Shriya NevatiaCoin collecting for murderers
September 12th 2006 08:52
Your text goes hereI had a very vivid dream about a notorious murderer who moved into the house next door. When he went out to do his grocery shopping my cat Merlin and I went over to his house to go through all of his stuff. We discovered his collection of ancient coins and just as I was picking them up and looking at them he came home. As often happens in dreams, neither Merlin or I noticed that we had both walked through camomile lotion at some point and left a trail of pink footprints everywhere we had been in the murderer’s house.
I woke up as I was still desperately trying to remove smeared camomile lotion from ancient coins and floorboards. It’s interesting that my subconscious would invent coin collecting for murderers.
Recently I discovered a section on the Australian Crossword Club’s website dedicated to the collection of collective nouns for collectors. Well, even murderers need as hobby and collecting stuff is a non-violent obsession. Often more bizarre than their collections are the collectors. The Melbourne Museum has a small gallery dedicated to collectors, called community collections were all manner of kooky stuff may be seen. Last time I was there I saw a miniature farm machinery collection and some guy’s collection of electric light switches.
From my dream analysis, I think I have a mad itch to collect something or know about someone else’s collection.
Maybe I should choose from one of the collective nouns for collectors from The Australian Crossword Club’s site:
Ants Myrmecologist
Bands from cigars Cigrinophilist
Beards Pogonologist
Beer mats Tegestologist
Buttocks Pygophile
Coasters Tegestologist
Earlobes, women’s Gynotikolobomassophile
Eggs, birds’ Egger; Oologist
Funny names, real people
(eg, Ben Dover) Comiconomenclaturist
Human conduct Praxiologist
Hygiene Soteriologist
Hymns Doxologist
Ideas Ideopraxist
Kidney stones Nephrolithophilist
Labels, cheese
(Camembert) Tyrosemiophilist
Match boxes Cumyzaphilist
Monsters Pelophile; Teratologist
Paintings, sordid Rhyparographer
Rubbish Garbologist; Junkologist
Virgins Parthenologist
I woke up as I was still desperately trying to remove smeared camomile lotion from ancient coins and floorboards. It’s interesting that my subconscious would invent coin collecting for murderers.
Recently I discovered a section on the Australian Crossword Club’s website dedicated to the collection of collective nouns for collectors. Well, even murderers need as hobby and collecting stuff is a non-violent obsession. Often more bizarre than their collections are the collectors. The Melbourne Museum has a small gallery dedicated to collectors, called community collections were all manner of kooky stuff may be seen. Last time I was there I saw a miniature farm machinery collection and some guy’s collection of electric light switches.
From my dream analysis, I think I have a mad itch to collect something or know about someone else’s collection.
Maybe I should choose from one of the collective nouns for collectors from The Australian Crossword Club’s site:
Ants Myrmecologist
Bands from cigars Cigrinophilist
Beards Pogonologist
Beer mats Tegestologist
Buttocks Pygophile
Coasters Tegestologist
Earlobes, women’s Gynotikolobomassophile
Eggs, birds’ Egger; Oologist
Funny names, real people
(eg, Ben Dover) Comiconomenclaturist
Human conduct Praxiologist
Hygiene Soteriologist
Hymns Doxologist
Ideas Ideopraxist
Kidney stones Nephrolithophilist
Labels, cheese
(Camembert) Tyrosemiophilist
Match boxes Cumyzaphilist
Monsters Pelophile; Teratologist
Paintings, sordid Rhyparographer
Rubbish Garbologist; Junkologist
Virgins Parthenologist
Is there a collective noun for people who collect bricks?
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