I remembered to save some of the chat text from last night, and I think this was my favorite bit of all. What happens when you throw two dozen geeks into a room and get them on about the language during commentary about “the deer hunter vote?” This:
spork_incident> A covey of quail!
Athenae: A brace of woodcock!
John_O> Don’t tell Cheney.
Elspeth> ha, A said ‘cock’!
Athenae: Elspeth, yeah, we call it Tuesday.
joejoejoe8059> a pride of leons
sent sound: rooster
virgotex> heheheheh
Dee_Loralei> can we invent a tv channel with only KO and Rachel Maddow on MSNBC
Sinfonian> *switches to baseball*
spocko_holdingontovan> the cafe I’m in the people go out side to smoke. Right in front of the door and the wind blows it in. How rude!
Elspeth> LOL!!! 🙂
Apostate> a shame of pundits
joejoejoe8059> heh…
Athenae: A business of ferrets.
Athenae: Who are now climbing on the table.
ellroon> Spocko, at least they’re outside…
The_Kenosha_Kid> i can haz ferrets?
SteveLG> A stole of ferrets.
virgotex> don’t they ever sleep
Athenae: Next paycheck, they’re getting lots of toys. They need new diversions.
Sinfonian> a PAC of politicians
Athenae: virgo, never.
ellroon> a cabal of bushies
spocko_holdingontovan> True. I should be happy for small favors.
virgotex> Before you got here, we had ferret canapes
SteveLG> A collar of ferrets.
Elspeth> a landfill of bushies.
joejoejoe8059> are ferrets and polecats the same thing?
Athenae: *pouts*
FeralLiberal> Business? How about a frenzy?
Apostate> a thatch of russerts
Athenae: jjj, they’re related.
underwhelm> an eternity of primaries
ellroon> polecats = skunks?
virgotex> polecats are skunks
Sinfonian> polecat = skunk
The_Kenosha_Kid> lol underwhelm
virgotex> civet
stormysu> elspeth ding dingding
ellroon> ha!
Sinfonian> too slow
sid6792> skanks
SteveLG> Zogby’s a pollcat… a stinky one recently.
Elspeth> A Stepford of Cindy McCains
spocko_holdingontovan> I’m a lonesome polecat was a song from Seven Bride for Seven Brothers.
spork_incident> A coulter of skanks.
Have I mentioned lately that I love you all?
A.