# 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:** 5
**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 11, 2008, 6:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-cossack-game-thread-2/444673/81 "2008-04-11T18:46:00Z")
[QUOTE=5-4-Fighting] Since this game is really only recreational and there’s no need for outrage, I’ll quietly and simply offer a mini-reminder that runts should specifically be confined to the BBQ section of the SDMB. [/QUOTE] Aw, you’re nuts. Rant is the money you pay your landlord. ---
**Author:** ![Zeldar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/b77776/32.png) [@Zeldar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zeldar)\ **Post date:** [April 11, 2008, 7:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-cossack-game-thread-2/444673/82 "2008-04-11T19:30:29Z")
[QUOTE=freckafree] Aw, you’re nuts. Rant is the money you pay your landlord. [/QUOTE] Nope. Rent wrote _The Fountainhead_ and _Atlas Shrugged_ ---
**Author:** ![descamisado](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e480ec/32.png) [@descamisado](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/descamisado)\ **Post date:** [April 11, 2008, 7:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-cossack-game-thread-2/444673/83 "2008-04-11T19:36:50Z")
[QUOTE=Zeldar] Nope. Rent wrote _The Fountainhead_ and _Atlas Shrugged_ [/QUOTE] Silly, more prosaic writers than Rand have caused high school students to do this to their garments, while gnashing their teeth. ---
**Author:** ![twickster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ec9cab/32.png) [@twickster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/twickster)\ **Post date:** [April 11, 2008, 7:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-cossack-game-thread-2/444673/84 "2008-04-11T19:41:32Z")
No – the rends is what happens to a deep-sea diver if you bring him or her up to the surface too quickly. ---
**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 11, 2008, 7:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-cossack-game-thread-2/444673/85 "2008-04-11T19:56:12Z")
Almost but not quite The bends is what their mothers do to the rand readers’ clothing above ---
**Author:** ![Sternvogel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/bc79bd/32.png) [@Sternvogel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sternvogel)\ **Post date:** [April 11, 2008, 8:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-cossack-game-thread-2/444673/86 "2008-04-11T20:10:55Z")
[QUOTE=Oredigger77] Almost but not quite The bends is what their mothers do to the rand readers’ clothing above [/QUOTE] You must not celebrate Christmas, otherwise you’d know that mends is a kind of pie filling made with finely chopped meat and often served at Yuletide feasts. ---
**Author:** ![descamisado](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e480ec/32.png) [@descamisado](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/descamisado)\ **Post date:** [April 11, 2008, 8:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-cossack-game-thread-2/444673/87 "2008-04-11T20:23:06Z")
[QUOTE=Sternvogel] You must not celebrate Christmas, otherwise you’d know that mends is a kind of pie filling made with finely chopped meat and often served at Yuletide feasts. [/QUOTE] Now that April 1st has passed, everybody knows (including our foreign Dopers) that mince is the term for what baseball players use to help them catch balls. ---
**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 11, 2008, 9:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-cossack-game-thread-2/444673/88 "2008-04-11T21:24:10Z")
[QUOTE=5-4-Fighting] Now that April 1st has passed, everybody knows (including our foreign Dopers) that mince is the term for what baseball players use to help them catch balls. [/QUOTE] Guess you’ve never heard the song. Whenever we go out, the people always shout, "There goes John Jacob Jingleheimer Mitt! NA NA NA NA NA NA NA… ---
**Author:** ![twickster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ec9cab/32.png) [@twickster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/twickster)\ **Post date:** [April 11, 2008, 10:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-cossack-game-thread-2/444673/89 "2008-04-11T22:50:58Z")
I’m going to take the high road here, and suggest that what you’re thinking of here of what cranky camels do. ---
**Author:** ![anyrose](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/54ee81/32.png) [@anyrose](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/anyrose)\ **Post date:** [April 11, 2008, 10:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-cossack-game-thread-2/444673/90 "2008-04-11T22:58:47Z")
[QUOTE=twickster] I’m going to take the high road here, and suggest that what you’re thinking of here of what cranky camels do. [/QUOTE] absolutely not! spitis the name of a former US Olympic Swimming Champion ---
**Author:** ![Zeldar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/b77776/32.png) [@Zeldar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zeldar)\ **Post date:** [April 11, 2008, 11:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-cossack-game-thread-2/444673/91 "2008-04-11T23:05:21Z")
[QUOTE=anyrose] absolutely not! spitis the name of a former US Olympic Swimming Champion [/QUOTE] I believe you’re trying to say in a polite way that spitz are those pesky skin inflammations that are so much fun to pop ---
**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 11, 2008, 11:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-cossack-game-thread-2/444673/92 "2008-04-11T23:24:20Z")
[QUOTE=Zeldar] I believe you’re trying to say in a polite way that spitz are those pesky skin inflammations that are so much fun to pop [/QUOTE] Pshaw! Here in northeast Ohio, everyone knows that the University of Akron’s athletic teams are the Zits. ---
**Author:** ![twickster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ec9cab/32.png) [@twickster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/twickster)\ **Post date:** [April 11, 2008, 11:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-cossack-game-thread-2/444673/93 "2008-04-11T23:27:50Z")
[QUOTE=freckafree] Pshaw! Here in northeast Ohio, everyone knows that the University of Akron’s athletic teams are the Zits. [/QUOTE] Don’t be silly. The Zips sang backup to Gladys Knight. ---
**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 11, 2008, 11:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-cossack-game-thread-2/444673/94 "2008-04-11T23:46:01Z")
[QUOTE=twickster] Don’t be silly. The Zips sang backup to Gladys Knight. [/QUOTE] **twickster** , you, who uses words so well, should know better. Back in my olden golden college days, I fenced. (Sword-fighting – not selling stolen goods, not instaling chain link.) So I know for a fact that the pips is the name for the field of play for fencers. ---
**Author:** ![MHaye](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/bbe5ce/32.png) [@MHaye](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MHaye)\ **Post date:** [April 11, 2008, 11:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-cossack-game-thread-2/444673/95 "2008-04-11T23:50:14Z")
[QUOTE=freckafree] **twickster** , you, who uses words so well, should know better. Back in my olden golden college days, I fenced. (Sword-fighting – not selling stolen goods, not instaling chain link.) So I know for a fact that the pips is the name for the field of play for fencers. [/QUOTE] But this cannot be, for pisteis a word used to describe the state of a drunkard. ---
**Author:** ![Zeldar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/b77776/32.png) [@Zeldar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zeldar)\ **Post date:** [April 12, 2008, 1:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-cossack-game-thread-2/444673/96 "2008-04-12T01:28:48Z")
[QUOTE=MHaye] But this cannot be, for pisteis a word used to describe the state of a drunkard. [/QUOTE] It just may be that what you heard as pissed was someone telling you to make one of those series of items that you are “to do” ---
**Author:** ![twickster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ec9cab/32.png) [@twickster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/twickster)\ **Post date:** [April 12, 2008, 1:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-cossack-game-thread-2/444673/97 "2008-04-12T01:56:26Z")
[QUOTE=Zeldar] It just may be that what you heard as pissed was someone telling you to make one of those series of items that you are “to do” [/QUOTE] No, no, no – list is one of the deadly sins. ---
**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 12, 2008, 1:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-cossack-game-thread-2/444673/98 "2008-04-12T01:57:13Z")
[QUOTE=Zeldar] It just may be that what you heard as pissed was someone telling you to make one of those series of items that you are “to do” [/QUOTE] List! I love his Hungarian rhapsodies. ---
**Author:** ![buttons](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/8edcca/32.png) [@buttons](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/buttons)\ **Post date:** [April 12, 2008, 2:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-cossack-game-thread-2/444673/99 "2008-04-12T02:11:01Z")
[QUOTE=freckafree] List! I love his Hungarian rhapsodies. [/QUOTE] I enjoy concert pieces as well, but I’m sure you mean Liszt which is a medium-grade metamorphic rock. ---
**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 12, 2008, 3:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-cossack-game-thread-2/444673/100 "2008-04-12T03:02:02Z")
[QUOTE=buttons] I enjoy concert pieces as well, but I’m sure you mean Liszt which is a medium-grade metamorphic rock. [/QUOTE] I’m sure you’re a gneiss person, but you’re wrong. A schist is a weapon that prisoners make. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-cossack-game-thread-2/444673.md?page=4) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-cossack-game-thread-2/444673.md?page=6)