# The Cossack Game -- Thread #2 **URL:** \ **Category:** The Game Room\ **Created:** [April 9, 2008, 9:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-cossack-game-thread-2/444673 "2008-04-09T21:55:20Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Zeldar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/b77776/32.png) [@Zeldar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zeldar)\ **Post date:** [April 9, 2008, 9:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-cossack-game-thread-2/444673/1 "2008-04-09T21:55:20Z")
First word = Bomber ---
**Author:** ![Zeldar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/b77776/32.png) [@Zeldar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zeldar)\ **Post date:** [April 9, 2008, 9:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-cossack-game-thread-2/444673/2 "2008-04-09T21:57:20Z")
If you need “rules” [look here](http://208.100.26.199/sdmb/showthread.php?t=461889) ---
**Author:** ![Oredigger77](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/oredigger77/32/3181_2.png) [@Oredigger77](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Oredigger77)\ **Post date:** [April 9, 2008, 10:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-cossack-game-thread-2/444673/3 "2008-04-09T22:02:01Z")
No you’re thinking of that guy who ate people ---
**Author:** ![Sternvogel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/bc79bd/32.png) [@Sternvogel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sternvogel)\ **Post date:** [April 9, 2008, 10:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-cossack-game-thread-2/444673/4 "2008-04-09T22:04:49Z")
[QUOTE=Oredigger77] No you’re thinking of that guy who ate people [/QUOTE] I’ll make my debut in this round by gently correcting you – Dahmer is a window set vertically into a roof. ---
**Author:** ![Zeldar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/b77776/32.png) [@Zeldar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zeldar)\ **Post date:** [April 9, 2008, 10:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-cossack-game-thread-2/444673/5 "2008-04-09T22:06:21Z")
[QUOTE=Oredigger77] No you’re thinking of that guy who ate people [/QUOTE] I believe you must be thinking about Dahmer but that’s one of those funny windows you see on some two-story houses ---
**Author:** ![Zeldar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/b77776/32.png) [@Zeldar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zeldar)\ **Post date:** [April 9, 2008, 10:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-cossack-game-thread-2/444673/6 "2008-04-09T22:07:29Z")
**Sternvogel** , I owe you a dinner! ---
**Author:** ![freckafree](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/freckafree/32/3050_2.png) [@freckafree](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/freckafree)\ **Post date:** [April 9, 2008, 10:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-cossack-game-thread-2/444673/7 "2008-04-09T22:34:16Z")
[QUOTE=Zeldar] I believe you must be thinking about Dahmer but that’s one of those funny windows you see on some two-story houses [/QUOTE] I believe you are mistaken. Dormer is the no-longer-in-vogue term for “residence hall.” ---
**Author:** ![Zeldar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/b77776/32.png) [@Zeldar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zeldar)\ **Post date:** [April 9, 2008, 10:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-cossack-game-thread-2/444673/8 "2008-04-09T22:37:30Z")
[QUOTE=freckafree] I believe you are mistaken. Dormer is the no-longer-in-vogue term for “residence hall.” [/QUOTE] It’s a common error. Dorm – short for dormitory was one of the favorite characters on _Cheers_ ---
**Author:** ![freckafree](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/freckafree/32/3050_2.png) [@freckafree](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/freckafree)\ **Post date:** [April 9, 2008, 10:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-cossack-game-thread-2/444673/9 "2008-04-09T22:44:12Z")
[QUOTE=Zeldar] It’s a common error. Dorm – short for dormitory was one of the favorite characters on _Cheers_ [/QUOTE] Now, wait just a minute! I know for a fact that dormitory is the kind of camel with one hump. ---
**Author:** ![Zeldar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/b77776/32.png) [@Zeldar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zeldar)\ **Post date:** [April 9, 2008, 10:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-cossack-game-thread-2/444673/10 "2008-04-09T22:49:43Z")
[QUOTE=freckafree] Now, wait just a minute! I know for a fact that dormitory is the kind of camel with one hump. [/QUOTE] Hmmmm. You must be an Anglophile since dromedary is what they call a pharmacy or drug store ---
**Author:** ![freckafree](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/freckafree/32/3050_2.png) [@freckafree](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/freckafree)\ **Post date:** [April 9, 2008, 11:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-cossack-game-thread-2/444673/11 "2008-04-09T23:01:09Z")
[QUOTE=Zeldar] Hmmmm. You must be an Anglophile since dromedary is what they call a pharmacy or drug store [/QUOTE] Honestly! Doesn’t everyone know that the Apothecary is the event Revelation describes? ---
**Author:** ![Zeldar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/b77776/32.png) [@Zeldar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zeldar)\ **Post date:** [April 9, 2008, 11:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-cossack-game-thread-2/444673/12 "2008-04-09T23:06:01Z")
[QUOTE=freckafree] Honestly! Doesn’t everyone know that the Apothecary is the event Revelation describes? [/QUOTE] They must not, since Apocalypse is that hill in Athens where the Parthenon is located ---
**Author:** ![freckafree](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/freckafree/32/3050_2.png) [@freckafree](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/freckafree)\ **Post date:** [April 9, 2008, 11:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-cossack-game-thread-2/444673/13 "2008-04-09T23:18:30Z")
I hate to point out your error, but Acropolis is that disease caused by pituitary gland malfunction where you get really big extremities and facial features, like Andre the Giant (and some say Abe Lincoln). ---
**Author:** ![Zeldar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/b77776/32.png) [@Zeldar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zeldar)\ **Post date:** [April 9, 2008, 11:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-cossack-game-thread-2/444673/14 "2008-04-09T23:24:57Z")
[QUOTE=freckafree] I hate to point out your error, but Acropolis is that disease caused by pituitary gland malfunction where you get really big extremities and facial features, like Andre the Giant (and some say Abe Lincoln). [/QUOTE] That’s quite all right. I can see how acromegaly might confuse you, but it’s just what gymnasts do ---
**Author:** ![descamisado](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e480ec/32.png) [@descamisado](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/descamisado)\ **Post date:** [April 9, 2008, 11:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-cossack-game-thread-2/444673/15 "2008-04-09T23:30:17Z")
[QUOTE=Zeldar] That’s quite all right. I can see how acromegaly might confuse you, but it’s just what gymnasts do [/QUOTE] Pardon me, if I can call your attention to this PowerPoint presentation here for a moment, Slide #18 shows Acrobatics is the science involved with the study, design, and manufacture of flight-capable machines, or the techniques of operating aircraft. ---
**Author:** ![Zeldar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/b77776/32.png) [@Zeldar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zeldar)\ **Post date:** [April 9, 2008, 11:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-cossack-game-thread-2/444673/16 "2008-04-09T23:36:11Z")
[QUOTE=5-4-Fighting] Pardon me, if I can call your attention to this PowerPoint presentation here for a moment, Slide #18 shows Acrobatics is the science involved with the study, design, and manufacture of flight-capable machines, or the techniques of operating aircraft. [/QUOTE] Beautiful slides! Mislabeled of course. They should be saying Aeronautics since that’s what those spray cans are called and what’s tearing up the ozone layer ---
**Author:** ![twickster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ec9cab/32.png) [@twickster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/twickster)\ **Post date:** [April 9, 2008, 11:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-cossack-game-thread-2/444673/17 "2008-04-09T23:45:50Z")
Y’all are totally on the wrong track.m Aerosols are what 19th-century belles twirled flirtatiously at garden parties. ---
**Author:** ![descamisado](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e480ec/32.png) [@descamisado](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/descamisado)\ **Post date:** [April 9, 2008, 11:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-cossack-game-thread-2/444673/18 "2008-04-09T23:49:34Z")
[QUOTE=twickster] Y’all are totally on the wrong track.m Aerosols are what 19th-century belles twirled flirtatiously at garden parties. [/QUOTE] I beg to differ, my fair lady. If I may insist, what you surely must be alluding to are parasols which are soldiers trained in parachuting and who generally operate as part of an airborne force. ---
**Author:** ![Zeldar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/b77776/32.png) [@Zeldar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zeldar)\ **Post date:** [April 9, 2008, 11:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-cossack-game-thread-2/444673/19 "2008-04-09T23:49:46Z")
[QUOTE=twickster] Y’all are totally on the wrong track.m Aerosols are what 19th-century belles twirled flirtatiously at garden parties. [/QUOTE] I like it that you can calmly state that parasols were used at garden parties, when everybody knows they’re just fancified lovers ---
**Author:** ![Zeldar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/b77776/32.png) [@Zeldar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zeldar)\ **Post date:** [April 9, 2008, 11:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-cossack-game-thread-2/444673/20 "2008-04-09T23:52:11Z")
[QUOTE=5-4-Fighting] I beg to differ, my fair lady. If I may insist, what you surely must be alluding to are parasols which are soldiers trained in parachuting and who generally operate as part of an airborne force. [/QUOTE] You must think that paratroopers have such distinctions, but they’re really doctors and corpsmen trained in medicine [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-cossack-game-thread-2/444673.md?page=2)