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Our own Faldage has been hiding his light at the end of a tunnel. Newly famed for "evaporation into mist", he left no doubt of his prowess by minting the memorable "hoist us back on course" scarcely a day later.
A mixed metaphor distinguished by images of improbable scientific or mechanical processes could be called a Faldage. It seems only fitting.
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be called a Faldage
I'll have to decline this great honor, if only because one person shouldn't have more than four eponyms.
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Proteus proposes plurality personae
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I'll have to decline this great honor
Very well, but it does seem a shame. Frankly, your weaving of two disparate expressions - "to hoist on one's own petard" and "staying the course" - within a single nautical theme, was quite arresting, if not altogether ingenious.
Alas, if we cannot honor our own, whom shall we honor?
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Dear Wordminstrel: "Hoist on one's own petrard" reminds me of an episode at the swimming hole, a small cow pond, when I was perhaps six. We were all skinny dipping. One junior petomane was blowing bubbles from both ends. A couple older boys grabbed him, and held a match to the terninus of his gasline. A blue flame shot out of and into the orifice. If it hadn't been for the two guys holding him, he would have gone into orbit, hoist on his own petard. Here's a URL, not for the fastidious: http://www.ooze.com/ooze13/petomane.html
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If it hadn't been for the two guys holding him, he would have gone into orbit
Yes, and he could have ended up in the anals of history.
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I'll have to decline this great honor"If nominated I will not run,
If elected I will not serve!"--Pat "Faldage" Paulsen 
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I'll have to decline this great honor
"If nominated I will not run,
If elected I will not serve!"
Calvin "Faldage" Coolidge???????????
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Lyndon "Faldage" Johnson (nee Baines)??????????
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Calvin Coolidge
How many folks said this?
Common decency (not to mention having a delicate Atlanta girl wife) forbids me from saying who really played Jerome Kern to Pat Paulsen's George Gershwin.
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