RE: Collective Nouns
November 5, 2011 at 9:47 pm
(This post was last modified: November 5, 2011 at 9:55 pm by Cyberman.)
Had to laugh at this one:
"Flange of baboons"
It's a congress of baboons. The term 'flange' as a collective noun was invented in the early 1980s as a joke for this famous sketch:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=beCYGm1vMJ0
(Incidentally, it would seem that Aristotle was quoted in that sketch as saying "Here is a cucumber, the wife is a bike." In Greek, of course.)
"Flange of baboons"
It's a congress of baboons. The term 'flange' as a collective noun was invented in the early 1980s as a joke for this famous sketch:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=beCYGm1vMJ0
(Incidentally, it would seem that Aristotle was quoted in that sketch as saying "Here is a cucumber, the wife is a bike." In Greek, of course.)
At the age of five, Skagra decided emphatically that God did not exist. This revelation tends to make most people in the universe who have it react in one of two ways - with relief or with despair. Only Skagra responded to it by thinking, 'Wait a second. That means there's a situation vacant.'
