All Sorts is an interesting web site that has a mission of collecting, well, all sorts of bizarre and clever collective nouns. Their entries come from both the Oxford English Dictionary and from user submissions. You could spend hours browsing their list of popular collective nouns — I highly encourage it. A few of my favorites include:

a deutschbag of nazis
a knot of string theorists
a _____ of mime artists
an epic of fail
a block of writers
a sneer of critics
a conspiracy of theorists

While browsing the archives of collective nouns is fun, there’s a even more fun new addition to the site: Collective Nouns Illustrated. I’ve included a few of my favorite illustrations below.

a tangle of octopuses

a seemingly empty room of ninjas

a pandemonium of pandas

a hush of librarians