Archive for October, 2009

Collective Nouns for Web 2.0

Back in the Middle Ages, knowing what collective noun was applied to a group of animals was taken quite seriously. We all know the common ones, such as herd of cows, a pack of dogs, a flock of birds, but there were plenty of obscure ones like an exaltation of larks, a murder of crows, a shrewdness of apes, etc. Time for some new collective nouns for Internet groupings.

  1. If a group of whales is a pod, is a group of teenagers an iPod?
  2. A nuisance of 4Chan members
  3. A nest of Tweeple (Twitter users)
  4. A channel of YouTube watchers
  5. A pool of Flickrites
  6. A patch of hackers
  7. A flaming of trolls
  8. A backdoor of hackers
  9. An absence of MySpace members
  10. A wall of Facebook friends
  11. A time suck of Farmville players

Which ones did you think of?

Caption Time #296

Caption Time #296

How to Speak Waiter

  1. “I made this drink special for you. It has a unique, subtle flavor.”
    “I’ve added a toxic cleaning chemical to poison you. Can you guess what it is before the EMT arrives?”
  2. “May I take this out of your way?”
    “You selfish bastard. You’re taking up a table for four by yourself during our dinner rush. I will continue to remove things until it soaks through your proto-hominid skull that you’re not wanted.”
  3. “How is everything tasting?”
    “I don’t give a shit how my service is, so I won’t ask you about it.”
  4. “Small, medium or large?”
    “Just choose the large, fat-ass.”
  5. “Would you like to hear the specials?”
    “I just want 15 more seconds at your table to stare down your date’s blouse.”
  6. “Is the house red, OK?”
    “Clearly, you couldn’t tell a Malbec from a Chianti if it bit you in the ass.”
  7. “Sir, the men’s washroom is all the way down the stairs, turn right, then two lefts, through two more hallways and actually upstairs in the next building.”
    “I’m ensuring you’ll be lost for a good 20 minutes while I hit on your wife.”
  8. “I can move this table out for you, if it’s too close to the wall.”
    “I can’t see how short your skirt is, otherwise.”
  9. “Oh, so sorry I spilled wine on your nice, white shirt. Allow me to pay for the cleaning bill.”
    “Your wife’s breasts distracted me while I was pouring. And that’s a fine Malbec grape. Not that you would know. It will never come out. You’re basically fucked.”
  10. “It’s a pungent bleu cheese with a … complicated flavor.”
    “It’s rubbish. No, literally. We dug it out of the back of our fridge, scraped off the fuzzy bits and gave it a bullshit French name so we could charge more for it.”

What terms have you learned from the waitstaff?

Caption Time #295

Hey ladies!

My sex education class was a little different

My sex education class was a little different than this

Caitlynn is now single

Caitlynn is now single

Awkward!