In a message dated 3/25/2009 12:49:45 P.M. Pacific Daylight Time, [email protected] writes: >>> Stop being cute. ;-) Murders of crows. >> >> Contrary to what you think, I'm not being cute, just asked a question. >> Your claim seemed over the top. >> >> I've never seen murder of a crow. > > You can't have murder of "a" crow -there has to be more than one :-) > > I guess you missed the earlier post where it was pointed out that > the collective noun for a bunch of crows was "a murder of crows". > > Marnie is talking about flocks, not about homicides.
=============== OTOH, I did see something odd, not a homicide, but distinctly odd. I was visiting a relative, a friend was with me and she saw it too. As we walked toward his place in South San Francisco, a dove fly in front of us, and whoosh!, out of no where, a crow swooped down and hit the dove with it's beak. He flew away, the dove fell to the pavement, apparently dead. I looked at it but I didn't go too close (about 3 feet). After our visit, when we came out, the dove was gone (and there was no spots on the ground), so I guess it had only been stunned. It was so blasted symbolic, crow attacking dove, that frankly I didn't know what to do with it. Marnie ;-) --------------------------------------------- Warning: I am now filtering my email, so you may be censored. **************Feeling the pinch at the grocery store? Make meals for Under $10. (http://food.aol.com/frugal-feasts?ncid=emlcntusfood00000002) -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
