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I recently put up some Halloween decorations in my cube.  Ravens, mice,
ratty cloth, etc.  i realized this morning that one of the benefits of
putting up more than one raven was that I could call them “A murder of
ravens”!

but then I doubted myself.  I knew that a collection of crows was
called a “murder” but I needed to double check on ravens.  So I looked
it up and they are indeed referred to as a “murder” or an “unkindness”!

I had a pretty good laugh over that and wondered what other collections of animals were called.

For example and prickle of porcupines.  how silly.  A “mob” of meerkats.  I kind of like that one! 

One I didn’t quite believe was a “stench of schnauzers”!!

hilarious.

Have you ever wondered what you call a collection of sasquatches is called?

http://www.hintsandthings.com/kennel/collectives.htm

They may be imaginary, but I guess people still talk about them.  ;)

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THEY’RE MADE OUT OF MEAT by Terry Bisson

“They’re made out of meat.”

“Meat?”

“Meat. They’re made out of meat.”

“Meat?”

“There’s no doubt about it. We picked up several from different parts of
the planet, took them aboard our recon vessels, and probed them all the way
through. They’re completely meat.”

Good short story by Terry Bisson.

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