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Previous Thread Next Thread Print Thread Page 2 of 5 1 2 3 4 5 Re: metaphoric fame #98844 03/17/03 12:38 PM Joined: Jun 2002 Posts: 1,624 Utter Placebo, Planet Reebok Capfka Pooh-Bah Capfka Pooh-Bah Joined: Jun 2002 Posts: 1,624 Utter Placebo, Planet Reebok Yes, and he could have ended up in the anals of history. Or on the bridge of the Enterprise with Jean-Luc Picquard, circling Uranus wiping out Klingons. Sheesh. - Pfranz Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter Re: metaphoric fame #98845 03/17/03 03:27 PM Joined: Dec 2002 Posts: 555 M maahey addict maahey addict M Joined: Dec 2002 Posts: 555 Hoisted BY one's......? Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter Re: metaphoric fame #98846 03/18/03 01:52 AM Joined: Aug 2001 Posts: 10,542 Likes: 1 Worcester, MA W wofahulicodoc Carpal Tunnel wofahulicodoc Carpal Tunnel W Joined: Aug 2001 Posts: 10,542 Likes: 1 Worcester, MA HOIST by one's...? I believe a pet-[suffix] is a bomb, and a "petard" (Fr.) is a little one? Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter A bit of inspiration #98847 03/18/03 02:39 AM Joined: Mar 2000 Posts: 11,613 Louisville, Kentucky Jackie Carpal Tunnel Jackie Carpal Tunnel Joined: Mar 2000 Posts: 11,613 Louisville, Kentucky If there was a columnist and Faldage was his name, He'd have meteoric, metaphoric, and a Doric fame. Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter Re: metaphoric fame #98848 03/18/03 05:01 AM Joined: Dec 2002 Posts: 555 M maahey addict maahey addict M Joined: Dec 2002 Posts: 555 Good stuff, Jackie! Elaborating on my earlier comment, shouldn't that phrase read as - to be hoisted 'by' one's own petard. You can't really be hoisted 'on' a petard, can you? Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter Re: metaphoric fame #98849 03/18/03 09:52 AM Joined: Jun 2002 Posts: 1,624 Utter Placebo, Planet Reebok Capfka Pooh-Bah Capfka Pooh-Bah Joined: Jun 2002 Posts: 1,624 Utter Placebo, Planet Reebok This, of course, is just the same as being run up a flagpole to see who salutes you ... - Pfranz Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter Re: metaphoric fame #98850 03/18/03 02:09 PM Joined: Jan 2001 Posts: 13,858 W wwh Carpal Tunnel wwh Carpal Tunnel W Joined: Jan 2001 Posts: 13,858 I checked, and in Hamlet the phrase is hoist with his own petard. I was thinking of lauch of spacecraft, with a jet coming out of bottom. Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter Re: meteoric fame #98851 03/18/03 04:40 PM Joined: Dec 2000 Posts: 13,803 Faldage Carpal Tunnel Faldage Carpal Tunnel Joined: Dec 2000 Posts: 13,803 The petard in Hamlet was a small industrial explosive device. My fave mondegreen on it was hoist with his own poniard. Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter Re: meteoric fame #98852 03/18/03 04:44 PM Joined: Dec 2002 Posts: 555 M maahey addict maahey addict M Joined: Dec 2002 Posts: 555 impaled, then! Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter Re: meteoric fame #98853 03/18/03 07:08 PM Joined: Jun 2002 Posts: 1,624 Utter Placebo, Planet Reebok Capfka Pooh-Bah Capfka Pooh-Bah Joined: Jun 2002 Posts: 1,624 Utter Placebo, Planet Reebok Yeah, he had it stuck to him. Or sommat. - Pfranz Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter Page 2 of 5 1 2 3 4 5 Moderated by  Jackie  Hop To General Topics ------  Information and announcements  Q&A about words  Wordplay and fun  Words and languages in schools  Miscellany  Weekly Themes  Looking for (writers, speakers,... (Old) Weekly themes. 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