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the_league_against_helium (see A816996 and A823448) Posted Sep 23, 2002
>Anyone think of a good collective noun for earthquakes?
>
>A tremble just doesn't seem to cut it.
A california of earthquakes. 
Or possibly a Japan of earthquakes?
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Geggs Posted Sep 23, 2002
A california. Like it. Sounds right somehow.
Geggs
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Geggs Posted Sep 23, 2002
A Richter. This also sounds good. And more formal. Perhaps you could use richter in formal discussions and a california in informal ones?
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pheloxi | is it time to wear a hat? | Posted Sep 23, 2002
richter of tremors.
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Ineffable, <Boing>-King!!! Posted Sep 23, 2002
A gabble of hammers...
Do I understand this right?
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Ineffable, <Boing>-King!!! Posted Sep 23, 2002
A gamble of hopes?
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Harris Grapes, ex-wumbejack uh-hahaha. Ok you cwappy, wascawy wabbit, be afwaid, be vewy afwaid Posted Sep 23, 2002
A crash of princesses?
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Ineffable, <Boing>-King!!! Posted Sep 24, 2002
A shortage of Smurfs?
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Geggs Posted Sep 24, 2002
Or maybe a woading of Smurfs?
A cuddle of care-bears
A chew of Gummi bears
A spectrum of Telebubbies
A roar of Thundercats
A morph of Transformers
Aaarrrggghhh! Stuck on kid's shows!
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Ineffable, <Boing>-King!!! Posted Sep 24, 2002
A web of addresses?
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the_league_against_helium (see A816996 and A823448) Posted Sep 24, 2002
a procrastination of websites?
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Ineffable, <Boing>-King!!! Posted Sep 24, 2002
A construct of foundations?
A donation of freebees?
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Sea Change Posted Sep 24, 2002
It's funny how I think of Teletubbies mostly from their attenae and their televisions more than their exterior colors.
I like better: An aerial of teletubbies.
There was a time when you could get just about anything cheaply or free from the net, (when things were burbling madly-not now, of course). This is the only time that freebees came into my life and that of my friends with the regularity and quantity enough to need collective reference.
I think of: a thrift of freebees, a freelunch of freebees, or a cadge of freebees, depending on who is giving what, and who is asking.
There is a radio station here in LA that gives away huge quantities of tchotchkes with their logo silkscreened on it. The personalities just refer to it as a 'box of station c**p'.
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Ineffable, <Boing>-King!!! Posted Sep 25, 2002
A passion of fires?
oh well, I tried
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pheloxi | is it time to wear a hat? | Posted Sep 25, 2002
mockingbirds of love
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pheloxi | is it time to wear a hat? | Posted Sep 25, 2002
bugging hackers
rainbow beings*
wired beings*
* see my space footnotes explanations.
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Ineffable, <Boing>-King!!! Posted Sep 25, 2002
Pages of books (Paiges of books?)
heats of fire-breathing dragons?
Toners of laser-printers!?
A contraception of rubbers?
a hold-up of robbers?
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pheloxi | is it time to wear a hat? | Posted Sep 25, 2002
why do all the collective nouns have "of" in it?
your all "of fans"
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