Help name seven baby skunks, please

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Well, they shouldn't shoot the skunks, but I don't want to hear that I.S. or Tsunami have gotten ill from having them around, either. I have to put their welfare first.

"Stubs" says "Hi" to Bun^3.
 
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Ivan Seeking said:
Tsu thought Bun the first - also a stray - had a face that looked like a little butt. Her coloring was a little funny that way. :biggrin: Since I refused to name her buttface :rolleyes: , we landed on Bun.
Actually, I was a little more specific than that. The markings on her face (she was a calico kitty) made her little snout look very much like an anal sphincter :surprise: (being in medicine, I see a LOT of those! :biggrin:). I thought that Shincter Face was just a little bit long and pretentious :-p for such a little kitty, so I shortened it to Butt Face. Well, Ivan had a problem with that name, too. :surprise: So we compromised a bit a came up with the name Bun (Head). :wink: Now we just LIKE the name Bun for a kitty!

Let's see... Our goats were Grunt, Bambi, Spud and Tater... A horse named Wizard, a bunny named One Bunny (from a fairy tale my dad made up for my niece and nephew many years ago - VERY funny :biggrin:). This should go in another thread, shouldn't it? :rolleyes:
 
That's quite a menagerie you have going! That's pretty funny about the butt-faced kitty. My cat looks like she was one a perfectly good white cat that some absent-minded artist wiped their dirty watercolor brushes on!
 
holly said:
Well, they shouldn't shoot the skunks, but I don't want to hear that I.S. or Tsunami have gotten ill from having them around, either. I have to put their welfare first.

"Stubs" says "Hi" to Bun^3.

I saw last night that one of them is nesting under the back porch. Oh boy; that really thrilled Tsu! I do think I can trap instead of shoot so don't worry. No shooting this time. Not only do I hate doing it, there are too many and too close to the house. At this point I am waiting to see where we land. I think most have left the property.

Stubs it is! :smile:

I told Bun 3 but she is too busy eating, pooping, and sleeping; still. :biggrin: She was a very hungry and tired little kitty.
 
Interesting that "pod" has moved from pelicans to whales.

Also I've heard "parliament of rooks" instead of "clamour".

And I won't even bother resisting making some up:

a drowse of sloths
an attachment of remoras
a camouflage of chameleons
an abscess of lampreys
a whistle of whippoorwills
a snorkel of flamingos (not very euphonious but more dignified than a lawn of flamingos)
a puzzle of platypus
a constipation of tapeworms
a siphon of anteaters
an eccentricity of echidnas
a foliage of leafy sea dragons
an usurpation of cuckoos
a disappearance of dodos
 
a composition of mathematicians
a measure of analysts
a permutation of combinatoricists
a pencil of geometers
an atlas of differential topologists
an attractor of chaos theorists
an occultation of astronomers
a superposition of quantum theorists
a glueball of high energy physicists
a crystallization of chemists
a metamorphosis of geologists
a saturation of organic chemists
a mosaic of biochemists
an evolution of biologists
a habitat of ecologists
an ossuary of paleontologists
 
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Math Is Hard said:
Here's some useless trivia: a group of skunks is called a surfeit of skunks.
I guess some people would consider 1 skunk a surfeit. :wink:

Plover, I love your lists.
 
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I really liked "a glueball of high energy physicists". I don't know anything about glueballs so I just have a visual of a bunch of people in labcoats all glued together in a big sphere with arms and legs sticking out.

should we be a 'pride of pf'ers' or does that imply that we're full of ourselves?
 
Monique said:
a mosaic of biochemists? :rolleyes:
how about:
a (fluid) mosaic of cell biologists
a synthesis of biochemists
(or slightly more arcane)
a phosphorylation of biochemists or
a camp (cAMP) of biochemists

also:
a plasmid of bacteriologists
a transcript of geneticists
a vector of virologists
a blind of field biologists
a reef of marine biologists
a pressure of meteorologists
an intrusion of vulcanologists
a table of hydrologists
a prominence of stellar astrophysicists
a sheaf of algebraic topologists
a variety of algebraic geometers
an orbit of algebraists
an expectation of probability theorists
a trial of statisticians (or a deviation of statisticians)
an axiomatization of set theorists
a complement of logicians
a dilemma of game theorists

Sorry.
I'll stop now... :redface:
 
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Math Is Hard said:
I really liked "a glueball of high energy physicists". I don't know anything about glueballs so I just have a visual of a bunch of people in labcoats all glued together in a big sphere with arms and legs sticking out.

Somebody should draw this... :biggrin:
 
Monique said:
Hum apne pairo mein jaane kitne, bhawar lapete huye khade hai
??
I can't even guess the language...
My first choice for a continent would be Africa though.

Note for future readers:   The quote was Monique's signature at the time of this post.[/size]
 
Tsunami said:
Actually, I was a little more specific than that. The markings on her face (she was a calico kitty) made her little snout look very much like an anal sphincter :surprise: (being in medicine, I see a LOT of those! :biggrin:). I thought that Shincter Face was just a little bit long and pretentious :-p for such a little kitty, so I shortened it to Butt Face. Well, Ivan had a problem with that name, too. :surprise: So we compromised a bit a came up with the name Bun (Head). :wink: Now we just LIKE the name Bun for a kitty!

Let's see... Our goats were Grunt, Bambi, Spud and Tater... A horse named Wizard, a bunny named One Bunny (from a fairy tale my dad made up for my niece and nephew many years ago - VERY funny :biggrin:). This should go in another thread, shouldn't it? :rolleyes:
Yes, we are twins. :biggrin:
 
Evo said:
:smile: :smile: :smile: :smile:

I love it!
ME, TOO! :smile: :smile: :smile: :smile:
 
Tsunami said:
TAG! You're it! :smile: :smile:
Is there really a game of tag going on? If so, who's playing? Just this thread? The whole forum?
 
zoobyshoe said:
Is there really a game of tag going on? If so, who's playing? Just this thread? The whole forum?
Well, DUH! Yeah, there's been a game of tag goin' on for a long time! You've been playing, too! Dontcha remember? (Short-term memory problems, Zoob?)

:smile: :smile: :smile: :smile: :smile:

Nah. Just kiddin', Buddy. :wink: I just wrote that because it seemed like Evo (is that who I was talking to? Oops. Looks like it's ME who has the short-term memory problems!) and I were posting simultaneously. :biggrin: It reminded me of Phone Tag.
 
Tsunami said:
It reminded me of Phone Tag.
How do you play "Phone Tag"?
 
How is young JimmyP Spraymaster doing?? :-p
 
Dang, I wanted to be him to be of them annoying Cling-on pets. NOT like his namesake after all!
 
Who is left then?

The Bob (2004 ©)
 
zoobyshoe said:
How do you play "Phone Tag"?
How to Play Phone Tag:

If you call a friend, but he/she is not home, leave a message. Your friend calls you back, but YOU are not at home. He/she leaves you a message. You return their call, but they aren't home (AGAIN!) So you leave them the message - "TAG! You're it!" :biggrin:
 

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