doug Posted February 11, 2011 Report Share Posted February 11, 2011 What is a petard and where do I find mine? I don't fancy the idea of being hoist by my own petard. If I knew what and where it was I could possibly take appropriate measure! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rong Posted February 11, 2011 Report Share Posted February 11, 2011 Under the wall or by the gate Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gandalph Posted February 11, 2011 Report Share Posted February 11, 2011 What is a petard and where do I find mine? I don't fancy the idea of being hoist by my own petard. If I knew what and where it was I could possibly take appropriate measure!Here you go Doug:Petard, a small bomb made from wood or metal box filled with powder used to blow down a door or make a hole in a wall.I do hope you find yours quickly before it can do some damage. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Belatucadrus Posted February 11, 2011 Report Share Posted February 11, 2011 Ergo to be hoist on your own petard is to blow oneself sky high, usually due to having a short fuse.Think calming thoughts and use a longer piece of string. B) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
-pops- Posted February 12, 2011 Report Share Posted February 12, 2011 From The Free Dictionary:[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."If your sense of humour is with the scatological read this: http://easyweb.easynet.co.uk/~lofty/pujol.htm Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
-pops- Posted February 12, 2011 Report Share Posted February 12, 2011 I am also reminded of:Essay on FlatulenceFlatulence, which can cause great psychosocial distress, is unofficially described according to its salient characteristics: (1) the “slider” (crowded elevator type), which is released slowly and noiselessly, sometimes with devastating effect; (2) the open sphincter, or “pooh” type, which is said to be of higher temperature and more aromatic; (3) the staccato or drumbeat type, pleasantly passed in privacy; and (4) the “bark” type (described in a personal communication) is characterized by a sharp exclamatory eruption that effectively interrupts (and often concludes) conversation. Aromaticity is not a prominent feature. Rarely, this usually distressing symptom has been turned to advantage, as with a Frenchman referred to as “Le Petomane,” who became affluent as an effluent performer who played tunes with the gas from his rectum on the Moulin Rouge stage.From: The Merck Manual http://www.merckmanuals.com/professional/sec02/ch008/ch008d.html How do I get this information? Well, before I retired, one of my areas of expertise was body odour and how best to combat it. I have lectured worldwide on armpits and other malodours of animal origin. (That is real, not a jest.) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
doug Posted February 12, 2011 Author Report Share Posted February 12, 2011 Does that all mean that I'll have to stay off the beans? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rong Posted February 12, 2011 Report Share Posted February 12, 2011 Does that all mean that I'll have to stay off the beans?Depends on if you need to blow a hole in a wall or open a locked door Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bludgard Posted February 13, 2011 Report Share Posted February 13, 2011 Does that all mean that I'll have to stay off the beans?Depends on if you need to blow a hole in a wall or open a locked doorOr both.:0Think that doug may have solved the barrier problems globally. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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