A Murder of Crows

[Cindy027]

I think @Cindy027 was joking.

No, was not. Apologies to all you retro music lovers but I am a child of this centuries music

If so, hopefully no harm was done by my explanation. But I noticed @Cindy027 was not British (nor American) and therefore might not be well versed in 40-year-old English 'new wave' music.

Thank you for the explanation, it was seriously over my head (not the explanation but Millies cryptic reference )

 

[MillieDynamite]

Good lord, I suddenly feel old! A Flock of Seagulls was before my time as well. But I've enjoyed an eclectic education in music, movies, TV, history, and writing. I thought I was the spring chicken.

No, was not. Apologies to all you retro music lovers but I am a child of this centuries music



Thank you for the explanation, it was seriously over my head (not the explanation but Millies cryptic reference )

 

[Cindy027]

I thought I was the spring chicken.

You are still (I am a year older), unless theres someone else lurking in the background that is unknown .

 

[MillieDynamite]

Um, I'm about to crack 34 years old in four short days. NOOOO!

You are still (I am a year older), unless theres someone else lurking in the background that is unknown .

 

[Bamagan]

Good lord, I suddenly feel old! A Flock of Seagulls was before my time as well. But I've enjoyed an eclectic education in music, movies, TV, history, and writing. I thought I was the spring chicken.

A decrepitude of spring chickens

 

[MillieDynamite]

A silence of lambs.

A decrepitude of spring chickens

A flocking of murdered of mockingbirds.

 

[TheRedChamber]

But... then... how do you explain THIS?


https://i.redd.it/7o53xdrram181.jpg

I'm about four pages and a week late, but given that 'Not the Nine O'Clock News' has already been mentioned on this thread, I'm finding it impossible not to post this...

 

[Cindy027]

A pot of porcelains.

 

[Smuttyandfun]

A Preponderance of Perverts

 

[SimonDoom]

If so, hopefully no harm was done by my explanation. But I noticed @Cindy027 was not British (nor American) and therefore might not be well versed in 40-year-old English 'new wave' music.

That's part of my high school soundtrack. I feel ancient.

 

[putinsnaziiimaiden]

There is a quaint term for a group or flock of crows. It's called, "A Murder of Crows." They have other names as well for the collection of the birds of doom. While the most popular term for a group of crows is a murder, but a group of crows can also be called a mob, horde, parcel, or muster. I've never used any of these in a story, but I think I might want to. Crows are also called Ravens, but they are the same birds. I had that straight from the Crows mouth. That and Nevermore were about all the old bird said.

What odd or old sayings have you used in your stories?

Crows and ravens are not the same bird. Ravens are larger than crows and have a longer and more grotesque beak and a louder and deeper caw.

 

[MillieDynamite]

This has been discussed already.

Crows and ravens are not the same bird. Ravens are larger than crows and have a longer and more grotesque beak and a louder and deeper caw.

 

[lovecraft68]

 

[Bamagan]

That's part of my high school soundtrack. I feel ancient.

Alt rock is just another way of saying fossil

 

[SimonDoom]

Alt rock is just another way of saying fossil

That's just a low, low blow.

What's really hard to take is that alt rock was well AFTER my time. Does that make me pre-fossil?

 

[Bamagan]

That's just a low, low blow.

What's really hard to take is that alt rock was well AFTER my time. Does that make me pre-fossil?

If memory serves, the technical term for your class of being is a stromatolite... technically a fossil, but so old and so small it's easy to overlook.

 

[MillieDynamite]

I think both of you are sedentary rocks. You started out as sedimentary rocks, but you are so far beyond your creation and so unmoveable, you've become sedentary.