Date: November 26, 2004
November 26.2004
I hope everyone's Thanksgiving was enjoyable. I know ours was, even though for the first time ever, my son could not be with us during the annual family dinner due to work commitments. We brought him home a plate of delicious leftovers.
A male turkey, as you undoubtedly know, is called a "tom." A female turkey is a "hen." A young turkey is a "poult." But what do you call a group of turkeys? (No, not postal employees.) A group of turkeys is called a "raft" or a "rafter." This got my curiosity juices flowing. I knew that a group of whales is called a pod, and you can have a murder of crows, a gaggle of geese, and a pride of lions ... but what are some of the other animal groups called?
So I looked it up. This week's Flint Friday Funny is an amalgam of the serious and serious not-so-much. I'm going to list the real animal group names I found interesting, then I'm adding some names of my own for people groups. I bet you can come up with even better ones. Enjoy!
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REAL ANIMAL GROUPING NAMES
A shrewdness of apes.
A wake of buzzards.
A quiver of cobras.
A gang of elks.
A mob of emus.
A charm of finches.
A leash of greyhounds.
A cry of hounds.
A smack of jellyfish.
A watch of nightingales.
A parliament of owls.
A gaze of raccoons.
A rhumba of rattlesnakes.
A shiver of sharks.
An ambush of tigers.
GROUP NAMES SOCIETY SHOULD HAVE
A gouge of auto mechanics.
A noise of children.
A pain of dentists.
An anchor of executives.
A bankruptcy of farmers.
A stink of garbagemen.
A fanfare of heroes.
A bout of hockey players.
A motion of lawyers.
A burp of men.
A breeze of pastors.
A lie of politicians.
A bankroll of professional athletes.
A plague of reality TV shows.
A chuckle of stand-up comics.
A trust of teachers.
A conundrum of women.
A sham of wrestlers.
[written by Mark Raymond for the Flint Friday Funny]
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Well, it snowed here Wednesday. A several-inch deluge, which included thunder and lightning at one point. Harumph. Well, beats boarding up windows, I suppose. For those of you not used to snow, I put a couple pictures on my web site of our yard on Thanksgiving morning.
Until next week, be kind one to another.
Mark
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WEB SITE of the WEEK: With the passing of Thanksgiving, we can truly turn our attention to Christmas. For those of you who like to make your own arts and crafts - or perhaps you'll just need something to keep the kids occupied while they're home on Christmas break - try visiting the web site at the shortened URL here. It's a paper art site run by Yamaha (yes, the Japanese company best known for their motorcycles). I'd call it origami, except it looks too focused, fashioned, and painted for origami. The beauty of it is you can download all of the instructions for creating each paper model you see.
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