Posted by Brio D Chimp on June 14, 2004, at 19:11:58
In reply to I AM ****triggered**** by favoritism and unfairnes, posted by Brio D Chimp on June 14, 2004, at 18:09:33
i guess different people hoist themselves in different ways ;)
this is an interesting fact about a figure of speech NOT a joke about suicide bob goodness gracious me don't send the gendarmes i don't even know why i would be thinking of hoisting oneself on one's own petard after my busy lil posting interlude
farewell Bob and the bobbettes
I ain't no kissy kissy chimp
Brio
[French pétard, from Old French, from peter, to break wind, from pet, a breaking of wind, from Latin pditum, from neuter past participle of pdere, to break wind. See pezd- in Indo-European Roots.]
Word History: The French used pétard, “a loud discharge of intestinal gas,” for a kind of infernal engine for blasting through the gates of a city. “To be hoist by one's own petard,” a now proverbial phrase apparently originating with Shakespeare's Hamlet (around 1604) not long after the word entered English (around 1598), means “to blow oneself up with one's own bomb, be undone by one's own devices.” The French noun pet, “fart,” developed regularly from the Latin noun pditum, from the Indo-European root *pezd-, “fart.”
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