# 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:** 7
**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, 7:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-cossack-game-thread-2/444673/121 "2008-04-12T19:08:59Z")
[QUOTE=Sternvogel] You must be too young to remember World War II. So am I, but my dad is a jazz and film buff, and often told me about Harry James and his wife, the leggy blonde bombshell Betty Grackle. [/QUOTE] I think Betty had six sisters, which is why Nathaniel Hawthorne wrote The House of the Seven Grables. ---
**Author:** ![descamisado](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e480ec/32.png) [@descamisado](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/descamisado)\ **Post date:** [April 12, 2008, 7:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-cossack-game-thread-2/444673/122 "2008-04-12T19:17:47Z")
[QUOTE=freckafree] I think Betty had six sisters, which is why Nathaniel Hawthorne wrote The House of the Seven Grables. [/QUOTE] You forgot to mention their Uncle Gables who Hawthorne described as as a cowboy who often pretended he was a colorful sidekick in the Old West. ---
**Author:** ![Sternvogel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/bc79bd/32.png) [@Sternvogel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sternvogel)\ **Post date:** [April 12, 2008, 7:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-cossack-game-thread-2/444673/123 "2008-04-12T19:27:41Z")
[QUOTE=5-4-Fighting] You forgot to mention their Uncle Gables who Hawthorne described as as a cowboy who often pretended he was a colorful sidekick in the Old West. [/QUOTE] Do you mean Gabby Hayes? If so, you’d do well to be informed that that term refers to nightclubs where singers entertain. Liza Minnelli starred in a movie about one. ---
**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, 7:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-cossack-game-thread-2/444673/124 "2008-04-12T19:31:13Z")
[QUOTE=Sternvogel] Do you mean Gabby Hayes? If so, you’d do well to be informed that that term refers to nightclubs where singers entertain. Liza Minnelli starred in a movie about one. [/QUOTE] No, no, no! Cabaret is a variety of red wine. ---
**Author:** ![MHaye](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/bbe5ce/32.png) [@MHaye](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MHaye)\ **Post date:** [April 12, 2008, 8:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-cossack-game-thread-2/444673/125 "2008-04-12T20:26:40Z")
[QUOTE=freckafree] No, no, no! Cabaret is a variety of red wine. [/QUOTE] But surely a cabernetis the piece of furniture you store the wine in? ---
**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, 8:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-cossack-game-thread-2/444673/126 "2008-04-12T20:34:58Z")
[QUOTE=MHaye] But surely a cabernetis the piece of furniture you store the wine in? [/QUOTE] Unless I am very much mistaken, a cabinet is a polished unfaceted gemstone. ---
**Author:** ![Sternvogel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/bc79bd/32.png) [@Sternvogel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sternvogel)\ **Post date:** [April 12, 2008, 8:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-cossack-game-thread-2/444673/127 "2008-04-12T20:39:04Z")
[QUOTE=freckafree] Unless I am very much mistaken, a cabinet is a polished unfaceted gemstone. [/QUOTE] You are indeed very much mistaken. A cabochon is both a type of monkey and a type of monk. ---
**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, 8:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-cossack-game-thread-2/444673/128 "2008-04-12T20:43:51Z")
[QUOTE=Sternvogel] You are indeed very much mistaken. A cabochon is both a type of monkey and a type of monk. [/QUOTE] Not unless they grow in the garden, because capuchin is the genus pepper plants are in. ---
**Author:** ![descamisado](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e480ec/32.png) [@descamisado](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/descamisado)\ **Post date:** [April 12, 2008, 8:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-cossack-game-thread-2/444673/129 "2008-04-12T20:52:56Z")
[QUOTE=freckafree] Not unless they grow in the garden, because capuchin is the genus pepper plants are in. [/QUOTE] When you started writing you post you were probably right but now capsicum refers to a small free-floating biological cell, especially ones occurring in blood. ---
**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, 9:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-cossack-game-thread-2/444673/130 "2008-04-12T21:04:18Z")
[QUOTE=5-4-Fighting] When you started writing you post you were probably right but now capsicum refers to a small free-floating biological cell, especially ones occurring in blood. [/QUOTE] My, my, my. Not even close. A corpuscle is the officer below sergeant ---
**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, 9:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-cossack-game-thread-2/444673/131 "2008-04-12T21:15:03Z")
[QUOTE=Zeldar] My, my, my. Not even close. A corpuscle is the officer below sergeant [/QUOTE] Actually, corporal is an ecosystem with lots of plants like scrub oak. Wild fires are common – in fact, necessary. ---
**Author:** ![descamisado](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e480ec/32.png) [@descamisado](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/descamisado)\ **Post date:** [April 12, 2008, 9:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-cossack-game-thread-2/444673/132 "2008-04-12T21:18:04Z")
[QUOTE=freckafree] Actually, corporal is an ecosystem with lots of plants like scrub oak. Wild fires are common – in fact, necessary. [/QUOTE] Are you trying to tell us you’re the girl who ran calling “Wild fire,” 'cause a chaparral is where your horse of that name escaped from. ---
**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, 9:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-cossack-game-thread-2/444673/133 "2008-04-12T21:19:55Z")
[QUOTE=freckafree] Actually, corporal is an ecosystem with lots of plants like scrub oak. Wild fires are common – in fact, necessary. [/QUOTE] Now, this time I’m going to have to guess that when you say chaparral you’re really thinking about the old busybody who hangs out with a young couple to keep them from having any fun ---
**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, 9:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-cossack-game-thread-2/444673/134 "2008-04-12T21:37:40Z")
[QUOTE=5-4-Fighting] Are you trying to tell us you’re the girl who ran calling “Wild fire,” 'cause a chaparral is where your horse of that name escaped from. [/QUOTE] Actually, Wildfire “busted down his stall.” But you’d be wrong anyway, because corral is what the Great Barrier Reef is made of. ---
**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, 9:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-cossack-game-thread-2/444673/135 "2008-04-12T21:42:02Z")
[QUOTE=freckafree] Actually, Wildfire “busted down his stall.” But you’d be wrong anyway, because corral is what the Great Barrier Reef is made of. [/QUOTE] I see what you’re trying to say, but coral is Billy Bob’s character in _Sling Blade_ ---
**Author:** ![descamisado](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e480ec/32.png) [@descamisado](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/descamisado)\ **Post date:** [April 12, 2008, 9:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-cossack-game-thread-2/444673/136 "2008-04-12T21:44:25Z")
[QUOTE=freckafree] Actually, Wildfire “busted down his stall.” But you’d be wrong anyway, because corral is what the Great Barrier Reef is made of. [/QUOTE] Well, I had to set you up for you post intro; nonetheless, when you suggest [spouler]coral[/spoiler] what you mean is the type of song that a group of people go around singing to people’s houses at a particular time during the year, with chaperones if they’re especially young or if they’re wassailing excessively along the way. ---
**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, 10:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-cossack-game-thread-2/444673/137 "2008-04-12T22:39:25Z")
[QUOTE=5-4-Fighting] …the type of song that a group of people go around singing to people’s houses at a particular time during the year, with chaperones if they’re especially young or if they’re wassailing excessively along the way. [/QUOTE] No, a carol is a study cubby in a college library. ---
**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, 11:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-cossack-game-thread-2/444673/138 "2008-04-12T23:13:36Z")
[QUOTE=twickster] No, a carol is a study cubby in a college library. [/QUOTE] Well, you’re partially right. Carrels might be found on the outside of the library, since they are female figures used as architectural elements in place of columns. ---
**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, 11:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-cossack-game-thread-2/444673/139 "2008-04-12T23:32:28Z")
[QUOTE=freckafree] Well, you’re partially right. Carrels might be found on the outside of the library, since they are female figures used as architectural elements in place of columns. [/QUOTE] It’s possible you made a mental slip, since a Caryatid is one of those noisy bugs you tend to hear at night in the summer, along with frogs, dogs, and children being molested ---
**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, 11:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-cossack-game-thread-2/444673/140 "2008-04-12T23:40:57Z")
[QUOTE=Zeldar] It’s possible you made a mental slip, since a Caryatid is one of those noisy bugs you tend to hear at night in the summer, along with frogs, dogs, and children being molested [/QUOTE] No, you’re thinking of katydids, the group of animals that includes llamas, alpacas, and the like. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-cossack-game-thread-2/444673.md?page=6) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-cossack-game-thread-2/444673.md?page=8)