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We're all familiar with the more common collective nouns, "Flock", "Herd", "Mess of".

But did you know that there's more than just that? Most are associated with a specific species or type.

A aarmory of aadvarks
A army of frogs
A bevy of swans
A pod of whales
A crash of rhinoceroses
A colony of bats
A bucket of chicken

Have you ever really thought about food? How did we come up with some of this stuff?

At some point this conversation had to happen:

"Bob, what are you doing?"
"I'm inventing cottage cheese."
"When are you going to be done with inventing it? I'll try some."
"I _am_ done with it. It's ready now."
"Hey, I'm going to go over there now. Away from...
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It's ten o' the clock and all's pretty good. Well, I can't say all's well 'cause for some it's a right pisser of a day, eh? I mean some of you are probably having right wonderful days, then there's some real miserable blokes out there . . .

The Literal Town Crier didn't catch on in Midevil Europe.

He thrilled you with Doggie Death Commando. He wowed you in Canine Crusaders andthe Brain Mutants of the Desert.

You fell in love with her as Princess Xing on the lost moon of Kad-ran Dor. You wept when she played Dorothy the coal miner's daughter in "Shoot me another pony Daddy".

Now a spunky young farmgirl and a small dog are together again in "Toto-Annihilation...
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Assume for the moment that Greek/Roman/Norse mythology is accurate. So Odin, Thor, Zeus, Mars, and comp'ny really do exist. But obviously their homes can't exist since we would have found them by now. I would think Olympus would be a bit obvious if it existed.

Since they don't live in their homes where do they live? Also, a 6 ft tall Norseman with a frickin'...
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I'd just like to say my life long ambition is to be a Trivial Pursuit question.

Ahhhh, the irony. The sweet sweet irony:
http://people.csail.mit.edu/rahimi/helmet/

Of course that's what the gov't wants you to believe. Then you will stop wearing your brain saving tinfoil helm. We all know the secret brain ray weapon they have been working on at Area 51 works at 4.2324 Ghz, which is _totally_ shielded by a tinfoil hat properly constructed out of overlapping folds of tinfoil.

These...
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I think the UN should pass a law stating that if you have a weapon it has to be cute and fluffy. Perhaps with Hello Kitty on it.

I think that would drastically reduce the amount of armed conflicts in the world. I don't think the average soldier can really seriously get down to the business of killing someone if their gun is painted pink,...
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You ever wonder about the 1st person to do anything?

Take smoking for example. Someone had to sit down and think to themselves. "Ya know, life is good. The bison are coming any day now. The birds are singing. The weather couldn't be better. I wonder if the day would be any better if I took this plant out of the ground, stuck it in...
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With all this talk of using up non-renewable resources I think we have lost sight of one very important renewable resource. Teenage hormones. Seriously. If we could but harness the frustrated hormonal energy contained in one teenager we could rule the Universe.

A good example:
There hasn't been a manned Moon landing in a long time. It's been easily more than a week. Here's what...
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I have noticed something about Scotch Tape. Whenever you need to wrap a present you can't find the roll you _know_ you just bought when you wrapped presents last time.

Here's my theory. Parallel Universes exist. Our universe is the only one that's capable of sustaining Scotch Tape. However, tape is such a amazingly useful item that people throughout the Multiverse (two points to whoever...
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I've been wondering a lot about the Platypus lately & here's what I've come up with:

The Platypus is proof of the existence of Jesus. Take as a given that God exists, right? Ok, so God is busy creating creating the Earth. God works from home, of course (where would His office be, do you think?). So, God is doing some fine detail work on...
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