Unused Collective Nouns
In one of my usual trash-runs, I found an interesting article disgorged from the Belhaven College library system. Belhaven Creek runs behind the college, and was no doubt the waterway through which these pages passed. I apologize for the incomplete nature of the find, and for besmirching the ancient nature of this joke, which likely existed even before 1486.
A Guide to Unused Modern Collective Nouns
by Josephia G. Boswell
Wiktionary Widget Project
A SUBREDDIT of assholes.
A HEARING of blowhards.
A CHUNDRY of unwashed laundry.
An EYEGOUGE of Dilbert Cartoons.
A PRIUSPISM of Prius Drivers.
A LOSTLESS of pointless smoke monsters.
A SANDWICH of Greenwich Mean Time enthusiasts.
A HITLORE of History Channel programs.
AN ANGSTROMCOM of Big Budget Film Directors.
A JEROMISTAN of Jeromes.
A KILLINGER of Cambodian Bombings.
A MASTERBANKTION of mortgage loans.
A QUAALITUDE of Zen Masters.
A DRONNYBANK of Military Industrial lobbyists.
An OPECK of oil-shale.
A PERFIDITY of perfumes.
A POTHOLESWORTH of car parts in Jackson.
A TWITTER of high tech misogynistic stalkers.
An F-UVERSE of Comcast Employees.
A VENTRON of pointless internet comments.
A WHATTSWIM of Global Warming denialists.
An XXXONOBYTE - an amount of stored digital pornography, greater than 1 GB.
YOURSAPHONES - people who use "You're" and "your" inconsistently and incorrectly.
A XENOPHOBOPHONEOPILE of people screaming at immigrants.
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