I have no idea how we got onto the subject. I was half asleep at the time and Krissa wasn't and she asked me to tell her something and I made something up about Tree Dryads living in Scots Pine Trees, but after that it was probably Krissa, Having A Thought as I drifted off, but it carried on like this.
'A pride of lions is a bit...high and mighty.'
'Well, it's a murder of crows, isn't it.'
'That's just weird.'
'Yep.'
'Is there any animal that is a troop?'
'Monkeys.'
'O-U-P-E or O-O-P?'
'I don't know!'
'Haha.'
'What's mice?'
'A sniffle of mice.'
'But like a snuffle of rats.'
'Right.'
'Pigs?'
'A grunt of pigs.'
'Giraffes?'
'A lollop of giraffes.'
'A lollop! Penguins?'
'A function of penguins.'
'A wiggle of penguins!'
'Oh, no no no! A soiree of penguins.'
'A sliver of eels! Deer?'
'No idea.'
'That should be, like, a stand of deer.'
'No, stand should be flamingoes.'
'A stand of flamingoes! Walruses?'
'Like lollop...a laze of walruses.'
'They're like a mafia club or men's club of walruses.'
'A club of walruses. Nice.'
'Whales is a weird one. No idea why. A pod of whales.'
'That is weird.'
We both had very strange dreams last night.
You guys are weird. :-)
Don't forget the brace of moose!
Oh, a new one: a FORCE of rhinos.
Krissa came up with:
A CARAVAN of snails.
A PANIC of fish.
It's just you and me, honey.
Join in and make some up, you people that want to assure us that we're not exclusively insane!
a waddle of hamsters.
I thought I was the only weird person that wasted literally hours making up collective nouns!! I was having just the same sort of conversation a couple of days ago with my mother. I particularly like a grunt of pig!!
>We both had very strange dreams last night.
a surreal of dreams?
a festival of dreams?
a cheese-sandwich of dreams?
My personal favourite:
a wunch of bankers.