A Catch of Collective Nouns

Ever heard of a group of crows being referred to as a "murder of crows" or a bunch of bananas referred to as a "hand of bananas"?

Nope, me neither, until I looked more closely at a catch of collective nouns in English called terms of venery.

Terms of venery, a subset of collective nouns that are object specific, were originally used by hunters to distinguish themselves from the more common folks. Although initially only a few of the words were intended describe groups (the others described characteristics), history is like a game of telephone and now all of the terms are regarded as collective nouns. In this day and age, writers have taken up the torch to invent more terms of venery, often of a humorous nature, so it is not surprising that the words we have for some things are rather bizarre and tongue-in-cheek.

I've hand-picked a list for your amusement and highlighted a few I thought interesting:

Getting corporate and political:
* bank of swans
* business of ferrets
* coalition of cheetahs
* corp of giraffes
* company of parrots
* congress of baboons
* conspiracy of ravens
* parliament of owls
* posse of police

Getting very discriptive:
* abomination of clergy
* ambush of widows
* bloat of hippopotami
* blush of boys
* clashing of economists
* circus of puffins
* converting of preachers
* destruction of cats (feral)
* disguising of tailors
* embarrassment of riches
* equivocation of politicians
* fidget of altar boys
* flap of nuns
* giggle of girls
* illusion of painters
* implausibility of gnus
* murder of crows
* muscle of marines
* mutation of thrush
* neverthriving of jugglers
* obstinacy of buffaloes
* ponder of philosophers
* poverty of pipers
* shrewdness of apes
* shuffle of bureaucrats
* skulk of friars
* threatening of courtiers

What?
* badelynge of ducks (on the ground)
* bale of turtles
* barren of mules
* bob of seals
* bury of rabbits
* caste of flower-pots
* clowder of cats
* confab of doctors
* confraternity of smokers
* cornucopia of slugs
* descent of relatives
* draught of butlers
* earth of foxes
* fall of lambs
* fun of fish
* generation of vipers
* hand of bananas
* heard of harlots
* machination of monkeys
* multiply of husbands
* mute of hounds
* rhumba of rattlesnakes
* sleuth of bears
* unkindness of ravens
* wolfpack of submarines
* zeal of zebras