Fact or fiction

[nursejudy]

Anyone know these collective nouns..without looking them up..

 

 

Nuns

Apes

Jugglers

Painters

Flashers

 

nursejudy

 

La plume de ma tante.

[chris parker]

Didn't know the answers so I looked them up. Still don't know as the answers will need to be looked up and put into 2 sylables before I can understand them.

 

Who dreams these up?

 

Ohhhh me ead!!!

 

 

:confused: :confused:

[H Jampton]

nursejudy:

have we had

Rule of thumb

Scaffolder, scaffolder, by thy thumb,

Leave four inches for the Brickie to plumb.

[H Jampton]

Tinca61:

To eat humble pie means to be humiliated, to admit others know best or are superior in some way.

 

The saying comes from the days when the Lord of the Manor and his fellow huntsmen feasted on the spoils of their day's hunting. They ate prime venison, while the servants and other of low standing had to make do with a pie made from the umbles of the deer - its entrails, liver and heart.

A 'Hummel' is, I think you'll find, the term used for a male deer that has damaged of inadequate testicles. They do not grow proper antlers each year, often just a big soft lump on their heads. Some people call them 'Moss heads'. They would indeed feel humble compared to the other males.

Perhaps humbling could be a term for castration.

Perhaps Humble Pie was made from the discarded organs of the act of castration.

 

[ 17. March 2003, 10:42 PM: Message edited by: H Jampton ]

[H Jampton]

corydoras:

Venison is my favourite meat. Especially if it is from the red deer or elk as our American cousins call it.

Our American cousins might some times refer to Wapiti and Elk in the same breath but our Reds are a lot smaller species, with no palmetted antlers.

 

Newt, lets have some pictures!

 

[ 17. March 2003, 01:12 AM: Message edited by: H Jampton ]

[H Jampton]

Most sayings tend to stem from navy origins, but "knows all the angles" comes from the snooker world, I suspect.

[John S]

nursejudy:

Anyone know these collective nouns..without looking them up..

 

 

Nuns

Apes

Jugglers

Painters

Flashers

 

nursejudy

 

La plume de ma tante.

Nurse, it's a shrewdness of apes

 

Possibly a [censored - I cannot say that on here!] of nuns

....dropping of jugglers

....speckling of painters

....exhibition of flashers

 

[Guest sslatter]

nursejudy:

Anyone know these collective nouns..without looking them up..

 

 

Nuns

Apes

Jugglers

Painters

Flashers

 

nursejudy

 

La plume de ma tante.

Okay...without looking them up, I'll have a guess:

 

..a cloister of nuns;

..a forum of apes;

..a catchment of jugglers;

..a daubing of painters;

..an exhibition of flashers..??

 

Sur le pont, d'Avignon...

 

[ 17. March 2003, 02:31 AM: Message edited by: Graham X ]

[corydoras]

H Jampton:

H Jampton:

Venison is my favourite meat. Especially if it is from the red deer or elk as our American cousins call it.

Our American cousins might some times refer to Wapiti and Elk in the same breath but our Reds are a lot smaller species, with no palmetted antlers.

 

Newt, lets have some pictures!

'Our' Red deer is Cervus elaphus

Wapiti or just Elk in the US is Cervus elaphus

in Germany its called Rothirsch or Edelhirsch but it is still Cervus elaphus

 

Do your worst Newt show me a Wapiti with palmate antlers and I'll eat my hat.

 

[ 17. March 2003, 05:28 PM: Message edited by: corydoras ]

[nursejudy]

Here goes

Nuns .. Superfluity

 

Apes ...yes Shrewdness

 

Jugglers ..Neverthriving

 

Painters .. Illusion

 

Flashers ..Phalanx

 

would it be better to make our own up

 

 

A-drift of fishermen

 

A-fraid of ghosts

 

 

nursrejudy

 

zoot alors.