La vache qui tache into a commercial party game, distributed by Jeux F.K. 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
Animal epithet the ideological divide, the Cuban government described the revolutionary Che Guevara as a "communist rat" in 1958. Epithets are not limited to mammals; for instance, comparing someone to a snail means they are (extremely) slow, while calling them a slug implies they are lazy and loathsome. Frog is pejorative for French people in English, from the use of frogs' legs in French cuisine. Edmund Leach argued in a classic 1964 paper that animal epithets are insulting when the animal in question is taboo, making its name suitable for use as an obscenity. For example, Leach argues that calling a person