Thursday, September 8, 2011

THE OPPOSITE OF PROGRESS IS CONGRESS!

Subject: Adjectives
The English language has some wonderfully anthropomorphic collectivenouns, for the various groups of animals.We are all familiar with a Herd of cows, a Flock of chickens, a Schoolof fish and a Gaggle of geese.However, less widely known is a Pride of lions, a Murder of crows (aswell as their cousins the rooks and ravens), an Exaltation of dovesand, 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 allprimates. And what is the proper collective noun for a group ofbaboons?Believe it or not ... A Congress

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