[Found in here.]
A pride of lions, a bevy of beetles, a murder of crows, etc. Names for various groups of animal are bizarre, and I’m not sure where the etymology began.
This site lists many that I’d never “herd” of before: A business of ferrets, an implausibility of gnus, a bloat of hippos, a fleet of mudhens, a gaze of raccoons; but my favorite from that list is “a pace of asses.”
Missing from the list is the name for the plural of the animals in the image above, so I dub them a Bunk of Lemurs.
That so works! A Bunk of Lemurs… yep, it works! Now about that “a pace of asses”… why did my mind jump to all those politicians in D.C.????
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Tattoo Jim– I read it with a redneck accent: “C’mon, boas! Wer goin’ to town an’ gets us a pace of asses!”
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You did it again. The combination of oddball info and almost intolerable cuteness has made my day. A bloat of hippos? How perfect is that? And a Bunk of Lemurs…genius.
I think they left the “L” out of “Pace”.
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thelit– A “Place of Asses” makes more sense, and most of us have worked there at one time or another.
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OMG…Cute!
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