Thought for Today

[BruceS]

Lots of terms it seems?
One even refers to a swarm........ ??
Come on don't keep us in suspenders for too long ... it cuts the blood circulation off.... Do they still make them?

[T1 Terry]

A parliament? That would be a cruel thing to compare innocent chattering birds to the not innocent in anyway chattering politicians gathered as a group.

Maybe it's a parliament of Gallahs, that would be a very descriptive definition that would easily cross over from one to the other
The well known song by Bob Hundson https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qIN9qdlTnks

[El Gringo]

Nope, owls are called a parliament, kookaburra's are called a riot...
A tiding of magpies, and a pandemonium of parrots.

Don't know where they get all these terms from??

Cheers.

[Newcastle George]

Collective terms:

B
A cete of badgers
A culture of bacteria
A battery of barracuda
A shoal of bass
A colony of bats
A sleuth or sloth of bears
A colony or lodge of beavers
A swarm, erst, grist, flight or hive of bees
A flock, flight, congregation or volery of birds
A sedge or siege of bitterns
A sounder or singular of boars
A brace or clash of bucks
A chatter of budgerigars
A herd of buffalo
A bellowing of bullfinches
A swarm of butterflies
A wake of buzzards

[El Gringo]

Yes, I have heard the term a chatter of budgies before, but what caught my attention was on the news recently about budgies swarming in QLD and they called it a murmuration.
Seems it refers the the manner of flight though, when they fly like a swarm all in unison - starlings do it a lot apparently too.
So, it's not just Budgies that do it after all.

Oh well, interesting all the same.

Cheers,

[RobertNotBob]

Look up a book published in 1486 entitled The Book of St Albans by Juliana Berners and you will see where it all started.

Quite interesting as there are a few whichhave been replaced by more modern understanding and acceptance as well as new editions.

[Greynomad]

John Murray, artist resident in Lightning Ridge, did a brilliant painting of Tony Abbot in his budgie smugglers — complete with budgies peeping out of them!
You can still buy prints of it at his gallery (probably online as well). He did a companion painting of Julia Gillard as an emu.

[Greynomad]

If you’re cleaning out your garage and find a box of odds & sods, then throw out all but one item, is it an Odd or a Sod?

[BruceS]

Different horses for ???
Mine was "odds & ends" .... I finished up with a few ends but no odds.
(end of life, end of interest, end of excitement, my end, her end ... or was that her side?)

[T1 Terry]

If you’re cleaning out your garage and find a box of odds & sods, then throw out all but one item, is it an Odd or a Sod?

Why is it that, the day after the things you threw out can not be retrieved, you need the exact thing you threw out?