A Venery of Noun Collectives
For February 22: Day 53 of the Story-a-Day Challenge

I revel in terms of venery--venereal terms--which in sex means contracted disease--but in nature means "nouns of assembly." As such, I relate to poetic vibes, like a herd of fauna, a bush of flora, or a buffoonery of clowns.
My bible, the 1486 Boke of Seynt Albans, first popularized terms of venery. I consider its wisdom a lobe of cognition.
As such, one of a bevy of beautiful days, I walked on a warmth of sunshine, under a gauze of cottony clouds in a beaucoup of bluesy sky. I passed a silence of the mimes, dodging the flak of dollops from a mess of birds, piercing the flatulate of broke winds, augmented by a choke of smokers.
I recognized the chittering of chirps--not so much song as just a goof of happiness from a charm of hummingbirds, elusive as a cauldron of bats but common as a dazzle of assininity.
My God! I was smack in the middle of a party rally, i.e., a shitload of politics.
Having earlier ticked my uhaul of boxes (murder of crows, parliament of owls, exaltation of larks, and gaggle of geese), I plowed through a squalor of people, grouping them (not groping them) venereally, i.e., noun-collecting.
I recorded observations in a frenzy of St. Albans-like enthusiasm.
At the rally, the first thing I cataloged was a pudge of obese people, a venery term invoking both a pod of whales and fudge (that pudges often pack). A skool of skanks cheered.
From loudspeakers I was assaulted by a dump of demagoguery from a megaphony of loudmouths. Disillusioned, I left the rally, stepping over a souse of drunk conventioneers. At the corner I had to wait for a contrary of "no-right-turn" right-turn turners, driving as a priviligata of imbecilia, in luxury cars.
Impatient, I walked against the light and, like a hole, was quickly surrounded by a donut of cops. Worse, I was humiliated by a laughing maroon of morons acting like a dip of shits.
Even though I hired representation from a letch of lawyers and got off, I still have to do a waste of community hours, supervised by a tomfoolery of harry-dicks, being the gape of assholes they are!
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Gerard DiLeo
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Comments (5)
Hillarious- loved this and had no idea how many collective nouns there are!
hahahaha. Omg, that was great. Well done, indeed.
Omggggg the way I started laughing from your cover pic caption all the way to the ending of your story! 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣 My favourites were pudge of obese people, skool of skanks, donut of cops, dip of shits and maroon of morons! Hahahahahahahaha
Hilarious! And that picture! And the caption! Absolutely hilarious!!!
Some wonderful words in there