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<p>[QUOTE="dougsmit, post: 3114910, member: 19463"]<a href="https://www.treehugger.com/culture/a-shrewdness-of-apes-and-other-odd-group-names.html" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.treehugger.com/culture/a-shrewdness-of-apes-and-other-odd-group-names.html" rel="nofollow">https://www.treehugger.com/culture/a-shrewdness-of-apes-and-other-odd-group-names.html</a></p><p>I was always of the opinion that the list of group names was as artificial as the fashionistas in <i>The Emperor's New Clothes. </i> The link above suggests I was not far from right. It is a human characteristic to make yourself seem better or higher class than the competition. Language has always been a prime player in such oneupsmanship. You are guilty of that if you corrected my spelling of that last word. </p><p><br /></p><p><i>How about a RIDDLE of Sphin<b>G</b>es? <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie80" alt=":shame:" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /> </i>Seems so obvious there is no reason to doubt that Juliana would have put it in her list had she only know what she was doing. Need we have more? How about a Burial of Emperors? A Glitter of Aurei? A Spool of CT threads?[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="dougsmit, post: 3114910, member: 19463"][url]https://www.treehugger.com/culture/a-shrewdness-of-apes-and-other-odd-group-names.html[/url] I was always of the opinion that the list of group names was as artificial as the fashionistas in [I]The Emperor's New Clothes. [/I] The link above suggests I was not far from right. It is a human characteristic to make yourself seem better or higher class than the competition. Language has always been a prime player in such oneupsmanship. You are guilty of that if you corrected my spelling of that last word. [I]How about a RIDDLE of Sphin[B]G[/B]es? :shame: [/I]Seems so obvious there is no reason to doubt that Juliana would have put it in her list had she only know what she was doing. Need we have more? How about a Burial of Emperors? A Glitter of Aurei? A Spool of CT threads?[/QUOTE]
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