Back in the Middle Ages, knowing what collective noun was applied to a group of animals was taken quite seriously. We all know the common ones, such as herd of cows, a pack of dogs, a flock of birds, but there were plenty of obscure ones like an exaltation of larks, a murder of crows, a shrewdness of apes, etc. Time for some new collective nouns for Internet groupings.
- If a group of whales is a pod, is a group of teenagers an iPod?
- A nuisance of 4Chan members
- A nest of Tweeple (Twitter users)
- A channel of YouTube watchers
- A pool of Flickrites
- A patch of hackers
- A flaming of trolls
- A backdoor of hackers
- An absence of MySpace members
- A wall of Facebook friends
- A time suck of Farmville players
Which ones did you think of?
9 responses
A stedging of Zillagirls
A hoard of hearses…Uh, I guess that’s more of a pun…
a Waste of Bloggers… NO! Wait, that’s a Waste of DNA!
A Pair of Nuts…..resting on your chin.
[quote comment=”637457″]a Waste of Bloggers… NO! Wait, that’s a Waste of DNA![/quote]
Hey now. 👿
A plague of spammers.
A forest of ads.
A flotilla of phishers.
An ocean of videos.
A thicket of links.
A waterfall of email.
Corndog lip balm?!?
a garbage truck of junk mail
a barf of bloggers
a plethora of psychologists
an account of nigerian bankers
an erection of drug sellers
A 4um of texters.
A pride of lions, a shame of lolcats.
A warren of World of Warcraft players.*
An ostentation of match.com members.
A clutch of internet porn users.
(*try saying that when you’re drunk without sounding like Elmer Fudd)
😉 to an ipod of teens, a stedging of Zgirls!!!
A Lie of Politicians
A Runaround of bureaucrat,
A Blithering of Co=workers
A Cheapness of Hoes