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Old Aug 26 2011, 09:21 PM
StoneFace StoneFace is offline
 
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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! It really is. Look it up !

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now get with the program and release #11

What is the name given to a collection of farms??? hhmmmm