Feeling Owly

 Before we actually get to the topic today let's sidetrack for a moment...so feeling owly means being grumpy but it's unknown how it came to mean that. Best guesses are owls look grumpy though I've always thought they looked wise which brings us to the real topic. A group of owls is called a parliament which I figured had to do with the wisdom thing but actually comes from literature. In the 14th century Chaucer wrote a poem, "A Parliament of Fowls" then C.S. Lewis used the phrase in "The Silver Chair" (of the Narnia series) where the birds form a parliament to advise the protagonists. People begin using it to describe a group of owls and by 1968 it was included in the OED. I didn't see that one coming.