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Wednesday, August 17, 2011

A Joke - A truth!

I got an email joke from a friend.
I don't share jokes often as they are prolific circulating in emails.

But I had to share this one!

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!
I guess that pretty much explains the things that come out of Washington!

7 comments:

Linda said...

Boy, that explains a lot!

Laura said...

So funny!

Chatty Crone said...

That does explain it - thanks!

HappyK said...

Ha, that's a good one!!

Anonymous said...

Lets hope the baboons are offset by the owls.

Noofy said...

Love it, perfect!

Arlee Bird said...

They were talking about this on the radio this morning. Must have gotten that same email.

Lee
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