When you refer to a group of animals, whether it’s a herd, flock, or swarm, you’re using what are called collective nouns. At the pig roast on Saturday these collective nouns came up in conversation. Mika sent out a whole bunch via e-mail to share the excitement. Here are a few of my favorites. Enjoy!

a paddle of ducks
an implausibility of gnus
an ostentation of peacocks
a tower of giraffes
a dazzle of zebra
a murder of crows
a crash of rhinos
a troop of monkeys
a charm of finches
an ambush of tigers
a mischief of mice

fun! for a more complete list, click here.

As many of you know, I drive pretty dang slow to conserve gas. Well, with gas prices going up the way that they have, there’s been a lot more talk on the internet about hypermiling techniques. I added a few of the tricks to my arsenal and am pleased to report that on this week’s trip home I pulled 40.8mpg out of the Nissan Altima.

Rock.