For your delectation we have compiled with these inspired by Jess’s:
An embarrassment of Mayors
An assemblage of jigsaw puzzlers (not a real one)
A murder of crows
A band of gorillas
A beautification of spatulas
A company of parrots
A blessing of unicorns (aw)
A bloat of hippopotami
A charm of finches
A glaring of cats
A book of Mormons
A buffoonery of orang-utans download avatar movie A Bug's Life rip
A plump of waterfowl
A shuffle of bureucrats
A business of ferrets
A charlotte of WebPages
A route of wolves
A murmuration of starlings
A prickle of hedgehogs
A unkindness of ravens
A drift of hogs
Hijack dvd A thicket of idiots
A fidget of altar boys
A labour of moles
An observance of hermits
A mob of kangaroo
A parliament of rooks
A flange of baboons
An ambush of widows
Most of these are the real deal. We want you to come up with a collective noun for people who recycle with the Laundry…
I have come with some…
A mischief of Rachels
A bevy of Harriets
A flush of Helens
what do you rec?
Submit entries please!
the winner (the one that makes me laugh most) gets a sur-prize
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27 Responses to “What would you call lots of Rachels?”
Posted: Feb 15th, 2007 at 10:59 am
Exhausting!
Posted: Feb 15th, 2007 at 11:33 am
ecoclave of Rachels
Posted: Feb 15th, 2007 at 11:57 am
a perfection of paperpeople
a loopiness of laundry ladies
a razamataz of recyclers
an efficiency of recyclers
a wombling of collectors
- do i win a suprise!
Posted: Feb 15th, 2007 at 11:57 am
You missed out ‘a wunch of bankers’!
Posted: Feb 15th, 2007 at 12:02 pm
Haha, I like the last one Suzy! A loopiness of Laundry Ladies is also possibly more accurate than we should admit to…
Posted: Feb 15th, 2007 at 12:04 pm
A Handful of Fredas,
A Migraine of Rachels
Posted: Feb 15th, 2007 at 12:05 pm
A Rounding (up) of Sacks
Posted: Feb 15th, 2007 at 12:08 pm
To sum this all up:
A load of Rubbish!
Posted: Feb 15th, 2007 at 2:49 pm
A Ream of Rachels …?
Posted: Feb 15th, 2007 at 3:16 pm
This has been a bit of a wash-out!! Is there anybody there?
Posted: Feb 15th, 2007 at 3:29 pm
Hey Jeremy here we are – we have to scan your comments to check if put anything naughty, luckily I approved you.
I’m liking these entries – the prize is a good un, keep em coming
Rach
Posted: Feb 15th, 2007 at 4:19 pm
What about the collective term for a lot of balls (of scrunched up paper of course)?
A load of old b******s!!!!
Posted: Feb 15th, 2007 at 5:00 pm
A wash of launderers!
Posted: Feb 16th, 2007 at 9:10 am
A Laundry of Recyclers
with
A riot of Rachels
A heaven of Helens and
A herem of Harriets
Posted: Feb 16th, 2007 at 9:11 am
that should be a ‘harem’ not ‘herem’
Posted: Feb 16th, 2007 at 10:53 am
A hearty hustle of Harriets and Helens, inevitably followed by a resolute rustle of Rachels.
Posted: Feb 16th, 2007 at 12:06 pm
Hey Richard which one are you after!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!1
Posted: Feb 16th, 2007 at 12:06 pm
1 not meant
Posted: Feb 16th, 2007 at 3:50 pm
How about a rampage of Rachels?
So have you found a winner yet? I mean it’s Friday and everyone is bored and needs some excitement……..!
Posted: Feb 16th, 2007 at 3:58 pm
Patience Jeremy…
The winner will be announced in next week’s email so you’ll have to hold on till then!
Posted: Feb 19th, 2007 at 10:48 am
an ecoven of Rachels casting a ‘Green’ spell over all
Posted: Feb 19th, 2007 at 1:43 pm
A rash of Rachels
Posted: Feb 21st, 2007 at 11:36 pm
Er Duncan I take it you mean because I have an infectious personality, not that I am really irritating.
Posted: Feb 22nd, 2007 at 3:00 pm
Phew, welll, what adventures the Laundrettes have had while the Laundry was closed? Let’s say it involved mud, flip charts, vegetables as metaphors, bunk beds, tree top ropes, a burrow and getting lost. Not all at the same time.
Back to our competition, I have declared two winners this week:
One is from Freida of Smithfield business centres:
A migraine of Rachels
Harsh but fair!
And for Paul Kiernan for
A rounding (up) of sacks
I like this one, it’s A1 (reminds me of a story) for effort, there were some sillier (funnier?) (sorry Paul) ones but this one has class. I also like the non commital use of brackets (an embellishment of brackets?).
WELL done fellows, your prizes will be in the post.
Posted: Mar 8th, 2007 at 10:39 am
where is my (good) pressie……..?
Posted: Mar 8th, 2007 at 10:58 am
Rachel’s off sunning herself on holiday at the moment so The Laundry pixies are having to work extra hard to cope in her absence hence the teeny weeny delay in sending out pressies, but fear not, highlighted in bright pink on our to do list is SEND OUT GOOD PRESSIES TO FABULOUS PEOPLE WHO WROTE CLEVER THINGS ON THE BLOG so it will happen today, it’s a fail safe method of making sure things get done.
Posted: Sep 10th, 2007 at 10:46 am
The collective noun for baboons is commonly troop or congress, although flange is also becoming common. This unusual term originates from a Not the Nine O’Clock News comedy sketch entitled “Gerald The Intelligent Gorilla” where it was used for comic effect. It lead me and my brother to wonder in what situation you could legitimately use it, such as in the jungle: “Quick, run! I’m being pursued by and angry Flange!” / “There’s a huge marauding flange on the mountain top”.