Mind Blowing Random Thoughts

That’s actually some sort of falcon, rather than a hawk. Sorry to be pedantic! :male_detective::roll_eyes:. Another collective term for hawks is a boil. Falcons are a bazaar or cast. A group of magpies is a parliament, a murder of crows, an ostentation of peacocks, a conspiracy of ravens, a confusion of warblers and a flamboyance of flamingos.

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A Parliament of magpies :thinking:. That would have been handy to know when I lived in Durango. There were magpies all over the place. And noisy sons a guns too.

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Aug. 18th mind blowing random thought of the day: It is illegal in North Carolina to sing off-key.

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In Texas, A Minor May Possess and Consume Alcohol When in the Visible Presence of Their Legal age Spouse.

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IIRC, a group of owls is also a parliament.

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Aug. 19th mind blowing random thought of the day: Star Wars creator George Lucas based Princess Leia’s iconic hairdo on female Mexican Revolution fighter Clara de la Rocha.

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@DungeonMaster note to self, do NOT go to North Carolina.

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I would be OK there. I sing perfectly when drunk. Everyone else just disagrees. What do they know anyway.

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Aug. 20th mind blowing random thought of the ‘Schnapsidee’ is the German word for a ridiculous idea that only sounds good when one is drunk.

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I saw that on cracked.com
It was in an article about foreign words we really need in America. That one was my favorite, for obvious reasons! :yum::rofl:

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Aug. 21st mind blowing random thought of the day: The word “rooster” was coined in 1772 by puritans as an alternative to the word “cock” after it became associated with penis.

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Well I didn’t know that! :rooster::grinning:

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