Collective noun needed (UNCLASSIFIED)

[Mullins, Bill AMRDEC]

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The Perambulation of the Ruminants.

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> Joel S. Berson
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> Subject: Re: Collective noun needed
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> At 7/17/2012 04:50 PM, Garson O'Toole wrote:
> >Joel S. Berson wrote
> > >> Last week was "the running of the bulls" at Pamplona.  Today Good
> > >> Morning America showed a video of a rather sedate excursion of
some
> > >> cattle, including little 'uns, through a small town in England.
What
> > >> should that be called?  (The consensus on GMA seemed to be "the
> > >> strolling of the cows".)
> >
> >Laurence Horn wrote
> > > Well, if it wasn't *too* sedate, "the boogieing of the bovines"?
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> >For individuals who have no desire to eschew obfuscation:
> >The ambulating of the bovids.
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> I'd settle for "the ambling of the cows".
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> Joel
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