As students in England, Wales and Northern Ireland receive their results, here are some favourite excuses collected from the hanging valley of collective memory over the years.
Paul Weller Wild Beasts Smother "Our collective favourite British record of the last 12 months.
"It was such an incredible experience to be on set as extras for our collective favourite show, Game of Thrones, and to be wildlings murdered and then brought back to life by White Walkers was beyond amazing," said the band's Brann Dailor.
Favourite examples of collective acceptance theorists are money and political authorities.
It's been a little while since we checked in on our favourite indie art collective Sun Media, the owners of an impressively outrageous shock art TV network called Sun News and a newsprint zine called The Toronto Sun as well as some other new media art projects targeted to people who run in deeply obscure, alternative circles.
"Marble Music is a little Paris-based house and techno label, run by a collective of my favourite producers, such as Para One and Bobmo.
Another favourite quote comes from a collective of Aboriginal voices: "If you have come to help me you are wasting your time, but if you have come because your liberation is bound up with mine then let us work together".
Over the last week every uppity critic in Canada has been taking a collective shit on our favourite syndicated senile uncle and national paramour Don Cherry.
twitter.com/swissramble An outstanding variety of football stories from around the world and through the ages are told here by an ever-growing collective, among them a personal favourite this recent piece on Justin Fashanu's spell at Torquay.
Budweiser fashion This collaboration between an art collective and, yes, everyone's least favourite beer is actually quite nice.
