I’ve been thinking about that “murder of crows” thing. Here’s my guess: Back in the Victorian era when those odd general terms for groups of animals were created, there were murders. And in those days it probably took a while to discover the body perhaps not till next morning. So, a murder of crows means about the number that you’d find pecking on a dead body laying out on the street or in a park.
So, my guilty lunchtime pleasure is rooting through the blinds at CDAN
This is worthy of Texokie and her Astounding Digging Machine (Brain, extra-large, one each)!
Blind Item: Have you done a little digging into the rabbit hole that is the owner of the house that burned down south? Did you use something that has special meaning on this 30th anniversary. I encourage you to do that. Everything looks normal when you look at it from the outside. Just that superficial glance on that first page. Just as you would expect a person with that status in town to have. Look more closely though. Look more closely at the object that appears to just be an alma mater and simple biography, but is so much more. It is not the alma mater, but a warehouse of ideas and collections of which he is a leading member. Much like the house itself, I encourage you to click on home and scroll. Keep scrolling. All the way to the bottom. Click on that and let yourself be terrified.
Link in question: The house on St Charles that burnt down in a 7 alarm fire is owned by Anne and Bill Grace. If you use the WWW (Happy 30th Birthday) to Google Bill Grace New Orleans, you get a profile that seems like it's from Tulane University? http://www.tulanelink.com Scroll to the bottom of that and follow the link to this website: Mind Control Experiments Tulane's CIA-Sponsored Mind Control Experiments Is Another Dirty Little Secret
Spoiler.... You have been listening to an interview by Will Snodgrass with Valerie Wolf, Claudia Mullen and Chris DeNicola Ebner done the day just after they gave testimony about the Mind Control Experimentation on Children at the Presidential Human Radiation Experiment Hearings on March 15, 1995. You also heard them give accounts of the National Security Establishment being able, through mind control, to coerce prominent officials by sexually blackmailing them using children.
I like that explanation. In one of the classic Sherlock Holmes movies...the ones with Basil Rathbone and Nigel Bruce, and as far as I'm concerned the only legit Holmes and Watson team...a crow or raven was instrumental in finding a corpse stuffed into the boot of a car.
Yes, they had quite a collection.
We could devise a few of our own...
A liar of democrats
A robber of bankers
A cell of Clintons
etc.
“...So, a murder of crows means about the number that you’d find pecking on a dead body laying out on the street or in a park.”
Pleas give your input on a Exaltation of doves or a Parliament of owls.
I can ‘splain a Congress of baboons...
I’d buy that...