September 04, 2004

Beastly Garden of Wordy Delights Contains plurals, collective nouns, sounds, gender designations and offspring names for various animal species. Interesting resource.
posted by the_bone 20 years ago
  • Also: What do you call a cow with no legs? Ground beef.
  • I must have missed that link, PF. Thanks!
  • Oddly appropriate: A cartload of chimps A quiver of cobras An intrusion of cockroaches A cowardice of curs A scurry of squirrels A dazzle of zebras
  • Heh...PF, that is my *favorite* joke! Never fails to amuse me! And great post - animal names have always interested me.
  • Another great collection: An Exaltation of Larks
  • A pair of posts. ;-)
  • Ah! I thought so.
  • Shit, first double post. My bad.
  • After double posting a couple of times I have found the best way to avoid it is to search threads for the URL rather than keywords. Still, this is a great link.
  • Answer this if ye can! What has eight arms and eight legs? Eight pirates! Yarr.
  • What has seven arms, and sucks? Def Leppard! Gunter glieben glauchen globen!
  • Dammit!! Out-pooped by a landlubber with a bubble perm. Ye haven't seen the last of me!
  • a scuttling of squirrels a scamp-ring of squirrels a helter-pelter of squirrels a squabble of squirrels, even But a mere scurry of 'em doesn't seem to work for me -- too many scurriers. Think evwn flurry might work better