成人快手

Elvi, Elvi Everywhere….

• Kim Lenaghan
• 30 Sep 07, 09:11 PM

I am utterly ashamed to admit that over the last couple of Saturday nights I have been glued to the telly watching the search for the World’s Greatest Elvis on 成人快手 1. Like eating peanut butter with your finger straight from the jar or fancying Simon Cowell, this is one of those secret vices, a guilty pleasure that dare not speak its name. Representing the five ages of Elvis, from the ‘jailhouse’ to Vegas, I must further confess that my favourite era is definitely that kitchy, campy, chubby, rhinestone studded, white jumpsuited, final fling. As Presley impersonators from every corner of the globe got ‘all shook up’ in their attempts to be crowned king, I got to thinking that surely there have never been so many pretenders to the title in one television studio. So what would be the correct collective noun for just such a group of Elvis wannabes….

You could have an ‘excess’ of Elvi, an ‘ego’ of Elvi, an ‘obsession’ of Elvi, a ‘pleading’ of Presleys or even a ‘pelvi’ of Elvi. In the end I settled for an ‘embarrassment’ of Elvi – take out of that what you will.

I love clever collective nouns though. Real ones like a ‘murder’ of crows or an ‘armoury’ of aardvarks. Then there are the ones that you can’t help wishing were true…. a ‘greed’ of lawyers, an ‘absence’ of waiters, a ‘treachery’ of spies, an ‘amble’ of walkers, a ‘pomposity’ or professors, or what about a ‘swelter’ of blankets. I particularly like an ‘annoyance’ of mobile phones or what about a 'blether' of broadcasters - I know several who would fit that bill!

But if you think you can do better then please do not hesitate to contribute to this ‘nonsense’ of nouns!

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