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Old 12th October 2001, 16:42   #21 (permalink)
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a road of cobras
a fluster of cooks
 
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a pistfull of filots. a collective for channel 4, obviously, HICK!
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Collective nouns, shouldn't this be on the "rotorheads" forum?

Over there, do you have:
A Collective of Helicopter Pilots?


A Smoko of LAMEs...
An Absence of Airservices...

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A lie of politicians
Greetings all. My first ever post.
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A lack of principles.

A shortage of Boeings.
A surplus of Airbus.
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Old 14th October 2001, 20:14   #26 (permalink)

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A fix of navigators?

A tankful of Volvo drivers?

Or, more topical, a binful of Laden?
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A rotor of helicopter pilots
A redundancy of managers
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Old 18th October 2001, 16:44   #28 (permalink)

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A smarm of salesmen

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Old 18th October 2001, 17:59   #29 (permalink)
 
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An ambush of tigers!
Dancing hobbes
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Oy Conky Joe!!
A bit less of the anti-Celtic descriptive terminology, if you please ...
A dangle of Winchmen and a patter of Winch Operators..... oh,.. and a ground school of pedants.
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Old 18th October 2001, 21:29   #31 (permalink)

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A brag of pilots

A whinge of engineers

A farce of managers

A sloth of baggage handlers

A slot of airtraffickers

A load of old ShyTorque

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Not forgetting Geese on the wing are a Skein.

how about an audit of tax officers or a network of IT guys.
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A Splat of Skydivers

A Rampage of Football Hooligans

A Rant of Fundamentalists

A Squabble of Politicians

A Bankruptcy of Airlines

A Bottle of Scotch

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An ego of pilots
A lost of navigators
A whinge of crewmen
An excuse of engineers
A refusal of blunties
A collision of controllers....
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