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What is the collective noun for General Lees?

This crappy collage from 22 years ago popped up in my "remember this day" feed. (probably taken with a motorola flip phone) Which led me to wonder what would be a good collective noun for a group of General Lees...

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Probably also from not making the payments.

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Considering both the name and that they were all probably stunt cars for Dukes of Hazzard, I'll suggest "a loss".

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This is the only answer I'll accept as real, and I have logged it in my head cannon. Thank you for your service.

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lemmy.world

A rally, works for a car or a Klansman

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boonhetreply
sopuli.xyz

The car has a confederate flag on the roof and it's named after a confederate general. Whether or not the characters of the show were racist or not (I can't tell, I've never seen the show), this is absolutely a good joke to make about the car.

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Yeah i get it after rereading. I misread the comment initially. I'll own the down votes.

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lemmy.world

I believe that should be Generals Lee. Like Attorneys General

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piefed.world

If they were actual generals, yes, but since “General Lee“ is the entire name and “General” is not a rank/title, it’s “General Lees”. Because this isn’t a group of generals named “Lee”, it’s a group of cars named “General Lee”.

So the correct pluralization would be “General Lees”.

It’s easy to get confused with this exception to the rule

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Could have been a bunch of General Motors products on the leeside of a mountain range.

But im pretty sure they were MOPAR.

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lemmy.world

The jumps they did on the show frequently bent the frame of the stunt car, totaling it. They went through quite a few cars. I wonder if this is a new batch incoming or an old batch headed for the scrap yard.

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