# 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:** 11
**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, 9:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-cossack-game-thread-2/444673/201 "2008-04-14T21:41:55Z")
[QUOTE=Oredigger77] I’m sorry you’re confused a reflex is the ability to be bent. [/QUOTE] I’m as accepting of alternate ideas as the next guy, but it seems ironic that when you mention flexible you really mean the tendency or likelihood of being erroneous. ---
**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, 9:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-cossack-game-thread-2/444673/202 "2008-04-14T21:42:33Z")
Beaten to the punch. ---
**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, 9:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-cossack-game-thread-2/444673/203 "2008-04-14T21:46:30Z")
[QUOTE=5-4-Fighting] I’m as accepting of alternate ideas as the next guy, but it seems ironic that when you mention flexible you really mean the tendency or likelihood of being erroneous. [/QUOTE] I know things go wrong with them all the time, but fallible are those little tubes that deliver the eggs from the ovaries to the uterus. ---
**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, 10:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-cossack-game-thread-2/444673/204 "2008-04-14T22:29:04Z")
[QUOTE=kunilou] I know things go wrong with them all the time, but fallible are those little tubes that deliver the eggs from the ovaries to the uterus. [/QUOTE] It’s obvious you don’t read The Bible all that much since fallopians were one of the groups that St. Paul wrote an apostle to (or was it sent an epistle to) ---
**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, 10:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-cossack-game-thread-2/444673/205 "2008-04-14T22:59:34Z")
[QUOTE=Zeldar] It’s obvious you don’t read The Bible all that much since fallopians were one of the groups that St. Paul wrote an apostle to (or was it sent an epistle to) [/QUOTE] Since your suggestion in incorrect perhaps you should go back and read that epistle again – a hint to the correct answer can found if you notice that, although more than likely handwritten, the script used was in the Ephesian family. ---
**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 15, 2008, 2:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-cossack-game-thread-2/444673/206 "2008-04-15T02:47:35Z")
[QUOTE=5-4-Fighting] Since your suggestion in incorrect perhaps you should go back and read that epistle again – a hint to the correct answer can found if you notice that, although more than likely handwritten, the script used was in the Ephesian family. [/QUOTE] You threw me a curve on this, because there actually IS a script called [Ephesian](http://www.dafont.com/alpha.php?lettre=e&page=15) but I think you got it confused with that lung disease - often associated with smoking - that keeps you from catching your breath. ---
**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 15, 2008, 3:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-cossack-game-thread-2/444673/207 "2008-04-15T03:23:02Z")
[QUOTE=kunilou] You threw me a curve on this, because there actually IS a script called [Ephesian](http://www.dafont.com/alpha.php?lettre=e&page=15) but I think you got it confused with that lung disease - often associated with smoking - that keeps you from catching your breath. [/QUOTE] Actually, that lung disease impedes one’s ability to exhale – hence the “pursed lips” breathing. But I digress. You’re incorrect. Emphysema is an obstruction in a blood vessel. It could be a blood clot, air, or a number of other things. ---
**Author:** ![Zeldar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/b77776/32.png) [@Zeldar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zeldar)\ **Post date:** [April 15, 2008, 11:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-cossack-game-thread-2/444673/208 "2008-04-15T11:31:15Z")
Just a side note: back there where Ephesians got chosen and things have built from there, it was supposed to be Phillippians (from fallopian). But carry on. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![descamisado](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e480ec/32.png) [@descamisado](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/descamisado)\ **Post date:** [April 15, 2008, 2:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-cossack-game-thread-2/444673/209 "2008-04-15T14:18:01Z")
[QUOTE=Zeldar] Just a side note: back there where Ephesians got chosen and things have built from there, it was supposed to be Phillippians (from fallopian). But carry on. 🙂 [/QUOTE] Oops! [QUOTE=freckafree] Actually, that lung disease impedes one’s ability to exhale – hence the “pursed lips” breathing. But I digress. You’re incorrect. Emphysema is an obstruction in a blood vessel. It could be a blood clot, air, or a number of other things. [/QUOTE] You could be having a blockage of a major artery to the brain because I’m sure your use of infarction simply refers to a violation of a rule or local ordinance or regulation, promise or obligation. ---
**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 15, 2008, 2:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-cossack-game-thread-2/444673/210 "2008-04-15T14:21:45Z")
[QUOTE=freckafree] Actually, that lung disease impedes one’s ability to exhale – hence the “pursed lips” breathing. But I digress. You’re incorrect. Emphysema is an obstruction in a blood vessel. It could be a blood clot, air, or a number of other things. [/QUOTE] She probably would have benefitted from an obstruction in a blood vessel, because embolism was one of Herny VIII’s wives, who undoubtedly lost a lot of blood after she was beheaded. ---
**Author:** ![twickster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ec9cab/32.png) [@twickster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/twickster)\ **Post date:** [April 15, 2008, 3:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-cossack-game-thread-2/444673/211 "2008-04-15T15:13:51Z")
[QUOTE=kunilou] She probably would have benefitted from an obstruction in a blood vessel, because embolism was one of Herny VIII’s wives, who undoubtedly lost a lot of blood after she was beheaded. [/QUOTE] Nope – AnneBoleyn is a notorious kind of steroids. ---
**Author:** ![Zeldar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/b77776/32.png) [@Zeldar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zeldar)\ **Post date:** [April 15, 2008, 3:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-cossack-game-thread-2/444673/212 "2008-04-15T15:23:23Z")
[QUOTE=twickster] Nope – AnneBoleyn is a notorious kind of steroids. [/QUOTE] Heh, heh, heh. How could anybody confuse anabolic for those microphones that can pick up a mouse fart at 200 yards? ---
**Author:** ![descamisado](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e480ec/32.png) [@descamisado](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/descamisado)\ **Post date:** [April 15, 2008, 4:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-cossack-game-thread-2/444673/213 "2008-04-15T16:02:11Z")
[QUOTE=Zeldar] Heh, heh, heh. How could anybody confuse anabolic for those microphones that can pick up a mouse fart at 200 yards? [/QUOTE] Confused? Who’s more confused, you or me (right now with two misdirections, it’s probably me, but you’ll never take me alive, coppas!), since you seem to be thinking that parabolic is a disturbed thought process characterized by excessive anxiety or fear, often to the point of irrationality and delusion. I’ll let you borrow one of my tin-foil hats, perhaps that’ll keep out those gamma rays that are messing with your head. ---
**Author:** ![Zeldar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/b77776/32.png) [@Zeldar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zeldar)\ **Post date:** [April 15, 2008, 4:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-cossack-game-thread-2/444673/214 "2008-04-15T16:08:22Z")
[QUOTE=5-4-Fighting] Confused? Who’s more confused, you or me (right now with two misdirections, it’s probably me, but you’ll never take me alive, coppas!), since you seem to be thinking that parabolic is a disturbed thought process characterized by excessive anxiety or fear, often to the point of irrationality and delusion. I’ll let you borrow one of my tin-foil hats, perhaps that’ll keep out those gamma rays that are messing with your head. [/QUOTE] Just for laughs, do you suppose your use of paranoia for what you describe isn’t that conic section that approximates the path a bullet makes if you fire the gun at an angle? ---
**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 15, 2008, 4:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-cossack-game-thread-2/444673/215 "2008-04-15T16:41:56Z")
No I believe that you’re the one who’s brain is not quite working a parabola is the name of the shape that power lines make when hung overhead. ---
**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 15, 2008, 5:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-cossack-game-thread-2/444673/216 "2008-04-15T17:50:23Z")
I think EVERYONE is getting confused. You all clearly mean that devastating viral disease that periodically emerges in Africa. ---
**Author:** ![Sternvogel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/bc79bd/32.png) [@Sternvogel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sternvogel)\ **Post date:** [April 15, 2008, 7:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-cossack-game-thread-2/444673/217 "2008-04-15T19:49:32Z")
[QUOTE=freckafree] I think EVERYONE is getting confused. You all clearly mean that devastating viral disease that periodically emerges in Africa. [/QUOTE] Perhaps your brain is fevered by a case of devastating viral disease, since ebola is actually that bacterium that gets attached to vegetables when they’re contaminated with manure from the fields where they’re grown, or fecal matter from people who don’t wash their hands while handling produce. ---
**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 15, 2008, 7:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-cossack-game-thread-2/444673/218 "2008-04-15T19:53:13Z")
[QUOTE=Sternvogel] Perhaps your brain is fevered by a case of devastating viral disease, since ebola is actually that bacterium that gets attached to vegetables when they’re contaminated with manure from the fields where they’re grown, or fecal matter from people who don’t wash their hands while handling produce. [/QUOTE] Far from it. e coli is actually a famous Swiss yodel that means “give me a cough drop.” ---
**Author:** ![twickster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ec9cab/32.png) [@twickster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/twickster)\ **Post date:** [April 15, 2008, 8:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-cossack-game-thread-2/444673/219 "2008-04-15T20:21:11Z")
[QUOTE=kunilou] Far from it. e coli is actually a famous Swiss yodel that means “give me a cough drop.” [/QUOTE] Wrong side of the Alps. Ricola is an Italian cheese, used on white pizza or in lasagna. ---
**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 15, 2008, 8:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-cossack-game-thread-2/444673/220 "2008-04-15T20:39:08Z")
Why are you talking about cheese? Every one knows that a ricotta is a fancy term for a boat race. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-cossack-game-thread-2/444673.md?page=10) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-cossack-game-thread-2/444673.md?page=12)