h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

We were chatting in the Lighthouse Bar, as you do, and the question of what do you call a group of h2g2 researchers came up...

So far we have had a couple of suggestions

A Whimgaggle
A Post Office
A Tree Stump
A confederation
A cuddle


So our question is

What should the collective noun for a group of h2g2 researchers be?

All suggestions welcome!

A (topic) drift of researchers
A forum
A babble

How about a `gaggle of geeks?`

Forum gets my vote! - sort of true to life that.

forum is food, and also a drift.


Dancer

forum is good, and also a drift.


Dancer

One of which occours inside the other. We might have stumbled on something here!

How about a 'Kotchell'

What about 'parsnip'?

A Kotchell of H2G2 Researchers

Hmm, a drift is probably one of the best so far...

If I think of anything that might be better, I'll come back and post it.

I'd stick with 'group' until I get anything better. 'Battery' seems quite accurate, seeing how you get a machine-gun spray of answers to any question.

Considering how much we talk, how about a "gab of researchers"? Or the previously suggested "babble" works, too.

I'd say a Confusion Of Researchers.

I guess a simulpost of researchers would be a pair or a couple.

Drift seems the best to me, since that is what we do so well!

Ben

Yup. And it's got a nice kind of sound to it: "A drift of Researchers", a bit like "a murder of crows"

I like drift, it's got an accumulation feel to it. My first thought was an ignorance, as we never seem to quite know the right answer, but get there somehow.

1. Mangrove ?

2. Plod

3. Splat

4. Kernel

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No matter howyou put it, it stays drift.....


Dancer

Okay Drift it is !!!!


I officially name the collective noun for a group of researchers a drift