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Re: Team of smart people

Posted by ESC on June 26, 2003

In Reply to: Re: Team of smart people posted by al on June 25, 2003

: : : : : : hope someone will help me to find out the one word of " group of brilliant students' , " group of excellent students" to give a team name.

: : : : : Just to get the ball rolling. Brainiacs. Elite. Whips (as in smart as).

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: : : : Einsteins, IQs, Wizards, Eggheads, Brainstorms.

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: : : How about the Owls (used by Temple University in Philadelphia), or, borrowing from one of ESC's suggestions, "The Storm" as an abbreviation for Brianstorm.

: : : Also, there may be unlimited possibilities if you wanted to try rhyming slang, and how much explaining you wanted to do...

: : If the students were being paid for exercising their brains, they'd be a think tank.

: Do you object to risking being politiclly incorrect? If not; Jews, Koreans?

Hmmm. I don't think that would go over too well.