I wanted the Magic Time Lord's Hideout, but this one comes with two different rooms for dancing, so I'm good!

Your home is a Gamer's Mansion Your kitchen consists of dilithium-powered food replicators, manned by obedient robot slaves, who are sure to never, ever rebel. I mean, it's preposterous to even consider it. There's a Chocolatessen, which is rapidly becoming your favorite room of the house. Having one is also becoming a trend among your wealthy neighbors. Your master bedroom is the size of a small barn, with carpet thick enough to reach your ankles. Your study has every science fiction title ever written. One of your garages contains a life-sized X-Wing fighter, and KITT. (KITT was a gift from a well-meaning uncle.) Your home also includes a robot repair bay, where your mechanized servants are routinely fitted with new restraining bolts. (It's just a precaution.) Your guests enjoy your animatronic replica of the cantina at Mos Eisley. Outside is your radio telescope, listening constantly for alien transmissions. Especially invaders. They'll come eventually, even if nobody believes you. (Nobody does.) And, you have a pet -- a taun-taun named "Padme". Below is a snippet of the blueprints:

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Hey all! So, I was thinking about the collective nouns (the words used to describe groups of critters). There are some great ones out there, such as "a piteousness of doves", "a murmurring of starlings", an "unkindness of ravens", "a murder of crows", "a rhumba of rattlesnakes", etc.

More here: http://www.rinkworks.com/words/collective.shtml

But I thought, wouldn't it be fun to come up with better collective nouns for the poor critters who have lame collective nouns? Or to come up with collective nouns for critters or things that don't have one? So, if you have a critter that needs one, needs a better one, or if you just want to spend the day generating cool collective nouns, post 'em here. I'll consolidate them at some point into some kind of organized chaos, and we can vote for our faves.

To get started:

A quest of paladins
An argument of academics
A contraryness of cats
A paradox of foxes
A regeneration of Doctors

Edit: the fox has pointed out that one might also call a regeneration of Doctors "a Tom Baker's Dozen".

heh.

I wasn't tapped for this. I'm only doing it because I ran into it while doing/avoiding my welsh homework, which happens to be translating the first Harry Potter book. The gods conspire against me.

1. Grab the nearest book.
2. Open the book to page 23.
3. Find the fifth sentence.
4. Post the text of the next three sentences in your journal along with these instructions.
5. Don't dig for your favorite book, the cool book, or the intellectual one: pick the CLOSEST.
6. Tag five other people to do the same.

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