The adventure of collective nouns …

… Playing the Venereal Game | George Weigel | First Things. (Hat tip, Dave Lull.)

The book’s title, an “exaltation of larks,” may be as good as the venereal game gets. But let’s not leave the animal kingdom without noting the appositeness of a “pod of seals,” a “murder of crows,” a “rafter of turkeys,” a “skulk of foxes,” a “colony of penguins,” a “parliament of owls,” an “ostentation of peacocks,” and a “bouquet of pheasants.”