A parliament of owls
Nov. 30th, 2006 10:17 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
icepixieOn my usual travels around the internet this evening, I came upon the phrase "an ostentation of peacocks." I of course had to know if that was the real word for it or if the writer was making it up.
He wasn't. Here is an excellent list of collective nouns for birds. I think my favorite is "an exaltation of larks," although "an unkindness of ravens" is a close runner-up.
Ah, words.
(Also, GIP! Awww, they're so cute.)
He wasn't. Here is an excellent list of collective nouns for birds. I think my favorite is "an exaltation of larks," although "an unkindness of ravens" is a close runner-up.
Ah, words.
(Also, GIP! Awww, they're so cute.)
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Date: 2006-12-01 11:51 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2006-12-02 01:45 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2006-12-02 04:39 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2006-12-02 05:23 am (UTC)Don't diss the flippers, dude. They're nimble.
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Date: 2006-12-02 05:34 am (UTC)I was never in that club. You must be thinking of someone else.
Don't diss the flippers, dude. They're nimble.
Fish be nimble, fish be quick, fish jump over a conductor's
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Date: 2006-12-02 09:16 pm (UTC)Well, now you're blacklisted for life, and will be shamed in the streets by children.
Fish be nimble, fish be quick, fish jump over a conductor's baton stick?
don't splash the first violins!
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Date: 2006-12-03 04:13 am (UTC)Children love my puns. I will be begged for my autograph wherever I go.
don't splash the first violins!
Just go and splash the woodwinds.
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Date: 2006-12-03 04:56 am (UTC)Haha, Becca's a child magnet!
Just go and splash the woodwinds.
But we'll warp!
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Date: 2006-12-03 05:46 am (UTC)As long as they keep their germs to themselves and are polite and keep their interaction with me to the barest minimum, I'm okay with that.
But we'll warp!
"The reed! She cannae take the stress, maestro!"
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Date: 2006-12-03 06:12 am (UTC)Okay, now you're just blacklisted from LIFE.
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Date: 2006-12-03 06:52 am (UTC)There's a Star Trek reference-shaped hole in your heart.