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reactiv8
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Here's one for the competitive and erudite (adjective) - The collective noun for a group of Ravens is an: 'Unkindness' - As a quick check in Wikipedia will confirm ... Do we know any more obscure ones I wonder? For example an assembly of Heartlanders at a TSOM gig would be a: 'Mistake' and so on ...

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They (The Establishment) use sex as an addiction for control, just as they use alcohol and drugs ...
- A programme of systematic frustration in order to sell this crock of s**t as immortality, a garden of delights and love. ...
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A shower of bastards.
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A thicket of Heartlanders.
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A Temple of Heartlanders? Maybe a Corrosion? :wink:
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A Murder Of Crows!

Perhaps Alfred Hitchcock got the idea for The Birds from this?
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The Heartland Dominion
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Heartland members gathered in one place - A Bunch Of Sad Old Goths ;-)
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A moistening of beavers
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I like these:

A murder of crows
A parliament of rooks
An exaltation of sklarks

Can't remember others off-hand; I seem to recall that a lot of these were collected (or perhaps invented) by some mediaeval monk?
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A discussion
A thread
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Pista wrote:A discussion
A thread
of HL-ers?
Isn't it a "Derail" of Heartlanders?
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a charm of hummingbirds
a shrewdness of apes
a parliament of owls
an ostentation of peacocks
a crash of rhinocerous
a skulk of foxes
an impalusibility of gnus
a murmuration of starlings
a prickle of hedgehogs

And many, many more. In fact there are entire websites devoted to this subject.

Surely a sisterhood of Heartlanders. Or will that cause arguments?
Any more of that and we'll be round your front door with the quick-setting whitewash and the shaved monkey.
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Collective noun for a group of bankers : a wunsch.
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:eek: Not bad there my pensive peers, but I hope you can do better! - Try inventing some, and don't cheat with Wikipedia or Google (Gargle?!) or even a dictionary ...
However, I'm pleased that this time I have apparently hooked you with a thread without offending?!
Where are the ladies though? - In 'the bathroom' 'powdering their noses' I wonder? - Now there's a hint :wink: ...
So, over to you ... :twisted:
They (The Establishment) use sex as an addiction for control, just as they use alcohol and drugs ...
- A programme of systematic frustration in order to sell this crock of s**t as immortality, a garden of delights and love. ...
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reactiv8 wrote: However, I'm pleased that this time I have apparently hooked you with a thread without offending?!
Not strictly true. Your consistently drab and meaningless posts never fail to irritate.
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Top Oh! :wink:

“Familiarity breeds contempt - and children.�
Mark Twain, Notebooks (1935) p. 237

“Good breeding consists in concealing how much we think of ourselves
and how little we think of the other person.�
Mark Twain, Notebooks (1935) p. 345
They (The Establishment) use sex as an addiction for control, just as they use alcohol and drugs ...
- A programme of systematic frustration in order to sell this crock of s**t as immortality, a garden of delights and love. ...
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reactiv8 wrote:Top Oh! :wink:

“Familiarity breeds contempt - and children.�
Mark Twain, Notebooks (1935) p. 237

“Good breeding consists in concealing how much we think of ourselves
and how little we think of the other person.�
Mark Twain, Notebooks (1935) p. 345
My point exactly. :wink:
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