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Cactus Wren
12th April 2007, 11:44 PM
"A cackle of witches" is entertaining, but I'm afraid Terry Pratchett has already established that the collective noun for a group of witches is "argument".
Steve Knight
13th April 2007, 10:52 AM
How about a 'clutch' of heart attack victims? I think I'm responsible for coining it unless anyone knows differently.
LibraryLady
13th April 2007, 11:25 AM
Sometime ago, my department voted overwhelmingly for "a stack of librarians."
Deetee
13th April 2007, 11:29 AM
Some other medical ones:

A dribble of urologists.
A rash of dermatologists.
A lay of nurses.
Pope130
13th April 2007, 11:47 AM
"A Disgrace of lawyers". This is from a John Adams quote; "One worthless man s a disgrace, two worthless men form a law firm, a room full of worthless men become a Congress." One should note Adams was both a lawyer, and a Congressman.

Robert
Phrenolo
13th April 2007, 12:30 PM
A "twitch" of dowsers.
A "blur" of remote viewers.
RichardR
13th April 2007, 02:34 PM
A Closet of Secretards (http://skeptico.blogs.com/skeptico/2007/04/secretards.html).
Soapy Sam
13th April 2007, 02:55 PM
A "stretching" of collective noun composers?
Jeff Corey
13th April 2007, 05:39 PM
This should be merged with "The Clew..."above.
Metullus
13th April 2007, 05:44 PM
A "giggle" of girls?
Jeff Corey
13th April 2007, 05:54 PM
A boister of boys.
JoeTheJuggler
13th April 2007, 09:30 PM
A "stretching" of collective noun composers?

<applause>

Nominated!

My own contribution: a talon of Brownes (since she's training her kids in the family bidness).
mummymonkey
14th April 2007, 06:16 AM
A thicket of woo-woos.
John Jackson
14th April 2007, 07:24 AM
A tedium of rap artists

A visit of Jehovah's Witnesses

A body of Pathologists

A mass of Catholics

A hump of nymphomaniacs

An uncertainty of quantum physicists

A chain of Lynx

A great deal of used-car salesmen

A vision of mystics

A stroke of Chiropractors
JoeTheJuggler
14th April 2007, 04:50 PM
This one's real: a juggling club (also a medieval war gamer's club).

A brace of orthopedists.
A committee of a single person with MPD.
Pope130
14th April 2007, 09:01 PM
A few more:
"A cuddle of kittens"
"A blush of brides"
"A courage of soldiers"
JoeTheJuggler
14th April 2007, 10:03 PM
A selection of draftees.
BillyJoe
14th April 2007, 11:20 PM
A force of arguments.
alfaniner
15th April 2007, 03:30 AM
It appears that this thread is focused more towards a general descriptions, while the http://forums.randi.org/showthread.php?t=79405other thread deals mainly with skeptical definitions.
BillyJoe
15th April 2007, 03:58 AM
A list of links.
JoeTheJuggler
15th April 2007, 04:20 PM
A spool of forum threads?

A gross of geeks (or other sideshow performers).
Deetee
17th April 2007, 11:10 AM
A tingle of acupuncturists
A zodiac of astrologers
A delusion of remote viewers
A fraud of faith healers
A swindle of psychics
A droop of dowsers
A fallacy of phrenologists
A quantum of homeopaths
A miasm of homeopaths
A rub of reflexologists
A crack of chiropractors
A contact of channelers
A twitter of conspiracists
BillyJoe
18th April 2007, 07:39 AM
A collective of nouns
Blue Bubble
18th April 2007, 09:23 AM
A choo of sneezes
A voluntary of strumpets
A garbage collection of JVMs
Dumb All Over
19th April 2007, 01:00 PM
A sh*tload of Zooky![tm].
John Jackson
19th April 2007, 01:22 PM
An Anorak of train-spotters

A silence of librarians

A party of introverts

A delivery of milkmen