{"id":565,"date":"2007-12-18T08:13:03","date_gmt":"2007-12-18T08:13:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/scientopia.org\/blogs\/goodmath\/2007\/12\/18\/collective-noun-for-geeks\/"},"modified":"2007-12-18T08:13:03","modified_gmt":"2007-12-18T08:13:03","slug":"collective-noun-for-geeks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.goodmath.org\/blog\/2007\/12\/18\/collective-noun-for-geeks\/","title":{"rendered":"Collective Noun for Geeks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> Here at ScienceBlogs, we have a back-channel where the bloggers can get together and chat. In one of our threads, I was telling a story about work, and an interesting question came up. What&#8217;s the collective noun for a bunch of geeks?<\/p>\n<p> Collective nouns are cool and funny. Some of them are straightforward: a herd of cows, a pack of wolves. Some are goofy: a <em>wake<\/em> of vultures, a <em>destruction<\/em> of cats (that&#8217;s north american wildcats), an <em>ostentation<\/em> of peacocks. And there are some fascinating ones:  a <em>parliament<\/em> of ravens,  an <em>exaltation<\/em> of larks.<\/p>\n<p> I don&#8217;t know of any good collective noun for a bunch of geeks. But I think we need one! So what should it be? Fire away in the comments.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here at ScienceBlogs, we have a back-channel where the bloggers can get together and chat. In one of our threads, I was telling a story about work, and an interesting question came up. What&#8217;s the collective noun for a bunch of geeks? Collective nouns are cool and funny. Some of them are straightforward: a herd [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-565","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-chatter"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4lzZS-97","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.goodmath.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/565","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.goodmath.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.goodmath.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.goodmath.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.goodmath.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=565"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.goodmath.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/565\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.goodmath.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=565"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.goodmath.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=565"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.goodmath.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=565"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}