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 ...
Over to you:~
English Test (Collective Nouns) ...
- reactiv8
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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. ...
- 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.
анархия
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A flange of Gorillas?
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A Temple of Heartlanders? Maybe a Corrosion?
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A moistening of beavers
"I won't go down in history, but I probably will go down on your sister."
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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?
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?
The fundamental cause of the trouble is that in the modern world the stupid are cocksure while the intelligent are full of doubt.
—Bertrand Russell
—Bertrand Russell
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If you want to train, try this
A discussion
A thread
of HL-ers?
A thread
of HL-ers?
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Isn't it a "Derail" of Heartlanders?Pista wrote:A discussion
A thread
of HL-ers?
"I won't go down in history, but I probably will go down on your sister."
Hank Moody
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A meeting of dark souls
Family in sound & mind & heart
Family in sound & mind & heart
it's all about circles and spirals
that ongoing eternity
that ongoing eternity
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?
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.
- reactiv8
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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 ...
So, over to you ...
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 ...
So, over to you ...
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. ...
- 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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Not strictly true. Your consistently drab and meaningless posts never fail to irritate.reactiv8 wrote: However, I'm pleased that this time I have apparently hooked you with a thread without offending?!
We forgive as we forget
As the day is long.
As the day is long.
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Top Oh!
“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
“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. ...
- 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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My point exactly.reactiv8 wrote:Top Oh!
“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
We forgive as we forget
As the day is long.
As the day is long.