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What is a "congress"?
« on: September 01, 2011, 02:37:46 PM »
What is Congress?
   
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 a Gaggle of geese, and a Pride of lions.

However, less widely known is 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?




YEP......





....... a Congress!

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Re: What is a "congress"?
« Reply #1 on: September 01, 2011, 02:41:20 PM »
Yep.   ;D
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Re: What is a "congress"?
« Reply #2 on: September 01, 2011, 02:49:34 PM »
Which one was named first?
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Re: What is a "congress"?
« Reply #3 on: September 01, 2011, 03:32:57 PM »
Silly me. I thought it was a troop of baboons.
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Re: What is a "congress"?
« Reply #4 on: September 01, 2011, 04:11:23 PM »
 Troop is monkeys.

"Murder" of crows comes have having 200 of the SOB's perched in a tree outside your bedroom when you start having visions of Avian assassination.  ;D
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Re: What is a "congress"?
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Re: What is a "congress"?
« Reply #5 on: September 01, 2011, 04:51:09 PM »
Stolen for Facebook.

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Re: What is a "congress"?
« Reply #6 on: September 01, 2011, 05:08:26 PM »
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Re: What is a "congress"?
« Reply #7 on: September 01, 2011, 05:23:11 PM »
Quote from: r_w on September 01, 2011, 02:49:34 PM
Which one was named first?

Good question. In fairness to the baboons, I would have to say they got the name first.

The US Congress uses them for a role model, only more inefficient.
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Re: What is a "congress"?
« Reply #8 on: September 01, 2011, 05:38:45 PM »
I was thinking about an unholy congress between BHO, Harry Reid, Nanci Pelosi, Boehner, Lott, Graham, etc.
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Re: What is a "congress"?
« Reply #9 on: September 01, 2011, 06:52:27 PM »
Quote from: kmitch200 on September 01, 2011, 05:23:11 PM
Good question. In fairness to the baboons, I would have to say they got the name first.

The US Congress uses them for a role model, only more inefficient.

Now that there gave me a giggle.   ;D
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