Collective Nouns - $1,000,000 contest! (in Contests)
QBJohnnywas
April 5 2006 3:12 AM EDT
Collective nouns, you know the kind of thing - a gaggle of geese, a murder of crows, a throwaway of tulwars.
I've got a 100k pot to give away to the best collective noun connected with Carnage Blender.
The usual rules apply:
1. Multiple entries allowed.
2. Keep it PG.
3. Closing date will be a week from now: April the Twelfth. Or sooner if I get no entries!
Oh and any donations to the pot will be gratefully received. I will be adding to it myself as I earn more!
:)
- A beating of CP's.
- A mob of clans.
- A smattering of CB$.
I like this contest! ^^;;
QBJohnnywas
April 5 2006 3:58 AM EDT
Thanks to Karmic for the donation. Pot currently stands at 175K.
JAFO
April 5 2006 4:19 AM EDT
A flurry of familiars
A twinkle of tattoos
a jumble of jigorokanos
a quorum of QBs
a blink of BA
bartjan
April 5 2006 4:53 AM EDT
A pair of multies
AdminG Beee
April 5 2006 5:05 AM EDT
A Cheat of Multi's.
Stephen
April 5 2006 5:10 AM EDT
An enforcement of admins
A Burning of Fireballs
A Melting of Fireballs
A Conflagration of Fireballs
A Scorching of Fireballs
A Freezing of Cone of Colds
A Pot-Shot of Black Market Votes
deifeln
April 5 2006 6:07 AM EDT
A smatter of Mushu (Mushu is plural...kinda' like 'deer')
A forum of posting drunks.
A gin of inebriated posters.
QBJohnnywas
April 5 2006 6:09 AM EDT
A bar-room of Blenders
QBJohnnywas
April 5 2006 6:22 AM EDT
Pot is already up to 275k!!!! Who was that masked man?!?!?
Cheers GL!
rufen
April 5 2006 6:25 AM EDT
A cluster of CoI.
A mangling of Morgs
A splurge of XP
A splurge of CB$
A chain of Chat Mails
An army of opponents
A furor or fights
A cubit of chat
QBJohnnywas
April 5 2006 7:20 AM EDT
Pot rises to 400k. Thanks to the lady in the hat at the back!
thanks Bast.
AdminG Beee
April 5 2006 7:55 AM EDT
A giggle of collective nouns.
AdminG Beee
April 5 2006 8:02 AM EDT
A
catastrophe of failed bot checks.
Cylo
April 5 2006 8:38 AM EDT
a withering of decay
deifeln
April 5 2006 8:50 AM EDT
a handful of loans
A changemonth of complaints
Maelstrom
April 5 2006 9:05 AM EDT
Last weekend at the conference, there was actually a brief conversation as to what collective noun should be used to refer to us mathematicians. Many of these refer to math concepts...
A murder of mathematicians? (has a nice sound to it ;)
A field of mathematicians?
A ring of mathematicians?
A group of mathematicians?
A set of mathematicians?
There were more, but I just woke up...
QBJohnnywas
April 5 2006 9:07 AM EDT
A multiplication of mathematicians.
A flurried whinge of posts.
Maelstrom
April 5 2006 9:10 AM EDT
Nah, too obvious :p
We thought of a gaggle of mathematicians, but that didn't sound too nice...
A nerf of AxBows (the proper collective noun for the growing pile of discarded ones over there in the corner)
;)
A pout of post-changemonth sales.
AdminG Beee
April 5 2006 9:16 AM EDT
Surely it should be a google of mathematicians.
Nah, it's a sum of mathematicians! ;)
QBJohnnywas
April 5 2006 10:17 AM EDT
With thanks to the King Of Contests BarzooMonkey we now have the pot up to a nice tidy 500k! :)
AdminG Beee
April 5 2006 10:30 AM EDT
A Barzoo of donations.
minimum ads for admins
community of communication immunities
forum for rum ;*)
carn (age 2) blender
python link
A murder of LEET speakers ;P
AdminShade
April 5 2006 11:33 AM EDT
a never "ending" of multis
QBJohnnywas
April 5 2006 11:39 AM EDT
A scam of Montys.
Zoglog (Elven_Kings) 172.201.32.176 Johnnywas (Wastorage) $250000 -- Col-noun-con 11:40 AM EDT
Big enough for ya? :)
QBJohnnywas
April 5 2006 11:43 AM EDT
Thanks for that Zog! OK people! Pot stands currently at 750k.
A Hegemony of Battle Royal
or
A Borg of Battle Royal
A smidgen of Magic Missiles
A parliament of CBowls
"CBowls" are type of "Owls" which are numerous chiefly nocturnal birds... nocturnal because that wake up for their CB parliament...
QBJohnnywas
April 5 2006 2:02 PM EDT
Well, thanks to Borderliner we now have the pot up to 800k!
Vicious Cat
April 5 2006 2:41 PM EDT
A Bastion of Bees
An Edginess of Changemonths (If it's good enough for JW...)
An Escalation (or Embarassment) of Quitters
An Expense of Tanks
A Shallowness of Fireball Mages
An Irritation of Spellcheckers
An Incalculable of Mathematicians
deifeln
April 5 2006 3:55 PM EDT
A handful of female players (no double entendre intended)
Mrs Beee
April 5 2006 5:22 PM EDT
A botch of checks
QBJohnnywas
April 5 2006 6:42 PM EDT
Ok, thanks to Rampage our pot is now sitting at a cool one million!
Maelstrom
April 5 2006 6:47 PM EDT
A keg of drunken Englishmen?
a MILL of contests
a wee of elves
Nakmirax
April 5 2006 8:23 PM EDT
A gasp of changelogs
A scalding of replies
A scorn of tulwars
A yelp of resets
A moan of kicks
A whole befuzzle of New Players!
A brood of mentees
A coterie of UC minions
A rout of Black Market voters
QBJohnnywas
April 6 2006 3:17 AM EDT
A disappearence of chat.
A collection of collective nouns
Timberwolf
April 6 2006 4:53 AM EDT
A whimper of whiners.
QBJohnnywas
April 6 2006 5:16 PM EDT
A bottom of bumps.
A collection of clicks.
A boot of kicks.
An expulsion of explicitives.
A streak of winnings. (:P)
An influx of 'newbies'.
A curse of changes.
QBPixel Sage
April 6 2006 9:59 PM EDT
A Rental of RoEs
A Flurry of Fireballs
A Nerf of FS/WTB
A Changelog of Jon
A Link of Phantoms
A Missile of Magic
A Decay of Mage
A Chain of Ethereal
or how about...
A Cone of Cold
=P
maulaxe
April 7 2006 12:35 AM EDT
an ode to CB:
a Pain in the wrist
a click of the mouse
a pile of foes
a battle of friends.
A cahoot of non-collective nouns, attempting to be collective nouns.
:P
Flames Fame
April 7 2006 1:37 AM EDT
A War of Carnage
<img src="http://www.answers.com/main/ntquery;jsessionid=d8af1ob94i1br?method=4&dsname=Wikipedia+Images&dekey=Carnage.jpg&sbid=lc07a" align="right">
A armory of arrows
A meeting of multis
A rebellion of rangers :P
Flames Fame
April 7 2006 2:04 AM EDT
A volley of arrows
A Community of Friends
A battle of Blenders
A clan of Carnage
A Game of Fame
oh well these r worth a shot.
A secular cult of nerds.
A cream of noobs.
A sux0r of l33ts.
A cuththwaddle of arrows.
Unfortunately, this contest is surprisingly awkward, due to the spell checker disliking my complete and utter unbelievable lack of the ability to actually spell words, or even USE real words. But there we go, eh?
A clientele of telephobes.
A kvetch of whinging posters.
A confederacy of carpists.
QBJohnnywas
April 8 2006 8:03 PM EDT
Why is it called a round of drinks?
Rizz
April 8 2006 8:40 PM EDT
A room of new players.
Bolfen
April 8 2006 9:35 PM EDT
A Jonathan of changes
trigun
April 8 2006 9:52 PM EDT
A column of architects
A ring of jewelers
A great deal of used-car salesmen
A rash of dermatologists
A flash of paparazz
A bunch of florists
QBJohnnywas
April 10 2006 1:49 AM EDT
A Monday of Moans
A Friday of pubs
A Saturday of clubs
A Sunday of beds
AdminG Beee
April 10 2006 6:03 AM EDT
A pollution of drunks
QBOddBird
April 10 2006 10:49 AM EDT
a DAWGhouse of BoNEs.
a quiggle of Rizzs.
a padonkeydonk of GLs.
I dunno, I'm just making stuff up...
Rizz
April 10 2006 11:50 AM EDT
A clip of ammo.
A beeehive of frustrated bus travelers
;)
Rizz
April 10 2006 11:52 AM EDT
A deck of cards.
Rizz
April 10 2006 11:57 AM EDT
A class of monkeys.
An ocean of gold.
A flood of posts.
(sorry i'm posting as i think.)
QBJohnnywas
April 12 2006 5:31 AM EDT
Ok. Cue drum roll! This contest is now over. The following entries are our finalists which will shortly be placed in a poll for your voting delights.
Thank you for all the entries.
These are the finalists:
Karmic Mishap, April 5 2006 3:14 AM EDT
A twitch of BA's.
G Beee, April 5 2006 5:05 AM EDT
A Cheat of Multi's.
Cylo, April 5 2006 8:38 AM EDT
a withering of decay
Vicious Cat, April 5 2006 2:41 PM EDT
An Irritation of Spellcheckers
Mrs Beee, April 5 2006 5:22 PM EDT
A botch of checks
QBBast, April 5 2006 9:08 PM EDT
A whole befuzzle of New Players!
QBJohnnywas
April 12 2006 5:43 AM EDT
Oh there is a special mention prize going to Oddbird for his
"a padonkeydonk of GLs.
I dunno, I'm just making stuff up..."
Which made me laugh for a surprisingly long time....
Johnnywas (Jack Crow) 213.152.230.220 [OB]OddBird (Cowfish) $100000 -- special mention 5:41 AM EDT
Just for a fun addition I just thought of:
A Canadia of Todd's
')
QBJohnnywas
April 15 2006 3:47 AM EDT
And we have a winner - our birthday girl Mrs Beee for her 'Botch of Checks'!!!
Well done! Don't spend it all at once! Another step closer to being the richest couple in the game!
Johnnywas (Wastorage) 172.214.132.217 Mrs Beee (Queen Beee) $1000000 -- The Winner! 3:42 AM EDT
And a big thanks to everyone who entered and everyone that voted. :)
Tenchi Muyo
April 15 2006 4:01 AM EDT
Shoot... and I had a good idea for this if I had seen the contest post:
A waste of bandwith.
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