I learned in church today

[myboynoah]

fussin' and flappin' in priestly black.

I really like that song.

[pellegrino]

I really like that song.

I still remember the first time I heard it.

[wuapinmon]

Apparently you did not learn.

Step off, pozolero.

flock, n.

Pronunciation: /flɒk/
Forms: OE flocc, ME floc, Orm. flocc, ME south. vloc, (ME floch), ME–15 flok(e, ME flokk(e, ME–16 flocke, ME– flock.(Show Less)
Etymology: Old English flocc = Old Norse flokkr (Swedish flock , Danish flok ).
Not found in the other Germanic languages. The etymology is obscure. As both in Old English and Old Norse the word means only an assemblage of persons, it can hardly be connected with fly v.1; the hypothesis that it is cognate with folk n. is satisfactory with regard to meaning, but its phonological admissibility is doubtful.


2.

a. A number of animals of one kind, feeding or travelling in company. Now chiefly applied to an assemblage of birds (esp. geese) or (as in sense 3) of sheep or goats; in other applications commonly superseded by herd, swarm, etc.

c1200 Trin. Coll. Hom. 39 Þe deules beden ure louerd ihesu crist þat he hem sende into floc of swin.
a1300 Cursor M. (Gött.) 1964 Alsua ȝe ete of na fiss ellis, Bot þat in flock and herd duellis.
1480 Caxton Descr. Brit. 41 Ther is a pole at Brecknock, Therin of fish is many a flok.
1598 Shakespeare Henry IV, Pt. 1 ii. v. 138 If I do not‥driue all thy subiects afore thee like a flock of wild geese.
1614 W. Raleigh Hist. World i. v. v. §8. 698 Sixteene Elephants together in one flocke.
1665 R. Hooke Micrographia 205, I found whole flocks of the same kind [mites] running to and fro among the‥green moss.
1690 Moral Ess. Pres. Times iii. 48 A Flock of Lions.
1839 tr. A. de Lamartine Trav. East 102/1 Glades, where we saw flocks of camels and goats browsing.
1875 C. F. Wood Yachting Cruise iv. 91 Flocks of pigeons and parrots were fluttering about.

While a flock can be applied to any grouping of animals, an exaltation is a specific type of flock.

[TripletDaddy]

I know what the word "flock" means. Apparently you are unfamiliar with the term, "collective nouns," otherwise you would have used it instead of "flock."

[NorthwestUteFan]

"I learned that no matter how much pain I was experiencing, it never justified being a pain in return."

[wuapinmon]

I know what the word "flock" means. Apparently you are unfamiliar with the term, "collective nouns," otherwise you would have used it instead of "flock."

Nounds or nouns?

[Moliere]

Apparently you did not learn.

[ame="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_collective_nouns_for_birds"]List of collective nouns for birds - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia[/ame]

Bird Collective noun Source/origin
Birds Flock Standard term
Birds (small) Dissimulation [2]
Bitterns Siege/sedge [2][6]
Chickens Peep/brood [1][2][7]
Choughs Clattering [1][2]
Coots Covert [1][2]
Cranes Herd [1][2]
Cranes Sedge [6]
Crows Murder [1]
Curlew Herd [1][2]
Dotterel Trip [1][6]
Doves Dole/dule [2][6]
Doves Flight [1]
Ducks Badling, or raft [2]
Goldfinches Charm [8]
Geese
(on the ground) Gaggle [6][8]
Geese
(in flight) Skein [1][8]
Goshawks Flight [2]
Guinea fowl Rasp [9]
Hawks (tame) Cast [2]
Hawks (tame) Lease [2]
Herons Siege/sedge [2][6]
Jackdaws Train [10]
Lapwings Deceit [6]
Lapwings Desert [1][2]
Larks Exaltation [2]
Magpies Tidings [2]
Mallards Suit/sute [1][2]
Mallards Sord [1][2]
Nightingales Watch [1][2]
Owls Parliament [6]
Parrots Pandemonium [11]
Partridges Covey [1][2]
Peacocks Muster [1][6]
Pheasants Nide [6]
Pheasants Nye [1][2]
Pigeons
(flying together) Kit [1]
Plovers Congregation [1][2]
Quail Bevy [1][2]
Quail Drift [1]
Ravens Unkindness [1][2]
Rooks Building [1][2]
Rooks Parliament [1]
Snipe Walk, or wisp [1]
Sparrows Host [1][2]
Starlings Murmuration [1][2]
Swallows Flight [1]
Swans Game [1]
Swans (in flight) Wedge [1]
Teal Spring [1][2]
Turtle doves Dole/dule [2]
Woodcocks Fall [1][2]
Wrens Herd [1][2]

The collective noun for raven is pretty cool.

[TripletDaddy]

Yes it is. Check out the collective noun for gorillas. As Mitt would say, "zany!"

[Moliere]

Yes it is. Check out the collective noun for gorillas. As Mitt would say, "zany!"

A band of gorillas

[RC Vikings]

Once again I throw out some questions today in HP group and after the meeting I'm given two references to McConkie talks and one to a Packer talk. My HP group loves these two.

Our old bishop dropped a paper off at the house for me to read last night. I get so tired of the same old questions and answers that I'm trying to offer up some different ideas and I think it's got some of the old boys worried about me.

[DU Ute]

Our old bishop dropped a paper off at the house for me to read last night. I get so tired of the same old questions and answers that I'm trying to offer up some different ideas and I think it's got some of the old boys worried about me.

What was the paper?

[RC Vikings]

What was the paper?

Some old talk from Joseph F. Smith talking about the different kingdoms.

[UtahDan]

Some old talk from Joseph F. Smith talking about the different kingdoms.

I assume that it cleared things right up for you?

[TripletDaddy]

A band of gorillas

or a Whoop!

[Moliere]

Our old bishop dropped a paper off at the house for me to read last night. I get so tired of the same old questions and answers that I'm trying to offer up some different ideas and I think it's got some of the old boys worried about me.

Old bishop? Meaning not your current bishop? You should have told him he has no stewardship over you