A slice of life.

[theweaselking]

Me: Groups of animals have great names. A pride of lions, a murder of crows, a wailing of carp...
torrain: Yeah, and a parliament of rooks.
Me: Oooh, good one.
torrain: Wait a second. A "wailing of carp"?
Me: Yeah!
torrain: [stares at me and blinks]
Me: Well, it should be.

Comments

[mckenzee.livejournal.com]

I swear, it should be a cuddle of kittens and a splatter of opossums.

[unnamed525.livejournal.com]

I don't care what it currently "officially" is, I hereby unarguably declare, as a Pope and Saint of the P.O.E.E., that the proper and correct group name for kittens is "cuddle".

[dolston.livejournal.com]

You really need to start drinking coffee again.

[theweaselking.livejournal.com]

Caffeine is the devil.

Hawaiian pizza with bacon on it, though, it just plain awesome.

[spartonian.livejournal.com]

Pineapple has no business being on Italian food.

[theweaselking.livejournal.com]

Calling modern pizza "italian" food is, truly, a misidentification.

[unnamed525.livejournal.com]

I heard that the first pizza was made by some italian chef for some italian duchess ... the bread was white, the marinara sauce red, and the basil green ... just like the colors of the italian national flag.

[toku666.livejournal.com]

Possibly.

Or it's the cook who made some dish for a Spanish or Mexican princess named Margherita. Purportedly.

Supposedly the colors were her favorite, and that is why you have dishes "alla" or "de" Margherita, but it's one of those things where you have a nebulous origin story that probably got tacked on decades later.

However, I've never heard it linked to the origin of pizza story.

My favorite version is Larry Hama's, where it turns out that Serpentor invented pizza back when he was Alexander the Great.

[caerlas.livejournal.com]

Try Crash of rhinocerouses
or a screaming mimi of pythons. Heh Heh

And to quote Patrick F. McManus: A group of den mothers is a "Frazzle" and a group of lost hunters is a "nimcompoopery"

[lurkerwithout.livejournal.com]

Whats a group of weasels? I know its a slyness of foxes...

And a symphony of larks, an unkindness of ravens...

[cmseward.livejournal.com]

It's apparently a yard of moose.

I don't think you could really get too many moose in a yard, but I didn't make it up.

[theweaselking.livejournal.com]

One moose in a yard is too many.

[jl-williams.livejournal.com]

My favorite is a "snatch of hookers", courtesy of my man Chadwick.

A "clutch of chickens" is a close second, though, because the word "clutch" is awesome.

Clutch.