collective nouns

[magentared]

Like a murder of crows or a mischief of mice, what are people's favourites??

[Harley]

implausibility of gnus

[Clanad]

A bloat of hippopotamuses...

[Elfin]

A parliament of owls

[bernardo]

An unkindness of ravens
A debourgeoisification of Marxist-Leninists
(I made up the second one)

[bernardo]

The Guinness Book of Answers has a long list of these, but it does not include a bloat of hippopotamuses (a herd or school) or anything of gnus.

P.S. a crash of rhinoceroses

[andy hughes]

A whoop of baboons, and a flange of gorillas

[ali_alic]

A wedge of swans, a lie of estate agents.....

[SylvieD]

A depression of goths

[slimfandango]

A herd of cows. I like cows. They're nice.

[Cheesefreek]

A flowering of hippies

[AndrewHunt]

A Gaggle of Geese.

[Morrisonker]

a rabble of butterfiles!

[Gef]

A dose of crabs :-)

[Marvin84]

an army of ants

a mob of kangaroos

....they're my fav's (no one seems to get them at trivia nights!!)

[Jansy]

A Kindle of kittens, ahh!

[smudge]

A brace of Pheasants.

[kirstykitten]

Slimfandango - all cows are called Beryl.  We love cows.

[natalie_1982]

I know a cow called Pansy, I thought they were pretty much all called Daisy or Ermintrude.

Anyway, I didn't know any and even if they are made up my favourites so far are a bloat of hippo's, a crash of rhino's (sod spelling all that....!) and a mob of kangaroos.  They sound so gangstery and dangerous.  "We have just had a report in that a mob of kangaroos have been involved in an incident outside Park End night club at approximately 3am this morning....."

[landie]

An impossibility of Uniques.

[mikeytotheg]

A good list here - http://www.lizzie.net/html/collect.htm

BTW, "whoop of baboons" and "phlange of gorillas" (or is it the other way around) are entirely made up, and originally come from a fantastic "Not the 9 O'Clock News" sketch called "Gerald the Gorilla". Rowan Atkinson at his very finest.