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Previous Thread Next Thread Print Thread Page 2 of 4 1 2 3 4 Re: taking note #147804 09/13/05 01:19 AM Joined: Apr 2000 Posts: 10,542 this too shall pass tsuwm Carpal Tunnel tsuwm Carpal Tunnel Joined: Apr 2000 Posts: 10,542 this too shall pass a school of bassists. -ron o. Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter Re: taking note #147805 09/13/05 01:26 AM Joined: Mar 2001 Posts: 2,379 New York City I inselpeter Pooh-Bah inselpeter Pooh-Bah I Joined: Mar 2001 Posts: 2,379 New York City A cube of triangles? A hum of drummers? Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter Re: taking note #147806 09/13/05 02:49 PM Joined: Sep 2005 Posts: 5 Whidbey Island N Nutty stranger Nutty stranger N Joined: Sep 2005 Posts: 5 Whidbey Island A Violation of Violininsts. Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter Re: taking note #147807 09/13/05 02:51 PM Joined: Mar 2000 Posts: 6,511 lower upstate New York AnnaStrophic Carpal Tunnel AnnaStrophic Carpal Tunnel Joined: Mar 2000 Posts: 6,511 lower upstate New York A buffoonery of bassoons. Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter Re: taking note #147808 09/13/05 03:23 PM Joined: Sep 2005 Posts: 5 Whidbey Island N Nutty stranger Nutty stranger N Joined: Sep 2005 Posts: 5 Whidbey Island A Perahia of Pianists Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter Re: Collective nouns #147809 09/13/05 03:50 PM Joined: Sep 2005 Posts: 1 C Chopin stranger Chopin stranger C Joined: Sep 2005 Posts: 1 I heard a story (alleged to be true) a while ago about an event in England where Margaret Thatcher, John Majors and Tony Blair were in attendance. Someone noticed that there were three Prime Ministers and somehow the conversation turned to what do you call a collection of Prime Ministers. John Majors is said to have responded, "A Lack of Principles." True or not, it still hit my funny bone. It was a woman that drove me to drink and I never had the decency to thank her. Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter Re: Collective nouns #147810 09/13/05 03:55 PM Joined: Mar 2001 Posts: 2,379 New York City I inselpeter Pooh-Bah inselpeter Pooh-Bah I Joined: Mar 2001 Posts: 2,379 New York City Funny story. "I heard a story (alleged to be true) a while ago" *almost guarantees that whatever follows is an urban legend. Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter Re: Collective nouns #147811 09/13/05 04:06 PM Joined: Sep 2005 Posts: 5 Whidbey Island N Nutty stranger Nutty stranger N Joined: Sep 2005 Posts: 5 Whidbey Island Would that then translate to a Puffery of Presidents? Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter Re: Collective nouns #147812 09/13/05 07:13 PM Joined: Sep 2005 Posts: 3 M mherson stranger mherson stranger M Joined: Sep 2005 Posts: 3 An Exaltation of Larks was my first thought too on seeing this theme. I really regret selling my nice hardback copy when I was broke and selling everything in sight. We too used to play the game of making up our own - the only one that comes back to me now (and remember this was end of the '60s) was 'a trip of hippies', but it was a great parlour game (now there's an anachronism) for word-lovers and punsters. Wanna know about the word game that we call 'John', and why? 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