The Word
The word of the day is: petard. 1. A small bell-shaped bomb used to breach a gate or wall.2. A loud firecracker. 3. or as an idiom: hoist by/with one’s own petard, hurt, ruined, or destroyed by the very device or plot one had intended for another.
This post was brought to you by the ghost of Rob Smith. (Don’t even ask.)
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And Rob didn’t believe in the afterlife…
*hugs*
Comment by Omnibus Driver — 2010/06/06 @ 09:28
Bullshit. He did, too.
Comment by DaGoddess — 2010/06/06 @ 13:23
And even if he didn’t, he’s stuck with it.
Comment by DaGoddess — 2010/06/06 @ 13:24
the word is the bird, or the bird is the word – or something like that.
Comment by patti — 2010/06/07 @ 07:20
I’m going to do terrible things to you during Two-fer Tuesday when you least expect it. Yep, that song will come back to haunt you, m’dear.
Comment by DaGoddess — 2010/06/07 @ 09:38
Those are the definitions as I understood them for many years, and as commonly used and Wikipedia-defined. But to be “hoist by one’s own petard” is from Shakespeare, and as defined in most dictionaries refers to a release of gases from the anus… See also “Le Petomane” – imagine a successfuk stage performance based on an ability to produce flatulence on command!
Le Petomane
Comment by John A — 2010/06/07 @ 11:33
I never would have guessed that one.
Comment by DaGoddess — 2010/06/07 @ 16:38