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bigtombowski
12th November 2007, 22:29
After this 1979 sketch - a CLASSIC piece of british humour ... a new word was introduced into the OED (oxford english dictionary) ... see if u can guess what the word is!?!

Lets just say, it's still taught in taxonomy classes in Uni (i did biology) hehe! :D

please please ENJOY

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_MpbMm0433I

tom

bigtombowski
13th November 2007, 03:39
After this 1979 sketch - a CLASSIC piece of british humour ... a new word was introduced into the OED (oxford english dictionary) ... see if u can guess what the word is!?!

Lets just say, it's still taught in taxonomy classes in Uni (i did biology) hehe! :D

please please ENJOY

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_MpbMm0433I

tom


l saw a few people were replying to this one and stopped!

do u not know thw answer to the question ;) ? hehehe

it's easy :D

i think keith knows :D

tom

baboyako
13th November 2007, 20:50
well, I was starting to reply - then found out all collective nouns were made up as jokes :rolleyes:, if you think about it...

flight of stairs - everybody knows that one - buts it's a bit odd when you think about it :Erm: must have been someone who fell down some :cwm24:

bigtombowski
13th November 2007, 20:54
lol, etymology is amazing,
but ...
it's more amazing just to watch this one playing out before our eyes don'tya think?