Vous Descendus Mon Cuirassé!

From the world is flat files, I'm in one of those Starbucks-inside-Barnes&Noble places that make contemporary America so great and next to me two little French girls are using pen and paper to play a game that seems to be roughly battleship except I don't recognize the words they're using as indicating naval vessels. It occurs to me at this moment that I somehow never realized that this was a game you could easily play without actually buying the plastic board and little pieces. UPDATE: I was trying to piece the correct French together, but apparently it should be "vous avez coulé mon cuirassé."

This article available online at:

http://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2007/01/vous-descendus-mon-cuirass/41100/