The English language has some wonderfully anthropomorphic collective nouns for the various groups of animals.

We are all familiar with a

Herd of cows,

Flock of chickens,

School of fish

And 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 Congress 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 Parliament







YEP....A PARLIAMENT OF BABOONS!

Pretty much explains everything doesn't it?


You just can’t make this stuff up. That was it for today, I know it's only rubbish

 If you have nothing nice to say,say nothing at all.

When I used to be an engineer, I had a boss who said we were always complaining, so he decided that the collective noun for us would be a "whinge of engineers"  Got - 2017 SDV8 Autobiography in Loire Blue
Had- 2008 TDV8 Vogue SE in Java black
Had - 2007 S/C in Stornoway Grey

HMMMM......

Does that mean that a group of MP's should be called...

A THICKET!!!

In my industry, we have "a cluster of project managers"

In my industry, we have "a cluster of project managers"


Ha Ha...In my industry, we call them (Project Managers) 'a bunch of useless t ers'!!

I think that's a pre-requisite for being a PM!  Got - 2017 SDV8 Autobiography in Loire Blue
Had- 2008 TDV8 Vogue SE in Java black
Had - 2007 S/C in Stornoway Grey

Going back to birds I think it may be a "gallon of petrels" 2010 3.6TDV8 Stornoway Grey/ Black interior - gone
2005 4.4V8 (M62) Bonatti Grey/ Parchment interior - gone
1998 4.6HSE Blue/ Cream interior (can't remember exact colours) - gone
1977 White - gone (should have kept)

mpirie wrote:

In my industry, we have "a cluster of project managers"

Or a clusterf k of project managers

Seen the headlining and thought it was that video that did the rounds back in the 70's ....  ====================================

"Open Mike Night " sounded like a lot of fun until i found out i was going to an Autopsy

@drakes, just learned a new one it is indeed a gallon or a tank of petrels,thanks

Sorry Joker,