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Started by Brazen, February 28, 2014, 04:50:18 AM

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garbon

"I've never been quite sure what the point of a eunuch is, if truth be told. It seems to me they're only men with the useful bits cut off."
I drank because I wanted to drown my sorrows, but now the damned things have learned to swim.

DontSayBanana

A group of crows is a murder.  A group of ravens is an unkindness.  Poor korvids- they just get shafted all the time. :(
Experience bij!

garbon

Quote from: DontSayBanana on March 04, 2014, 11:02:35 PM
A group of crows is a murder.  A group of ravens is an unkindness.

Are you sure about that?
"I've never been quite sure what the point of a eunuch is, if truth be told. It seems to me they're only men with the useful bits cut off."
I drank because I wanted to drown my sorrows, but now the damned things have learned to swim.

Eddie Teach

Crows and ravens are basically the same thing anyway.
To sleep, perchance to dream. But in that sleep of death, what dreams may come?

Razgovory

Quote from: garbon on March 05, 2014, 12:00:28 AM
Quote from: DontSayBanana on March 04, 2014, 11:02:35 PM
A group of crows is a murder.  A group of ravens is an unkindness.

Are you sure about that?

Pretty sure.  A group of Jackdaws is a "Clattering".
I've given it serious thought. I must scorn the ways of my family, and seek a Japanese woman to yield me my progeny. He shall live in the lands of the east, and be well tutored in his sacred trust to weave the best traditions of Japan and the Sacred South together, until such time as he (or, indeed his house, which will periodically require infusion of both Southern and Japanese bloodlines of note) can deliver to the South it's independence, either in this world or in space.  -Lettow April of 2011

Raz is right. -MadImmortalMan March of 2017

Habbaku

Quote from: Razgovory on March 05, 2014, 12:12:49 AM
Quote from: garbon on March 05, 2014, 12:00:28 AM
Quote from: DontSayBanana on March 04, 2014, 11:02:35 PM
A group of crows is a murder.  A group of ravens is an unkindness.

Are you sure about that?

Pretty sure.  A group of Jackdaws is a "Clattering".

Yeah, those are correct.

A group of rooks is a parliament. :smarty:
The medievals were only too right in taking nolo episcopari as the best reason a man could give to others for making him a bishop. Give me a king whose chief interest in life is stamps, railways, or race-horses; and who has the power to sack his Vizier (or whatever you care to call him) if he does not like the cut of his trousers.

Government is an abstract noun meaning the art and process of governing and it should be an offence to write it with a capital G or so as to refer to people.

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garbon

Quote from: Razgovory on March 05, 2014, 12:12:49 AM
Quote from: garbon on March 05, 2014, 12:00:28 AM
Quote from: DontSayBanana on March 04, 2014, 11:02:35 PM
A group of crows is a murder.  A group of ravens is an unkindness.

Are you sure about that?

Pretty sure. 

I can't say that I'm necessarily convinced.
"I've never been quite sure what the point of a eunuch is, if truth be told. It seems to me they're only men with the useful bits cut off."
I drank because I wanted to drown my sorrows, but now the damned things have learned to swim.

Eddie Teach

http://www.thealmightyguru.com/Pointless/AnimalGroups.html

So murder of crows and unkindness of ravens are the best known terms, but groups of either bird are also known sometimes as a "storytelling".  :huh: :lol:
To sleep, perchance to dream. But in that sleep of death, what dreams may come?

Syt

Quote from: Peter Wiggin on March 05, 2014, 12:37:23 AM
http://www.thealmightyguru.com/Pointless/AnimalGroups.html

So murder of crows and unkindness of ravens are the best known terms, but groups of either bird are also known sometimes as a "storytelling".  :huh: :lol:

It's relevant to a story from the Sandman comics.
I am, somehow, less interested in the weight and convolutions of Einstein's brain than in the near certainty that people of equal talent have lived and died in cotton fields and sweatshops.
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Razgovory

Quote from: garbon on March 05, 2014, 12:23:26 AM
Quote from: Razgovory on March 05, 2014, 12:12:49 AM
Quote from: garbon on March 05, 2014, 12:00:28 AM
Quote from: DontSayBanana on March 04, 2014, 11:02:35 PM
A group of crows is a murder.  A group of ravens is an unkindness.

Are you sure about that?

Pretty sure. 

I can't say that I'm necessarily convinced.

It was even used as the name of a major motion picture.  http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0133985/
I've given it serious thought. I must scorn the ways of my family, and seek a Japanese woman to yield me my progeny. He shall live in the lands of the east, and be well tutored in his sacred trust to weave the best traditions of Japan and the Sacred South together, until such time as he (or, indeed his house, which will periodically require infusion of both Southern and Japanese bloodlines of note) can deliver to the South it's independence, either in this world or in space.  -Lettow April of 2011

Raz is right. -MadImmortalMan March of 2017

Siege

English is a weird language.

Hey Brain, is English your first language?


"All men are created equal, then some become infantry."

"Those who beat their swords into plowshares will plow for those who don't."

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The Brain

Quote from: Siege on March 05, 2014, 10:31:34 PM
English is a weird language.

Hey Brain, is English your first language?

Good heavens no!
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Warspite

What is the collective noun for Languish posters?
" SIR – I must commend you on some of your recent obituaries. I was delighted to read of the deaths of Foday Sankoh (August 9th), and Uday and Qusay Hussein (July 26th). Do you take requests? "

OVO JE SRBIJA
BUDALO, OVO JE POSTA

Malthus

The object of life is not to be on the side of the majority, but to escape finding oneself in the ranks of the insane—Marcus Aurelius

Pedrito

b / h = h / b+h


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