[Dixielandjazz] Collective nouns are wisdom in a word.

[Don Ingle]

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Leave it to a tuba player friend to discover these words of wisdom. Doc 
Ball of Michigan strikes again.


The English language has some wonderfully anthropomorphic collective 
nouns for groups of animals.


There is a Pride of lions, a Murder of crows (as well as their cousins 
the rooks and ravens), a School of fish, an Exaltation of doves and, 
presumably because they look so wise, a Parliament of owls.


Now consider the baboon. The loudest, most dangerous and viciously 
aggressive of all primates. And what is the proper collective noun for a 
group of baboons - a **Congress.**

Sometimes witticisms just write themselves, don't they?

Jazz connection:  "You're gunna look just like a monkey when you grow 
old." (as sung by Nappy LaMar with the Bobcats.)






















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