fact checking is fun. i end up having a web browser full of bookmarked links like the names of animal congregations. have you ever noticed how the name of the congregation is a little (or a lot) bit descriptive of the animal itself?

An Ostentation of Peacocks
An Intrusion of Cockroaches
A Parliament of Owls
A Streak of Tigers
A Shrewdness of Apes
An Intrigue of Kittens
A Tower of Giraffes
A Crash of Rhinoceroses
An Unkindness of Ravens
A Business of Ferrets

if i were cool like the spamusment.com guy, i would sketch a little picture of each congregation. the ferrets would be busy with ferrety (wedding) business, the cockroaches would be pushing some guy out of his arm chair and hogging the remote, the tiger cartoon would just be a big orange and black blurry stripe. wait, this sounds like a good idea for a children’s book. someone’s probably already done it. if not — you saw it first here.