Posted on 02/13/2006 5:54:51 AM PST by Neville72
Next up from Hillary Land:
They will put her through "charm school", and then the MSM will hail her turnaround as a revitailized candidate.
Geez, the plot practically writes itself...
I hate to admit it, but I think you're going to win the bet. What does it mean? ~S
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...
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.
Thanks for the ping!
If she was elected POTUS what she get instead of a BJ in the OVAL office and who would be performing the service.
hoist: lift up; raise or lift somebody or something up.
be hoist with your own petard: to be the victim of your own attempt to harm somebody else
(Encarta ® World English Dictionary © & (P) 1998-2004 Microsoft Corporation)
One thing I love about the internet is the easy ability to look up words and their derivations and consequently to use them precisely as well as creatively. I like to keep the dictionary at an easy click, and I keep a dictionary of my own of words and phrases that are not easily accessible otherwise and of quotations for easy reference.
Thanks, LS and AAM, for bringing this useful concept to clarity. ~S
Interesting. I hadn't thought of it in just these terms, before. Rather sickening, the thought of Billy-Jeff re-installed in the WH with his hand on the lever of power. However, I rather think Hillary wouldn't let Bill near any real power. She'd want it all for herself, using Bill for tactical advice, only.
Very welcome. Bttt
Warner is their best shot IMHO, Hillary ain't a Thang.....
"petard" is related to the French word for a social indiscretion -- remember "Le Petomane" (loosely translated as "The Fartiste") who wowed the Paris music halls with his gaseous performances?
Which does give you the impression that these early explosive devices weren't exactly blockbusters . . .
Je vois. Merci.
Great article, the country and the world desperately need to know which of these two frauds is the best con-artist.
We await with great angst!
If you want to see a demonstration of what a petard exactly is and what it does, get the PBS video or
DVD of "By the Sword Divided," a play about the English Civil War in the seventeenth century. Toward the end of the play the Roundheads besiege a Cavalier estate and break in by exploding a petard against the estate's gate. During the same battle there's also a great demonstration of how seventeenth century mortars worked.
I bet you Bill has said, more than once ... "Uh, babe ... you can't get anywhere without ME ... "
And that just riles the $h!T out of her.
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