I just found myself, in another thread, resorting to the description, “A host of rules,” and realized in the re-reading how downright silly that sounds. Then I looked up and saw a P.J. O’Rourke effort on my bookshelf entitled Parliament of Whores, and, well, you can guess the rest . . .
The language is already weighted down with such pearls as, “A Murder of Crows,” and, “A Bevy of Beauties,” and it seems to me that we have a responsibility to expand this descriptive device to the bitter end.
I offer, “A Phalanx of Phish Fans,” to open the game.
Dr. Watson
“Defending the Genus of Genius since 1957.”
You shouldn’t have given me the opportunity. I have been lobbying to have these added to An Exaltation of Larks for 16 years:
A Batch of Operators
A Pounding of KeyOperators
A Listing of Programmers
An Inquiry of Analysts
A Muddle of Managers
A Whine of Users
An Incompetence of CxOs
I fear I’ve missed the reference to An Exaltation of Larks, though it seems to have it’s own poetry, causing me to guess that I’ve broken no new ground here.
Regardless, if 16 years have passed without result, we might as well add, “A Frustration of Authors.”
Dr. Watson
“Escrow means never having to say you’re finished.”
<Looks around furtively> Psst, hey NothingMan, it doesn’t look like anyone is around, so maybe you want to change that to, “A lair of lawyers,” real fast, before we get slaughtered. Eh?
Then we can claim it was just a typo.
Dr. Watson
“The management has no knowledge, and will not be held responsible for those who do.”
A crash of support techs
A consternation of mothers
A belch of fraternities
A grade of teachers
An essay of English teachers
A portfolio of art teachers
A firing of potters