The English language has some wonderfully anthropomorphic collective nouns for the various groups of animals.
We're all familiar with a Herd of cows, a Flock of chickens, a School of fish, and a Gaggle of geese.
However, less widely known is a Pride of lions, a Murder of crows (as well as their cousins the rooks and ravens), an Exaltation of doves and, presumably because they look so wise, a Parliament of owls.
Now consider a group of Baboons. They are the loudest, most dangerous, most obnoxious, most viciously aggressive and least intelligent of all primates. And what is the proper collective noun for a group of baboons?
Believe it or not ... a Congress!
I guess that pretty much explains the things that come out of Washington!
9 comments:
BAWHAHAAAA!
*wipes out a tear*
Rick, I love this, thanks for sharing
BamBam
I thought it was an Unkindness of ravens.
Love the rich, different complexities of language.
DeepBlue - Sad, ain't it?
Bambamtop - You are very welcome.
GayPornFans - I called a friend of mine who knows stuff and can look up stuff and he couldn't find anything to what you referred.
Karl - Me too.
possibly a "lick of lesbians" could also be used
Anon - The friend I mentioned above coined the term "Consensus of Lesbians".
LMAO - OHHHHHH so true!!!!
Greg - Very!
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