Collective nouns seem strange to me. Ok, I get some of the obvious ones, but wheres the logic behind 'a murder of crows'? Who came up with 'a tedium of golfers'? So, in true cynic style, I decided that obviously what had happened was that people had taken the subject, and randomly scanned the dictionary for a word to match. So, let's give this a go shall we? All the subjects are things around me at the moment, the words are random from the dictionary.
- A Pheasantry of Andrew Lloyd Webber musicals.
This one was inspired by the fact that Jesus Christ Superstar is on at the moment and that I opened the dictionary to P.
- A Mediocrity of chewing gum
Which is true enough. Mint is kinda dull after the whiles. Where's the guava and papaya flavours? Come on Wrigley's, get your act together!
Which I was going to do one of for this post, seeing as its the 300th. I had the idea before the 2 pints!
- A Retina of Shakespeare scripts
Well, the guy did have quite the eye for literacy...
- A hart's-horn of MySpace users
Harts-horn apparantly being "Horn of the hart, ammoniacal preperation obtained from the horn; solution of ammonia". Isn't ammonia poisonous? Would sort them out, no problem...
Wow, I knew they were evil but... wow...
- An ichneumon of garden forks
They arent egyptian weasels! This logic is flawed!
- An impregnation of chocolate bunnies
ok, SO not eating them now...
- A newspaper of Kaiser Chief albums
Hm, i suppose theres the jobs section...
- A pettifoggery of adopted mothers
Fantastic word!
- A mistranslation of Twelth Night
Serendipity!!! That's far better than the thing thats happening to my kids! Fantastic! Don't kill me Helen...
Hmm, so it WASN'T crucifixion... email the pope, tell everyone to wear spray cans on their gold chains instead of crosses.
...now that's just evil!
In the words of that guy from art attack, try it yourself!
A slight of 'chards
Playing: Fable
Reading: The Dictionary
Listening to: 'Pulse of the Maggots' - Slipknot
Annoyed with: Girls
Mood: Ahem
Song currently stuck in head: 'Time Honoured Tradition' - Keiser Chiefs
Favourite Song of the Minute: 'Duality' - Slipknot (listened to it for 4 hours straight. \m/)
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300th post?
Back of the net!
The Dictionary is great "bedtime" reading. Why you should be annoyed with girls, I don't know! Girls rock. I haven't even done 100 posts yet! *is embarrassed* (but proud of her ability to spell the word- hehe)
Here's two my friends and I came up with a couple of years ago:
A confusion of interview candidates.
A naivety of freshers.
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