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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Dirigible" data-source="post: 1106188" data-attributes="member: 12631">Wow...some of those collctive nouns are better than anything we could manage...A flange of baboons : Isn't this an integral part of the internal combustion engine?A sleuth of bears & a sloth of bears : So, a lazy private eye?A volery of birds : Isn;t that where voles come from?A singular of boar : WTF? The collective for boars is singular? Who makes up this stuff?A chain of bobolinks : A bobochain, surely?A rabble of butterflies : I get this image of butterflues with mohawks and bad attitudes, hurling Molotov's at the Berlin Wall.A clutter of cats : Only if stuffed and left around the house.A kindle of kittens : That is SICK ! Too evil even for me !A flight of cormorants : Hence, shagged out after a long flight.A leash of deer : Ah, yes. Have you ever treid to leash-train a deer? Ver bad.A piteousness of doves : What's this guy got against doves?A raft of ducks : Yes, but you need to nail then together pretty tightly.A business of ferrets : The mind boggles. Possibly they run the Mafia?A cast of ferrets : If well trained, they can do an adorable rendition of Hamlet.A horde of gerbils : Now this, at least, is accurate. They ravage across Africa even now, pillaging whatever they can fit in their lil cheeks.A tower of giraffes : Tallest. Building. Ever.An implausibility of gnus : I think I'll write my thesis on this.A bloat of hippopotami : See; Diseases of the Pachyderm, Volume XII, Book 7, Part 2, Chapter 177.A cry of hounds & a mute of hounds : They're doing it again !A smack of jellyfish : Either a slimy, revolting new designer drug, or the latest addition to international pro wrestling.An ascension of larks & an exaltation of larks : This guy had a real 'thing' for larks, it seems.A stud of mares : But... mares...female...stud...male... male horse... singular...ARRGH !A movement of moles :Wait for it... wait for it... it'd be an... underground movement !A parliament of owls : Justlike a human parliament, the members eat live mice and can turn their heads 180 degrees.A huddle of penguins : It gets kinda cold down there...A parcel of penguins : You can get then through mail order now?A rookery of penguins : But...rooks...uhhhhh...my brain....A coterie of prairie dogs : And vampires. Oooh, vampire prarie dogs...A gaze of raccoons : New power for medusae?A rhumba of rattlesnakes : Why not a conga, while we're at it?A down of sheep : A system of a...A hurtle of sheep : If you push them down a good slope with a nice run up...An ambush of tigers : Perfect.A warren of wombats : Lesser known cousin of Tarzan.A zeal of zebras : Obviosuly, Favoured Class : Paladin.</blockquote>

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