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As long as it remains a flange of baboons, does anything else really matter?



Classic comedy sketch. There's also a "whoop" of gorillas. It appears that some people think flange is the correct collective noun for baboons, as it subsequently appeared in a televised pub quiz in which someone, taught how to memorize general knowledge facts by Derren Brown, took part.

https://youtu.be/l1-69AnA_To?t=900


I read that primatologists adopted flange as well as troop for baboons, which I hope is true, I think there's plenty of scope for whimsy in language.

Sadly it seems the video of that sketch has been blocked or removed from youtube - the best I can find now is a poorly recorded audio - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vgxbAjmwUus


I'd say the squad of squids is still pretty important!


I propose that we also enshrine the reverse -- a squid of squads.


A nest of ifdefs, and a wunch of bankers.




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