La vache qui tache La vache qui tache La vache qui tache (English: "the cow who stains") is a party game that originated in France. The only prop required is a cork with one end of which has been blackened by a candle flame. Assign each player a number. Player one calls out ""Je suis la vache qui tache sans taches numéro 1 et j'appelle la vache sans taches numéro X"" ("I am the spotted cow with zero spots number 1, and I call the cow with zero spots number X"), where X is the number of any other player. When the game first
The Vache the building passed to his son and was then sold to a Mr Thomas Allen in 1826; the house passed down the Allen family until it was sold to James Robertson in 1902. After the Second World War homelessness and overcrowding sparked a nationwide movement of squatting. One of the first of these occurred at The Vache in September 1946. The leader was an ex-Commando, John Mann, of Chalfont St. Giles, who had been sharing a small cottage with his wife, his five-year-old son, and ten strangers. At the local pub one night, Mann heard a Polish captain say that