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English language sometimes very accurate.

Post by BobnPi on 8/29/2011, 1:40 am

Subject: Adjectives


The English language has some wonderfully anthropomorphic collective
nouns, for the various groups of animals.
We are 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

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Post by kwf904 on 8/29/2011, 2:01 am

anthropomorphic... bet you don't get to throw that one around to often lol!

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Post by Portagie1968 on 8/29/2011, 4:50 am

Bob this all U got to do.

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Post by Glen Schumann on 8/29/2011, 5:19 am

lol! ROTFL

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Post by BobnPi on 8/29/2011, 5:25 am

Bob this all U got to do.


I get some interesting emails. If they bring a chuckle, I share them. Some I laugh out loud, but don't share.

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Post by Sean on 8/29/2011, 6:35 am

Here's one espicially for you Bob

A chain of Bobolinks lol!
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Post by nellyhartley on 8/30/2011, 12:11 am

Hahaha this one is really good. This is why English is one of the most widely spoken languages in the world :)

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Post by Tracker16 on 8/30/2011, 3:34 am

Thanks for the laugh Bob.

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