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Offline The Peepmaster

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Re: Boring
« Reply #15 on: May 24, 2007, 08:29:19 PM »
I bought 4 tins of salmons today, interestingly enough!

My ears pricked up when I saw your mention of "Johnstone" in "St Johnstone" by the way.
Nostalgia is not what it used to be. 😟

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Re: Boring
« Reply #16 on: May 24, 2007, 08:34:07 PM »
A bevy of quail
A bouquet of pheasants [when flushed]
A brood of hens
A building of rooks
A cast of hawks [or falcons]
A charm of finches
A colony of penguins
A company of parrots
A congregation of plovers
A cover of coots
A covey of partridges [or grouse or ptarmigans]
A deceit of lapwings
A descent of woodpeckers
A dissimulation of birds
A dole of doves
An exaltation of larks
A fall of woodcocks
A flight of swallows [or doves, goshawks, or cormorants]
A gaggle of geese [wild or domesticated]
A host of sparrows
A kettle of hawks [riding a thermal]
A murmuration of starlings
A murder of crows
A muster of storks
A nye of pheasants [on the ground]
An ostentation of peacocks
A paddling of ducks [on the water]
A parliament of owls
A party of jays
A peep of chickens
A pitying of turtledoves
A raft of ducks
A rafter of turkeys
A siege of herons
A skein of geese [in flight]
A sord of mallards
A spring of teal
A tidings of magpies
A trip of dotterel
An unkindness of ravens
A watch of nightingales
A wedge of swans [or geese, flying in a "V"]
A wisp of snipe
Nostalgia is not what it used to be. 😟

Offline Mince

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Re: Boring
« Reply #17 on: May 24, 2007, 08:36:15 PM »
We should market this topic as a cure for insomnia.

Offline The Peepmaster

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Re: Boring
« Reply #18 on: May 24, 2007, 09:13:11 PM »
Mind you, I usually just go "Look, there's loadsa birdies".
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Offline Tarquin Thunderthighs lll

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Re: Boring
« Reply #19 on: May 24, 2007, 10:16:25 PM »
It's salmon (plural) because they're an odd fish - even when they're in a crowd they're never really 'together', if you know what I mean.

I guess you're waiting for me to make some crack about what we'll talk about after we've discussed St Johnstone's glory days, and we've taken our coats off to sit down for a drink. But I think you'd be surprised. So many Forfarshire cup ties.....

Peepsie, you always delight when you reveal what a big bard you are.

Still trying to think of something boring that I'm passionate about. It's really difficult.
I apologise, in advance.

Offline Roger Kettle

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Re: Boring
« Reply #20 on: May 24, 2007, 11:08:33 PM »
"A trip of dotterel".
I have no idea what this is but I love it.

Offline The Peepmaster

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Re: Boring
« Reply #21 on: May 24, 2007, 11:40:27 PM »
"A trip of dotterel".
I have no idea what this is but I love it.

Don't you know nuffink!

Dotterel

For wader enthusiasts each spring provides an opportunity to discover a trip of dotterel. These exciting passage migrants regularly halt in Norfolk before continuing their journey to northern mountains and the tundra.


http://www.birdsofbritain.co.uk/bird-guide/dotterel.asp
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Offline Tarquin Thunderthighs lll

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Re: Boring
« Reply #22 on: May 25, 2007, 12:17:40 AM »
Crikey, Peepsie - all this time that you've gone on and on about these birds of yours, I thought..... :o
I apologise, in advance.

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Re: Boring
« Reply #23 on: May 25, 2007, 11:11:14 AM »
7. Why "Pop Idol", "X Factor" and similar shows are utter rubbish and why this strangely does not apply to "Grease is the Word" which I watch with my sister-in-law every Saturday.

 

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Re: Boring
« Reply #24 on: May 25, 2007, 11:12:44 AM »
As has been established, I can be spectacularly boring about Custer, The Little Bighorn, Crazy Horse, The Old West and Montana. Here are some other sleep-inducing topics I can launch into:
The importance of verbal rhythm in comic strips.
The creatures in Loch Ness.
The HISTORICAL Jesus.
Shark attacks.
Coleridge and Wordsworth were hippies.
Soup.
Why pyramids appeared in South America and Egypt.

I'd like to think I can be boring on a wide variety of subjects.

 

Offline Roger Kettle

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Re: Boring
« Reply #25 on: May 25, 2007, 01:15:05 PM »
That looks remarkably like me at work.

Offline Diane CBPFC

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Re: Boring
« Reply #26 on: May 25, 2007, 01:25:48 PM »
I?ve just gone through the list to see if there may be anything of interest and found a few that I don?t think are boring that we can use for new threads. Sorry Mince, yours were really boring but at least you can take comfort in being right about the choices on your list.

Vocal impressions of my old teachers.

My theories of why the universe has picked me out for special treatment.

The creatures in Loch Ness.
The HISTORICAL Jesus.
Shark attacks.
Soup
People will come from strange lands to hear me speak my words of wisdom. They will ask me the secret of life and I will tell them. Then maybe I'll finish off with a song. The Nomad

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Re: Boring
« Reply #27 on: May 25, 2007, 03:08:37 PM »
I?ve just gone through the list to see if there may be anything of interest and found a few that I don?t think are boring that we can use for new threads. Sorry Mince, yours were really boring but at least you can take comfort in being right about the choices on your list.

Vocal impressions of my old teachers.

My theories of why the universe has picked me out for special treatment.

The creatures in Loch Ness.
The HISTORICAL Jesus.
Shark attacks.
Soup


You mean there's more that 1?

Offline Roger Kettle

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Re: Boring
« Reply #28 on: May 25, 2007, 06:20:18 PM »
There's either none or several.

Colin

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Re: Boring
« Reply #29 on: May 25, 2007, 07:11:35 PM »
There's either none or several.

What do you mean none?
Surely your not a disbeliever Roger.