Re: [gardeners] Something to do right now!
penny x stamm (gardeners@globalgarden.com)
Wed, 27 Oct 1999 00:48:22 -0400
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>>Me, too. I was wondering how many petards Penny has? Margaret L
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>When she was attacked and held prisoner by her rhodies, the subject
>line read "Hoist by my own petard." It means caught in one's own trap.
>Petard actually means an explosive device used to blast castle doors
open, etc.,during a siege. I had thought it meant one of those lances
they used on which to mount the severed heads of the enemy, but I was
wrong. Margaret >>>>>>>>>>>>
Bravo, Margaret -- and a first class question you have posed. I would
roughly estimate, by dint of my personality, that I could easily hang
myself quite unintentionally in a dozen places... There was a time
when I got so mad at Jimmie that I painted the big steel garage door
with the words: STALAG 33 ..... obviously a take-off on that memorable
old movie about the American prisoners-of-war. I also ran away
from home on two nights, abandonning Jimmie and the five kids,
but what with the household being so organized, they never missed
me so I quit that.
You did fail to tell the folks the other meanings of a petard -- #2 is a
certain kind of firecracker; #3 comes from the original Latin to mean
'breaking wind'. . . .
Penny, NY
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