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Yet another dumb question... #8037 02/18/99 02:18 AM
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If many lions are a pride, and geese come in a flock, whattsa bunch of lighthouses?

A beam of lighthouses?

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Re: Yet another dumb question... #8038 02/18/99 03:30 AM
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I thought a group of geese was called a gaggle. Anyway, I know that lighthouses are migratory, but are they gregarious? The models sure seem to be!

In following the traditions of technical taxonomy (Alliteration for you, John), in naming stuff after pioneers in the field (such as the naming of the ohm, the ampere, etc.), I propose that we name the unit of measure for a group of lighthouse models an "aucremann".

As in, "To be classified as a wacko, one must own, as a minimum, three aucremanns of Harbour Lights."

Whattaya think?

-Carolus Linnaeus


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Re: Yet another dumb question... #8039 02/18/99 03:34 AM
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Maybe curio shelves can be rated in aucremanns, too.


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Re: Yet another dumb question... #8040 02/18/99 05:08 AM
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Remember: there is no such thing as a dumb question!! Just Dumb people who ask questions!! So what do you call a bunch of questions?? What do you call a bunch of dumb people??(a forum of fools?) ;-)

Re: Yet another dumb question... #8041 02/18/99 10:44 PM
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Dear Carl,

I think you're a few meatballs shy of a fylum.

Rgds,
Petrus Artedi (I'll be in the herbarium, stuffing trees.)

Re: Yet another dumb question... #8042 02/20/99 01:17 AM
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You guys are nuts! Tim, do you spend your days reading the dictionary or what?

How about a Legion of Lighthouses?


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