Longtime readers may remember the April Fool's prank played on me by some students last year, wherein I got "pinked" and "badgered". The culprits were never apprehended.
This year, I returned from class to find my office "possified," that is wallpapered with
(see below the fold for one corner of the room). Fear not, gentle reader, the culprits will be eventually brought to justice .... at least after my daughter and I finish the cupcakes that are, apparently, traditional on these occasions.
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I think your students are using the wrong collective term. It is obvious that you should have a lynch mob.
Actually Wes, a bunch of students I took to the UK and Ireland in 2001 took that appelation!
You know, there was talk amongst some of your fan club a couple of years back where we discussed the possibility of creating "Lynch Mob" t-shirts... but after talking it over, I eventually decided that some may have taken that the wrong way.. "Posse" was a much better idea, if less punny.