits A wriggle of maggots A joint of koalas (well, they're stoned most of the time!) A blur of hummingbirds A darting of daphnia A disagreement of cats An orgy of rabbits A rattle of snakes A lethargy of sloths LTS |
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06 Mar 08 - 03:07 AM (#2280920) Subject: RE: BS: Make up new words for animal groups! From: Georgiansilver A 'Bob' of fish (on account of all they say to each other is bob) A string of guitarists. A ballad of singers. A lurch of elephants. A stretch of giraffes. A stand of meercats. A stinking of pigs. A peck of birds. A giggle of hyenas. A s... load of stupid names! LOL |
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06 Mar 08 - 03:42 AM (#2280939) Subject: RE: BS: Make up new words for animal groups! From: Geoff the Duck In the days when I was part of a team in a quiz league, it used to annoy me when the "Name for a group of..." questions came up. It was pretty obvious that 90% or more of these collective nouns had been invented specifically to be asked as quiz questions. They even asked for group names for solitary, strongly territorial animals and birds such as cheetas and robins, which will attack any incomer unless it is during a mating ritual. You don't get groups of them, so how can there be a collective noun? The biggest joke is tha people believe these made up names. In the early 1908s a satirical programme, "Not the 9 O'Clock News" had a sketch where a widlife expert talked about living with a "flange" of gorillas. The term flange was a silly word made up for the sketch. Many years later it has been found in actual scientific papers. I suggest - A bollox of collective nouns... Quack! GtD. |
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06 Mar 08 - 04:15 AM (#2280950) Subject: RE: BS: Make up new words for animal groups! From: GUEST,CrazyEddie There is already a "real2 name for rhinos, a "crash". ReGtD above: "A leap of Leopards". The most you ever see together are a mother &2 cubs. I do like A "wunch" of Bankers though... |
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06 Mar 08 - 01:32 PM (#2281346) Subject: RE: BS: Make up new words for animal groups! From: topical tom A plunking of pigeons? You know, the sound they make when...oh, never mind. A drilling of woodpeckers A caterwauling of cats (spell check, please) A hug of bears? Okay, I'm gone. |
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06 Mar 08 - 01:34 PM (#2281351) Subject: RE: BS: Make up new words for animal groups! From: John Hardly I thought about offering a few, but with "pantsfull of ferrets" the pinnacle of humor has already been reached. |
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06 Mar 08 - 02:27 PM (#2281395) Subject: RE: BS: Make up new words for animal groups! From: Rapparee A bunch of buffalo A bunch of chickens A bunch of folksingers A bunch of money A bunch of stuff A bunch of catfish A bunch of cougars If it is a great big bunch, the word "whole" is added, as in A whole bunch of shit A whole bunch of banjo pluckers A whole bunch of mooses A whole bunch of trouble See? Simple. |
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06 Mar 08 - 02:31 PM (#2281401) Subject: RE: BS: Make up new words for animal groups! From: Bill D A 'munch' of female Mantises. |
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06 Mar 08 - 03:32 PM (#2281482) Subject: RE: BS: Make up new words for animal groups! From: Georgiansilver A much of female( )....put what you like in the brackets. |
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06 Mar 08 - 03:40 PM (#2281486) Subject: RE: BS: Make up new words for animal groups! From: Peace A crock of shit? |
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06 Mar 08 - 03:44 PM (#2281492) Subject: RE: BS: Make up new words for animal groups! From: Peace That's the singular collective. What is it for the plural collective? |
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06 Mar 08 - 03:54 PM (#2281497) Subject: RE: BS: Make up new words for animal groups! From: GUEST,Bob Ryszkiewicz A Pride of Democrats. A Gaggle of Republicans A Flock of Presidents... If any animals are reading this, please excuse the references... bob |
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06 Mar 08 - 03:58 PM (#2281498) Subject: RE: BS: Make up new words for animal groups! From: Charley Noble I believe one of the original collective nouns was an "exaultation of larks" along with the "leep of leopards." Ben Johnson was credited with referring to a group of whores as a "jam of tarts." You can have a "pride of lions" but not a "pride of politicians." How about a "foreclosure of mortgage lenders"? How about a "stave of shanty singers"? How about a "plethora of plutocrats"? Cheerily, Charley Noble |
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06 Mar 08 - 04:02 PM (#2281504) Subject: RE: BS: Make up new words for animal groups! From: John Hardly handsful of fingers |
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06 Mar 08 - 04:07 PM (#2281512) Subject: RE: BS: Make up new words for animal groups! From: Mr Red how about a srewin' of lightbulb jokes? |
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06 Mar 08 - 04:28 PM (#2281527) Subject: RE: BS: Make up new words for animal groups! From: Uncle_DaveO I propose "a blush of flamingoes". Dave Oesterreich |
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06 Mar 08 - 04:43 PM (#2281538) Subject: RE: BS: Make up new words for animal groups! From: Little Hawk A blather of commentators. |
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06 Mar 08 - 04:47 PM (#2281544) Subject: RE: BS: Make up new words for animal groups! From: Georgiansilver A slither of snakes. A hump of sheep A plucking of pheasants A feast of gamebirds |
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06 Mar 08 - 05:05 PM (#2281549) Subject: RE: BS: Make up new words for animal groups! From: Peace "A hump of sheep" Are you Scottish by any chance? |
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06 Mar 08 - 05:09 PM (#2281552) Subject: RE: BS: Make up new words for animal groups! From: Sorcha A cuddle of Corgis. Several Cuddles is a Chaos |
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06 Mar 08 - 05:34 PM (#2281578) Subject: RE: BS: Make up new words for animal groups! From: Donuel A gargle of amoeba. |
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06 Mar 08 - 05:43 PM (#2281588) Subject: RE: BS: Make up new words for animal groups! From: Bee-dubya-ell I decided long ago that learning all the various names for different animal groups is a waste of time. I use one generic term to refer to all of them. That term is "shitload". It doesn't matter whether it's fish, fowl, mammal, reptile, amphibian, insect or whatever, if there's more than three or four of 'em, it's a shitload. Just doin' my small part to help streamline our increasingly cumbersome language. |
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06 Mar 08 - 05:45 PM (#2281592) Subject: RE: BS: Make up new words for animal groups! From: Little Hawk a canker of skeptics |
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06 Mar 08 - 06:37 PM (#2281650) Subject: RE: BS: Make up new words for animal groups! From: open mike a gobble of turkeys |
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06 Mar 08 - 07:18 PM (#2281669) Subject: RE: BS: Make up new words for animal groups! From: open mike does anyone have a search engine that works? i have not had any luck with the mudcat search for a while now..i have to refresh up to a year or more and use the search that is on my top tool bar.. presumably it is the firefox search feature.. any way i want to find the original post i made earlier this year that listed a whole bunch of links to sites with group animal names....help! i guess it was a post to a thread of a different topic.. perhaps someone out there remembers this? or knows what thread i posted this to? or can refresh that thread?? thanks for any assistance in this.. |
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07 Mar 08 - 12:52 PM (#2282211) Subject: RE: BS: Make up new words for animal groups! From: Mrs.Duck Well, we have a tribe of ducks :0) |
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07 Mar 08 - 01:05 PM (#2282222) Subject: RE: BS: Make up new words for animal groups! From: Rapparee Yeah, Bee-Dubya, and if there's a HUGE number it's "a WHOLE shitload". |
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08 Mar 08 - 09:28 AM (#2282842) Subject: RE: BS: Make up new words for animal groups! From: topical tom A wart of frogs A chatter of chipmunks A burrow of moles A whoop of cranes |
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08 Mar 08 - 10:19 AM (#2282862) Subject: RE: BS: Make up new words for animal groups! From: Rapparee It's gonna be a massacre of voles as soon as I can get back out in the backyard. |
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08 Mar 08 - 10:46 AM (#2282881) Subject: RE: BS: Make up new words for animal groups! From: GUEST,Chicken Charlie A sink of plumbers A bench of judges A pleading of lawyers A Rushmore of presidents A brace of cripples [sorry, not quite PC, but surely the pun counts] A broom of witches A whine of liberals A frown of conservatives A warren of justices [did it again] A thump of drummers A drawl of Texans An embrasure of flautists A lash of masochists A qwerty of typists [move over Obama, I'm on fire!] A gaggle of geese? Deserves a goose of proctologists. A thread of Mudcatters Gotta go now! Time for my meds. :0 CC |
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08 Mar 08 - 12:17 PM (#2282942) Subject: RE: BS: Make up new words for animal groups! From: GUEST,Hilo Lawyers... a serge of suits. |
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08 Mar 08 - 12:30 PM (#2282954) Subject: RE: BS: Make up new words for animal groups! From: bobad A nip 'n' tuck of tailors. |
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08 Mar 08 - 12:50 PM (#2282972) Subject: RE: BS: Make up new words for animal groups! From: Georgiansilver An Entry of gynaecologists. A Howling of Wolves. A Scratching of mice. An infection of rats. A gibber of monkeys. A Formiction of ants A venom of snakes. |
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08 Mar 08 - 07:52 PM (#2283291) Subject: RE: BS: Make up new words for animal groups! From: GUEST,Chicken Charlie A shine of monkeys! A warrant of policemen. A greenroom of gamblers. A resin of violinists. A gawdawful squacking racket of accordions (sorry) A cover of lounge singers A hat of magicians A twirl of cheerleaders An evasion of political spokespersons A weigh of anchormen A podium of professors A bug of programmers A void of astronauts An eternity of tortoises A talon of eagles A six-pack of roadies A recall of automakers ..... And so on, and so on .... |
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08 Mar 08 - 08:16 PM (#2283311) Subject: RE: BS: Make up new words for animal groups! From: Little Hawk Wonderful, just wonderful. |
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08 Mar 08 - 09:08 PM (#2283340) Subject: RE: BS: Make up new words for animal groups! From: Nick An exaggeration of estate agents An irritation of bodhran players A repetition of blues players |
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09 Mar 08 - 06:04 AM (#2283485) Subject: RE: BS: Make up new words for animal groups! From: John MacKenzie A Contention of Mudcatters. |
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09 Mar 08 - 10:07 AM (#2283580) Subject: RE: BS: Make up new words for animal groups! From: Georgiansilver An Imagination of Mudcatters! |
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09 Mar 08 - 10:10 AM (#2283582) Subject: RE: BS: Make up new words for animal groups! From: John MacKenzie An Inner Circle of Mudcatters ? :) [joke] G |
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09 Mar 08 - 10:35 AM (#2283605) Subject: RE: BS: Make up new words for animal groups! From: GUEST,Chicken Charlie Giok-- I second the contention one! Alas, poor Yorik, he posted an opinion on Mudcat. :) CC |