FROM CARL (with the last paragraph added by me)
The English language has some wonderfully anthropomorphic collectives for the various groups of animals.
We are all familiar with a heard of cows, a flock of chickens, a school of fish and a gaggle geese.
Less widely known, there's the pride of lions, an exaltation of doves and a parliament of owls.
Now, consider a group of Baboons. They are the loudest, most dangerous, most obnoxious, most viciously aggressive and least intelligent of all the primates. And, guess what the proper collective noun is for a group of baboons. Believe it or not, it's a congress.
I suppose we could use that fact to compare them to that group of greedy, grasping, bigoted, mafia-like, obnoxious men and women in Washington D.C. but I won't do that. It would be much too insulting to the baboons.
The English language has some wonderfully anthropomorphic collectives for the various groups of animals.
We are all familiar with a heard of cows, a flock of chickens, a school of fish and a gaggle geese.
Less widely known, there's the pride of lions, an exaltation of doves and a parliament of owls.
Now, consider a group of Baboons. They are the loudest, most dangerous, most obnoxious, most viciously aggressive and least intelligent of all the primates. And, guess what the proper collective noun is for a group of baboons. Believe it or not, it's a congress.
I suppose we could use that fact to compare them to that group of greedy, grasping, bigoted, mafia-like, obnoxious men and women in Washington D.C. but I won't do that. It would be much too insulting to the baboons.
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