To: libstripper
Strangely, I was thinking of that phrase just this morning. A premonition? I didn't take the time to search out the meaning as I often do. Strange...
43 posted on
02/13/2006 12:13:52 PM PST by
Savage Beast
(9/11 was never repeated--thanks to President Bush and his surveillance program.)
To: Savage Beast; libstripper
Hamlet. "'Tis sport to have the engineer/ Hoist with his own petard:/ and 't shall go hard /But I will delve one yard below their mines/ And blow them at the moon."
It's a small explosive device used by sappers (who "sap" the enemy's fortification walls) who dig a tunnel under the wall and then explode the device to cause a breach in the wall.
44 posted on
02/13/2006 12:24:34 PM PST by
AnAmericanMother
(Ministrix of Ye Chase, TTGC Ladies' Auxiliary (recess appointment))
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