Subject: Anthropomorphic Collective Nouns.....








A Herd of Cows, A Flock of Chickens...FUNNY



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

Not that I disagree with the appropriateness of "congress", but I thought troop was the term.

in light of recent events, I believe it has been updated...

Well OK, 375. But I think it is insulting to the baboons.