On Sun, Nov 17, 2019 at 12:27:39PM -0700, Nick Thompson wrote: > > By the way, speaking of etymology, to be hoist by one’s own petard is to be > ejected from one’s own saddle by the force of one’s own fart. Look it up.
Thanks for this. I always knew that petard meant fart, since schoolboy French anyway, but did ocasionally wonder how you get hoisted by a fart. -- ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Dr Russell Standish Phone 0425 253119 (mobile) Principal, High Performance Coders Visiting Senior Research Fellow hpco...@hpcoders.com.au Economics, Kingston University http://www.hpcoders.com.au ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- ============================================================ FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at St. John's College to unsubscribe http://redfish.com/mailman/listinfo/friam_redfish.com archives back to 2003: http://friam.471366.n2.nabble.com/ FRIAM-COMIC http://friam-comic.blogspot.com/ by Dr. Strangelove
