OT: Collective Nouns for Whistles & sessions

Whistle
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We Brits can have a lot of fun with unusual collective nouns, (e.g. a parliament of owls).

What collective nouns can we invent for the whistling fraternity (or sorority for the lassies) to use?

A few to get things started:

A surfeit of Bodhrans (i.e. more than one)
A family of Generations
A squeal of Beginners
A cheekbone of Corrs
A wisdom of Dales
A moderation of Riches

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[ This Message was edited by: Martin Milner on 2002-02-27 10:02 ]

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A “kindergarten” of Sweetones?
Christian

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A shriek of whistles.
A grove of Oaks?
An oodle of Soodlums?
A bellow of accordions.

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A Pride of Pennyless Pennywhistle Purchasers

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A gaggle of Generations
A flock or flight of Feadogs
A bouquet of Roses
A cain of Abells
A cluster of Clares
A hive of Generation Bb’s (God, that’s painful)

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Thanks, you guys–I am laughing myself silly over all these. You’re the best!

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I like the bouquet of Roses suggestion.

How about:
• a forest of Oaks
• a closet of Hoovers

Jef

[ This Message was edited by: Jeferson on 2002-02-27 16:53 ]

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A cesspool of critics?

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an Obsession of whistle players… :wink:

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How about (with tongue in cheek, of course):

a crock of Kerrys?
a pitch of tunables?

[ This Message was edited by: WhistlerWannaBe on 2002-02-27 18:23 ]

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These are great. Right up there with my all time favorite — a braile of umpires.

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Whistle - a plethora of pleasures,
a pleasant panacea
played with panache (hopefully)
by a captivated collector

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A Brace of Burkes
A Clutch of Clarkes
A Span of Sindts
A Bevy of Bodhrans
A Colony of Copelands
A Covey of Copleys
A Wake of Weasels
A Group of Grinters
A Wad of Wiselys

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A tribe of time bandits
(whistlers who post to C&F while they are supposed to be working, and who hit the minimize button 'cause here comes the boss)
Lisa

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Hello Martin,
This is a great idea for a thread. I love it. As soon as I get some ideas I will post them. Keep up the good topics. ~Mimi

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On 2002-02-28 14:19, ysgwd wrote:
A tribe of time bandits
(whistlers who post to C&F while they are supposed to be working, and who hit the minimize button 'cause here comes the boss)
Lisa

I love it. How appropriate!

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A Scintillating Circus of Silken Sindts

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On 2002-02-27 16:51, Jeferson wrote:
I like the bouquet of Roses suggestion.

How about:
• a forest of Oaks
• a closet of Hoovers

Jef

[ This Message was edited by: Jeferson on 2002-02-27 16:53 ]

Jef, some of the members from the USA may not get the closet of Hoovers… we always call them vacuum cleaners!

— Nancy

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Could’ve been a reference to J Edgar of course.

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Over a ton of Overtons
A mixin’ of Dixons
A bevy of Burks

An apogee of High G’s
An Air of Low-D’s
A Song of C’s