Fun with collective nouns!

Nobody's business but the ferrets.

Nobody's business but the ferrets.

Want to impress guests at your next dinner party? Pepper your stories with collective nouns, like the ones found in James Lipton's book "An Exaltation of Larks". People say "school of fish" and "pride of lions" -- so why haven't "parliament of owls" and "knot of toads" achieved the stickiness they deserve? It's not just animals that get to have all the fun, either. What do you call a group of jurors? Appropriately, a "damning". How about jugglers? A "neverthriving" (probably owing to their career prospects). So, get cracking like a hastiness of cooks and click through....

Is this literally, or figuratively the best invention ever?

Hey Google Chrome users: You can now download an extension that changes the word "literally" to "figuratively" on the websites you visit, since 99% of the time that the former is used, the latter is what is really meant.

For instance, a quick Google News search for 'literally' turns up the following headlines, modified by the browser extension to a state of unintentional accuracy:

The internet is awesome.