Jan 08, 2005 22:35
For those of you who have only just joined the audience, you may or may not know that I live in Parkes. and in Parkes, on January the 8th, something very special happens. something magical. something... Elvis.
Elvis returns to Parkes for the Elvis Festival. All fifty of him. (probably more, I've never counted)
Today was the elvis festival. there were many Elvii. (which is, of course, the plural of Elvis. there's a science to this.) they were walking up and down the main street, pointing at people and saying 'thank you very much'. the concentration of rhinestones on Parkes made it visible from the moon. they had to bring in the footy club (dressed as Elvii, of course) in a truck. (but that's ok cause they do it every year)
Which brings me to the eternal conundrum; what is the collective noun for Elvis? when I ask that, people often say 'elvises' or 'elvii', but that is of course the plural; I mean the Elvis equivalent for a 'herd' of wilderbeest, or a 'swarm' of bees.
I propose that the collective noun for Elvis is 'pelvis'. A pelvis of Elvis (or elvises or elvii)
other suggestions have been a Rhinestone of Elvises, or a Lunch of Elvises...
what's your idea?
(that can serve for the crude philosophy today too... VERY crude, might I add!)