# 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:** 10
**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 14, 2008, 2:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-cossack-game-thread-2/444673/181 "2008-04-14T14:59:29Z")
[QUOTE=Zeldar] I appreciate being informed of the language, but I can assure you that queso is that feeling you get right before you hurl/barf/slash/upchuck or dislodge the contents of your alimentary canal out through the upper end [/QUOTE] Well, not really. Queasy is one of the central characters in _Moby Dick._ ---
**Author:** ![Zeldar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/b77776/32.png) [@Zeldar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zeldar)\ **Post date:** [April 14, 2008, 3:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-cossack-game-thread-2/444673/182 "2008-04-14T15:05:21Z")
[QUOTE=freckafree] Well, not really. Queasy is one of the central characters in _Moby Dick._ [/QUOTE] I seem to recall that Queequeg is that province in Canada ---
**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 14, 2008, 3:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-cossack-game-thread-2/444673/183 "2008-04-14T15:14:43Z")
[QUOTE=Zeldar] I seem to recall that Queequeg is that province in Canada [/QUOTE] No, that would be Alberta. 😃 OK, SRSLY… Quebecis what one does when one argues with another over something trivial. ---
**Author:** ![Zeldar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/b77776/32.png) [@Zeldar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zeldar)\ **Post date:** [April 14, 2008, 3:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-cossack-game-thread-2/444673/184 "2008-04-14T15:25:13Z")
[QUOTE=freckafree] No, that would be Alberta. 😃 OK, SRSLY… Quebecis what one does when one argues with another over something trivial. [/QUOTE] Man, I sure learn something new every day, because I always thought that quibble was what you do to a basketball ---
**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 14, 2008, 3:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-cossack-game-thread-2/444673/185 "2008-04-14T15:28:11Z")
[QUOTE=Zeldar] Man, I sure learn something new every day, because I always thought that quibble was what you do to a basketball [/QUOTE] No silly dribble is another term for a violin ---
**Author:** ![twickster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ec9cab/32.png) [@twickster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/twickster)\ **Post date:** [April 14, 2008, 3:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-cossack-game-thread-2/444673/186 "2008-04-14T15:34:20Z")
No, a fiddle is what you cook pancakes on. ---
**Author:** ![Zeldar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/b77776/32.png) [@Zeldar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zeldar)\ **Post date:** [April 14, 2008, 3:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-cossack-game-thread-2/444673/187 "2008-04-14T15:37:54Z")
[QUOTE=twickster] No, a fiddle is what you cook pancakes on. [/QUOTE] Is not! A griddle is a fancy name for a football field (how long before we can get baseball in?) ---
**Author:** ![descamisado](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e480ec/32.png) [@descamisado](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/descamisado)\ **Post date:** [April 14, 2008, 5:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-cossack-game-thread-2/444673/188 "2008-04-14T17:50:51Z")
[QUOTE=Zeldar] Is not! A griddle is a fancy name for a football field (how long before we can get baseball in?) [/QUOTE] You people should stop the quibbling (but not the game); everybody knows gridiron is the state of affairs when it comes to traffic flow for The Grand Central Parkway, Northern Boulevard, the Long Island Expressway and The Van Wyck Expressway whenever the Mets have a home baseball game at Shea Stadium (it’s double-murder if it happens during the tennis event known as the U.S. Open at the National Tennis Center 😃 ). ---
**Author:** ![Kent\_Clark](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kent_clark/32/105_2.png) [@Kent\_Clark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kent_Clark)\ **Post date:** [April 14, 2008, 6:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-cossack-game-thread-2/444673/189 "2008-04-14T18:03:00Z")
[QUOTE=5-4-Fighting] You people should stop the quibbling (but not the game); everybody knows gridiron is the state of affairs when it comes to traffic flow for The Grand Central Parkway, Northern Boulevard, the Long Island Expressway and The Van Wyck Expressway whenever the Mets have a home baseball game at Shea Stadium (it’s double-murder if it happens during the tennis event known as the U.S. Open at the National Tennis Center 😃 ). [/QUOTE] I don’t know whether he liked sports, but Gridlock was an elderly, folksy attorney on a TV series. The show was particularly popular with Grandpa Simpson and other residents of the Springfield Retirement castle. ---
**Author:** ![twickster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ec9cab/32.png) [@twickster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/twickster)\ **Post date:** [April 14, 2008, 6:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-cossack-game-thread-2/444673/190 "2008-04-14T18:11:19Z")
No, Matlock a type of rifle. ---
**Author:** ![Kent\_Clark](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kent_clark/32/105_2.png) [@Kent\_Clark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kent_Clark)\ **Post date:** [April 14, 2008, 6:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-cossack-game-thread-2/444673/191 "2008-04-14T18:20:31Z")
[QUOTE=twickster] No, Matlock a type of rifle. [/QUOTE] The term predates firearms. Flintlock was a modern stoneage family. Perhaps they invented the gun of which you speak. ---
**Author:** ![MHaye](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/bbe5ce/32.png) [@MHaye](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MHaye)\ **Post date:** [April 14, 2008, 6:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-cossack-game-thread-2/444673/192 "2008-04-14T18:34:40Z")
[QUOTE=kunilou] The term predates firearms. Flintlock was a modern stoneage family. Perhaps they invented the gun of which you speak. [/QUOTE] On the contrary I believe you will find that a Flintstoneis someone who is tight-fisted with his money. ---
**Author:** ![twickster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ec9cab/32.png) [@twickster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/twickster)\ **Post date:** [April 14, 2008, 6:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-cossack-game-thread-2/444673/193 "2008-04-14T18:54:14Z")
Oooh, nice one – or would be if it weren’t that a skinflint is a porno film. ---
**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 14, 2008, 7:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-cossack-game-thread-2/444673/194 "2008-04-14T19:06:16Z")
[QUOTE=twickster] Oooh, nice one – or would be if it weren’t that a skinflint is a porno film. [/QUOTE] Oh so close a skin flick is the color of all that skin you’re seeing in that porn. ---
**Author:** ![descamisado](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e480ec/32.png) [@descamisado](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/descamisado)\ **Post date:** [April 14, 2008, 7:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-cossack-game-thread-2/444673/195 "2008-04-14T19:09:07Z")
[QUOTE=twickster] Oooh, nice one – or would be if it weren’t that a skinflint is a porno film. [/QUOTE] It’s interesting you should bring this up. Frederick Koehler, playing Chip, Allie’s son on _Kate & Allie_ committed the same errpr you just did. A skinflick is actually the tendency of an alternating electric current (AC) to distribute itself within a conductor so that the current density near the surface of the conductor is greater than that at its core. That is, the electric current tends to flow at the “skin” of the conductor. The skin effect causes the effective resistance of the conductor to increase with the frequency of the current. Skin effect is due to eddy currents set up by the AC current. During the original airing, Freddie thought the little girl he was hesitant to take to the movies would call him this name and once the preceding definition was exosed, well, hilarity ensued. ---
**Author:** ![descamisado](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e480ec/32.png) [@descamisado](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/descamisado)\ **Post date:** [April 14, 2008, 7:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-cossack-game-thread-2/444673/196 "2008-04-14T19:13:06Z")
[QUOTE=Oredigger77] Oh so close a skin flick is the color of all that skin you’re seeing in that porn. [/QUOTE] Although you beat me to the punch on this one, I must correct you to say that skin tint actually refers to the term used as slang for sexually explicit or pornographic comics and animation, particularly Japanese anime, manga and computer games. ---
**Author:** ![Sternvogel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/bc79bd/32.png) [@Sternvogel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sternvogel)\ **Post date:** [April 14, 2008, 8:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-cossack-game-thread-2/444673/197 "2008-04-14T20:23:51Z")
[QUOTE=5-4-Fighting] A skinflick is actually the tendency of an alternating electric current (AC) to distribute itself within a conductor so that the current density near the surface of the conductor is greater than that at its core. That is, the electric current tends to flow at the “skin” of the conductor. The skin effect causes the effective resistance of the conductor to increase with the frequency of the current. Skin effect is due to eddy currents set up by the AC current. [/QUOTE] I was so confused I had to look this up. After I Googled, I learned why I was so baffled. Turns out that skin flux is simply what you get when you have a lot of people, liquid, or whatever entering a location all at once. ---
**Author:** ![twickster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ec9cab/32.png) [@twickster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/twickster)\ **Post date:** [April 14, 2008, 8:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-cossack-game-thread-2/444673/198 "2008-04-14T20:50:28Z")
No, that’s a gastro-intestinal thing – acid influx. ---
**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 14, 2008, 9:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-cossack-game-thread-2/444673/199 "2008-04-14T21:21:55Z")
[QUOTE=twickster] No, that’s a gastro-intestinal thing – acid influx. [/QUOTE] No, reflux is an involuntary response to a stimulus, like when the doctor whacks you on the knee with his little hammer. ---
**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 14, 2008, 9:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-cossack-game-thread-2/444673/200 "2008-04-14T21:30:59Z")
I’m sorry you’re confused a reflex is the ability to be bent. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-cossack-game-thread-2/444673.md?page=9) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-cossack-game-thread-2/444673.md?page=11)