You have a herd of cattle and a herd of horses (though that didn't sound quite right), but (thank you, James Lipton, for your Exaltation of Larks, a lovely book of collective nouns), you have a string of ponies. I've also heard of a pack of wild horses and a stud of mares.
But what would you call a group of mustangs?
Easy! A sally of mustangs!
ds
The newest track on my iPod is "This Can't Be Love (Finale Act II)"--
the end of the Shakespeare-inspired musical _The Boys from Syracuse_.
The three least recently played tracks follow:
The Lonesome River Bob Dylan Oxford American Southern Music CD#5
2/21/04 7:04 AM
We Built This City Starship 2/3/05 3:36 PM
Begin the Begin R.E.M. Life's Rich Pageant 2/3/05 4:00 PM
I'm a little embarrassed that that middle track is on there at all,
but at least I haven't listened to it in over three years. But what
would account for the year-long (nearly) gap between that and the
Dylan number? I've listened to every track on my iPod at least once
since Groundhog's day, 2005 . . . except for that one song. It can't
be THAT bad. After all, it's Bob Dylan!
Off to investigate,
ds
