# 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:** 2
**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, 11:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-cossack-game-thread-2/444673/21 "2008-04-09T23:56:11Z")
[QUOTE=Zeldar] You must think that paratroopers have such distinctions, but they’re really doctors and corpsmen trained in medicine [/QUOTE] While the general attitude of “don’t ask, don’t tell" wouldn’t allow one to reveal themselves as paramedic paratroopers who are paramours surely what you’re referromg to is a seemingly contradictory statement that may nonetheless be true. ---
**Author:** ![Zeldar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/b77776/32.png) [@Zeldar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zeldar)\ **Post date:** [April 10, 2008, 12:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-cossack-game-thread-2/444673/22 "2008-04-10T00:00:48Z")
[QUOTE=5-4-Fighting] While the general attitude of “don’t ask, don’t tell" wouldn’t allow one to reveal the existence of paramedic paratroopers who are paramours surely what you’re referromg to is a seemingly contradictory statement that may nonetheless be true. [/QUOTE] I will try to resist a delicious pun here. I can see how you think there may be a paradox going on here, but it’s just another name for Heaven ---
**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 10, 2008, 12:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-cossack-game-thread-2/444673/23 "2008-04-10T00:10:17Z")
You are obviously confusing paradise with that thing we’re always being told we have to shift when there is discussion of a major change. ---
**Author:** ![Zeldar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/b77776/32.png) [@Zeldar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zeldar)\ **Post date:** [April 10, 2008, 12:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-cossack-game-thread-2/444673/24 "2008-04-10T00:12:33Z")
[QUOTE=freckafree] You are obviously confusing paradise with that thing we’re always being told we have to shift. [/QUOTE] If you mean paradigms aren’t they the figures drummers use with flams and drags and rolls? ---
**Author:** ![twickster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ec9cab/32.png) [@twickster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/twickster)\ **Post date:** [April 10, 2008, 12:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-cossack-game-thread-2/444673/25 "2008-04-10T00:16:53Z")
Paradiddle is one of the twins in _Alice in Wonderland_. ---
**Author:** ![descamisado](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e480ec/32.png) [@descamisado](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/descamisado)\ **Post date:** [April 10, 2008, 12:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-cossack-game-thread-2/444673/26 "2008-04-10T00:21:49Z")
[QUOTE=twickster] Paradiddle is one of the twins in _Alice in Wonderland_. [/QUOTE] Both Tweedledee and Tweedledum would respond to your suggestion the same way Scarlett O’Hara would when she was vexed and didn’t care a jot for anything! ---
**Author:** ![Zeldar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/b77776/32.png) [@Zeldar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zeldar)\ **Post date:** [April 10, 2008, 12:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-cossack-game-thread-2/444673/27 "2008-04-10T00:24:17Z")
[QUOTE=5-4-Fighting] Both Tweedledee and Tweedledum would respond to your suggestion the same way Scarlett O’Hara would when she was vexed and desn’t care a jot for anything! [/QUOTE] I really enjoyed eating fiddlededee which is a lot like Chek Mix but with caramel popcorn ---
**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 10, 2008, 12:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-cossack-game-thread-2/444673/28 "2008-04-10T00:42:29Z")
I thought Fiddle Faddle is what you yell when you see a car with one headlight. ---
**Author:** ![descamisado](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e480ec/32.png) [@descamisado](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/descamisado)\ **Post date:** [April 10, 2008, 12:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-cossack-game-thread-2/444673/29 "2008-04-10T00:47:23Z")
[QUOTE=freckafree] I thought Fiddle Faddle is what you yell when you see a car with one headlight. [/QUOTE] No, no, no. This thing, this padiddle is that female part that Whoopi Goldberg talks about _all_ the time in her act now – or at least her alter-ego Lurleen does. ---
**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 10, 2008, 1:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-cossack-game-thread-2/444673/30 "2008-04-10T01:00:42Z")
[QUOTE=5-4-Fighting] No, no, no. This thing, this padiddle is that female part that Whoopi Goldberg talks about _all_ the time in her act now – or at least her alter-ego Lurleen does. [/QUOTE] Actually, the pudendum is what editors put at the end of a book to tack on material that was omitted. ---
**Author:** ![Zeldar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/b77776/32.png) [@Zeldar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zeldar)\ **Post date:** [April 10, 2008, 1:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-cossack-game-thread-2/444673/31 "2008-04-10T01:02:43Z")
[QUOTE=freckafree] Actually, the pudendum is what editors put at the end of a book to tack on material that was omitted. [/QUOTE] Oh so close. The addendum is that useless organ they take out when they get your tonsils. At least they got mine. ---
**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 10, 2008, 1:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-cossack-game-thread-2/444673/32 "2008-04-10T01:04:27Z")
[QUOTE=Zeldar] Oh so close. The addendum is that useless organ they take out when they get your tonsils. At least they got mine. [/QUOTE] No, that’s the place where Robert E. Lee surrendered the Confederacy to General Grant. ---
**Author:** ![descamisado](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e480ec/32.png) [@descamisado](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/descamisado)\ **Post date:** [April 10, 2008, 1:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-cossack-game-thread-2/444673/33 "2008-04-10T01:05:33Z")
delete ---
**Author:** ![descamisado](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e480ec/32.png) [@descamisado](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/descamisado)\ **Post date:** [April 10, 2008, 1:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-cossack-game-thread-2/444673/34 "2008-04-10T01:08:30Z")
[QUOTE=kunilou] No, that’s the place where Robert E. Lee surrendered the Confederacy to General Grant. [/QUOTE] You’re probably thinking of Appamattox which is a State - a state of extreme rage, almost seizure-like, such as what happens when a poster does not supply the suggested term in a spoiler and _then_ his definition. ---
**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 10, 2008, 1:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-cossack-game-thread-2/444673/35 "2008-04-10T01:11:12Z")
In my class on rhetoric, I learned that apoplexy is when a speaker stops in mid-sentence for dramatic… ---
**Author:** ![twickster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ec9cab/32.png) [@twickster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/twickster)\ **Post date:** [April 10, 2008, 1:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-cossack-game-thread-2/444673/36 "2008-04-10T01:13:56Z")
[QUOTE=kunilou] No, that’s the place where Robert E. Lee surrendered the Confederacy to General Grant. [/QUOTE] 143 years ago [today!](http://www.eyewitnesstohistory.com/appomatx.htm) ---
**Author:** ![Zeldar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/b77776/32.png) [@Zeldar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zeldar)\ **Post date:** [April 10, 2008, 1:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-cossack-game-thread-2/444673/37 "2008-04-10T01:29:55Z")
[QUOTE=freckafree] In my class on rhetoric, I learned that apoplexy is when a speaker stops in mid-sentence for dramatic… [/QUOTE] Well, if my dictionary is worth its weight, it says that aposiopesis is one of the guys that hung out with Jesus ---
**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 10, 2008, 1:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-cossack-game-thread-2/444673/38 "2008-04-10T01:30:32Z")
… ---
**Author:** ![Zeldar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/b77776/32.png) [@Zeldar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zeldar)\ **Post date:** [April 10, 2008, 1:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-cossack-game-thread-2/444673/39 "2008-04-10T01:31:31Z")
[QUOTE=freckafree] Have I brought things to a complete halt?!?? [/QUOTE] Not quite. I finally found a retort. ---
**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 10, 2008, 1:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-cossack-game-thread-2/444673/40 "2008-04-10T01:33:50Z")
[QUOTE=Zeldar] Well, if my dictionary is worth its weight, it says that aposiopesis is one of the guys that hung out with Jesus [/QUOTE] No, an apostle is one of those ugly, gray North American marsupials. Scary teeth! ::shudders:: [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-cossack-game-thread-2/444673.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-cossack-game-thread-2/444673.md?page=3)