Thursday, August 25, 2011

A Herd of Cows,

A Herd of Cows,

 
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!

I guess that pretty much explains the things that come out of Washington!

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