best of these collective nouns for animals

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some of these sound made up

Poll Results

Option	Votes
A murder of crows	7
An intrigue of kittens	4
An ubiquity of sparrows	3
A conspiracy of ravens	3
An unkindness of ravens	2
A school of fish	2
A barrel of monkeys	1
A paddling of ducks	1
A deceit of lapwings	1
A lamentation of swans	0
A gaggle of geese	0
A caravan of camels	0
A brace of ducks	0
A bouquet of pheasants	0
A ballet of swans	0

― jed_, Tuesday, 16 November 2010 01:58 (fifteen years ago)

a plops of poops

― puff puff post (uh oh I'm having a fantasy), Tuesday, 16 November 2010 02:02 (fifteen years ago)

no romp of otters, no credibility.

― kate78, Tuesday, 16 November 2010 02:05 (fifteen years ago)

AFAIK, the only ones listed that have any currency irl are: school of fish, brace of ducks (but generally only dead ducks, and then only two of them) and gaggle of geese. The others are second rate whimsicalities of no standing. \fun hating ogre

― Aimless, Tuesday, 16 November 2010 02:07 (fifteen years ago)

i suspected as much. an unkindness of ravens has a strange pull though.

― jed_, Tuesday, 16 November 2010 02:19 (fifteen years ago)

a seductive pull, rather!

― jed_, Tuesday, 16 November 2010 02:20 (fifteen years ago)

a chorus of dogs
a raft of coelecanths
a noesis of ptarmigans
a nebula of cane rats

― nakhchivan, Tuesday, 16 November 2010 02:24 (fifteen years ago)

a dysphoria of aimlesses

― nakhchivan, Tuesday, 16 November 2010 02:26 (fifteen years ago)

Automatic thread bump. This poll is closing tomorrow.

― System, Thursday, 18 November 2010 00:01 (fifteen years ago)

a murder of crows is defo real

― I see what this is (Local Garda), Thursday, 18 November 2010 00:16 (fifteen years ago)

i think conspiracy of ravens might actually be real too

― I see what this is (Local Garda), Thursday, 18 November 2010 00:18 (fifteen years ago)

http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51O48TQcK%2BL._SL500_AA300_.jpg

Are you saying this book is bullshit, Aimless?

― Stop Non-Erotic Cabaret (Abbbottt), Thursday, 18 November 2010 00:21 (fifteen years ago)

massive loss of face for aimless on this thread

― I see what this is (Local Garda), Thursday, 18 November 2010 00:23 (fifteen years ago)

a noesis of ptarmigans

you

― acoleuthic, Thursday, 18 November 2010 00:36 (fifteen years ago)

write-in vote for 'a bunch of stuff'

― Sméagol-Eye Cherry (NickB), Thursday, 18 November 2010 00:36 (fifteen years ago)

heh, before the 50-option poll limit kicked in i did a massive poll of these once

― bloc trebek-quois (donna rouge), Thursday, 18 November 2010 00:48 (fifteen years ago)

Are you saying this book is bullshit, Aimless?

Bullshit is such a crass word, mon cheri. I would prefer to say it is the purest quality bambi scat.

― Aimless, Thursday, 18 November 2010 01:19 (fifteen years ago)

Voted school of fish - it strikes me as a crazy image, but everyone just accepts it.

― seandalai, Thursday, 18 November 2010 01:22 (fifteen years ago)

a dazzle of zebras

― IN BEDDING WITH MADONNA!!! (Autumn Almanac), Thursday, 18 November 2010 01:28 (fifteen years ago)

a calliope of bambi scat

― Stop Non-Erotic Cabaret (Abbbottt), Thursday, 18 November 2010 01:42 (fifteen years ago)

Automatic thread bump. This poll's results are now in.

― System, Friday, 19 November 2010 00:01 (fifteen years ago)

I knew the corvids would sweep this.

― Stop Non-Erotic Cabaret (Abbbottt), Friday, 19 November 2010 00:30 (fifteen years ago)

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