Mighty Life List
Apr 3 2007

Saturday Market

A dozen beautiful teenage girls walk by in their most studied casual wear. They’re bound for an afternoon of posing at the open-air market, and they laugh too loudly as they pass. “A gaggle,” I say. Bryan turns to look, “I think that’s technically a murder.”

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21 Responses to “Saturday Market”

  • slouching mom Says:

    I’ll bet you guys like Will Shortz’s word puzzle on NPR every Sunday morning. Am I right? Tell the truth!

  • bob Says:

    would it be mean to call it a pod?

  • braine Says:

    It’s a sloop.

  • Bryan Mason Says:

    I love the puzzle, but my heart is really with “Wait, Wait Don’t Tell Me.” (This American Life goes without saying)

  • megan Says:

    love the murder, just plain love it.

  • sparkle Says:

    were they still in the ‘meep’ stage, where they go around, “meep, meep, meep, meep, meep.”

    if so, then it was a smurf of meeps.

  • Mariam Says:

    I can’t wait to see “Wait, Wait Don’t Tell Me” filmed live here in Chicago.

  • Carrie Says:

    So, he was calling the beautiful girls crows? Not that calling them geese is much better…. ;-)

  • Evan Says:

    A Clutch…wouldn’t they be a clutch? Or were they too young for that…

  • aimee/greeblemonkey Says:

    That’s perfect! Because I am not sure who I would want to kill more! The girls, or me. ;)

  • Kate C. Says:

    It’s a bevy of girls and a gaggle of boys.

    I am with Bryan Mason- Wait wait steals my heart. I use TAL as a “oops, don’t feel like teaching” tool. So I love it, too.

  • TSM Says:

    You are all out of my league. As usual.

  • Brice Says:

    Bravo & well done! A murder it is then.

  • etherdust Says:

    See, now I’ve always thought of it as a giddy of girls — whether teenage or school. When they get old enough to retire they’re either a knit or a murder.

    For boys it’s a diamond or a wheel, but I’m kind of soft on those.

  • BOSSY Says:

    Bossy never realized how annoying women are until she owned a flock of hens. Bossy has this to say: every chicken-related expression you’ve ever heard is true, including ‘hen-pecked’ and … wait, was there another?

  • Jeanne Says:

    If they’re teenage girls, I think the techinical term would be an “insanity” of girls.

  • Jena Says:

    I think a “murder” is correct, it’s what comes to mind when you see the trixies go by anyway. At least around here (Chicago, downtown).

  • Nora Says:

    In our house we call them a ‘giggle’ or a ‘cringe.’ (This was subject to extensive debate some years back).

  • Jen Says:

    Sigh. I’m for murder. I’ve got a couple of pre-teen girls on my hands, and it seems an appropriate label.

  • Eugene Chan Says:

    I think it is a giggle.

  • shuna fish lydon Says:

    words are so wondrous!
    especially when strung together for quirky meanings and kooky musings!