July 15th, 2011 at 12:09AM

an ample of awesome

merlin:

Collective nouns for birds

God damn. Dozens of terrible poems from my second year of college—just waiting to happen. 

So great. Where to begin?

  • a venue of vultures   
  • an unkindness of ravens   
  • a congregation of plovers   
  • a tidings of magpies   
  • a siege of bitterns   
  • a clattering of choughs   
  • a covert of coots   
  • a trip of dotterel   
  • a clattering of jackdaws   

In each bullet point, a Robert Pollard song

  1. katklaw9 reblogged this from sleazeandhustle and added:
    I learned this from One Tree Hill. Is that bad? Or...ravens? Pretty sure that deal was...
  2. deliamary reblogged this from merlin and added:
    I’m mildly embarrassed...note that “An Unkindness...Ravens”...
  3. beefranck reblogged this from yhf
  4. yhf reblogged this from fuiru and added:
    A failure of cardinals.
  5. fuiru reblogged this from merlin
  6. miocyon reblogged this from merlin and added:
    An “unkindness...ravens” is one...my favorites. As are:
  7. emersunn reblogged this from merlin and added:
    English Major here. Had the poster.
  8. steampoweredmedia reblogged this from merlin and added:
    refers to the old white dudes who hang around outside southern, rural gas stations.
  9. tobiasvemmenby reblogged this from merlin
  10. facemeltingaction reblogged this from merlin and added:
    In each bullet point,...Robert Pollard song
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