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Shooting queers in a (term?)

TCamen · 2005-09-19 00:07:00

Hmm tough call, what with all the varied GLBTQ types -- how does one cover all the colours of the rainbow under one umbrella title? :confused: Split from here: http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=297808

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19-09-2005 1:07am

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What is the proper name for a group of queers though? We have like a pride of Lions, a can of whoopass, a gaggle of geese etc. Would it be a handbag of queers?

Hmm tough call, what with all the varied GLBTQ types -- how does one cover all the colours of the rainbow under one umbrella title?

Split from here: http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=297808

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#2 19-09-2005 1:12am
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A fractal of queers? (Thinking along the lines of Chaos Theory and noise.)

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#3 19-09-2005 1:18am
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A fractal of queers? (Thinking along the lines of Chaos Theory and noise.)

Hmm it's not "wow" enough for me. It lacks sex appeal. It lacks any appeal actually

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#4 19-09-2005 1:18am
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I wish TCamen would hurry up and post a reply so I can run off into dreamland on my cotton wool cloud bed. EDIT: He replied. Woot! and other noises to cover for my lack of [that word that says you know a lot of words.]

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#5 19-09-2005 1:21am
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A pageantry of Queers?

Or, for the pink triangle mob, a boxcar of queers?

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#6 19-09-2005 1:23am
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A pageantry of Queers?

No.

Or, for the pink triangle mob, a boxcar of queers?

Nope.

*sigh* I wish Damien.m would label us already.

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#7 19-09-2005 7:10am
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A fraktal of queers is quite good I think

October 1st anyway... damn. I'll probably be arriving back in Ireland that very day -- but I won't be anywhere near Dublin :-/

Oh well, didn't think I would make it.. and it turns out, I wont.

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#8 19-09-2005 8:33am
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TCamen wrote:

*sigh* I wish Damien.m would label us already.

A label of queers.

There. Done.

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#9 19-09-2005 8:58am
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A fagot of queers?

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#10 19-09-2005 10:11am
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I once heard David Norris debate this and he came up with

a flutter of fairies

It was so much easier to blame it on Them. It was bleakly depressing to think that They were Us. If it was Them, then nothing was anyone's fault. If it was us, what did that make Me? After all, I'm one of Us. I must be. I've certainly never thought of myself as one of Them. No one ever thinks of themselves as one of Them. We're always one of Us. It's Them that do the bad things.
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#11 28-09-2005 12:37pm
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TCamen wrote:

how does one cover all the colours of the rainbow under one umbrella title?

Perhaps 'umbrella' or 'rainbow' would be appropriate collective nouns.

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#12 28-09-2005 12:52pm
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Perhaps 'umbrella' or 'rainbow' would be appropriate collective nouns.

or 'a pack of fags'?

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#13 28-09-2005 12:57pm
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A "hood" of queers sounds good to me.

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#14 28-09-2005 12:59pm
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a bunch of pansies
sounds colourful and flowery

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#15 28-09-2005 1:05pm
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a bunch of pansies

I like it

'A bevy of benders' ?

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#16 28-09-2005 1:06pm
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An abnormality of queers?

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#17 28-09-2005 1:10pm
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TCamen wrote:

how does one cover all the colours of the rainbow under one umbrella title?

What word covers all seven colours ? erm the word ...rainbow.

A curvature of queers

A quaIntity

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#18 28-09-2005 1:18pm
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Hmm_Messiah wrote:

...rainbow.

Beat you to it. Ha!

And surely it'd have to be 'a pride of queers'.

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#19 28-09-2005 1:37pm
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A phase of queers. Measured in amounts of "just" and "only".

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#20 28-09-2005 1:39pm
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A clique of Queers.

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#21 28-09-2005 1:41pm
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a cocktail

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A giggle of gays?
A flock of fags?

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#23 28-09-2005 4:50pm
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A liquor of lesbians.
A buttery of gays.
A tandem of bisexuals.
A confusion of transvestites.
A hatred of heteros.
A sweetie of paedos.
A loss of eunuchs.
A wondering of virgins.
A longing of nymphomaniacs.
A beating of masochists.
A torture of sadists.

I''l give up now. I've an important appointment with my psychologist to get to.

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#24 29-09-2005 4:29pm
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A coterie of queers.

Coterie: A small, often select group of persons who associate with one another frequently.

On a side note - the collective noun for ravens is "an unkindness of ravens". How cool is that?

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#25 04-10-2005 1:18pm
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Hagar wrote:

A sweetie of paedos.

im reading this in the college library and the librarian is woondering why there is a random student rolling on the floor laughing.

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#26 10-10-2005 1:59pm
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A Rainbow Coalition perhaps?

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#27 10-10-2005 5:13pm
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dictatorcat wrote:

A Rainbow Coalition perhaps?

that's too cheesy DC

It was so much easier to blame it on Them. It was bleakly depressing to think that They were Us. If it was Them, then nothing was anyone's fault. If it was us, what did that make Me? After all, I'm one of Us. I must be. I've certainly never thought of myself as one of Them. No one ever thinks of themselves as one of Them. We're always one of Us. It's Them that do the bad things.
Terry Pratchet

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