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Animal groups
May 13, 2019 | upchuck

Posted on 05/13/2019 7:24:40 PM PDT by upchuck

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.

Less widely known is a Pride of lions, a Murder of crows (as well as their cousins the rooks and ravens), and 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? . . It's a Congress!

Suddenly things have become a lot clearer.


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1 posted on 05/13/2019 7:24:40 PM PDT by upchuck
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To: upchuck

lol


2 posted on 05/13/2019 7:28:56 PM PDT by yldstrk (Bingo! We have awinner)
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To: upchuck

Wooo Good One!


3 posted on 05/13/2019 7:31:10 PM PDT by Trumpet 1 (US Constitution is my guide.)
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To: upchuck

Fill in the blank:

A ________ of Democrats.

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4 posted on 05/13/2019 7:32:34 PM PDT by Does so (A mysterious nuclear explosion would have the fingerprints of Uranium One!)
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To: upchuck

An idiocy of liberals.
A stormtroopen of Antifas.
A coven of Clintons.


5 posted on 05/13/2019 7:32:41 PM PDT by Leaning Right (I have already previewed or do not wish to preview this composition.)
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To: upchuck

Group of Rhinos is called a Crash.


6 posted on 05/13/2019 7:36:15 PM PDT by AndyTheBear
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To: Does so

An Asshat full of Democrats


7 posted on 05/13/2019 7:36:41 PM PDT by Ponyexpress9790
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To: Does so

A cesspool of Democrats.


8 posted on 05/13/2019 7:38:09 PM PDT by Old Grumpy
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To: upchuck

It should be noted that most baboons vote for the donkey. Dems defending that Tlaib jackass are all the evidence needed to prove that.


9 posted on 05/13/2019 8:08:10 PM PDT by Ancesthntr ("The right to buy weapons is the right to be free." A. E. van Vogt, The Weapons Shops of Isher)
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To: Does so

A Clusterf#*& of Democrats.


10 posted on 05/13/2019 8:10:11 PM PDT by seowulf
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A morass of Neocons..?


11 posted on 05/13/2019 8:11:13 PM PDT by gaijin
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To: seowulf

Love it. Don’t forget a Circlejerk of Clintonistas.


12 posted on 05/13/2019 8:24:21 PM PDT by Veto! (Veto! (Political Correctness Offends Me))
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To: upchuck

A gaze of raccoons.
A passel of opossums.
A prickle of hedgehogs


13 posted on 05/13/2019 8:41:06 PM PDT by sockmonkey (I am an America First, not Israel First FReeper.)
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To: upchuck

Ok, here ‘tis:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_English_terms_of_venery,_by_animal

Personally, I prefer “A sh!tload of [whatevers]”


14 posted on 05/13/2019 8:42:38 PM PDT by QBFimi (It is not your responsibility to finish the work of perfecting the world... Tarfon)
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To: sockmonkey

Always though of ‘possums as being solitary. I suppose there might be circumstances that caused a concentration of them.


15 posted on 05/13/2019 9:14:04 PM PDT by gundog ( Hail to the Chief, bitches!)
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To: Does so

“Fill in the blank:

A ________ of Democrats”

A panic of Democrats.


16 posted on 05/13/2019 9:40:54 PM PDT by bluejean (I'm becoming a cranky old person. It really annoys me.)
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To: upchuck

Q: what is the largest domestic animal group

A: democrat party


17 posted on 05/13/2019 11:34:13 PM PDT by northislander
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To: sockmonkey

A gaggle of geese, a giggle of kindergartners.


18 posted on 05/14/2019 2:18:08 AM PDT by erkelly
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An Asshat full of Democrats

All good. :)

I was thinking, "A plotting of Democrats"

19 posted on 05/14/2019 3:48:16 AM PDT by Does so (A mysterious nuclear explosion would have the fingerprints of Uranium One!)
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To: Does so
Fill in the blank:
A ________ of Democrats.

A diaper of Democrats. .

20 posted on 05/14/2019 4:14:54 AM PDT by Psalm 73 ("I will now proceed to entangle the entire area".)
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