Favorite Collective Noun Tournament 2014 (Memory Wins!)

[N]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_co ... in_English

http://wondermark.com/566/

[Cogito Ergo Sum]

bloat (hippopotamuses)
cackle (hyenas, mad scientists)
crash (rhinoceros)
gaggle (geese)
paddling (ducks)
parliament (rooks)
superfluity (nuns)

[Kublai Khan]

a group
a bunch
a lot of
a number of
several
so many
a few
a couple
dozens
scores

[Chevre]

binder (women)

[N]

binder (women)

YES

[quadz08]

omg yes

[shaft.ed]

unfortunately, that's wasnt really used a collective noun

it was a binder full of women
not a binder of women

[Chevre]

fine

binderful (women)

[xRECKONERx]

pocketful (Hawthornes) ?

[AGar]

Commune (Scummers)
Drove (Asses)
Sloth (Bears)
Peloton (Bicycliers)
Dissimulation (Birds)
Destruction (Wild Cats)
Superfluity (Nuns)
Unkindness (Ravens)

[Kublai Khan]

A collection
a congress
an assembly
a parliament
a council
a fellowship
a committee
a gathering
a senate
a house
a court
a family

[AngryPidgeon]

Part 3: Nominations

Nominate your (up to) 25 Favorite Collective Nouns. Order does not matter. You must nominate in the following format.

I don't understand the question and I won't respond to it.

(Really guys?)

[mith]

Nominations will close tomorrow night (or Wednesday, if I run out of time, which is likely).

[Save The Dragons]

bed (eels)
bellowing (bullfinches)
business (ferrets)
cackle (hyenas)
cete (badgers)
dazzle (zebras)
destruction (big cats)
dignity (dragons)
gulp (swallows)
lunacy (werewolves)
murder (crows)
ninja troop (turtles)
pack (wolves, et al.)
parliament (rooks, owls)
senate (griffins)
wisdom (wombats)

[Save The Dragons]

I like how half of these sound like a 5 year old came up with them.

[mith]

Working on this one now, but may not finish before I go to bed. We'll see.

[mith]

Nominations are closed.

We have 61 nouns with 2+ nominations, so I'll just go with that and three byes (the top three got 11, 10, and 9 respectively, and then a drop to 7, so that seems fair). Going to take me a little bit to get the example subjects all listed, but I should have the first quarter up shortly.

[Brandi]

<3 Mith. Thanks for taking the time to do this. Its super fun and you're awesome. Also happy cake day~

[mith]

Round 1A

BYE

[11] Parliament (of Owls, Rooks)

Match 1:

[2] Mischief (of Mice)
[2] Colony (of Ants, Bats, Beavers, Ibises, Squirrels, Weasels)

Match 2:

[4] Blush (of Boys)
[2] Dissimulation (of Birds)

Match 3:

[2] Fesnyng (of Ferrets)
[4] Draught (of Butlers, Salmon)

Match 4:

[5] Shrewdness (of Apes)
[2] Mob (of Deer, Emus, Kangaroos, Scummers, Sheep, Whales)

Match 5:

[2] Richesse / Richness (of Martens)
[3] Queue (of Moderators, Waiting Humans)

Match 6:

[3] Congress (of Baboons)
[2] Senate (of Griffins)

Match 7:

[2] Bed (of Eels, Snakes)
[6] Cackle (of Hyenas)

* The correct term for a group of Baboons is "Troop". Three of you were apparently taken in by a chain e-mail. However, I didn't do my checks for this until after the bracket was done, the RNG has a sense of humour about Match 6 anyway, and the source for Senate of Griffins is pretty sketchy as well, so...

[mith]

Mischief
Dissimulation
Draught
Shrewdness
Queue
Congress
Cackle

[mith]

(The numbers in brackets are numbers of nominations. If you will list only the collective noun, as above, one per line, that would be helpful!)

[hitogoroshi]

So awesome to see this after I nommed it last year. I deliberately abstained from nominating any for this one to see what happens.

Mischief
Dissimulation
Draught
Shrewdness
-
-
Cackle

[xRECKONERx]

Mischief
Blush
Fesnyng
Shrewdness
Queue
Congress
Cackle

[Chevre]

Mischief
Blush
Fesnyng
Mob
Richesse/Richness
Senate
Bed

[Chevre]

hmmm. I think I was planning to choose Congress because Reck chose it but clearly Freud had other plans in mind