Last month, a New York Times blog featured a little competition of sorts: creating new collective nouns. (The results were pretty amusing, including "a google of searchers", "a bore of bloggers," and "a battery of Priuses." You can read the whole list, here.)
That got us wondering... what collective nouns could we use at Car Talk, or NPR in general? An irritation of Magliozzis? A plaid of used car salesmen? A bogosity of puzzlers? A vituperation of hate mail?
We'd love to hear your suggestions! You can share them right here. We'll check back!
I don't think I've got anything new to add, but I want to point out that a google of searchers actually defines a specific number. A google is a 1 followed by 100 zeros. A collective noun shouldn't really specify a number, should it? So, obviously, that one should probably be a yahoo of searchers.
Oh, wait, I did think of one. How about a slump of jazz men?
I would call the show a live transmission of bum steers dealing with a perplexity of automotive disfunctions responded to with a large snifter of snorts.
06/20/2009 6:45:41 PM
