mnottertail
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So, across this globe we need to come to a reasonable and well understood way of counting, for fair trade to all. There is a: SHREWDNESS of apes TROOP of baboons SOUNDER of wild boar RABBLE of butterflies QUIVER of cobras MURDER of crows PARLIAMENT of crows SEETHING of eels BLOAT of hippopotami RAFT of alligators EXULTATION of larks Now, one slave, two slave, a chain, a coffle, what should be next? somewhere up the chain, a slither of kajirae, and then what? I doubt anyone would vote for an exultaion of kajirae... A flink of kine (cows) is a dozen.... What say you? Jarl Hup (addendum to the Principia Mathematica)
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Kam Fong as Chin Ho For in the final analysis, our most basic common link, is that we all inhabit this small planet, we all breathe the same air, we all cherish our children's futures, and we are all mortal. JFK
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