This contest is shamelessly stolen from the guys at Car Talk. A few years ago they pointed out that a lot of things have interesting terms for a group — a pride of lions, a murder of crows, a parliament of owls, and so on — and had a contest for new, creative names for groups of things. The winners included a huevos of Rancheros, a shrug of mechanics, a sleaze of lawyers, a shortage of jockeys, a lot of car dealers, and so on. I’ll also toss my contribution of a basement of losers on to the pile.
So come up with your own collective term and post them in the comments section. Winners oughta be announced Thursday.
J.
A press of journalists.
A smegma of Socialists.
A stench of trolls.
A squeal of teenage girls.
A slouch of teenage boys.
A whiff of bloggers.
A couch of bloggers.
A kitchen of bloggers.
A basement of bloggers.
A bedroom of bloggers.
…someone stop me please…
An attitude of bloggers.
A current of bloggers.
A direction of bloggers.
A gig of programmers
A babble of bloggers
A crack of plumbers.
An array of programmers
A number of mathematicians
A cluster of astronomers
A mix of chemists
A string of seamstresses
A wealth of kings
An aggregate of accountants
A pool of gamblers
A whale of fishermen
A pile of garbagemen
A trunk of movers
A galaxy of moonbats
Is this a quest of quantity over quality? This could go on forever…
A limousine of liberals.
A collection of priests…
A meme of Democrats…
A pajama of bloggers…
A byte of programmers…
A jammy of bloggers
a google of researchers
A muddle of engineers
A stench of French.
A ton of Oliver Willis.
Yes, that’s singular. (and yes, that’s a cheap shot.)
A pile of Michael Moore…
Better run Mr. Rather — it’s a SWARM of bloggers!
A Short-Bus of Liberals.
An crescent of moonbats.
Sorry. A crescent of moonbats.
Tough competition!
A chevy of Mexicans.
A deli of Jews.
A handful of Onan.
A slime of politicians.
A Gannon of MSM journalists
A belfry of moonbats
Collectives of geese are called different things based upon what they are doing: “flock” in general, “skein” in flight, “gaggle” when earthbound, etc.
I hereby suggest a similar naming scheme for engineers (feel free to add to the list):
* When discussing tech specs of cars, computers or anything technical, they become a geeking of engineers.
* When quoting The Simpsons or Monty Python, they become a snort.
* When discussing their current management, they become a carping.
A congress of liars.