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semperfiona ([personal profile] semperfiona) wrote2006-11-22 12:07 pm
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What is the collective noun for a group of rats?


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[identity profile] ona-tangent.livejournal.com 2006-11-22 05:09 pm (UTC)(link)
Rats?

[identity profile] ona-tangent.livejournal.com 2006-11-22 05:11 pm (UTC)(link)
Let me take another swig of coffee and now suddenly your post makes sense. D'oh!

The proper collective noun for a group of rats is actually a phrase--"wretched hive of scum and villany".

Thank you, I'm here all week.

[identity profile] wordweaverlynn.livejournal.com 2006-11-22 05:23 pm (UTC)(link)
According to Fun with Words,:

colony of rats
horde of rats
mischief of rats
pack of rats
plague of rats
swarm of rats

[identity profile] simonepdx.livejournal.com 2006-11-22 05:27 pm (UTC)(link)
Congress.

[identity profile] corwin77.livejournal.com 2006-11-22 05:37 pm (UTC)(link)
I'd always heard it was Mischief.
I was trying to find the same thing out years ago for my Anita Blake game.

[identity profile] ohari.livejournal.com 2006-11-22 05:48 pm (UTC)(link)
Crapload?
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[personal profile] semperfiona 2006-11-22 06:13 pm (UTC)(link)
*snicker*

[identity profile] scottak.livejournal.com 2006-11-22 06:34 pm (UTC)(link)
How's about a bunch? Or, my personal all time favorite: The metric ass-ton of rats.

[identity profile] scottak.livejournal.com 2006-11-22 06:35 pm (UTC)(link)
I love the rat, by the way!

[identity profile] jilly-bear.livejournal.com 2006-11-22 07:43 pm (UTC)(link)
I was going to suggest that you look it up in one of Laurell's books - you know she is buds with the Rat King.

[identity profile] munin.livejournal.com 2006-11-22 08:18 pm (UTC)(link)
Isn't it a rodere of rats in the LKH books?

Though I like the plague of rats suggested by someone above.

[identity profile] kittentikka.livejournal.com 2006-11-22 10:42 pm (UTC)(link)
Nice ratty!

Did you get my latest eMail about the Ladybirds (c. 17th)?

[identity profile] lil-mischif.livejournal.com 2006-11-28 01:02 am (UTC)(link)
Cat food. hehe
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